Archive for the category 'Microscale'

RMS Olympic, the sister ship of Titanic

There were three of them - Titanic and Brittanic and Olympic. First met the iceberg, second met the mine. Only the third one (in fact - the first one built) survived and served until 1935. Flickr user rh1985moc built the microscale model of her:

Olympic

Lots of LEDs (20) were put inside hull, which made the following night view shots possible:

 Olympic at night   

Catching Up: Microscale

I have missed a lot of creations that showed up during last three weeks. Let’s catch up then!

Jerac build a wonderful white, microscale missile cruiser Muisek:

Muisek

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and a micro Warhammer 40k diorama:

Wh40k diorama

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Just take a look on how it is done. For me this is a proof that Jerac is not a human. Humans do not build like that, their brains would explode…

Dan Jassim returned for a moment from his Dark Age with the bunch of great microspace ships. Nice to see that old master is up-to-date with new parts. Here are my favorite: Exploriens Starship (designed as Star Justice, but rebranded due to a lack of decals) and Blacktron Fighter

Exploriens Starship

Blacktron Fighter

And finally Nnenn shocked everyone with his latest green torpedo frigate:

Green Nnenn

This yellow cheese-like part is a Fabuland Roof Support piece. Perfect!

Do minifigs dream of electric trucks?

For some time now I have been wondering what minifigs really do when we don’t watch them. V1 gives of of the possible explanations.

Over next few weeks I’m going to ask you even more fundamental question: Do minifigs dream of summer vacations?

Honey, I shrunk a dreadnought!

Alex Kahler (Xiphos) of St. Luis builds a microscale version of Dreadnought mecha from Warhammer 40k universe. Thanks to Nexus, I am not WH40k ignorant anymore and I can really admire the way Alex kept the similarity to original design.

Micro Dreadnought

Torso decal is borrowed from larger creation by Jerac’s, that was an inspiration to Alex.

Lime Nnenn

This time, Nnenn builds a microscale lime starfighter. If he placed red and white in the other order, it would make a Polish ship, and now it’s like… Indonesian?

I think this is second time I see this strange part used in a MOC (first one was in Mark Stafford’s Crysilon Screamer). I wish we could get these in more standard colors.

Lime Nnenn

Anyone knows how Nnenn did the windshield? Is it a brick cut in half or are there lime stickers applied somehow?

EDIT: Well, after giving it a second thought, I must say that when looked from the other side, the ship is definitely Polish ;-) I need more coffee…

Modular Nnenn

Nnenn experiments with the modular approach to microscale building. Here are the bits:

Bits

And here is the example what you can do with them:

Biggest

And here are all vehicles that Nnenn produced using this pieces:

All

I think this is a very nice idea. It’s very similar to the modular cars design by Paul C. we featured last summer. Actually, I think it would work well if implemented in a regular LEGO set. There was once Technic a set like this (can not find a reference right now, anyone remember?), but the idea did not catch up back then.

Space Skulls meet Space Justice

Today, we found a thrilling announcement published on LEGO Factory web site:

 

LEGO Factory News

In april we will see Space Skulls and Space Justice. What cound these names stand for?
Majority of the AFOL commenting this speculate that it mifght be sets based on two legendary fan space lines: Pre Classic Space by Chris Giddens and 3vil by Mark Sandlin. If by any chance you missed that, take a look now at Doulous medical frigate and Asmodeus destroyer.

 

PCS Doulos

 

3vil Asmodeus

Readers are asked to figure out themselves which faction is the good one, and which is not.

Neccessary equipment

One thing you really can`t do without in every sf universe is a dropship. The most famous one was in Alien movie, but have a look at this cool creation by dasnewten.

Mian Situ

I did not catch up on the Invisible Hand ,and Mark Kelso already shows something new. Mian Situ is a excercise project, created in the middle of the building of larger one. Can you spot an imperial shuttle’s tail?

Mian Situ

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Whole fleet in pocket

How many spaceships can you fit into a pocket? The entire fleet! Jerac built this beautiful microscale fleet.

It can be used as an army for a miniature wargaming system (e.g. Battlefleet Gothic).

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