Back when flying was very, very cool
This incredible creation is MrSsorg‘s beautiful Douglas DC-3 Airliner, resplendent in chrome and white and with a fully fitted interior. You may have noticed this post is filed under ‘Lego’ rather than ‘Model Team’; well that’s because this creation is genuinely mini-fig scale. Click the link in this text to see more at MrSsorg’s Flickr page.
No rhyming wit in today’s caption…
Yes that’s right! Thanks to you, our loyal readers, we’re halfway to six figures! 50,000 views, loads of comments, loads and loads of spam, and no Elf deaths yet! Picture courtesy of Sushi Rice.
It’s all in the details
We’d not heard of the Zubr A80 before, but Karwik certainly has, recreating it wonderfully down to the last detail. See more on Flickr.
Fatboy
Bricksonwheels MOC is one of Lego community’s greatest truck-builders, and occasionally he turns his considerable talents to other forms of transport too. Featuring his trademark chrome, this Harley Davidson ‘Fatboy’ motorbike got The Lego Car Blog Elves very excited; running around the office making ‘Brrrm BrrRRRRm’ noises. We’ve finally managed to kick them out so they can continue their search, but secretly we’re very proud of the one that brought this MOC in. View it in greater depth on MOCpages.
Sariel’s Road Train
Sariel (Paul Kmiec) has already built some of the finest Technic trucks you can find on the web, and this one is no exception. Isn’t it one of the most beautiful Lego trucks you have ever seen?
But Sariel wouldn’t be Sariel if he didn’t add something unexpected and innovative. So take a look at this:
Insert Mr. T for twice the awesome
In 2012 a crack MOC builder was sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn’t commit. This man promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the MOCing underground. Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as builder of fortune. If you want a model, if no one else can build it, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire W1ll3m.
Continuing our series of reviews of sets aimed at the more mature builder, here’s the 5580 Highway Rig, from 1986…
It got the ‘Model Team’ line off to a good start. It was the same scale as the earlier ‘Hobby Sets’ (12 studs wide) and, albeit after a long hiatus, appeared to carry on where they left off; although this time, Lego managed to produce an attractive, well detailed model of a popular subject.
They even went to the trouble of designing nice new wheels for it.
It had the look of being designed by someone who loved the subject – often the sign of a winning model. He had fun with all the greebling, too – perhaps a little much, especially when it came to festooning it with little yellow lights all over the place. Against the white panels, these do make it look a little as if it’s got a bad case of zits….
Still, all the other detailing was very successful, the colour scheme was attractive (using printed pieces – not stickers – hurrah!) and, if you lift the bonnet forward, there’s a very pleasant show engine (Lego’s first ?); the influence of which is still seen in many medium sized MOCs by car builders everywhere.
They also included steering, operated by the spare wheel mounted on the back of the cab. It didn’t work that well (too many twists and turns in the linkage ‘twixt rack and wheel) but it was a start. It might have been better if the control was on the roof, as on later models.
There was an interior, of sorts, featuring some seats, a steering wheel and a single printed slope that constituted the dashboard. Pretty basic inside then, but again, not a bad effort at the time. There was a bed behind the seats as well, wherein sleep would be rendered impossible by the steering gubbins in the way.
After the wealth of detail on it’s front half, the rear looked a little underdone. The trailer hitch thing (or whatever you call it..) was just a 4×4 turntable, there was no attempt at wheelarches and little else of interest back there. However, mounting the eight rear wheels on movable axles was a nice touch to give the illusion of suspension.
Overall, this is a very nice model indeed. One of those that manages to look right, despite the compromise of using train doors on the cab. A rare combination of refined good looks with a dose of playability. There’s a very good reason why they’re expensive to buy now.
The very talented Sheepo has been building some of the most impressive Technic Supercars for a while now. We’re talking the sort of model with as many functions, gears and motors as some real cars we can think of…. This one even has a motor to control its brakes, among an amazing array of features to be found by clicking this http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/323339. You’ll be very glad you did.
Rubber on the bottom, nothing on the top – let’s see the hits rack up!
Put simply, this is the best car we’ve seen all year. The Elf who found it would’ve got a hug if we could bring ourselves to. Still, we thought about it. Anyway, this absurdly brilliant creation is a ’70s MGB, and is as accurate in its Technical functions as it is aesthetically. View it on Nick Barrett’s MOCpage – it’ll be the best click you’ve made all year.
Concours d’élégance
Calin Bors (_Tiler) seems to specialize in refining existing designs – and in refining Batmobiles. After his more functional version of Zeto Vince’s mother of all Tumblers he now took care of kaitimar’s awesome Mini Batmobile, an interpretation of the famous vehicle Bruce Wayne used for his dark escapades in Tim Burton’s Batman movies.
Now look what he has done to this classic – not much, as he says. But enough to be blogged by TLCB. Regardless of the scale – isn’t that the most elegant Batmobile you have ever seen? The elves at the TLCB are stunned!
