Childhood vacancies

Yeah, I have yet to play a Pokemon game for any length of time, and I never owned any of the trading cards. I had seen smatterings of the original television show, I recall one where the orange fire lizard grows up into a dragon. That was kind of cool.

Regardless of my disinterest in trite franchises, Mike Nieve's Gyarados Pokemon is a fantastic build. Great application of Lego parts all around.

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Brixe63 has built this maze, a simplistic but puzzling build. The isometric camera angle really makes it pop. The decision to highlight the 1 x 1 slope ramps with a color is a good one. It is reminiscent of dungeon map out of a video game, the kind one would bring up to make out a path to the princess/warp portal/power up/level boss. That is a very, very good thing.

Over the past six month or so, Soren has been pumping out gems like these:



I believe the intent is for a table-top wargame, they are fun to look at and I am sure they must be equally fun to play with.



These two armored vehicles do a great job of standing out from the ordinary, cookie-cutter military models, of which I have stated my disdain for elsewhere.



This guy's stuff has already earned plenty of the right kind of praise, so I won't re-iterate it here. Check them out!

MechaHub plugging

GitS inspired think tanks are the theme for the March/April build-off at the MechaHub flickr group. The ongoing build-off is transport mecha, it has not gotten the response it deserves so consider this a plug.

Rodney Bistline's early go at it:



Here's a Vic Viper themed starfighter from last Nov(v)ember. He did a great job with an early-cold war alternate future look.