Sex Machine

Adrian Drake is probably best known around lego websies as "the guy who built that big SHIP"

He comes around again with a mind numbing awesome SHIP. This time an "Alt. History" airship.
The Thomas E. Dewey.
I could spend the next two hours pointing out all the amazing detail. Like the huge rotors, the sweet gun truuets and the awesome hangar bay. But instead I'll pick several things that I love.

One: the entire interior. So much detail. I don't have time to browse every picture there, but I can tell it's sweet.

Two: the bridge. Some of those tiles look a little too modern for this thing, but it works never the less.

Three: The pop-up net to slow down incoming aircraft. It recedes into the floor and everything!

Four: The engine room. A crazy amount of detail and greebles. Beautiful.

Five: The underside propellers. I missed seeing those in the WIP shots. Very cool.

Six: the stripes in the color scheme. It would be incredibly dull without really.

I also love the observation deck.


Musical Influence:In memory of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. May he R.I.P.

Merry Chrismahanaramakwanzafestiholisolstice

Seasons Greetings everybody. I wanted to be cool and make a greetings picture like some other bloggers are doing, but this computer has no real image editing software, and we all know about my Mac. So without further ado: Happy Holidays, may you enjoy whatever holiday you choose to celebrate.


Haha, you thought I wasn't gonna point out any cool MOCs this time didja?
well, I am.
Peter Reid (Legoloverman on B-shelf) is the living proof that lego bots can be freaking awesome. And his backgrounds for the bots are always well liked. And now he gives us this tasty morsel.
It
reminds me a great deal of Mark Stafford's Mantis guship.
I love old dk gray. It's the color I miss the most out of all that changed.
This is an excellent example of greebling done right. They add to the ship, they look functional, and they aren't over-used.
The nose is my favotir part, it's so cool looking. And the Exo-Force sticker adds a certain touch to the craft. Very well done.



And alhough I don't usually blog SW MOCs. I liked this one enough to add it to my list.
Such a good example of what SW models could be. instead of say, this.
Nice use of tiles that came with the set, and the color is spot-on.

Now I'm not by any means a big fan of trains, but these were so nice I had to put


Returning to that christmas theme we were talking about this is a nice one.
And last but far from least, this beauty. Two words for this. Either: F***ing awesome. Or: I want.
TAke time to browse all of this foldr. It has sopme awesome stuff in it.
Title courtesy of Brickfrenzy aka Adrian Drake.

Major Props to some Peoples.

Well well well. I do seem to going crazy with this whol blogging thing. And there's less and less LEGO related news too.
I promise, that will change after the holidays. MOC production should be back up to normal, and I'll be busier (=less time to ramble)
But until then, bare with me.

I'd like to point out several people who make blogging so much fun.

Linus Bohman-Loyal reader since day 1. Or was it day 2?
Lukas WP-Great blogger, good builder, fun guy.
Andrew B-Awesome blogger, king of the fig making, and very nice.
Brenden Wilson-Inspired me to start blogging with his awesome blog.
Tom Buckland-pointed out Snoikle on his blog early on, making him awesome as well.

And of course, anyone who ever reads, and/or enjoys Snoikle. Thanks x infinity.

There are other people, but they shall remain unnamed as of now.

And new to the links list this week, Tom's Ramblings of the Obsessive, and Imperial Inspection.

Broadcasting Live from WPKX

In the morning news, our leading story is the new
TBB site. Nice to see them moving on to bigger things. And make sure you update your link list fellow bloggers.

In other news, I continue my search for the Install disk for my iBook. (I'm getting so sick of PC)

For those of you who can stand it, Spike TV is running a Voyager marathon. Some almost decent Sci-Fi inspiration.

And a little RLOSIDWTTA
A cute little construction bot
nnenn's GalliardTX91
And something Brenden pointed out earlier.

More and more, I'm finding myself checking the train section on B-Shelf for MOCs. I think I'm over that whole "spacer's dislike of trains"

I Have No Name for This Post

Gosh, I hope fellow blogger Brenden is having fun clogging up B-Shelf with his old MOC folders. (I do understand, I've been trying to rearrange my folder s well) my frustration is aimed more at Brickshelf and it's uh..how do we put this? Lameness. Of course, it's free, so I won't complain.

