It’s not often nowadays that Lego makes it over here to this blog. Most of the wonderful Lego creations I make or find go straight onto my Tumblr blog with little or no comment. Michael Jasper’s creations deserve a little explanation though. Of his two most recent, Zeiss and Nobel, it’s his image of Nobel that really shows you how far ahead his work is to most other Lego builders:

Michael Jasper

Take a look at that Bunsen burner on the left. The base is made froma steering wheel. And that clamp is made from a small dish, an aeriel, two pirate hook hands and wrench. Nobel himself has two lettered blocks (’U’s) to make up his coat (with pockets), and then some children’s legs. And to use an upturned gem as a small flask (in his right hand) just shows imagination that most builders (myself very squarely included) just couldn’t dream of. So simple, and yet so effective.

The fact is that building at minifig-scale in Lego is actually rather tricky. In comparison to the figures, most Lego pieces are far too large. That’s one of the reasons that the parks are built at the considerably larger miniland scale, and that technic uses its own maxifigure scale, both of which suit the size of the blocks much, much better. Building at minifig scale takes imagination, innovation and a large array of unusual pieces, something that clearly Mr Jasper has in spades.

See more of his amazing work here.

(via The Brothers Brick)