Found this in teapics flickr gallery. I sense some good vibes coming out from this picture…

In recent weeks the Brickshelf has been graced with several intriguing construction, all of them of heavy weight. Let’s begin with the heaviest one, an excellent model of the Israeli main tank Merkava Mk3 by grohl666. The model has all standard features of a tank, that is a remote controlled drive, rotating turret and elevated main gun, but also a most interesting suspension system. The author has ingeniously used standard wheels as tank’s road wheels, each of them suspended independently. Despite a typically Technic design, the model surely doesn’t lack the details - to mention just the opened hatches, a cannonholder, driver’s cockpit and realistic rear clamshell door, a unique feature of the Merkava tank. Follow the links in pictures, and you will find a handful of videos presenting all the functions of this great model.

The second model will certainly enchant the truck lovers. The wonderfully detailed MAN TGA 28.480 in a rare livery comes courtesy of AAron-Hun. Apart from two steered and two driven axles, it features a remote controlled 2-speed gearbox, outriggers, pneumatic differential locks in two rear axles, a detailed interior, the case with opened sides, and a realistic pneumatic self-loading crane powered by an electric compressor. Those who care about realism will also enjoy the suspension consisting of free floating modules, with no rigid connections to the frame. The pneumatic system comes with an airtank and a pressure-limit switch. When we look at this work, we can hardly imagine the amount of time that was necessary to build it.

The last model is something for the fans of smaller scale. Tatra 815 by rhplus can’t fit advanced mechanics, but has a shapely silhouette, realistic detailwork and a well-considered construction. Note the clever functional outriggers, and the small self loading crane fitted even with dummy pneumatic hoses. The small scale resulted in several interesting solutions that are worthy to know - take a look at e.g. the front air intake.

McZargald (blog) built very cool small military helicopter. Lot of interesting details in here:

Most of you have already heard about 7979 - LEGO Castle Advent Calendar. Some have maybe already ordered it, some still don’t know if it will be available in nearest store, some don’t know if the set is worth buying. For all of you, freshly taken picture of set’s inventory - enjoy:

Warning !!! clicking at this picture can spoil you advent fun !!!

Some readers may notice new position in our main menu - Contests. We decided to maintain a list of LEGO building contests. There is so many of them that one can build only contest entries for the whole year!

We will be puting on the list every contest that meets these criteria:

• Online, so posting images of video is enough to enter
• Open to anyone, worldwide (may require joining a forum)
• There is English version of the contest rules

We are launching the list with five great contests, if we missed something - let us know!

The 0937 Community Club Meeting took place this past weekend and I can assure you it was an enormous sucess!

It were three full days of activities related with LEGO. We had the first european appearance of the Taj Mahal , in wich we had a great help from Jan Beyer, two LEGO product presentations, speedbuilding of two Market Street and speed racers, Trial, fantastic community City, Western, Castle and GBC displays, personal creations of various themes, such as, Technic, Model Team, Pirates, Castle, Vikings, City, etc. It was also here that we had the opportunity to see the work of three years of one of our members - this amazing Cathedral. Besides all this, we also had several auctions of sets and parts and of course, we also had the chance to freshen ourselves with the WaterQuest (in wich we used LEGO water guns).

It was also in this meeting that we got to know, by Jan, who were the winners of the 50 Year Brick Contest (organized by 0937 Community).

1º - Lets Play by ztp - (the prize was a 20004)

2º - Crash! by Biczzz (the prize was a 3870 and a bag of parts) (I’m not going to translate the word inside the baloon…)

3º - The birth of a masterpiece… by Marcos Bessa (the prize was a 3871 and a bag of parts)

Finally, LEGO Shop@Home opens for Poland! Now also Polish fans will be able to get exclusive sets and order from Pick-a-Brick catalogue.

Thank you, Lego!

Here’s the video for “Simply pastel” (”Po prostu pastelowe”) that recently hit the charts in Poland. This is a cover of the old evergreen by Malarze i Żołnierze, now recorded by Strachy na Lachy.

Warning - some minifig nudity ahead!

Script, directing ans shooting: Piotr Pitold Maciejewski, Radek Wysocki. Stop-motion animation (8 frames per second, approx. 3500 frames in total).

LUGPol’s Klocki-Zdroj exhibition is now partially disassembled, but there is one thing good about it - V1 photographed (at last) his newest masterpiece. Despite the controversial title that has bad connotations in Poland, this is a blast.

Biker’s clubhouse called “Krematorium” is of course a way to showcase all V1’s motorbikes, but the building alone is equally good. The amount of little details and funny scenes is amazing! Even having seen it in person, I still find some new things on those pictures! 

Here’s another update on Nnenn’s latest space creations. Here’s FAPx-7700t ‘Helix’:

and VR-9 with the cargo - a nice rover.

Don’t forget to check on the LAML Radio podcast with Nnenn.