First, we have this hay cart. Which uses those lever handles in a very original way.

Then, we go to this really cool Hover tank. My favorite part is probably the way those hatchs are used to get a striped effect.

Yes, izzo is a rather common Snoiklee (Snoikled person, Snoiklette, Snoiklababa doo?)
But this
mech was fun enough to get mentioned.
As for the rest of the new mechs he's putting out, I'd recomend several hours to browse his entire folder and revel in the splenor.

Speaking of mechs, I had to point this beauty out.\
It's a mech of Soren's with twist of orange.

And this was just way to cool not to point out. Blue, claws, and chrome wrapped into one. <3
That, and it has wheels.

It's A Long Way to the Top.

Builder Mike Yoder decided that CSF is far to awesome to leave. And LEGO is way to much fun to give up.
So he's back to building.
Awesome shapes. Boxes seem to have been banished from his style.
Which, is a good thing. I also love that red stripe in the middle. Perfect touch of color.


And here's something that reminds me of Yoder's missile shuttle.
I love the stripes on the side, and the engines are pure sweetness.
The turret up top is pretty tight as well.

Also on my To Blog list;
jehkay's Landmate
izzo's Shield Boy
A folder of new (stolen?) mechs
BreadMan's Vig

SO I'm using a Windows (shudder) computer at the moment. Due to my Mac being on the fritz. Anyone know anything about fixing Macs? Every time I try to open a App. Iy starts to open it, then promtly quits it.

Hey Diddle Diddle.

I have come to a conslusion. There are so many great MOCs out there, I need a blog to point out my favorites.

Just a quick update for today. I'm too busy digging graves to be bothered with blogging. (no, I didn't murder anyone, we had a sheep die recently)

Cliff side View Via Brother's Brick
This thing was way to cool not to point out. Awesome looks, and nice details.

Also, anyone know what ship this is?
I swear I've been trying to build this exact same ship for several years now. Star Wars ship maybe?

Papa Was A Rolling Stone.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Which is kinda what it feels like right now. I've been having moments where life just feels awesome. And times where it feels like dog crud. *sigh* I suppose that's pretty much normal for a teenager.

I suppose we want to talk about LEGO today dont we? I guess so.
I really like this one from Y-Bros-K (aka Big Daddy aka Nelson Yrizarry)
It just feels good. Y'know? the colors, the shape, and the look. It's tight to the extreme.

And here's a decent mecha
from B-Shelf user nnenn. The reason I pointed this out is the weapons. I didn't realize they're lego at first.
From the seperate pic, they appeared to be from an action figure or something.


Jerac's Samson is worth mentioning. I always love the way he makes red turn out in photos. People at CSF say it looks like the loader from Aliens. Which, I suppose, is true. I like it as it's own MOC however.

How cool is this? Scary spooky kinda.

On a humorus note, check out this folder. I don't know who made the faux Times, but it gave me a laugh. Something I need lots of these days. I've always been a fan of the subthemes. Lots of folks are against them, but it's little stuff like this that makes them fun.

[stolen]RLOSIDWTTA©[/stolen]
Nano Medbot
nnenn's Micro Fighter
izzo's Twist Frame(?)
stenz's Winged Mecury
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=219748>Ginger Bread HQ


Musical Influence: The Temptations.


RLOSIDWTTA is copyright Builder's Block and Lukas Inc. 2006 all rights reserved.

Vertigo

B-shelf user Ara built a very nice corvette recently. Therefor, I blogged it.
First of all, it's red. in large amounts, red is awesome.
Second, it sports some beautiful details.
The way slopes, tiles, and studs are used together works well, giving the illusion, if not the effect, of a very rounded shape.
The engine section is the best part. And while the thrusters themselves aren't much to write home about, the area around them is tight to the tenth.
The interior is pretty nice, the floors aren't smooth, as with a lot of modern SHIPS. Which I like. Studs r00l.
And in case you couldn't guess, it's inspired by Adrian Drake's Bloodmoon. Very cool.

