Monthly Archives: April 2016

Ducati 1199 Panigale

Lego Ducati 1199 Motorcycle

This brilliant Ducati 1199 Panigale was suggested by several readers, and it gave us a bit of a categorisation dilemma here in TLCB Office. There are Technic, System and even Town parts contained within it (see if you can find the crossbow!), and the beauty of LEGO is that they all mesh together wonderfully to create an authentic looking replica motorcycle.

In the end we settled on ‘Model Team’, Gerald Cacas is the builder behind it, and you can see more of his Ducati – and the parts inventiveness used to create it – on Flickr at the link above.

A Long Time Ago…

BB CS Speeder

…in a galaxy far, far away, smiling spacemen were busily carrying out various tasks, exploring a planet with all sorts of new rovers and spaceships. It was 1978 and they were totally unaware that a year earlier the evil Darth Vader and his cohorts had exploded onto the big screen. Nearly 30 years later and TLCB regular Billyburg has fused the two genres together perfectly in his Classic Space Landspeeder. Click the link and zoom into the full sized photo on Flickr to admire the greebling and economic building style. We just hope that those innocent looking spacemen are prepared for their visit to Mos Eisley, as it doesn’t rate well on TripAdvisor.

Well, Do Ya Punk?

Punk Car

We’re feeling quite lucky here at TLCB Towers. Having found a very nice Blower Bentley yesterday, we’ve found this British Racing Green, steam punk roadster today. Moko is its creator and you can see more of the car and accompanying mech on his Photostream and even more on his blog.

Blow Me

Lego Bentley Blower 3/8 Litre 1924

If you added up the entire value of all the vehicles in The Lego Car Blog’s carpark, it still wouldn’t equal one of these. Or even half of one. In truth, we do own a lot of crap, but we are Car People so there’s some good stuff knocking around too (guesses in the comments!). Anyway, this gorgeous green creation is of course an inter-war ‘Blower’ Bentley, and just like the real car it’s absolutely magnificent.

LegoGallifrey is the builder and you can doff your cap/salute/[insert other cultural and chronologically appropriate response] his brilliant mini-figure scale build via the link above.

Colouring the Apocalypse

Karf Apoc

There seems to be a convention that following any variety of apocalypse (atomic, global warming, asteroid impact, alien invasion, zombie outbreak, massive Elf-fight, etc..), the overall decor will be rather drab. Tones of brown, black and grey will predominate, with the occasional beige camper van. Fortunately Flickr’s Karf Oohlu has decided to cheer everyone up with a pair of brightly coloured post-apoc vehicles. Click this link to his Photostream to enter his weird world.

Not a Car

Tug 01

“Not a Car” is The Lego Car Blog’s default title for the ‘planes, trains, boats, spaceships and other stuff that we occasionally feature here which is not a car (or truck, or lorry, or other motorised thing with wheels). JPascal Taipei has created this tug boat, only it’s not a tug boat, it’s sort of a spaceship. Only it floats in the air, so it’s an airship but it doesn’t have a gas bag, so it’s not an airship. You begin to see why sci-fi causes chaos and confusion in the TLCB editorial suite. Regardless, we think that it’s rather nicely designed and we like the clockwork winch play feature. You can see more of it and its Lego siblings from the strange world of Ian McQue by following this link to JPascal’s Photostream.

tug02

Yellow Bull

Lego Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4

Lamborghini have been growing spectacularly under the stewardship of the VW Group. It started with the Murcielago and Gallardo over a decade ago, and this year the Italian brand famed for mental supercars will add their first SUV to the range.

Whilst it will probably double Lamborghini’s annual sales overnight, we really don’t care about the Urus SUV one bit. We do however care about cars like this; the fantastically extravagant Aventador LP700-4.

This excellent Model Team recreation of Lamborghini’s flagship supercar comes from previous bloggee Alexander Pachoaletto, it features opening doors and engine cover and… er, that’s about it. But just look at it! You can see all of the images at Alex’s Flickr photostream or MOCpages account – click the links to make the jump.

Wedged

Lego Sci-Fi Armoured Gun Carrier

The Lego Car Blog Elves have been relatively settled of late, quietly getting on with their routine of scouring the interweb for blog-worthy Lego vehicles, pointless bickering, and eating whatever they find stuck in the office doormat. Today however, a familiar yet too-hastily forgotten cacophony of noise echoed down the corridor. A noise of panicked screaming, followed by a sound similar to that made when you stand on dropped popcorn at the cinema.

