Christmas gift from MisaQa

For each of the past two years MisaQa has created an advent calendar, presenting one new MOC from a theme for each day of December leading up to Christmas. In 2005 it was birds. In 2006 it was dolls dressed up. This year MisaQa has started out the 2007 calendar with a microscale Town Hall. It looks like microscale town is this years theme! Given the previous high quality of MisaQa's creations, I'm pretty excited about this. You can bet that MicroBricks will document this ongoing series.

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A refined MOC

Anthony Yagelsky presents an Octan oil refinery.

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Flame on

I always thought of the stump element as one of those too-juniorized single-use pieces. Not so. Crises comes up with an innovative use in Volcano.

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OTB Contest

I don't regularly read the Outside The Brick forum, so I missed the OTB Microscale Contest. The contest is over and results have been announced.

First goes to Ralph S's Interstellar Exploration Vessel John Archibald Wheeler.


Second goes to Samus' F-16 Medical Vessel "The Seeker".


Third place went to Andrew's Sling of David.

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Wolfpack

Azaghal presents a micro version of set 6038, Wolfpack Renegades.

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Mini-mizing your MOCs

I really like it when someone takes a fig-scale MOC and builds a microscale version. One recent example is ThePaleMan's mini version of Chris Giddens' original PCS SLAM.




While we're on this topic, in his recently blogged Space Pirates Lair, Dennis Coh included a ship that Nannan Z (newest member of the Brothers-Brick team - Welcome to blogging, Nannan!) pointed out is a remake of Dennis' fig scale Izanami's Revenge.




One more - a couple of years ago John Langrish posted a mini version of Jon Palmer's M-Wing.

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Who are the people in your neighborhood?

Heather Braaten is building up her neighborhood with Micro House and Micro House II.

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F-14

RalphS built a great micro version of his fig-scale F-14 MOC.

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Dune

Jonderqind illustrates a scene from Dune. Arrakeen's wall is being attacked by a huge sandworm.

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Space pirates

Krush (Dennis Coh) presents this ultra-cool VX-999 - Space Pirate Lair (MOCpage).

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Mini Castle Contest

Before we bid a fond farewell to the Mini Castle Contest III, I'd like to highlight a few more of my favorite entries. To see all of the microscale castles built for this contest, follow the link above.

Aliencat's Black Knight's Castle


Paradosis' Crestdale


DARKspawn's Micro-fortress


MrTS's Micro-castle


JediMasterWagner's Castillo de las Lajas

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Mini milis

I first saw these in pictures from LMO (LEGO MOC-Off) 2007, an annual gathering of Japanese AFOLs, but there weren't good clear pictures. Recently, though, Azumu has posted pictures of his AH-1S Cobra helicopter, his 90 Shiki tank, and his UH-1J helicopter.




While I'm here, someone at LMO 2007 brought this helicopter (a Havoc? an Agusta A129? Does anyone know?).

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Traffic JaMMM

Readers of VignetteBricks will know of the regular Mini Moc Madness, or MMM, contests held by Lowlug. At regular intervals they challenge builders to express a certain theme on a 16x16 footprint. This time, the theme was Gladly that I drive. The winner was a microscale MOC, Mahjqa's Traffic Jam. I particularly love that little cement truck.

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The envelope please ...

Results are in for the Mini Castle Contest III hosted by Robin Hood of the Classic-Castle forums. And the winner is Jedimasterwagner's Sleeping Beauty Castle.


Second goes to a late entry by Nelson Yrizarry that I hadn't had a chance to blog yet: Sailor's Light.


Lord Felix' Rock Barren Keep took third.


Honorable mention nods went to DARKspawn's Flying Citadel and Scnicker's Bean Stalk Castle.

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