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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Matryoshka dolls
In a great entry to the Classic-Space Fanboy Cover Contest, Keith Goldman has a great micro version of Dan Hamann's Container Shuttle Craft. As in the original, the bay opens up to bring out special cargo, in this case an even smaller iteration, apparently built by the minifig of Prof. Whateverly.




Wednesday, January 16, 2008
It's been busy
I've been really swamped lately so haven't been able to put up regular posts. I've got a backlog of great MOCs to highlight, but for the moment let's check out Kyo-Hina's houses and Gongfu's cliffside.


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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Fanboy
The Fanboy Cover Contest keeps generating great creations, such as Wintermute's microsized version of Mark Sandlin's Asmodeus and Zachmoe's tiny version of Danny Rice's Porphyrion.




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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Greenery
Noddy has a nice skyscraper scene. What makes this one stand out to me is not the buildings, but the treatment of greenery. The cone trees are placed on normal and offset studs in a way that seems very organic, and the mostly-tiled look is great at making the few exposed green studs appear as bushes.

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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Microhio
Builder BB has a Microhio project, with prominent buildings from around Ohio, including the Leveque Tower (here is the original and the Atlas building (I think this is the original).


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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Micro fanboy contest
I recently blogged Wintermute's micro version of a large Dan Jassim MOC. I've learned that this is for the Fanboy Cover Contest. Spacers are challenged to build microscale versions of other Spacers' MOCs. Two more entries include Smartiac's micro rendition of Chris Giddens' Fazoom-o-craft and Chris Edwards' rendition of Mark Stafford's Gothica.




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Microspacetopia icon
Every month or so the Microspacetopia Flickr group holds a contest to replace their icon. The October contest focused on gun turrets, and was won by BlindBricks. The November/December contest is about micro communications arrays. It looks like there are no entries right now, so hurry over and post something and you'll probably win. :)

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas
I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas. What better way to celebrate than finishing up MisaQa's Advent calendar? After building a new micro building for each day of Advent, she puts them all together into a great town layout.

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Monday, December 17, 2007
Micro Jamie
Jamie Berard, designer of the awesome Cafe Corner set, built this Mini Cafe Corner as a gift for a friend who was leaving for a new job.

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Here comes Santa Claus, right down a teeny tiny lane
MisaQa continues her great Advent Calendar. Further entries include the Station, Express Train, and Community Center.



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Regent
I always love it when people do microscale tributes to other people's MOCs. Here Wintermute makes a micro Regent after Dan Jassim's massive Regent.


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Friday, December 07, 2007
Baby Dock
Mike Yoder (no surprise here) presents an awesome layout, the Drydock5 at the North Central Positronics shipyard. This is just packed full of details, so you really have to take some time to go through the folder. One of my favorite details is the reconstruction of other AFOLs MOCs, such as Dan Jassim's Nasal Avenger.


While we're in his folder, Mike also just posted this Thundercouger heavy fighter.

While we're in his folder, Mike also just posted this Thundercouger heavy fighter.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Seventh Day Adventish
MisaQa is continuing her great Advent Calendar project. Follow that link for daily updates. So far she has posted seven separate creations, including the Sky Plaza and a Pastoral Hospital.


I hope that at the end of the project we'll see a layout with all of these buildings forming one big town.
I hope that at the end of the project we'll see a layout with all of these buildings forming one big town.
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
The starriest of wars
RogueBantha may well be the king of microscale Star Wars creations. Creations by him in the last couple of months include ...
an Extended Universe TIE Crawler,

what he calls "hypermini" Slave 1 and Republic Gunship,

and most ambitiously, the Grand Army of the Republic.

an Extended Universe TIE Crawler,
what he calls "hypermini" Slave 1 and Republic Gunship,
and most ambitiously, the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Christmas gift from MisaQa
For each of the past two years MisaQa has created an advent calendar, presenting one new MOC from a theme for each day of December leading up to Christmas. In 2005 it was birds. In 2006 it was dolls dressed up. This year MisaQa has started out the 2007 calendar with a microscale Town Hall. It looks like microscale town is this years theme! Given the previous high quality of MisaQa's creations, I'm pretty excited about this. You can bet that MicroBricks will document this ongoing series.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Flame on
I always thought of the stump element as one of those too-juniorized single-use pieces. Not so. Crises comes up with an innovative use in Volcano.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
OTB Contest
I don't regularly read the Outside The Brick forum, so I missed the OTB Microscale Contest. The contest is over and results have been announced.
First goes to Ralph S's Interstellar Exploration Vessel John Archibald Wheeler.

Second goes to Samus' F-16 Medical Vessel "The Seeker".

Third place went to Andrew's Sling of David.

First goes to Ralph S's Interstellar Exploration Vessel John Archibald Wheeler.
Second goes to Samus' F-16 Medical Vessel "The Seeker".
Third place went to Andrew's Sling of David.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Mini-mizing your MOCs
I really like it when someone takes a fig-scale MOC and builds a microscale version. One recent example is ThePaleMan's mini version of Chris Giddens' original PCS SLAM.


While we're on this topic, in his recently blogged Space Pirates Lair, Dennis Coh included a ship that Nannan Z (newest member of the Brothers-Brick team - Welcome to blogging, Nannan!) pointed out is a remake of Dennis' fig scale Izanami's Revenge.


One more - a couple of years ago John Langrish posted a mini version of Jon Palmer's M-Wing.

While we're on this topic, in his recently blogged Space Pirates Lair, Dennis Coh included a ship that Nannan Z (newest member of the Brothers-Brick team - Welcome to blogging, Nannan!) pointed out is a remake of Dennis' fig scale Izanami's Revenge.
One more - a couple of years ago John Langrish posted a mini version of Jon Palmer's M-Wing.
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