Recently, Poland (and Europe) witnessed on of the most grotesque conflict between Prime Minister and President, nicknamed “plane war” or “chair race”. Both gentelmen fought over who will represent Poland at Brussels EU summit. Until the very begining of the meeting we were not sure who will sit on the chair…

I felt so embarrased that I had to let it out. Here’s the quickie:

Here you have another magnificent work by Thomas Wunz, the Castle of Careinst Evakil:

You can see here some interesting details of the balcony, the girls taking a bath and the peeping tom (voyeur)…

In the last 0937 Community event, we had a few surprises going on. The european launch of Taj Mahal was one of them. But there was something that left us all with our eyes wide open in awe, it was the portuguese Romão’s St. Macario’s Cathedral. Recently I had the oportunity to make him a small interview and this was the result:

Klocki - How do you describe your construction?
Romão - it’s an attempt of, using a way with some limitations like LEGO, making a model of an original cathedral in a style that I like very much - gothic.

Klocki - After three years building this cathedral, tell us about the biggest difficulties you had to deal with?
Romão - Lack of money, space and parts.

Klocki - Tell us about a detail in wich you had building difficulties and that gave you an enormous pleasure surpassing it or a technique you used with a particular satisfaction.
Romão - The construction of the abside, which is totally poligonal (and a half decagon) and the octagonal portions of both central towers (specially the arrows) were hard to build, because of its forms not so ”LEGO-friendly”.

The towers in it’s two last levels are totally SNOT and have portions with prisms and octogonal pyramids which were particularly hard to support.

Klocki - Will you make arrangements or changes?
Romão - Some. The abside roof (the portion in semi decagonal pyramid) was not ok and it has to be corrected one of these days. The altar is not yet built and the tower of the crossing is going to need a hand to get more thin because it’s a little badly built.

Klocki - Which were your inspirations?
Romão - Cathedrals all over the world, and many of them I had the privilege of visiting (Cologne, Freiburg, Chartres, Amiens, Reims, Burgos)

Main features:

- Number of parts: about 80.000.
- Rare parts: the 1×2 tiles in sandgreen on the roof (they are hundreds of them), many of the transparent parts. And the cathedral is almost all built in old light gray, what turns these parts relatively rare, one way or the other.
- Measures: Height: 127 cm
                    Lenght: 110 cm
                    Width: 63.5 cm

Thanks for the interview, Romão!

Some readers have probably spotted a small S@H ad on the right column of the blog. Few days ago Klocki entered S@H affiliate program.

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I find it really difficult to introduce Nnenn and his recent works. You have already read “prolific” and  “amazing” so many times that it became cliche long time ago. Let us just enjoy the beautiful forms of this sawblade spacefighter nicknamed KAZ-m79 ‘Vajoolix’ 

I really like to watch the moments when Nnenn builds something outside the thin, smooth space fighter theme. Like this classic-spacey alien vehicle:

New deadly mass-destruction weapon on the battlefield of tommorow: warbirds by V1 aka Noddy:

German AFOL leggor has already amazed us, Technic lovers some time ago, with his Power Functions steering wheel design. Now, he went even further using two Mindstorms NXT units to control a simple motorbike. His creation almost gives the feeling of driving a real bike - it provides steering control with the handlebar, speed control with the throttle, as well as a reverse drive trigger. We can appreciate the advantage of the NXT system, that provides the analogue steering option - something very difficult to create with the currently available PF elements.

Short update for everyone involved in the Open Letter initiative: I have closed the polls and sent the letter to LEGO.

If we get an answer, we will post it here, so everyone is able to read it.

Keep your fingers crossed!

Brickshelf user muming has just published photos of his newly improved model of a Leopard 2, the German main battle tank, considered the current world’s best tank. His creation, in rare desert camo, falls into Model Team category rather than Technic, but its level of accuracy and minuteness of details is overwhelming even for such a Technic lover as me Wihtout further ado, let’s just skip to the photos - a true marvel to behold, especially if you’re into military stuff and modern armored vehicles.

PS. The title of this note originates from the timeless Monty Python’s sketch - here’s a link for connoisseurs

If you are a parent, you probably know that sometimes, rocking the baby to sleep can be a real …adventure. Fear no more, Slovenian LEGO fan teflon submitted a great entry in our Home Improvement Contest - a tractor that rocks the baby’s crib back and forth. You have to see this:

Check out teflon’s other parent-friendly inventions, like Technic baby mobile!