Lego Spelljammer Nautiloid

I typically make minifig-scale creatures, or simple practical props for my games. But sometimes I enjoy a more complex build. Recently I challenged myself to make a Lego version of the Illithid Nautiloid from Spelljammer:

I modified it a bit. I wanted mine to look less like a wooden ship built to resemble a nautilus, and more like a living giant nautilus, grown and twisted by powerful magic, with a ship grafted into it:

It is not built to minifig scale, but it can still be used in a game, either with spaceship combat rules, or simply as a visual aid. Here a party of PCs is hiding behind space rocks spying on a tense standoff between illithid and elf ships near the floating skull of a dead god:

Update and Links

I started this blog because I wanted to create a useful reference guide for using Lego bricks to run fantasy RPGs, and connect with other people doing the same thing. After I had written down the basic guides, I got bored in the absence of feedback and stopped. But then I found the Lego Dungeons and Dragons Facebook group. It is a great community, and it inspired me to start posting again. I will mainly be posting in that group, and using this blog to write longer posts that I may want to link to later.

One of the people in that group has a blog much like this one: Studded Plate. Somehow I did not find it when I searched for Lego RPG blogs before starting this site.

Here are some other blog posts that give useful tips and/or pictures for using Lego bricks in RPGs:

http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/10/using-lego-in-roleplaying-games/

http://allbadsaves.tumblr.com/post/97128640104/lego-for-miniatures