On a side note, there are a couple things I've been considering doing.
1: A "Best of 2006" series. MOCs that I really,really, liked that came up this year,
2: A "All Time Favorite MOCs" series. My all time favorites.
3: A voter based Best of 2006. Where you pick your favorite from a bunch that I'd pick.
Dunno, just some ideas I was kicking around.

On a PR related note, I have a question for you.
Where did you hear about/find Snoikle?
A) CSF
B) Brothers Brick
C) CS Chat
D) Random blog surfing
E)Other.

Musical Influence: U2

RANGER IS THE BEST

Just cause.

Get Over It

So way back when, Nick Dean built a SHIP. Then he didn't take pictures. Then everyone rioted. Well, at least several folks were disapointed. So now he gives us pictures.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (the MIB are back to protect the world) I give you the CMC-47 Kestrel!

I mostly love this for A) the shape. Sleek and streamlined, but with nice angles and corners. And B) the weapons. That turret up front is h0t. Also worth mention is Nick's new blog. Review'd. Hasn't been around long and he already has bashed SS, reveiwed the new Bond movie, and posted a MOC. Looks like a helthy start. It's also a trend now. Lukas started Builder's Block only to lose interest. Then v2 came along and he's going strong. Then I made Dez's Lego Blog, or something like that. And it failed. But of course, that one night, setbot uttered the imortal word "Snoikle" and I was inspired. Seven months and still running strong. Nick had BrickNick. But that never really took off. Review'd shows promise. The trick has been I think, to not just foucs on LEGO. We all post thoughts on music, games, cool websites, our lives in general, and occasionally plain 'ole bullcrap. But anyway, check out his SHIP, leave comments, start your own fanboy blog, start the first Snoikle fan-club, whatever.
Musical Influence: Ok Go

Parents Just Don't Understand

OMFG. It's been three whole days since I Snoikled! So my life has been on a up-n-down spree lately. On the upside, I finally got a computer I can play NFS Most Wanted on. Awesomeness.
I'd rant on about the downside of my life, but hey look. See that thing under the title? It mentions LEGO.
So without futher ado,here's some things I've seen lately.
Haha. I'm going about this post just like Lukas did on his last post. Talk about similar styles.

One of those ZAKU type things
A cool tractor.
Spinner
A cool house thingy


NFSMW is a sweet game. I'm #14 on the blacklist currently. Anyone else played it?



Musical Influence: Will Smith

Thanksgiving

An idea ripped off from Brothers Brick. Have a Happy Turkey Day!!

The Jack aka Here's Looking at you Jonesy

Last night jonesy said he was writing a post for his blog. Whether you believe that is up to you. However, in honor of this rare and lusterious event, I said I'd dedicate my next post to him.

There's several nice things I wanted to bring to your attention.
Such as this bus by a builder I almost had forgotten about. MasahiroYanagi.
He has some of the coolest MOCs ever.
Anyway, the reason I love this thing should be obvious. if not, go [insert jonesy/Soren insult here]


B-Shelf user Sajuuk (goes by the same name on CSF) first proved himself to be one of those troublesome newbies. He made nonsense posts, insulted a few poeple, mutated the laws of physics, ect.ect.
He's starting to fit in now. he's calmed down a bit and took some better pics of a fairly decent fighter.
It's not really all that amazing, but the shapes are nice, the details stand out and the size if farr from your standard size fighter.
I see this guy building some pretty cool stuff in the future.

The reason I had to blog was this castle.
So very cool. It's almost enough to make me break down and order enough grey to build castle again.



Ah yes, Soren's new mech. My main reason for loving it is the sheer amount of dk gray. God, how i miss that color.

Anything I missed? Didn't think so. If there was, Brenden, Tom, Lukas or Linus will get it I'm sure. ;-)

Piano Man

Ah, another day, some more MOCs, another B-day. This time it's my little sister. She turned 13, amking all three of us teenagers. (poor mom) But anyway, we shall now begin what I like to call blogging.

