Left behind

No, not the end-times book by Tim LaHaye, but rather a vig by Kaptain Kobold. Great use of perspective, even within the confines of an 8x8 footprint.

Particle Accelerator

This is a bit older, but Shane Larson's particle accelerator is a good opportunity to point out my new blog SciBricks. The goal of SciBricks is to use LEGO to teach a little science, since teaching science is my day job. Regular readers of this blog have hopefully noticed that I've rearranged the look of this blog a bit - mostly making the information on the right hand side consistent with my other blogs, but also putting a line of buttons along the top to make it easy to navigate among my various offerings. Hopefully with these changes my handful of blogs will behave more like one coherent blog, but with six sections devoted to different styles and subjects for building.

A hole in 8x8

Vhtuotanto has a nice golf scene.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

The-Force-Unbleached's Pot-O-Gold Trouble has an interesting solution for a rainbow.

I'm programmed for etiquette, not destruction!

Krize visited Geonosis.

C'mon in, the water's missing

It looks like Klub LEGO Indonesia (KLI) is having a vignette contest, but I have no details on that. Anyway, Ya-da dove right in with dummy pool.

Clown Wars

You've just got to go read the whole backstory to Okayaraman's Clown Wars. Trust me on this one.

Murderous Minifigs - The Results

Murderous Minifigs - Competition Results.

Vignette Bricks' February competition, run in conjunction with the LEGO Vignettes Flickr group, was a great success with some excellent entries. Contestants were to build 8x8 vignettes inspired by the classic board game Cluedo. Go here to see all the entries.

After much debate, the judges decisions are in:

The winner in the Classic Cluedo category was Lord Pappadhum's brilliant interpretation of "Colonel Mustard, with the spanner, in the billiard room".



The winner in the Remix category was Xenomurphy's hilarious (and gory) creation; "Jean-Marc Blanc, with the Necronomicon, in the Gothic Library".



Thanks very much to everyone that entered. The quality of creations was really high and judging was tricky. Check out the group discussion over at the LEGO Vignettes Flickr group for some "highly commended" entries as well.

Sit a spell

Diidy has a nice manor room.

Forever and always I'm always here.

Christ69 made rescue to feature the Collectible lifeguard fig.

Tending rabbits

Ezra B illustrates the climactic scene from Of Mice and Men.

North and south

Whittmann's North and South has two different seasons on opposite sides of the globe (with a molten core in the center).

And the Oscar goes to ...

Michael Jasper is timely with And the Oscar goes to ....

My first MOC

Mauricio Vollu remembers his first MOC.

Abracadabra

Legomaneitaliano built this magic act.

A little more work on the ears

John-Lennon (hmm, I thought he was dead) made another entry for the Eurobricks contest, this one is a dressing room for the Lord of the Rings movie. The elf fig should be sitting in the chair getting the final touchup on his makeup. One quibble - if that's supposed to be John Rhys-Davies waiting for Orlando Bloom to finish, he's actually quite tall. I remember in the commentary tracks they noted that he was about the right height relative to the actors playing the hobbits so that when they were shooting a scene involving, say, Gimli and Frodo, they didn't have to do any special camera tricks or editing to get the heights.

Myth

Ponury123 has a great scene to illustrate one of the most haunting myths, Orpheus and Eurydice.

Eurobricks Collectible Series 3 Contest

Eurobricks is hosting another of their Collectible Series contests. The idea for category A is that you create a vig to display one of the figs from Series 3, but don't actually include the fig in the vig. For instance see Turambar1's vig built to house a fisherman.

Competition Time!

Throughout February, Vignette Bricks and the LEGO Vignettes Flickr group will be running a competition around the theme of "Murderous Minifigs!"

Build an 8x8 vignette scene depicting a murder...

There are two categories:

A classic Cluedo scene; featuring characters, locations and weapons from the boardgame; eg. "Professor Plum, in the ballroom, with a revolver" or "Colonel Mustard, in the conservatory, with the lead piping" etc.

Or a remix version; featuring characters, locations and weapons from out of your fevered imagination; eg. "Captain Magnolia, in the woodshed, with a stuffed muskrat" or whatever.

Rules:

- Vignettes must feature a victim, a murderer (named after a colour), a recognisable location and a murder weapon.

- Scenes must be put together on an 8x8 base, with a maximum of 1 stud "overhang".

- Murderers should be dressed predominantly in the colour represented by their name - customisation is allowed for this element.

- Custom weapons are allowed if you really feel you have to.

- The competition runs for the whole of February.

- Judges are Bruce and Rod from Vignette Bricks, and Roo from the LEGO Vignettes Flickr group.

Prizes:

- Each category winner will receive a new LEGO "impulse"-sized set and a couple of shiny new Collectible Minifig bags. More importantly, they will be proclaimed "Kings of Vigs" (at least until we run another competition).

Entries:

- Maximum of 2 entries per person, 1 in each category.

- Build something new.

- Entries should be posted in the entry thread over at the LEGO Vignettes group on Flickr.

- Questions about the rules etc can be posted in the "Q&A Thread" over there too.

Keelhauled

My apologies for my lack of blogging in recent weeks. I've been busy with family and holidays and also with the administration of the Colossal Castle Contest. Anyway, the Forbidden Cove has started up the Jolly Roger Contest II, a multi-category contest, and one of the categories is for 16x16 bignettes. One of the first I've seen is Wittmann's excellent keelhauled.