Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
All your base
A week ago RogueBantha posted this amazing base. You've really got to go look at all the pictures at original size - there are just too many details to take in at once.
I'm way behind, so I'll also include Pete Reid's great Space Police Escort, which would fit perfectly into RB's base.
I'm way behind, so I'll also include Pete Reid's great Space Police Escort, which would fit perfectly into RB's base.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Mont St Michel
One of the most recognizable religious structures in France (probably second only to Notre Dame) is the abbey and cathedral atop Mont St Michel. This is on a small tidal island off the coast of Normandy. Arthur Gugick present this beautiful microscale recreation. You can see more great religious architecture at GodBricks.
By the way, Arthur wrote that this is one of seven world landmarks that he previously thought would be impossible to faithfully present in LEGO. I'd love to know the other six, and hope he tries his hand at those as well.
By the way, Arthur wrote that this is one of seven world landmarks that he previously thought would be impossible to faithfully present in LEGO. I'd love to know the other six, and hope he tries his hand at those as well.
Spider 2.0
Bigger is not always better as 8er shows us with this spider bot. However simple it may be, I really like it and it instantly caught my eye when it came up on my flickr homepage. Keep up the great work 8er!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Nnenn
From all corners, members of the community have been remembering Nate Nielsen, known as nnenn, who was recently killed in a car accident. To understand many of these, you need to know that nnenn used a rubber band holder as his online avatar. Here are examples from Element Stacker and Moose Greebles.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
In memory of Nnenn
I'm guessing that most people who read this blog also read the Brothers-Brick, so you all probably already know about the death of Nnenn, who we now learn is actually Nate Nielsen. Yes, his MOCs were inspirational in their creative use of parts and color, but for me the saddest part is to learn that he's got two boys, who now won't be able to play LEGO with their daddy again. If you've got kids, go home tonight and hug them tight, or your spouse or other significant other, or your folks or your siblings or friends or roommates, or anyone important in your life.
A few moments on the LEGO. Nnenn, no, Nate, (God, I've got that scene from Fight Club in my head now where we all have names in death) was perhaps the most prolific and creative space builders out there, but also dove into lots of other themes. All of his work can be found on Flickr and Brickshelf. Tons of fig-scale stuff, of course, but also microscale. It's telling that right now there are five of his MOCs up on the Brothers-Brick, and two of them are micro. A few favorites from me:
Heck, I could go on for days. I'm literally just clicking though galleries, and everything I find that's micro is great and should be highlighted. Instead I'll just post this pic. It's a mix of micro and fig scale MOCs and shows how prolific he was, and also his bold use of color. Too hard to see with the photos all shrunk down like this, but his building techniques were amazingly innovative.
If you read the whole article on the Brothers-Brick you know that there will be a collaborative display of fighters arranged in a missing man formation at BrickWorld in June. I'd love it if micro fans around the Legoverse had a strong showing.
A few moments on the LEGO. Nnenn, no, Nate, (God, I've got that scene from Fight Club in my head now where we all have names in death) was perhaps the most prolific and creative space builders out there, but also dove into lots of other themes. All of his work can be found on Flickr and Brickshelf. Tons of fig-scale stuff, of course, but also microscale. It's telling that right now there are five of his MOCs up on the Brothers-Brick, and two of them are micro. A few favorites from me:
Heck, I could go on for days. I'm literally just clicking though galleries, and everything I find that's micro is great and should be highlighted. Instead I'll just post this pic. It's a mix of micro and fig scale MOCs and shows how prolific he was, and also his bold use of color. Too hard to see with the photos all shrunk down like this, but his building techniques were amazingly innovative.
If you read the whole article on the Brothers-Brick you know that there will be a collaborative display of fighters arranged in a missing man formation at BrickWorld in June. I'd love it if micro fans around the Legoverse had a strong showing.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
There are those who say, that life here, began out there
CurtisB virtually designed sixteen different ships from Battlestar Galactica at the same scale as the official UCS Imperial Star Destroyer. I'd love to see these actually built.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Smallest street in all Castledom
Forestboy enlarges his Blacksmith House vignette and makes a whole Microscale Medieval Street. It's great to see it continued, with the silver knight a noteworthy part.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Mars needs beef
MicroBricks is happy to welcome the newest LEGO community site, Classic-Cattle, devoted to all things LEGO and bovine. Kevinhink built this LEGO Microscale Alien Abduction.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Blacktron Ground Assault Force
RogueBantha just added to his fleet of Blacktron micro mocs.
The walkers use a technique I haven't seen before: a lever inserted into a 1x2 slotted slope.
The walkers use a technique I haven't seen before: a lever inserted into a 1x2 slotted slope.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Game time
LEGO has recently released a number of new games. These are interesting to micro builders because of the new half scale figs, which introduce another scale. Today, though, I want to focus on the game Pirate Plank. In particular, look at the micro-scale ship. While we're talking games, Monsterbrick took the game Minotaurus and turned the little 2x2 temple in the middle and turned it into an 8x8 keep for an army of minotaurs.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Carrier trophy
Over on the LEGO Military Flickr group, they recently held a carrier contest. There are some great micro MOCs in that thread, some of which have been blogged here and some of which I should blog sometime soon. Slice151 just revealed one of the trophies.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Art Deco Tower
Max Braun adds a new tower to the Micropolis skyline: the MC Daly Building, inspired by the St. Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse.
Poking around Flickr, I found a much nicer photo of the actual building here.
Poking around Flickr, I found a much nicer photo of the actual building here.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
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