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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Military contest

The LEGO Military Flickr group is holding Group Build Contest 002. One of the categories is Micro, with two subcategories - battlefield and model:
The Micro scale category sort of expands on both the dio and model themes. The Battlefield subcategory should be built on at least a 48 by 48 baseplate and is your chance to depict a battle full of tanks, warplanes, artillery guns, etc all built to microscale. Do take advantage of the opportunity to include landscaping, roads, rivers, maybe trees, and/or buildings. The Model subcategory can be a model of any real life weapon of war. There is no strict rule for what scale it should be, aside from significantly smaller than minifig scale. As a rule of the thumb, if a person would be taller than about one brick in relation to your Micro model you are probably building too large.

This was recently discussed on LAML radio.



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Monday, March 30, 2009

BrickFest

BrickFest wrapped up yesterday in Portland. One of the models on display was Dan Herrmann's BrickFest, complete with tiny versions of castle, town and moonbase displays. Thanks to PurirideVry for taking the photo.



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CN Tower

Spencer Rezkalla is at it again, this time with the CN Tower from Toronto.




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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Dragon boats

According to Wikipedia, dragon boat racing is one of mankind's oldest organized sports, going on for over 2000 years in China. RMingTW brings us his take in micro form.



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Lots of Justin

BrickFest is underway in Portland. It looks like Justin Major gave a microscale presntation and brought many MOCs, several of which have been featured here before. Photos courtesy of Bill Ward of the Brickpile.



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Legoinnewlands

While we're in Dubai, it's a good place to note that LEGO has announced two upcoming Legoland parks, one in Dubai and another in Malaysia. In celebration of this second, Legoland designer Andy Grubb built the Perdana Putra (Malaysian Prime Minister's office). Thanks to Kristi of Brick Star for the first photo below.




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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Burj Bash

Last weekend, Spencer Rezkalla brought his city's worth of micro skyscrapers to Brick Bash, including his newest masterpiece, the Burj Al Arab. Thanks to Spencer and Joe Meno for the pics.





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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Some micro reading

Three years ago Allan Bedford published the Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide. It's a great entry into learning how to build with LEGO, and at least at one point was sold in the official LEGO stores. I recently noticed that you can download and read Chapter 6: Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye for free. Regular readers of this blog and experienced microscale builders will probably find this a bit simplistic - remember, the intended audience is not the AFOL who's been building for decades but rather the beginner - but there are still some interesting things in there like a discussion of scales and some neat examples.



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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Home One

Recently LEGO announced the upcoming Home One set. "Pshaw!" cries FoxHound, and unveils his own Mon Calamari Star Cruiser. This looks to be in scale with the ISD set. In some ways it's best to look at it without the nice black background and see in in the context of a living room - generally not the best way to display a MOC, but you can certainly appreciate the size of this creation.

Edit - I stand corrected. This is not actually at the same scale as the ISD set, but at a larger scale. Thanks, RH.






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Galaxy Explorer

Neo Classic Space is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Space theme. Among the many models they've featured, new and old, is Copmike's Galaxy Explorer.



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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Thanks for choosing GAR airlines

Rogue Bantha was inspired by the announcement of upcoming set 10195 to create his own Republic Dropship with AT-OT Walker. He also recently posted instructions for his AAT.





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Thursday, February 26, 2009

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Old Rogue

Over the past few months I've bookmarked Rogue Bantha several times. I think I've blogged a few MOCs out of these galleries, but there's just too much there for me to get it all. So let's just put a few favorites in this post and then I'll move forward with newer stuff as it appears. Most recently, he's posted some instructions. In October he updated his Acclamator. Around the same time he updated his Trade Federation vehicles, I think with the droid carriers. How did I miss blogging his Rep1 battle, especially check out that little detail with the ice cream. Anyone with even a passing interest in Star Wars micros should peruse his Flickr or Brickshelf.






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Friday, February 20, 2009

Hover Wars!

It looks like Nnenn has created his own micro wargame, Hover Wars. He's got two teams of hover tanks, each with rules about how they move and fight, and a ruined landscape for them to move in. It doesn't look like he's posted an overall set of rules yet. These are also on Flickr, where you can see some of the discussion.






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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Trophies

Here are trophies from several past fests that use microscale to good effect.

From BrickCon 08, check out the best train trophy in the back left (anyone know the builder and winner?).


From BrickCon 07, see the best area layout trophy in the second row (again, could someone identify the builder and the winner?).


Aaron Sneary made these space trophies for either NWBrickCon 04 or 05. If someone knows who won these, Aaron would be interested in learning, as he was unable to attend.


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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Water, water everywhere

SlyOwl posted The Adventure Ends. I love that micro boat in the distance. That's simple enough that you could make a whole armada of these.



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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Monday, February 16, 2009

Space down under

Paul Paulch showed off some microspace goodness at Brickvention. Only a couple of these are on his Brickshelf gallery, and those are fairly old. Does anyone know if he is posting somewhere else now (Flickr, MOCpages, personal site, etc.)?



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