The Brothers Brick

Feb26

Pierces enemy lines with the Vector APC

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Luis (TerremotoQuake) presents a sleek and deadly armored personnel carrier called the Vector. In addition to the ultra-smooth tiled exterior, the interior is just as immaculate. But purists beware, this APC seats non-LEGO army soldiers, seemingly choosen to show the smaller-than-minifig-scale of the creation.
Feb26

Micro Macross Zero VF-0A/S with Ghost Booster

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Stephen Chao (Obscurance) recently posted an awesome micro version of the VF-0 fighter from the Macross Zero prequel movie. More on Brickshelf and Flickr.
Feb26

Behind the scenes at the Royal Applery

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Where did medieval apple pies, apple sauce, and other appley treats come from? Philip Stark (Erdbeereis) has the answer: Click the photo to read the hilarious back story and see lots more pics.
Feb26

The Black Falcons can see a very long way from their Watchtower

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Flush with the success of Shannonia, Shannon Young (MOCpages | Flickr) demonstrates his castle-building prowess with Black Falcon’s Watchtower:
Feb26

Eti€™s Itty bitty 10193

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Erik Smit (Eti) has created a lovely little microscale version of 10193 Medieval Market Village, complete with horse and cart, cows, and buildings that open and close.
Feb26

Red mecha are nice.

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Especially when they’re inspired by Warhammer 40K. Mark Stafford and Flickr’s CBLA_Member have both built new creations based on Warhammer 40K, and both are Red. CBLA has built a pirate mecha (right) to scale for minifigs, which makes excellent use of a Jack Stone skull piece for marking on the shoulder. Mark [...]
Feb25

It€™s more than a tree in the Ent

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Flickr’s Arzlan calls it a tree man, Tolkien calls it an Ent, I call it cool. I love the cleverly concealed joints, and the work with the vines at the top is fantastic. I’m never able to make organic stuff look right, so I always appreciate it when someone else does.
Feb25

Zach€™s Manticore

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Zach has built a droid, called a manticore that’s so bizarre that I can’t look away. I always thought that a manticore was a lion with a human head and a scorpion’s tail. Instead, I’m looking at a droid that has two feet, and that’s where the similarity to anything in nature ends [...]
Feb25

The Zipper€™s Zu-Rama Elite gives me the heebie jeebies

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BZPower member The Zipper recently posted this “hornet-like creature” that you probably wouldn’t meet in your great aunt’s garden — not that you’d want to! The Zipper’s design also gives her creature a look akin to a Zerg Mutalisk — another nasty beast whose acquaintance you’d best avoid. Thanks for the link, Joey!
Feb25

The Prismatic Shadow

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Alex Fojtik uses a rainbow of color accents on a black mecha frame to create one of the most unique mechas I’ve seen. He further added the chromatic stickers from the Mars Mission sets for a great effect.
Feb25

MOCpages, over 100,000 creations strong!

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MOCpages recently topped the 100,000 creations mark. Congratulations! Above creation by Dave and John Xandegar.
Feb25

Daniel Z plans a castle evolution

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Daniel Z has planted the first creation in what’s to become an evolution of castle. This wooden castle will eventually evolve into a much larger stone castle through several stages. I look forward to seeing the subsequent additions.
Feb25

Beneath Gotham

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In his explorations of the subway system of Gotham City Brent Wolke (thwaak) has uncovered a secret world: a world of subway racers. These are the cutest set of LEGOy things I’ve seen in ages.
Feb25

Three more days of train

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Just a reminder that the train building challenge closes at the end of the month. Get your entries in before Sunday.
Feb24

Chris Deck, master mini modeler

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It absolutely baffles me that we’ve featured the microscale creations of Chris Deck (Legostein) precisely … once! I realized this oversight when I headed over to the new FBTB to post my own microscale BSG hangar. Chris’ latest microscale models include a Corporate Alliance Tank Droid and Republic Gunship from Star Wars: As you might imagine, [...]