Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thank you for the response!
Hi all,
I've gotten an overwhelming response to my previous call for help with running my blogs. If you've already e-mailed me, I'll be contacting you soon. If you've contacted me another way (e.g. leaving a comment on the blog or at Classic-Castle), please drop me a quick e-mail at bricktalesATgmailDOTcom. To all others, I'm still pretty swamped, but look forward to a reinvigoration of these blogs as we bring in fresh bloggers. In the meantime, I'm trying to do daily updates to GodBricks to get that one fully established. So check there for your daily fix of my blogging.
Bruce
I've gotten an overwhelming response to my previous call for help with running my blogs. If you've already e-mailed me, I'll be contacting you soon. If you've contacted me another way (e.g. leaving a comment on the blog or at Classic-Castle), please drop me a quick e-mail at bricktalesATgmailDOTcom. To all others, I'm still pretty swamped, but look forward to a reinvigoration of these blogs as we bring in fresh bloggers. In the meantime, I'm trying to do daily updates to GodBricks to get that one fully established. So check there for your daily fix of my blogging.
Bruce
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Help! Call for co-bloggers
Okay, I'm in over my head. I get excited about an area and create a framework for that, but now I have four blogs--VignetteBricks, MicroBricks, MinilandBricks and GodBricks--in addition to being an admin at Classic-Castle. Not to mention I'd like to do something on my own LEGO projects now and then. So I'm looking for some co-bloggers for the first three (I'm going to keep GodBricks to myself for a bit until it is fully established). This need not be burdensome - you're already checking Brickshelf, Flickr, MOCpages, etc., when you see a good MOC that's on-topic, post it to the blog. The code is really easy, so don't be concerned about that. I only ask that you try to stay with the same vision of the blog--i.e. if you're helping with MicroBricks, only post microscale creations. Also, this is not just a way to highlight your own stuff, but if you do make something in the theme that you think is good, go ahead and post it. This would probably work best if you're someone I already know from interaction on the various LEGO forums. If I had two or three partners for each blog it would be great. Let me know if you're interested at bricktalesATgmailDOTcom
Thanks,
Bruce
Thanks,
Bruce
Monday, April 20, 2009
New blog - GodBricks
Hey all,
I've continued my blog proliferation with a new blog, GodBricks. As with my existing blogs, there will be a specific theme - the overlap of LEGO building and religious themes. Religion has been at the heart of much of the great art and architecture for millenia, and LEGO building is no different. I'm going to try to feature creations such as cathedrals, mosques, minifigs based on religious figures, illustrations of biblical or other stories, etc, from all faith traditions. There will be overlap with my existing blogs, as I have already, for instance, highlighted vignettes of stories from the Book of Mormon, a microscale cathedral, and a miniland-scale Mary and Jesus nativity scene. Please check out GodBricks and let me know what you think. I've also started a related Flickr group, LEGO and God, with the same theme.
I've continued my blog proliferation with a new blog, GodBricks. As with my existing blogs, there will be a specific theme - the overlap of LEGO building and religious themes. Religion has been at the heart of much of the great art and architecture for millenia, and LEGO building is no different. I'm going to try to feature creations such as cathedrals, mosques, minifigs based on religious figures, illustrations of biblical or other stories, etc, from all faith traditions. There will be overlap with my existing blogs, as I have already, for instance, highlighted vignettes of stories from the Book of Mormon, a microscale cathedral, and a miniland-scale Mary and Jesus nativity scene. Please check out GodBricks and let me know what you think. I've also started a related Flickr group, LEGO and God, with the same theme.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Bad Day for Micropolis
The newest contest on Reasonably Clever is entitled Bad Day for Micropolis. Chris is working together with TwinLUG and the challenge is to use the TwinLUG micro city standard for your MOC. There are categories for different size modules, including one for a disaster hitting your micro city. Think earthquake, volcano, dinosaurs, alien invasion, giant meteors, or whatever your twisted mind can come up with. Rock Smash is by Garth Danielson, BTW. TwinLUG is also inviting anyone to bring micro city modules to BrickWorld this June to create a giant tiny city.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Starfleet
While AFOLs in the US were gathering for Brickfest, our Austrian counterparts were celebrating Wunderwelt Modellbau. It looks like Stefan Kasmayer (aka 2x4 on Brickshelf) brought a whole fleet's worth of his Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica micro MOCs. Photo credit to Brainbike.rider.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Medieval coastline
Hmm, I think this is an older MOC, but it just popped up on Brickshelf and I don't think I've blogged it before, so here is a medieval walled city and surroundings by Luis and Tania Baixinho. Luis has also recently posted a nice mini tree. This fits in well with trees using Lenny's spheres and several people who have used green hair for trees.
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:
This was recently discussed on LAML radio.
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.
Monday, March 30, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Edit - I stand corrected. This is not actually at the same scale as the ISD set, but at a larger scale. Thanks, RH.
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.
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.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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