This TLCB writer wearily arose from an afternoon of Googling Margot Robbie pictures to ascertain the source of the interruption – knowing full well the scene that would likely await him in the corridor.

As feared, a spectacularly violent Elf was commanding something big, heavy and remote control to repeatedly run over several of its co-workers that had become trapped in a corner, and it was having the time of its life. Subsequently picked up by its ears and removed from TLCB Towers by way of the office slingshot, the Elf in question had found one hell of a vehicle though.

It’s called ‘Scorpion 2’, and it’s been built by Flickr’s Sioka sculpting, who’s making his TLCB debut. Whilst of mini-figure scale it’s a huge bit of kit, and it comes with some mighty weaponry too with front and roof-mounted swing-away railguns(?). A crew of four mini-figures reside inside, and can access the interior via a side-mounted hatch.

There’s lots more to see of this magnificent mammoth on Flickr – click the link above to visit Sioka’s photostream, whilst we wash Elven bodily fluids out of the corridor carpet.

Lego RC Sci-Fi Tank

Ferrari Ferrari LaFerrari Ferrari

Lego Technic Ferrari LaFerrari RC

BrunoJ’s incredible Technic recreation of the world’s most ridiculously named supercar has appeared here at The Lego Car Blog before, and since then a paying customer asked the builder to revisit his original model to create a new and even more spectacular version.

This is the result, and it’s a phenomenal showcase for what can be achieved from our favourite little plastic bricks. Underneath the stunningly accurate 1:9 Technic bodywork is a working V12 piston engine, all-wheel independent suspension and a suite of Power Functions electrical functions.

Lego Technic Ferrari LaFerrari 1:9

These include the usual remote control drive and steering plus; remotely opening doors, LED lighting including turn function and active aerodynamics – just like the real LaFerrari. In all there are six Power Functions motors, two LiPo rechargeable batteries, two IR receivers and seven pairs of LEDs, which all rides on four realistic 3D-printed wheels with custom special-width tyres.

There’s lots more to see – including detailed chassis images and a video of the LaFerrari in action – at the Eurobricks discussion forum.

Lego Remote Control Ferrari

Remotely Rodding

Lego Technic Hot Rod RC

Nope, not that secret device your Mom uses on the bus, but this – an absolutely gorgeous Technic hot rod from previous bloggee sm 01.

Underneath the brilliant Model-A Coupe-ish bodywork is period-correct leaf spring suspension, working steering, door locks and a detailed V8 engine. Plus of course full Power functions remote control drive and steering courtesy of two motors, and IR receiver and a beautifully packaged trunk-mounted battery box.

There’s lots more to see on Flickr via the link above, plus you can see the hot rod in action via the video below.

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Diversity

Lego Two Face Car

Here’s a car for Donald Trump, with two colours looking great side-by-side. RGB900 is the builder and you can see more here.

Bomb Disposal: If You See Me Running Try To Keep Up!

Lego VW Crafter Bomb Disposal

A staple fixture in ‘funny’ t-shirts, today’s blog title is probably a bit too close for comfort these days. Bomb disposal engineers have always done incredible work, but in Europe for the past few decades their main job has been to take unexploded World War 2 bombs down to the dump and claim the scrap metal value.

Not anymore though. Thanks to the utter shitbags in ISIS and their like, sadly it’s all getting a lot more serious. The heroes depicted in bricks above belong to the Dutch Ministry of Defence Bomb Disposal Division, and with their rather cute looking robot they’re ready to keep the streets of Holland shrapnel and body-part free.

TLCB regular Ralph Savelsberg aka Mad Physicist is the builder, and you can see more of his Bomb Disposal Team and their Volkswagen Crafter long-wheelbase van on Flickr – cut the blue wire at the link above.

Lego Volkswagen Crafter Van

Life and Death on the Track

Lego Ambulance Hot Rod

‘Motorsport Can Be Dangerous’ – so say the triangular signs attached to racetrack fences. It’s true, it can, but TLCB maths states that as the danger involved in something rises, so does the coolness of the thing in question (and therefore the more tempting it is to try it*).

Flickr builders Lino Martins and Tim Inman have built the perfect vehicles to explain this cultural phenomenon with their ’31 Ford ‘Flatline’ ambulance hot rod (above) and ’67 Cadillac ‘Hells Bells’ hearse hot rod (below). They’re a ridiculously cool way to reach the hospital (or exit it in a bag), and you can see more of each build via the links in the text above.

*Apart from The Salmon Mousse.

Lego Cadillac Hot Rod Hearse