What Happened To Alpha Thru Delta?

Amethyst, winner of the sometimes-controversial Voidfighter Contest, presents a ship I have been eagerly awaiting since I first saw the WIP.

He makes a black and white color scheme work by solid color grouping, and with great splashes of trans blue. I cannot recall any other creation with such brilliant black greebling.

I'm not sure what else to say, I just really love the shape, the detailing, and the parts use. I do have one nit though, give those troops gloves!

They'll make you chicken out.

Seems like it's the season for kickass bipedal chicken-leg mechs. Following up on Jonesy's last post featuring the Panzer Ostrich, we find 2 more similarly shaped mechs.

First is Zac Soden's Support Walking Tank. It is clear he has been picking up color-blocking from Mladen. Dig the careful seperation of lightgray, darkgray, and blue. And as a recent convert to the totally-enclosed-cockpit, I love the cockpit module.

The missile pod attachment seems a bit out of proportion, the quad gun array seems much more in scale.





And the second biped chicken mech is this one by Mister Zumbi. The dual laser cannons right beside the cockpit are superb.

A color scheme that could easily become jumbled (red, black, yellow, darkgray, lightgray) manages to stay precise and in control.

And what can be better than "Eat This" on the side of a laser gun?

A Zeppelin, Or, How to Write a Ridiculously Long Post

When I first saw this airship as a little thumbnail on BSrecent I said "whoa! sweet!" My thoughts remained in such a state upon looking at the gallery page full of thumbnails. Then, as I looked at each image, my thoughts changed and shifted, with an end result I have not yet written. Look forward to that at the end.

In the first image I found the gasbag to be rather blocky, especially around the fins. The basket/gondola/body seemed rather blocky as well, the second picture enforced that thought. Even more bad finnage could be seen in pic three.

I moved on to some more pictures of the full thing, allowing me to get a better idea about the shape. It is unfortunate that this picture is all blurry and at such a wonky angle (by the way, "wonky" can only be said or typed while tipping one's head), because it seems to be neato keen.

On the very next picture I said "oh no!" (note, I don't actually say things out loud. Ever. Ask Mark Sandlin) because it was so underdetailed! Such a crucial part too, the very thing that causes the ship to move, moving being the purpose of said ship. Also that little connective pylon would totally break.

But then I was saved from my despair! Behold! How incredibly cool, and amazing use of parts (I shall have to buy one of those Rock-Raiders canopies. No, I don't own a single set). It was getting good again, my hope was restored, even more so upon seeing the nifty tail gunnery and grapling-hookery station.

Then something magical happened. "What's this?" I said. But the next picture didn't answer the question it was just some crates! I was intrigued, I had to find out, and my journey continued, but first, I stopped to see more wonderous detailage. My journey was dangerous, with many blurry pics along the way.

Finally, the question was revealed! The answer had been responded to! Scratch that, reverse it (yay Willy Wonka!). Step by step, that bundle of grey and yellow was revealed to be a little plane! To quote Jonesy, "Yeah!!!"

So, as promised in the beginning, I say that this ship, while perhaps not quite done on the macro-scale, on the micro-scale (no, not microscale building, this is totally different than the last post, I mean detailing now) it succeeds without question.

Trainergarten? Kindrostation?

Somehow it is easy to write a post once someone else has already broken the ice. Thanks Jonesy.

Take a gander, if you will (which you will), at this creation/comic/I don't know what. Really, I don't know. It is a micro version of set 4554. Well not micro exactly, as it still has minifigs. Chibi-scale? Condensed? Cute-ified?

Anyway, the bizarre part starts when the little micro-chibi-cute train is introduced. It seems to be able to talk (in some asiatic language, by my guess). It talks to a girl, then some other trains, then a train car, which it pals up with (mates?). Then the girl talks and she is mad or something, I can't quite tell what those teardrop shapes mean. I think I read somewhere that in anime it means "exhausted" or something. Maybe there is some anime nerd who reads this who knows (Jonesy?)

So the trains (I assume) speak back to her, also mad-exhausted (unless the lines mean simply noise or yelling or shouting...). A question is raised and the little train engine also can show emotion (hey it can talk, why not) and that is the end.

Some cute building, but still: "Whaaaaa??????"