Mini Castle Contest VI

The deadline is only a few hours away (midnight tonight) for the Mini Castle Contest VI. If you build something today you can still get it in. The two most recent entries are Spartacus' Cliff Castle and Bartosza6m's Castle of the Rising Sun.

Mission to Mars

Professor McRackel presents a Mars mission command center.

Hungarian contest

Automatic translations are tricky, but it looks like this Hungarian site held a micro Star Wars contest. A couple of my favorites include a clever use of the tiny-fig trophy and a small rendition of an AT-AT.

Micro Mechs

Sam Hill posted these micro mechs on flickr. Nice use of the minifigure neck bracket.

Nürnberg Castle

When LEGO opens new stores, they usually produce an exclusive model as a giveaway at the opening event. This past Saturday a new store opened in Nürnberg, Germany, and the exclusive was a micro version of Nürnberg Castle.

Sandchapel

TooMuchCaffeine presents Sandchapel, another great entry for the Mini Castle Contest VI.

Set 10214 - Tower Bridge

It's been a long time since I've done set focuses, and I haven't written about Set 10214 - Tower Bridge since it was released. This set has been available via LEGO.com for the last month or so. Coming in at US$240 and 4287 pieces, this is a massive set. Just the 556 tan cheese wedges alone have many excited. Another unique part is the pair of unique shields. As a castle guy I'd love to outfit a faction with this heraldry, but these will run you at least $2.50 on Bricklink. Ktraphagen did a great job of documenting the building process and you can see a video with the set's designer. ADHO16 made a virtual version.




Set guide on Brickset; inventory on Peeron; part it out or buy it on Bricklink; purchase it at LEGO.com; instructions from LEGO: book 1, book 2, book 3

War has come

Skalldyr mixes various small scales masterfully with war has come, another entry for the Mini Castle Contest VI.

NPU!

Porschecm2 came up with a great part usage in Solus Saxum for the Mini Castle Contest. Those trees are made from a decorative spine piece that shows up in one Ben 10 set, so you can't really be blamed if you didn't know what that was.

Atomium

Polegon built this great micro version of the Atomium, built in Brussels for the 1958 World's Fair.

Micro ancients

The Mini
Castle Contest over on CC is bringing out great builders. Rod Gillies came up with Atlantis - before the fall for the ancients category.

Taitan Zero Sky Fighter

Fredoichi adds to his collection of sky fighters with this Taitan Zero.

Micro Fair

Here's Micro City County Fair, a BrickCon entry by Amanda Payton. The top of the merry-go-round is nicely designed. Looks like the Ferris wheel is functional, too.



Built according to the Micropolis standard.

Space Chase

This formation of micro spacecraft was part of Peter Reid's display shown last weekend at The Great Western LEGO Show, also known as STEAM 2010.



The group pool on Flickr is rather extensive, with 743 photos.

Mars needs very tiny women

Phil Memmer has a great Mars Base.

Cathedral of Intercession of Theotokos on the Moat

Okay, you probably know it as Saint Basil's. Arthur Gugick has done it again with this great micro recreation.