The Order of the Stick, Now Made in Brick!

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Matt De Lanoy has made this wonderful mosaic of the protagonists from one of my favorite webcomics, The Order of the Stick. He’s portrayed the characters perfectly, even capturing a bit of the humor, with poor halfling Belkar being almost out of frame. Just seeing this mosaic makes me want to go read more OOTS. If you’re not familiar with The Order of the Stick, I highly recommend checking it out.

A Tower to Protect

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Jaka Kupina’s (Captain Flint) Guard Tower is packed with fun little details. The whole thing manages to look overgrown, un-cared for, and generally miserable while still having such a clean, lovely presentation. I particularly like the fence line, myself.

Raptors!

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This chibi F-22 built by Jack Marquez (Ewok in Disguise) is a nice model in its own right, without considering the pilot. It’s well built and adorably proportioned. The icing on the cake? It’s piloted by a raptor from the new Dino sets!

Deep in the Bayou, the Pirates Converge…

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Tia Dalma’s haven of witchcraft was one of the eerier scenes in Dead Man’s Chest, with Jack Sparrow and company slinking through the murky woods to consult a medium. This scene by flickr user Walter Boy captures a bit of that uncanniness, and is a great model besides. The dark tan, dark brown, and dark green merge together well to give this diorama more ominous tones, and the dark background is an excellent choice.

Sorry Son, Daddy Needs Your Bricks

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I wonder if this diorama by Karwick stirs up memories for any of our readers. It depicts an AFOL father who’s decided to take over his children’s Lego collection, and start building. I’ll take the tied up children as a bit of poetic license.

The story aside, this diorama is packed full of well-built details. A few of note are the radiator under the shelf on the right side, the wall light above the bed, with cord leading to an outlet, and the clever floor.

The turquoise roofs of Grim Hollow

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I wouldn’t be surprised if by some algorithm Luke Watkins (Derfel Cadarn) turned out to be the hottest castle builder at the moment. I’m indeed talking about looks, the looks of his MOCs that is. Always finding new ways to build, Luke in his latest MOC shows that even turquoise can belong to a castle creation. I was initially baffled by this, but the more I look at it the more I’m beginning to fall in love.

My enjoyment of the colors on this build reminded me of the waterfall house by Rocko that I liked for the same reason.

Long Way Down

I found this awesome MOC by Brandon Bannerman aka Catsy [CSF] with an interesting back story. Check it out then use the link to go read the back story. He has some awesome other stuff on his Flickr Page, browse a bit, it's worth it.

Click here for the back story.

War(LEGO)hammer 40K

I saw this on the Brother Brick blog. Jerac went and made some awesome WH40K Space Marines, Dreadnaught and Landspeeder out of lego. He went a step further and made his own Space Marine Minifigs out of LEGO bricks, he didn't use normal minifigs. The result... Very Awesome.

Incredible Europe Map made with LEGO

This REALLY impressed me, some people went and created a huge map of Europe with LEGO.

• Number of bricks: 53 500

• Area: 480 studs x 480 studs (3,84 m x 3,84 m)

• Number of studs: 230 400 studs in the base area plus 453.026 studs additional

Thanks to "A Modular Life" for sharing this.

Many more photos here:

http://www.t-reichling.de/en/mocs_euromap.shtml

A Tribute to the Battle of Fort McHenry

I came accross this awesome diorama by Blake Baer on Brothers Brick and just had to share, the scene has some awesome detail, like cannon balls in mid air, explosions, slashes, etc. The diorama is a "Tribute to America" of the battle of For McHenry in the War of 1812.