The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

Found BrickArms from the The Brother Brick at www.brothers-brick.com. Read the original BrickArms post here.

BrickArms produces weapon Lego parts and custom minifigs. Some of my favourite weapons below (Clockwise from top left – M47 Tactical Shotgun, AK47, M23 Socom Pistol and MP5)

  
  
© BrickArms

Love the look of the weapons, realistic (especially the MP5) yet retains that slightly silly Lego look.

Found this older post at www.terminally-incoherent.com with a photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Hellfire Dreadnought (Blood Angels?) created with real Lego.

© Jerac

Curious to who might have created this masterpiece, I searched the web and found Jerac’s page on MOCPAges here.

On his page, he also showcases his other creations comprising a Dreadnought and Predator for Chaos Space Marines, Vyper Jetbike and Wraithlord for the Eldar and a Land Speeder and several variations of the Dreadnought for the Space Marines and a Killa Kan for the Orks. My favourite has to be the Chaos Predator .

  
  
© Jerac

If you feel like creating one with virtual Lego, you might want to take a look at the virtual lego designers here.

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I recently rediscovered the joy of playing with Lego bricks after playing Lego Star Wars : The Video Game non-stop for the past few weeks.

Since I completed the game, I’m been trying to find a fix for my Lego addiction on the Net and found these three virtual brick apps.

1. BlockCAD 3.18 by Anders Isaksson. This was my first introduction to the world of virtual bricks a few years ago. Free to download (Windows) (~1 MB). The selection of bricks is not strictly Lego-based.
2. Lego Digital Designer 1.6.680 – The official designer from the makers of Lego themselves. Free to download (Windows, Mac)(~16 MB). An assortment of bricks is included in the download but additional bricks have to be purchased online. Slow startup time but very easy to use with a decent set of features .
3. LDraw.org Tools – A set of Lego modelling tools contributed by the online community. Interface is similiar to 3D modellling apps. Steeper learning curve than Lego Digital Designer but is more powerful and also has more bricks. Tutorials can be found here. Free to download (Windows, Mac, Linux). (~45 MB).

My personal fave is the official Lego Digital Designer due to its ease of use and the fact that it feels more like playing than designing when using it. BlockCAD is also good but its features are more limited considering that it was written much earlier. LDraw would be the app to use if you’re aiming to design more complex models.