All the animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others
We still haven’t gotten to the bottom of the Elves’ Russian obsession this past week. It continues with this; an enormous ZIL 110 Limousine, which is just like the American Packard Limousine design the Russians copied, only much, much worse. Tim Inman aka rabidnovaracer is the builder behind it.
Captions are too mainstream
A while ago we posted Silvavasil’s Fixie Bike in a rare move away from our usual V8-powered fodder. He’s now returned with an updated version, which is sure to confuse the hell out of the hipsters that liked the first version so much. You see, the new bike has a thumping great rocket motor attached (very un-hipster), but… it sure isn’t mainstream.
English Epicness
What to say about this!? A wonderfully functional, but terrifically accurate model of the legendary Lotus Exige S; explosive in lime green it looks like the real thing. Created by the supremely talented Rolic, you can see more of this incredible English sports car on Flickr.
We’ve not blogged a Lego event for a while, so today we put that right by linking you to the awesome Truck Trial movement, pioneered by the Lego Users Group in Poland. LUGPol recently hosted their first round of the 2013 Championship in Warsaw.
Truck Trial is a real life event in which beautifully modified trucks attempt to climb, traverse and descend around a fiendishly difficult off-road course. Like Motorbike Trials, the aim is to complete the course in the quickest time. Penalties are given for course infringements such as missing gates or getting stuck.
Lego Truck Trial follows these rules, and adds in a few brick-related ones too. These include each truck requiring a complete cabin, on-board power supply through standard AA batteries, a working piston engine, and no more than two LEGO motors for drive.
The courses in Lego Truck Trial may be considerably smaller than those used in the real events, but they are no less difficult. This leads to some epic driving skills and, when these fail, some hugely destructive crashes!
*These may vary depending on the host country.
Swoooooooosh!
A quick space post today, as this is swooshy and blue, and those are good enough reasons for us. Peter Morris is the builder.
Communistical Transport
We’re not sure what’s got into the Elves recently. Until this week we’d probably only posted three Russian MOCs in our whole existence, yet in the last few days alone we’ve posted another three. Anyway, while we investigate the Elves’ obsession with Soviet-era transportation, you can view this rather brilliant Ural motorbike from Lino M on Flickr.
Fresh from our Flickr-feed: something from Russia. We’ve blogged a few East-European cars recently, but we haven’t seen a police car yet. This detailed car which could easily be found in LEGOland is instantly recognizable as a Lada. The fig is impressive, too. Made by Mad Physicist (Ralph S), see more of this car at Flickr.
Syd Mead’s ‘Sentinel 400 Limousine’, recreated in LEGO
The coolest car we’ve ever featured. And there’s nothing more we can say than that. iomedes !… is the builder.
See more of this car, and the artwork that it’s based on, via Flickr.
We thought this was a medium-size MOC at first, but believe it or not this highly detailed Ferrari 250 GT by Angka Utama is 4-wide.
With the creative use of LEGO’s Disney Cars 2 parts Angka captures the look very well; we think this is the most detailed 4-wide we’ve seen for a while. Check it out on MOCpages.
Fighter, 2086 style
Apologies for all the sci-fi posts in recent times, for some reason the Elves seem to be in a Spacey mood. Still, today’s post is different from most of the Lego spaceships circulating the interweb. Set only a few decades in the future, Shannon Ocean’s Mcdonnel Dougles F4 Phantom III is recognisably using current technology, from the reflective tiles to the rockets, and is manufactured by a well-known defence company. It’s also, not unlike the Space Shuttle, looking a little rough around the edges, as the missions take their toll. In other words; Plausible Science-Fiction. See more on Flickr.
Sopwith Camel Fighter
This gorgeous mini-figure scale Sopwith Camel fighter plane was discovered on Flickr. Built by TheBrickAvenger, the Camel helped turn the tables in the Allies favour in the skies over France during the First World War. The Avenger’s version is complete with twin Vickers 303 machine guns, support wires and authentic RAF livery. See more here.
ZT301 and K700A Tractors
The Lego Car Blog Elves are basically 6 year old children, and as such they love tractors, so you can imagine the excitement today when one of them found two tractors in the same picture. Steve5010 is the builder behind them, and he’s even included some hay bales for the tractors to lug around. See more by clicking the link above.
Lego Lunar Lander
This beautiful photo comes from Kei_Kei_Flic on Flickr. Depicting the Soviet-era Lunniy Korabl Lunar Module (and a cheery Russian cosmonaught) on the surface of Earth’s Moon, it’s sadly more fantasy than historic event.
The Russian KL Moon Lander never made it to the Moon. The N1 rocket designed to take it there started encountering problems following the death of its designer, and the project ended in spectacular fashion, with the largest artificial non-nuclear explosion in history.
Sirian (not Syrian) Trade Authority Probe
We’ve no idea who or what the Sirian Trade Authority is, but apparently they’re fans of robotic probes made from hubcaps and old ray guns. Halfbeak‘s Nice Parts Usage (NPU) can be seen on Flickr.