Merry Christmas

I've featured Joe Meno's Nativity before, but it's the best micro for the day. Merry Christmas, one and all.

Kurrendesänger

Kurrendesänger (here by Jojo) are either wandering carolers, or little wooden figurines of carolers found as decorations in German homes.

Twas the MOC before Christmas

From Tony Sava
Twas The MOC Before Christmas
When what on my wandering tracks should appear,
But a mini-scale coach, and eight tiny traindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than diesels his engines they came!
While they whistled, he shouted and called them by name:

"Now, Zephyr! now, Memphis! now, Empire and Bullet!
On, Comet! on, Chieftain! on, Daylight and Rocket!
To the end of the line! Slip the brake and highball!
Now chug away! chug away! chug away all!"

Kepler

Adrian Florea made this great scene.

Let's go for a drive

V&A Steamworks has an ongoing Cabinet of Curiosities project, where he invites other AFOLs to contribute small MOCs to a group display. Tim Gould made this great car.

No island is a man

V&A Steamworks has an ongoing Cabinet of Curiosities project, where he invites other AFOLs to contribute small MOCs to a group display. Chris Edwards made this amazing island.

Dino Bowling

Adam Meyers is going dino bowling.

Berzerk

Appollo keeps posting great BSG-inspired MOCs, like the Battlestar Berzerk.

Advent Calendar

Over on FBTB they've posted a review of the first half of the 7958 Star Wars Advent Calendar. This looks like a pretty great set to me, you get eight figs (six if you don't count droids), including the new, and quite fun, Yoda Claus. Relevant to this blog, though, is the series of great little microscale ships. My favorite is probably the Slave 1.

Pisa

Gabriel Riutort built a nice Pisa MOC to the micropolis standard.

Castles galore

There were so many wonderful entries in the Mini Castle Contest. I want to go back and look at some other in addition to the great winning entries I've already noted.

Knight Eklund's Cliffport Castle has a really beautiful sweeping coastline. I really like the color scheme and the variation in slope pitches from the upper plateau down to the beach. The castle itself is great with a non-square shape. I assume that most of the objects are held on by gravity, which is a liability of using the SNOT base. Another minor liability of the SNOT base is that it makes everything so unnaturally flat. Of course, at this scale, studs make fairly large hills, so maybe flat is better.


Ru Corder's Countryside Keep is also on a SNOT base, with the same advantages and disadvantages noted above. The wall made of brown rods is outstanding, as is the sandwiching of grill plates to make small windows in the main keep. I also really like the tree design using flower stems. Oh, and the use of log bricks to make plowed fields is another great piece usage.

LEGO Ideas Book

If you're looking for a great gift for the AFOL in your life, check out the DK LEGO Ideas Book (hmm, good sale price on Amazon). Anyway, this includes a large number of models by AFOLs you may know, like several of Debrah Higdon's micro models.

Mini Castle Contest

I apologize for being away from blogging for three weeks. Anyway, in the meantime, the winners were announced in the Mini Castle Contest. And the winner is ... Blego7's Warscape Volume 2, and second place went to the related Warscape Volume 1 by Siercon and Coral. While there were a lot of great entries, and I'll go back and look at some of those in future posts, these three builders really raised the bar by building a series of connected MOCs that all work together to tell an epic story.

Micro fleet is getting bigger

CommanderHawk's micro fleet is getting bigger. (Previous post here.)

Centre Pompidou

Theolego made the Pompidou Center.

WWII

Henning Birkeland made this great airport and planes.

One Penn Plaza

I don't know who 'moctown' is, but they just posted three great landmarks - One Penn Plaza, the Metlife building, and the leaning tower of Pisa.

Monster mash

There's so much to admire in lisqr's monster battle: the scale mixing, the great Japanese castle, the tree design, and that rainy backdrop.

Happy Halloween

The Mini Castle Contest finishes up today on CC. More on that later. For today, I thought Lolino's entry Tartarus had a sufficiently spooky feel to celebrate the day.

Oh Canada

Thadjantzi has made six great Vancouver landmarks.