Now you all remember Tim Gould. Of course you do. I blogged him last time. I used to think I had more free time than any of the active members of CSF. And yet, I haven't build in over a week, and he's putting out MOCs left and right. But his Pod was just way to much fun to pass up.
It reminds me a great deal of Soren's Ball. Yet there's enough difference that it's not a rip-off. The colors are this thing's main attraction. White, orange, black and trans light blue all come into play, with stunning results.
Of course, the main reason I blogged it was the secondary color.
Tim mentioned on CSF that he needs a dark background for such MOCs. Which is true.

Here's something Gil pointed out this morning. He thinks it looks like my stuff. Which, is also true.
I have to admit to liking it. I wish the owner had taken better pictures but then, black is a PITA to photograph.

izzo builds cool stuff on a regular basis, therefor, blogging his stuff just seems natural.
Linky

T-T-T-That's a-all folks!
Musical Influence: Billy Joel

Angel of Harlem

Oh look, Moko built again. And being the good little blogger that I am, I had to blog it. HIs Walker mech is really tight.
It just flows together. The shape aren't as seperate as a lot of mechs,
I love the use of car fenders around the arm, and the cheese slopes as toes.
It shares a lot of the same design elements as his other mechs, but I think this one may be my favorite. Clean, tight, and actually quite poerful looking, this is definatly one of my favorite mechs yet.

And B-Shelf user BJ-123456 built a nice little mech
The weapons are the cool part really, I'm not so impressed by the rest of it. Needs another color for some highlights.


Lesse..... Ah yes, Moko also built this cute little flying machine thingy.
It's cool cause it look like it really could fly. Like helicoptor without the shell around the workings and the comfy seats. ;-)

And, god damn. What is this man's problem? He built this cool walker mech. I love the gun on the back. The legs look like they could stand to be beefed up some though.



Tim Gould returns to Snoikle with this little mech (what the hey? I wasn't planning on blogging a bunch of mechs today)
It's nice enough in it's own right. Black and tan work well together for once. The legs are nice and heavy set, makes it look like it could just kinda step on soilders.
Now I don't know if Tim always could build like this or if he's improved in leaps and bounds over the past year. Cause he's building some crazy cool stuff compared to the MOCs he put out at first.

I was planning on blogging some space ships this time around. Turns out there isn't really anything out there. Ah well, maybe next time.

Musical Influence:U2

Ain't Too Proud To Beg

Horvy returns to Snoikle with an update on an old MOC. Just some beautiful work on this little beaut.



Also blog worthy is Peter Reid's new Blacktron racer.
I don't claim to love the old space lines. I never got to play with one when I was young. (mostly my fault, I was a castle kid)
But I like this for different reasons. The shape is unusaul, the detailk nice. One thing that I noticed was the one lone stud on the tip of the wings. For some reason I like it. Unfortunatly we get no pics of the aft. So I can't really tell how the exhaust vents or headlights or whatever they are look. But overall, it's pretty cool.

I've been on a Temptations kick lately. My favorite of their songs include "My Girl" "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Suagr Pie Honey Bunch"
I blame my dad for my love of said group. He has a bunch of their CDs.

On another Black History related note, If you haven't watched the movie Raisin in the Sun, you should. I mean it, go rent, buy, borrow or steal it. Whatever has to be done. Just watch it.

And now, I go to build, sort, and rearrange my room.

Ghost Riders in the Sky.

I've made my rounds the past two or three days. Checking up on other blogs.
And I'm starting to think the blogging world has come to a grinding halt.
Lukas is the only one who's updated, and even that wasn't about recent MOCs.
Have we not seen or built anything cool lately? Or is it that we're busy building?
Or am I just missing all the cool MOCs?
Just wondered.

Happy Birthday

Guess what today is? no, it's not Halloween. No, it's not Christmas. Independence Day was a while ago, and the new year hasn't started yet. It just so happens to be my birthday.
It's been a a heck of a day.
I got the awsomest pot back glazed from Ceramics today.
I'll post pictures later.
I'll letcha know what happened tomorrow.
Happy Birthday to Me!!!

Musical Influence: Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Bright Eyes, Barney, and any other band that ever recorded a "Happy Birthday" song.