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Monday’s Ma.Ktober Maschinen

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Ferkel MaK

Here at TLCB Towers we have a similar attitude to both the Elves and Ma.Ktober.  We don’t understand how they work but we like the results.  An important part of the Maschinen Krieger style is smooth, rounded armour, which can be very difficult to make from Lego bricks. Tim Zarki has done a super job of the Ferkel spacecraft, using a variety of curved components.  The sphere at the front of the ship is a particularly interesting bit of building technique and the ship is accompanied by a neat spaceborne SAFS.  You can navigate to Tim’s photos Flickr and his blog by clicking this link.

Camazotz

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Camazotz

French builder F@bz has applied his distinctive building style to this single seat spaceship. It has some unusual colour combinations for a spacecraft and interesting parts usage, especially around its engines. You can spot more details by clicking this link to the “Camazotz” on Flickr.

What’s the Story?

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Morning Glory 500w

It might be well into Ma.Ktober but here at The Lego Car Blog, we’re still not sure what that is. One of the Elves thinks that it has something to do with October being rainy and people needing coats but we’re not convinced. In the meantime, a crew of Elves has just dragged this late entry to SHIPtember up the stairs to our penthouse office. It’s the work of Crimso Giger on Flickr, who is well-known for his colourful sci-fi builds. We think that he’s outdone himself here in creating this 132 stud long, dazzling monster.

The appropriately named “Morning Glory”, seems to have a certain gravitas to it, despite being a feast of red, yellow and black patterns. This deep-space ship features brick-built wings and loads of greebling in all three of its colours. We post photos at a maximum of 500 wide on TLCB, so it’s well worth clicking this link to the Flickr page to take it all in. If you’re a bit overwhelmed by this SHIP (the Elves who delivered it to us nearly were) then relax your eyes with a spacecraft, in the very unusual colour of green, by the same builder. The Elves liked Crimso’s “Soyuz 2267” because it reminded them of the “Starbug” from Red Dwarf, which is a treat for them to watch if they’ve worked VERY hard. Click this link to its Flickr page, to see more.

Crimso Soyuz 500w

Go Wide!

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Go Wide

This year has seen a new month added to Lego builders’ calendars on Flickr: SHIPtember. A SHIP is a Seriously Huge Investment in Parts and is typically over 100 studs in length. Builders from all over the world have been posting photos of both WIPs and completed projects, which are generally long and thin. Dover (Drew) has chosen to take a sideways look at the theme, literally, and produced this 101 stud wide Bubble Fighter.

The spacecraft is based on one flown by Matt LeBlanc in the 1998 film of “Lost in Space“. It has a pistol grip handle to hold when swooshing it and rotating wings too. There’s also some nice parts usage, with the Christmas decoration cockpit and especially the real teeth in the markings on the wings. The Elf who discovered this MOC is still a bit upset by the big, pointy fangs. Please don’t be scared to check more photos of this colourful spacecraft by clicking this link to its Flickr page.

That’s What She Said

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Lego SpaceshipIt’s so big! And long! It might not fit in. Is it loaded and ready to fire? Ok, we’ll stop. Lego Admiral’s 7ft 6inch (286 studs) ship is part of Flickr’s ‘SHIPtember’ project, where this September builders are producing sci-fi models over 100 studs in length. We don’t really understand sci-fi here at TLCB, so we had to resort to innuendo, but if it’s your thing check out both Lego Admiral’s amazing model and the competition here.

Sidecars in Space!

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Lego SpeederBillyburg’s lunar speeder with sidecar somehow collides a retro motorbike with a sci-fi spaceship. It works though, as who wouldn’t want to zoom across the surface of the moon with a mate? You can see more of Billy’s work over on Flickr.

Newton’s Balls

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Lego Science Vessel SpacecraftThis beautiful spacecraft was uncovered on Flickr earlier in the week. Built by the fantastically talented Pierre E Fieschi it reminds us of the Newton’s Cradle desk ornament, which in turn (and because we have the minds of children), makes us think that Sir Isaac Newton had an enormous pair of pendulous testicles. See more (of the spaceship, not Sir Isaac’s gentleman’s area – although it’s probably on Google somewhere) on Flickr via the link above.

