A battleship for Neil

[Josquius]

I wonder how much this stuff costs. Even little lego cars and things cost over £5 these days....
And where do they get all the special bits?
Awesomly awesome though, better even than the lego super star destroyer.

[Syt]

Actually, there's all kinds of LEGO builders for PC out there. One even offers supposedly photorealistic rendering:
http://www.ustream.tv

[DisturbedPervert]

I'd like to see pics of the insides from the construction process.

[Monoriu]

I wonder if Lego provide free/discount bricks for these guys.

[Drakken]

And something else for Neil:

A badly made representation: The chimney and the ovens are missing.

[Neil]

And something else for Neil:

A badly made representation: The chimney and the ovens are missing.

The builder was a Pole.  As such, he probably believes the national story that the Jews of the Holocaust were beaten to death by heroic Polish patriots, not evil German Nazis.

[jimmy olsen]

Lego Hood:

http://gizmodo.com/5062401/20+foot+long-lego-battlecruiser-can-probably-sink-oil-tankers-on-impact

Sadly, only 3 blocks survived the magazine explosion.

Now THAT is the best thing ever.

Carriers are stupid.

So Neil, why do you love battleships so much more than carriers? Is it the phallic symbolism inherit in the guns?

[Neil]

So Neil, why do you love battleships so much more than carriers? Is it the phallic symbolism inherit in the guns?

Because the dreadnought battleship was the apex of symmetrical, hierarchical naval warfare, which I find intellectually pleasing.  It is also the most important naval weapon of the late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras, a period that I am interested in.

[jimmy olsen]

So Neil, why do you love battleships so much more than carriers? Is it the phallic symbolism inherit in the guns?

Because the dreadnought battleship was the apex of symmetrical, hierarchical naval warfare, which I find intellectually pleasing.  It is also the most important naval weapon of the late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras, a period that I am interested in.

A much better answer than I was expecting.

[Drakken]

Carriers are lame. It's not even a naval battle, the attack comes from the air. 

[Syt]

A badly made representation: The chimney and the ovens are missing.

Sold seperately.


The full collection:

[Neil]

So Neil, why do you love battleships so much more than carriers? Is it the phallic symbolism inherit in the guns?

Because the dreadnought battleship was the apex of symmetrical, hierarchical naval warfare, which I find intellectually pleasing.  It is also the most important naval weapon of the late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras, a period that I am interested in.

A much better answer than I was expecting.

I always knows the why behind my actions.

[DontSayBanana]

That's impressive right there.  22 feet long and 200,000 bricks?  I wonder how much that thing weighs.

Probably half a ton.

Roughly. Depending on what was used for internal bracing, I'd estimate anywhere from 1,050 lbs to 1,300 lbs.

[DontSayBanana]

I wonder how much this stuff costs. Even little lego cars and things cost over £5 these days....
And where do they get all the special bits?
Awesomly awesome though, better even than the lego super star destroyer.

http://www.bricklink.com

A lot of us "hardcore" LEGO MOC builders are also not adverse to painting parts or cutting them with an exacto knife, either.

[dps]

Not as big, but still cool:



Courtesy of
http://www.mechanizedbrick.com/mb.html

Though this desert Tiger is beautiful:




And for shits and giggles:

The rear fuseluge of the P-40 and especially the P-51 seem strangely truncated.