Under cover

Remember Atin's mind-blowing The Bombing of LA scene? Well, he's back for more with another scene named First Contact.

First Contact by Atin

Once again, the atmosphere and lighting work brilliantly to create a mood for this scene. The sunset/sunrise in the background in particular makes the windows on the buildings glitter with the 'sun' shining through them; really beautiful stuff. Closer to the front, we sadly start to lose detail, as the buildings are quite plain and flat. So, whilst this isn't as good as The Bombing of LA, it's still another great scene and I hope to see more like this from Atin in the future.

~John

He does it again!

I don't know if you've seen the earlier creations of Jared Chan but they are all beautiful! Recently he uploaded his latest shop. The detail is marvelous.

When all his creations are put together it's a shopping(and of course a lego) paradise! Well, the picture below speaks for itself.

Doug's got the hump!

I love this humpback bridge by Doug Idle. It uses 1x1 round bricks to help achieve the curved angle of the road - and the bridge fits in with Doug's other modular road sections. Note that he's even continued the central white line across the curve - this is impressive work.

Dr. S.

More City set reviews and images.

As John mentioned earlier, I've been engaging in some heavy duty LEGO buying and I snapped up another four City sets from a Toys R Us not too far from me.

As tempted as I was to get a fifth, I do have to be wary that Mrs S doesn't divorce me, so I refrained from going that far and set 7642 - Garage - was left on the shelf. Nevertheless, here are some sample images and links to the full set of pictures and reviews of the sets I did buy.

To start with, we have set 8402, the Sports Car.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

Next up, set 7638 - Tow Truck.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

Time for set 7686 - Helicopter Transporter.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

And last, but definitely not least, set 7639 - Camper.

Full set of images in my Flickrstream or review over at my Tabletown Forums.

The highlights for me have to be the Minifig in the camper set - complete with front and rear torso printing and lovely new hair. The camper van itself is lovely of course, as is the helicopter from the transport set. There is however one small negative issue - in the two sets containing lots of orange, it seems that LEGO continue to suffer quality control issues in keeping the colours the same, and the following image neatly summarises the problem.

Nonetheless, this is a fantastic release of sets and I recommend each and every one of them!

Thanks for indulging me in this longer than usual Brickspace entry - hope I'm not in trouble for taking up so much space!

Dr. S.

Set 7641 - City Corner - Found!

I dropped into my local TRU this evening (Basingstoke, UK) and what did I spy on the shelf? A single copy of set 7641 - a set I didn’t think was meant to be out until June at the earliest.

Needless to say, I bought it and it's already built. You can see the complete set of pix in my Flickrstream or (blatant plug) over in my own Tabletown forums. In the meantime, here are some pictures for all you loyal Brickspace readers. Enjoy!

Dr. S.