The Marquis

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The Marquis Lego SpaceshipMany of you will have seen this monumental structure on The Brothers Brick during their Brickworld 2013 Report, but for those that haven’t, Peter Mowry recently uploaded his 56inch long/high(?) spacecraft, The Marquis, to MOCpages. View the incredible model in detail, including behind-the-scenes photographs, here.

Monday Swoosh

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Lego Nova SpaceshipPossibly the most swooshable spaceship we’ve seen yet, it’s even swooshing in the pictures. Suboken Project is the builder behind it. He’s probably swooshing it right now. Swoosh.

Salvage in Space

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Lego Space Ship YardThis incredible photograph was found by one of our Elves on Flickr, and put simply this could be the sci-fi creation of 2013. Built as a collaboration between Si-MOCs and Ricecracker the scene consists of two spectacular spaceships either side of a 3ft high ‘space wreck’.

The ships’ function is one we’ve previously not seen explored in Lego before; the dismantling and recycling of end-of-life spacehips. Given this is such a well documented and widespread industry for sea-going vessels it’s surprising that no-one has made the leap into sci-fi with it until now.

Over to Si-MOCs to explain both the process depicted above, and the features of the year-long build:

“RS Industries deploys several scrap fleets to salvage derelict SHIPs in space. The RS HUDSON is a demolition class scrap vessel – when docked with floating wrecks, the RS HUDSON has a retractable arm which is capable cutting into hulls of SHIPs.

Cubes are cut out and sent to waiting Dumpships which transport the raw cubes to the RS UNWIN which continues to process the cubes further. Refined materials are loaded into cargo containers ready for shipping.”

The RS HUDSON and Space wreck (aka Space rock, aka ice house) are the two largest LEGO structures I have ever built, it has been almost a year long journey with Isaac (Ricecracker) who conceived of the idea of SPACE wreaking SHIPs. Through many ramen meals the idea of a pair of SHIPs came together.

The SHIP is about 180 studs long, and the wreck/rock is like 3 feet tall. The RS Hudson has a NXT (for the ‘arm’) and two powerfunctions (front conveyor belt and engine pulsing), the wreck/rock has one (for glow fluctuation)- which takes a combined 24 batteries to operate.”

To see more of this astonishing build, visit the image above on Flickr here, where you can find links to further images and video content.

Lego Spaceship Salvage

Death Ray

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Lego Flying SaucerThis cheery-looking spaceman has got a weapon to be proud of. No wonder he’s smiling. See more on Flickr courtesy of Karf Oohlu.

Fast Fish

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Proximan Shark 500w

In the days before the internet, inspiration for Lego sci-fi models was hard to find. Some people were lucky enough to stumble upon the Terran Trade Authority series of books in their local library. Last week we featured Mark Stafford’s version of Peter Elson’s “Trader to the Stars”.

Now, just when you thought it was safe to go back in your spaceship, comes Shannon Sproule’s Proximan K-13 Shark. Based on Angus McKie’s original artwork, Shannon’s build uses a variety of greebles, including a pair of snow shoes and a sausage, to re-create this alien classic. As this is The Lego Car Blog, we should point out that there’s a car wheel rim hidden in there too. Spot more greebles and enjoy the nostalgia on Shannon’s Flickr page.

Belgians in Space!

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Lego UNES Odyssey 21This spectacular spaceship is the work of Lazer Blade on Flickr, which (probably coincidentally) resembles a very patriotic tribute to the great space-exploring nation of, er… Belgium. See more at the link above.

Cheese Wedge

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Lego SSL SpaceshipMark Stafford aka lego_nabii is one of the few regular sci-fi builders we feature here at TLCB, such is his talent, and his back catalogue is full of previously unseen wonders that he’s only now decided to post. One such creation is this stunning version of Peter Elson’s 2200AD artwork, built back in ’06.

As well as the above ship, Mark has recently uploaded quite a few gems from years past – we won’t feature them all here as the car builders amongst you will wonder why we’re called The Lego Car Blog, but if you like this creation be sure to check out the rest. Mark’s time machine can be entered via the link above.

Queen Vic

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Lego Space Station VictoriaLEGOLIZE IT MAN’s micro-scale ‘Victoria’ Space Station adds a dose of sci-fi to The Lego Car Blog to round off the week. See more of his work at his photostream here.