Talented LEGO builder and flickr.com user Nick Trotta a.k.a tardisblue who is well known for his amazing space MOC's shared this awesome vic viper variant namely Interference 3V in his photostream. The shaping and angles are incredible as the builders previous builds. The colorscheme looks very cool as well. My favourite sections are the engine intakes with dark blue lining and the cockpit. Check out the builders photostream for many more great MOC's. I can also check out the interview we have made with the builder in the past in our Guests of Honor section.
Talented LEGO builder and famous MOC'er Andrea Lattanzio a.k.a. Norton74 who is a guest of honors of our blog recently shared this unique and interesting MOC in his flick.com photostream. With great part usage together with custom figures and a SUV MOC these elevated structures looks great. Be sure to check out the builders photostream for many more amazing MOC's.
This beautiful winter diorama was recently shared by talented LEGO MOC'er and also one of our previous guest of honors, Andrea Lattanzio a.k.a Norton74. The shaping of the vehichle in the snowy forest is amazing. Its already hard to get the dimensions right for a vehichle like this but the creator did a great job and adding very natural looking layer of snow he makes it even greater. Also, animals like a polar bear camouflanged into the diorama are also cool addition to the MOC as well. I strongly recommend to visit the builders flickr.com photostream for many other great MOC's in various scales and from diffeten themes.
LEGO fan and flickr.com user Yohei Yamamoto a.k.a. LEGO DOU Moko who is known for amazing Mecha MOC's recently shared this nicely shaped and unusual MOC in his flickr photostream. It unusual for two reasons in my opinion. First reason is the usage of bionicle modified head pieces for fingers and toes and usage of hero-factory headgear pieces as kneekaps. Second reason is of course the rabbit head which looks terrifying. The creator of this MOC is also one of our Guest of Honors so you may want to check out the interview.
After a long break, we continue our series of Special Interviews starting with a very talented model builder. This weeks guest of honor is Beat Felber a.k.a. Engineering with ABS from Switzerland. He is known for his amazing realistic and huge vehicle model MOC's. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions but you should check the builders Flickr photo-stream for tons of amazing creations
Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best
LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that?
Beat: First of all I would like to thank you for the
opportunity to share some of my thoughts with other LEGO fans out there. Rather
than being a top MOC'er, I consider myself to be an avid scale modeller. My name is Beat Felber and I live in the
northernmost part of Switzerland, close to the border with Germany. I am aged
40 and work as an engineer at an electric power plant.When not building LEGO models, I tinker with
and drive a 1984 Land Rover 110, do some photography and I am also a
firefighter with the local volunteer fire department. Back in 2001 I decided to share my LEGO
creations with other like-minded people on the internet. It was the birth of my
homepage www.engineeringwithabs.ch. I called this site Engineering with ABS
because I thought it describes what I am doing: building models of technical
stuff using LEGO bricks made of Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). In the
meantime, I switched over to Flickr. The original homepage is still online but
not maintained any more.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your
first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing
with LEGO bricks?
B: The first sets must have been Duplo sets. Of
course, I don’t remember them exactly any more. But I do have fond memories of
my very first Technic Set: Technic Universal Building Set 8030. I got it as a gift from my late granddad when he was celebrating his 60th
birthday. I just turned four years old that day! My first City set was the Shell ServiceStation 377.
This weeks guest of honor is Eero Okkonen a.k.a. Pate-keetongu from Finland. He is well known for his amazing large figures and steampunk creations. He also shared many impressive purist custom mini-figures as well. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.
Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your real name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?
Eero: I am Eero Okkonen. I write about my LEGO hobby on my blog Cyclopic Bricks. I’m from Joensuu, Eastern Finland, and I’m currently studying architecture on Tampere University of Technology (TUT). It’s my first year there, and it’s very interesting. I’m planning to graduate as an architect in 2021. My other hobbies include art in general (drawing, oil and watercolour, general tinkering – though my studies include most of them), music (I can’t play anything, but I listen to lot of it and buy records regularly), board games, reading, cycling, hiking… And naturally hanging with friends doing nothing particularly but doesn’t everybody do that.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
E: No. I played with DUPLO before actual bricks (or pikku-leegot as they are called in Finland, sometimes), and I had plenty of my father’s old bricks from 70’s. But I remember some of my earliest set and these include quite good-looking 6335 Indy Transport (which was released only a year after I was born) and not-so-good 6474 4-wheeled front shovel. I’ve been around 4 or 5 years old back then.
Today we have a very special guest from USA. He is considered by many LEGO fans as the best of the best MOC'ers in the world. Tyler Clites a.k.a. legohaulic has already done and continues to impress us with his amazing creations from a wide variety of themes and scales. He is good in building almost anything. He has so many great and inspiring creations that we can not fit all of them in this post so be sure to check out his photo-stream. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.
Kaplan: You are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your full name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?
Tyler: My name is Tyler Clites. I am self employed. I love art, film, photography, theatre... pretty much any creative outlet.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
T: I remember having Duplo as a kid, but one day my mom brought home a value pack of small System sets when I was two. I remember being fascinated by the tiny bricks. And so the addiction began.
Today's guest of honor is Andrea Lattanzio a.k.a. Norton74 from Italy who is known for his great, realistic vehicle and garage MOC's. His amazing creations were featured numerous times in various Brick Magazines. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.
Kaplan: We already
know you are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us
about yourself other than that. What is your dayjob? Do you have any other
hobbies or activities?
Andrea: First of
all thanks for considering me as one of the best MOC’ers in the world… My name is
Andrea Lattanzio also known as Norton74 in the international LEGO community. I’m Italian
and I live in Milan with my Spanish wife and two children. I work in the communication department of an Italian non profit
organization. I’m a petrolhead and I like especially classic
cars, motorcycles and in general vintage stuff, toys and style. I also love
design and graphic design.
K: Do
you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And
How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
A: Honestly I
don’t remember when I got my first LEGO set, I remember playing with my older
brother’s seventies LEGO City and Technic sets. I started playing with LEGO
bricks when I was four or five years old. My very first memories were also
linked to Fabuland theme that I really was fond of (I still own a lot of characters).
This weeks guest of honor is talented MOC builder Yohei Yamamoto a.k.a. LEGO DOU Moko from Japan. He is known for his amazing mechas and Sci-fi creations as well as brick-built anime characters and transformers. He is also the builder of the largest Mecha MOC on the internet named Evangelion. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions but you should check the builders flickr photo-stream for tons of amazing creations
Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your real name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?
Yohei: I work as exclusive builder at PlusL. My other hobbies include watching animated TV series and Hero TV shows
K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
Y: During my childhood I got lot of random LEGO sets from our neighbors. Many of them are Classic Town sets
This weeks guest of honor is Jonas Kleinalstede a.k.a. Brick Vader from Germany. He is known for his great vignettes in mostly historical themes. His creations are full of great building techniques and incredible mini-figure usage together with purist customizing. The texturing and details in his creations are also outstanding as well. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.
Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your real name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?
Jonas: My Name is Jonas and i’m from a small town from Germany. I’m 18 years old, and up until a few months ago I was a student, but I graduated in June. I’m currently working at McDonalds till September when I will go to New Zealand for six months. I also did some little videography gigs in the last couple of months. I'm pretty much interested in most forms of art, from film-making and music to fashion. I also force myself to read sometimes and do some sports.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
J: I don’t know, how old I was, but I think it was a holiday day and my sister and I where bored, so my mother took us to the local toyshop and bought the first
„Real“ Lego set, before that I only had DUPLO. It was one of those buckets with a bunch of bricks and those weird Jack Stone Type Minifigures.
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