This little artillery platform by Théo (Titolian) is simple but looks lovely. I quite enjoy the curved cross-section, as well as those incorporated into the front. The part use for the back of the missile pod (a fire truck basket, if I’m not mistaken), is also quite nice.
Zane Houston shows us what the X-wing might look like if it were a modern military craft. It features folding wings and landing gear. The builder states that there’s more militarized Star Wars ships in the making. Will we see a TIE fighter soon?
I was stunned when I came across this photo in Cole Blaq‘s flickr stream. The colors in the thumbnail seemed so intense that I had to take a closer look. I have to admit, I never thought I’d see someone use those tentacles for anything other than tentacles.
There’s a certain beauty hidden in this hover ship by Cole Blaq. It’s blocky and chunky, but in all the right ways. I love the various angles that come together in the cockpit area on the front, and the use of tiles sticking out to represent armored windows is great.
The icing on the cake? It can carry that little truck posed in front of it.
Paul (Sariel) of LUGPol completed an accurate and functional model of the Leopard 2 German tank. According to former Armor Officer Brad Edmondson who sent me the link, this is “by far the best representation of a Leopard2 tank in Lego yet.” You can check out the video of the model in action on Youtube.
Mike Psiaki’s revamped Bell ‘Huey’ UH-1 model bears great semblance to its common and reliable real life counterpart. I especially like the details on the rotors, but best of all, Mike has generously donated this model for sale to Creations for Charity, which means you can buy it in November.
Ed Diment is no stranger to building highly detailed huge models but his USS Intrepid is, I believe, his biggest yet. It’s so big, in fact, that he could never set it all up in his house so it only ever appeared at STEAM 2010. There are so many great details that I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to spot them all.
Video by Ian Grieg (Bluemoose)
Photograph by Ian Grieg (Bluemoose) with links to all three ships.
What’s even better is that the Intrepid wasn’t left without an escort. Chris Lee (Babalas Shipyards) also brought along his USS Haggard, Gary Davis (Bricks for Brains) added the USS Pampanito and Ralph Savelsberg (mad_physicist) designed the planes. A superb collaboration.
PS. I realise it’s a bit hard to get an idea of size from these pictures so I’ll add that the Pampanito is 2.44m (8′) long, the Haggard is 2.90m (9.5′) long and the Intrepid is a mind-boggling 6.80m (22′4″) to 6.90m (22′8″) long (Ed tells me he never measured her but guessed from the table size).
Jerac has built some fantastic renditions of Warhammer 40K space marines. He’s built several marines, and given them a matching Landspeeder and Drednaught. I’m especially impressed with the way he came up with to render the trademark oversized space marine shoulder pauldrons.
