Link roundup

1. Microscale Lego X-Wing. Here's the parts list.

2. Tentacle girl cake.

3. Jim Romanesko's new site is active and he wrote a long post about the ugly drama surrounding his leaving his old site (which I've been reading faithfully since I discovered the internet). The bit that stands out:

I was told that traffic to my page had dropped about 30% in 18 months. It was easy to explain why: I was one of the few journalism town criers on the Internet a decade ago; now every news junkie with a Facebook page and Twitter feed is shouting out stories about the news business.

Also, he made a six figure salary on his site.

4. Andy Suriano's new comic book comes with a free sketch.

Lego microscale Imperial attack on Hoth

Lego microscale Echo base by Rod Gillies.

Microscale Lego Tornado

Microscale Lego tornado by Blake Baer. Via.



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Micro-scale Lego spaceship base

Microscale Starfight Command by Rod Gillies.

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Lego microscale attack of Gozer the Gozerian; Stay-Puft S'mores

Lego microscale Stay-Puft marshmallow man by Rod Gillies.

Relatedly, Stay-Puft S'mores sculpture:



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Microscale Lego Neverland

Microscale Lego Neverland by Rod Gillies.

*Previously: Peter Pan mecha toy concept.

Microscale Lego Mecha

Microscale Lego Mecha by Lord Dane.

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Micro-scale Lego steampunk vehicles

Her Majesty's Imperial Expeditionary Force by Rod Gillies. The zeppelin, tank, and walkers are on sale as a set here.

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Micro-scale Lego mechs and building

Micro-scale Lego mechs and building by Rod Gillies, who also recently posted some clever micro-steamships.

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Micro Lego Mecha

Micro Lego Mecha by Sam Hill. And check out this cardboard suit of armor. Via.

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Micro-scale Lego mech

Micro-scale Lego mech by polywen.

*Buy mecha at Amazon.

Microscale fighter plane

Microscale fighter plane with tiny pilot by Polywen.

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Lego microscale trench run

Lego microscale trench run by Matt "Monsterbrick" Armstrong.

*Previously: Microscale podracers.

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Lego Microscale Tatooine

Lego microscale bathas, podracers, and landspeeder by Matt "Monsterbrick" Armstrong.

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Spider Jerusalem Lego CubeDude (Lego roundup)

Spider Jerusalem (Transmetropolitan) Lego CubeDude by Chris Doyle.



Zombie-slaughtering combine.



Colorful Lego lightbulb apparently originating on the Lego site. Via.



Mecha-centipede by Joseph.



Microscale Lego aircraft carrier by Mike. Via.

*Previously: Lego Totoro.

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Microscale Lego Star Destroyer (link roundup)

Microscale Lego Venator class Star Destroyer and Nebulon-B medical escort frigate by Steef de Prouw. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Hulu has full episodes of MST3K.

2. Creepy mask by Douglas Witt.

3. Richard Garriott's collection of bizarre specimens. Via.

*Previously: Instructions for making microscale Lego Star Wars vehicles.

*Buy Star Wars Titanium vehicles at Amazon.

Papercraft Santa (link roundup)

Papercraft Santa and Martian by Matthew Gilpin from "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"



Download Matt Hawkins' alien Santa paper toy here.



Download this Santa paper toy by Marshall Alexander here.

And a few more links:

1. One of the ideas in my almost free gift guide was making microscale Lego Star Wars vehicles. Here's another huge gallery of microscale Lego spaceships, along with instructions. Via these sites.

2. Squirrel massage animated gif.

3. List of swag college bowl game recipients receive. Via.

*Previously: Disturbing ads for massage balm.

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Lego roundup

Micro-scale Tiberius class starship by OptimalControl.




Floating castle by qworg. Via.




Chibi tank (M8 Howitzer) by Captain Eugene.




Crimson Skies-esque plane by Mike.




Microscale Viper and Raptor by Matt.

*Previously: Tiny Lego flying castle.

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