Nifeliz Set

A Designer’s Journey: Where Travel Meets Bricks Joe, has always been a man of two passions: wandering the world and tinkering with tiny treasures. From the jagged peaks of the Rockies to the crystalline caves of Mexico, his travels have fueled a fascination with Earth’s hidden gems. So when the idea of creating a mineral-inspired building brick set arose, it wasn’t just a project—it was destiny. “I wanted to bring the magic of geology to your desk,” Joe says, grinning. “Imagine holding a piece of the planet’s history, but in bricks.” Why Minerals? Blame It on the Flowers (Sort o f) The story begins with a pivot. Initially, the team aimed to create a floral-themed building brick set. But Joe, ever the rebel, had other ideas. “Flowers are lovely, but minerals? They’re like nature’s mood rings—each one tells a wilder story,” he explains. The goal shifted: instead of petals, they’d craft Stibnite’s razor-sharp layers, Pyrite’s glittering cubes, and Amethyst’s mystical glow. “We wanted some...

The Beast of the Battlefield: Why the 2S4 Tyulpan Matters In the shadowed corridors of Cold War history, the 2S4 Tyulpan stands as a paradox—a weapon of brutal efficiency wrapped in the poetic nickname “Tulip.” Designed in the 1970s as a response to NATO’s fortified bunkers, this self-propelled mortar was engineered to obliterate hardened targets with 240mm shells capable of piercing 12 meters of concrete. Unlike its contemporaries, the Tyulpan didn’t just bombard; it excavated. Nicknamed the “Bunker Buster” by Soviet troops, it became the scalpel in the USSR’s arsenal, carving through obstacles that lesser weapons merely scratched. For military enthusiasts, the Tyulpan represents a watershed moment in artillery design. Its hybrid chassis—a marriage of a GMZ mine-laying vehicle and a turret housing the colossal mortar—allowed it to fire, reposition, and vanish before counter-battery radars could lock on. “It wasn’t just a weapon,” says Yestin Fun, NifeliZ’s lead designer. “It was a che...