Do you remember the post about WWII MOCs from Brincka 2013 and the great work of Luís Pedro?
Now he surprised us with a new version of his Sherman motorized with Power Functions.
Awesomeness!
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M4A4 Sherman RC
May 22, 2013City Tram at LEGO CUUSOO
May 20, 2013Trams are an iconic mean of transportation of several cities across the globe, just like the ones we can find at San Francisco or Lisbon.
In my opinion, LEGO is missing these wonderful vehicles so I had proposed at LEGO CUUSOO a new city transportation set, based on my Lisbon tram MOCs.
I hope I can count with your support by approving the project at http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/1079. Please, help me share it on facebook also by visiting History Bricks facebook page.
The project is gaining more and more supporters each day. Than you very much! 
World War II MOCs from Brincka 2013
May 19, 2013
MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!!!
Since 2008 I didn’t show up at an exhibition like Brincka 2013 and was a nice surprise to found a set of historical MOCs from WWII of high quality, specially after knowing that most of them were built by a TFOL with 15 years old!
The landing craft carrying the troops towards the beach is a classical scene, specially since the success of “Saving Private Ryan” movie. The above picture is my attempt to capture the emotion of that stressful moment! The MOC, however, is authored by Nuno Taborda and is a perfect replica of the Normandy’s landing crafts.
The infantry is well supported by an amazing army of vehicles and artillery built by Luís Pedro, the TFOL I mention earlier. Starting with this gorgeous Light M5 Stuart, Luís presented 25 highly detailed vehicles, including tanks, trucks, medical transport and cannons.
The soft top of the trucks were one of my favorite details. Luís get those from a vacuum cleaner bag. Great idea, I must say!
And finally, an overlook picture of the battalion:
Coauthor Sérgio Antunes
May 18, 2013It’s with great pleasure and satisfaction that I come to announce that History Bricks has a new author. Sérgio Antunes agreed to participate, and I have no doubt that his skills as an historian and his past as AFOL will be of great value in the growth and promotion of the blog.
The idea came up during a conversation while commenting his work in PLUG’s event Brincka 2013 at Porto Salvo. He participated with an incredible Napoleonic Army.
Welcome to History Bricks, Sérgio. I look forward to read your posts
Normandy 1944
May 15, 2013I came across this wonderful layout of a world war II battle in Normandy, made by Lugpol members Pit Mrutek Rasch Glaz Pimpur dmac Borys Misiek Axel Nexus 7 Matix Szarik Kris Kelvin and many other water helpers.
The amount of detail is incredibly vast that is difficult to enumerate and where to start. I will mention just a few details that caught my attention: the notion of movement in the water, the explosions, the detail of the studless vehicles and mainly the many scenes with minifigs that give life to this scenario.
Check more pictures at Brickshelf.
Modular Western Town
April 8, 2012Modular Western Town project has been live on LEGO Cuusoo since October 2011. The Brothers Brick, Eurobricks, Brickset, Toys N Bricks and others have been supporting this project for a while. I would like to join them supporting too this great idea of extending the modular building concept to the old West!
Let’s take one step further to bring this idea to reality by supporting the project here.
Lisbon tram
April 2, 2012Till.Uwe.Marwede managed to capture really well the essence of the old Carris Tourist Tram. The chosen scale let him to share incredible details.
I always got fascinated with these means of transportation. In fact, I’m the author of another version of the Carris trams at a smaller scale, as you can see in the next picture
Russian trenches
March 29, 2012Cool representation of the Russian trenches, this MOC made by =DoNe=.
Fort Legoredo
November 22, 2011Fort Legoredo was one of my favorite LEGO sets during my childhood and was a pleasant surprise when I discovered this wonderful tribute from Franko Komljenovic and Matija Grguric to this set from the year 1996.
Fort Legoredo, originally uploaded by Matija Grguric.
WWII Micro airport
November 4, 2011I’m passionate with micro constructions and this small world war II airport built by Henning Birkeland ia a delight.
I also suggest that you take some minutes and appreciate all other his work. It will be a time well spent.
