We’ve featured Sarah Beyer‘s tropical holiday home LEGO models in the past, but this latest creation takes her architectural style and moves it out of the jungle and onto the beach. This Tahiti-inspired holiday hut is a delight — a showcase of effective texturing, nice landscaping, and cool water effects. It’s worth diving-in to take a closer look at some of the details, like the path towards the veranda with its mix of stones and plants… And don’t miss the water, with layered transparent tiles creating a wonderful shoreline effect… The hut itself boasts a detailed interior, packed with Sarah’s trademark attention to detail, and — as ever — photographed brilliantly… In short, this is a lovely LEGO model — one I wish I could visit on holiday! Failing that, I’d settle for being able to see it “in the brick” and exploring all its details further. The post Dive into...

There is a certain Swedish style to these instructions for your own Fåctötum, a robot from IMEA (Intergalactic Manufactory of Electronics and Automata).  Luigi Priori has definitely found inspiration by eating a few Swedish meatballs and assembling some flat-pack home furniture.  While the instructions are for a cute little robot, half the fun of this build is enjoying the time and energy Luigi has put into designing the instructions themselves. You will require a few minifigure tools and a friend to help you to carry the box of parts — this is a two-minifigure lift. The post Assemble your own Fåctötum, a robot from IMEA [Instructions] appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Elspeth De Montes

Last week LEGO released its annual financial results for 2017, and to some of us, it may have seemed like it was written in a foreign language. You know what it means to have a profit and loss, but to help cut through all the accounting jargon, we’ve simplified things a bit further for you. Note that we’re taking a huge amount of liberty with the complex details to keep it simple, but it should give you the right general idea. First of all, we converted Danish krone to US Dollars using Google exchange rates, just to keep the number more digestible for most of you reading this. So if you see a three-digit number below, it runs into the millions (396 = 396 Million USD). A four-digit number in the chart means it runs into the billions (6273 = 6.273 Billion USD). Here’s a quick explanation of all the financial...

The original Pacific Rim was a huge inspiration for many LEGO builders. The Jaeger were an obvious choice for mech builders and we saw a tonne of recreation of them at various scales. With the second movie, Uprising, out soon, we’re starting to see the same thing happen again. Talented builder Kelvin Low, whose amazing custom LEGO Hulkbuster we featured earlier this week, is responsible for this Bracer Phoenix rendition. That’s the mech from the trailer with what looks like a morning star attached to one arm. If you want to make you own, you’re in luck. This 22-minute video uploaded by the builder will show you exactly how Kelvin created this custom mech. Finally, if tan’s just not your colour, Gipsy Avenger has also been made, complete with its own build video. The post And the Pacific Rim Uprising mechs come rolling in appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Clinton

Fresh from winning the ABS challenge in spectacular fashion, Didier Burtin has created a delicious Ikura maki roll. At sushi restaurants ikura (salmon roe) is always served gunkan-style (battleship.) Besides the rice and the nori (edible seaweed), there are no other embellishments and it is not served with any sauce, although you may brush a little soy sauce (shoyu) on top of the eggs with a small slice of gari (sweet pickled ginger) and the all-important wasabi. The post Japanese sushi that looks great and tastes blockish appeared first on The Brothers Brick. Original linkOriginal author: Jonathan