Here at TLCB we don’t really understand sci-fi. Or video games. So sci-fi video games are well outside of our comfort zone. But we do understand brilliant building, and this Vagyr Battlecruiser from the Homeworld game series certainly earns that accolade. Flickr’s Tim Schwalfenberg is the builder and you can see more of his incredible creation via the link above.
We know the square root of jack about spaceships. But we do quite like the colour blue, and that seems like as good a reason as any to post these lovely spacecraft. Above is Nick Trotta‘s ‘Atomium’, whilst below is David Alexander Smith’s classic space ‘Three-Man Planet Scout’, available on both Flickr and MOCpages.
Chequers in Lego always seem to look the business. And never more so than when in space. We’re not sure why this is, but we don’t make the rules. The Elves found two spacey creations employing chequers this week, and both look, well – the business.
Shannon Sproule‘s survey truck (above) and David Roberts‘ GARC race team (below) both tread the black and yellow chequer plate route and you can see more of both wonderfully inventive creations on Flickr at the links above.
This is how you do it. The brilliantly named Tim Schwalfenberg (aka One More Brick) gives us a masterclass in Photoshop with his three micro-scale freighters heading for their warp-gates. Jump through at the link above.
Crimso Giger’s got a lovely big pair. His micro-scale spaceships were suggested by a reader and can be found on Flickr.
But a class build nevertheless. This nicely photoshopped creation, entitled ‘Juggernaut’, was suggested to us by a reader. It’s been built by Tim C of MOCpages, and you can see all the photos, including some superb detail close-ups, at the link above.
Following his classic spaceship collaboration publicised here earlier in the week, builder Simon Liu has now completed the epic spaceport in which the classic spacecraft feature. Simon’s huge Moonbase services travellers from far and wide (just like your Mom), and there’s a vast amount of clever detailing and cunning building techniques used throughout the build.
There’s lots more to see on Flickr at Simon’s photostream – you can book yourself a trip to the moon by clicking on these magic words. We’ll see you there.
The Lego Movie‘s Benny is sure gonna like this post…
Flickr’s Simon Liu recently held an Open Day at his moonbase build, and this is what turned up: Twelve different classic spaceships from a variety of the net’s best sci-fi builders. Each is a a work of Classic Space brilliance and you can see them all at Simon’s photostream here. Spaceship!
David Hensel has built what might be the best example of a static model with the illusion of movement that we’ve ever seen. His awesome mini-figure scale jumpship scene can be found on Flickr – click here for take off.
Star Wars – for all its brilliance – does have a few issues; Jar Jar Binks, pretty much all of the dialogue, Jar Jar Binks, the total lack of any women in the entire galaxy, and Jar Jar Binks again.
However the machinery of Star Wars we thought was almost un-improvable… Until we saw it merged with Classic Space!
TLCB regular Billyburg has blended the two themes so perfectly it’s as if they should have been together all along. You can see more of his wonderfully nerdy Classic Space Y-Wing on Flickr – click the link above to make the jump.
Looking a bit like Nature’s finest frozen water efforts – or the alloy wheel from a second generation Ford Focus ST (What? We are car nerds…) is Chris Perron’s ‘Asterisk’ classic spaceship. Chris’ work is a masterclass in great image editing and you can see more here.
It’s not just TLCB staff who get to write their thoughts here, you can too! Previous bloggee and space builder Billyburg joins us in a guest capacity today. Over to Billyburg…
Every Lego builder (and TLCB Elf) should know about David Roberts and his wonderful, whimsical builds. They embody the idea of Lego perfectly: build and have fun.
His latest creation, the ‘GOUDA space pod‘ is classic Mr. Roberts, a wonderful, quirky little build with a typically imaginative and clever back story. And he also builds Classic Space, so he must be cool!
You can see more of David’s cheesy ship on Flickr, click the link above to take a bite.
Lots of spacey creations today, but fear not – the cars will return tomorrow. The third and final sci-fi build of the day comes from Clayton Marchetti, who has uploaded this collaborative build to MOCpages. It’s called a Goliath Space Freighter and you can see more at the link above.
Sigh. ‘Alright’, groans an exasperated Alan, ‘I’ll take him another pack.’ ‘But tell him to go easy on the freeze-dried curry this time’ he adds.
The most pointless of the Tracy brothers, orbiting the Earth in Thunderbird 5, is about to get some more cushiony softness courtesy of his long suffering sibling, and Thunderbird 3 pilot, Alan.
This humongous Lego recreation of the Tracy family’s spaceship was discovered on Flickr. It’s the work of Gary Davis who is clearly rather stunningly talented with a Lego brick. You can see more of his incredible model at his photostream – click the link above to launch.
The Lego Car Blog office knows collectively the square root of nothing about spaceships. What we do know is we quite like spaceships that look like… er, ships, in space. This is one such creation, the USS Avenger. It’s the work of Flickr’s JBIronWorks and there are some truly spectacular images available to view. Click the link above to see how good sci-fi photo editing can get!
