Category Archives: Model Team

Printed Portals

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It’s not a purist day here at TLCB, as we follow four 3D-printed wheels with four more. And a canvas roof. And – most impressively – four exquisitely-made custom portal axles with reduction gears. Those gears are Technic, but the cases in which they are contained are bespoke and beautifully engineered by previous bloggee Michael Kulakov (aka Michael217), who has fitted them to his spectacular fully remote controlled Hummer H1.

LEGO Power Functions L Motors are combined with a third-party Geekservo motor to steer, with the model featuring all-wheel-drive, fully independent suspension, a detailed engine and interior, plus opening doors, hood and tailgate, alongside the aforementioned custom componentry.

Beautiful imagery accompanies Michael’s phenomenal creation, with lots more of the model to see at both his ‘Hummer H1’ Flickr album and at the Eurobricks discussion forum. Click the links above to take a look, and to see the unique engineering deployed in its making.

Enter the Dragon

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Is Godzilla a lizard? Probably. We’re not up to speed on Japanese myths. But we do know that a lizard with wings is a dragon. Unless it’s a wyvern. Which actually Godzilla would be if it did have wings. And then the title wouldn’t work. We digress, this is a Nissan GT-R (R35) – a car nicknamed ‘Godzilla’ – and this one has wings.

They’re fitted – along with some marvellous 3D-printed Advan wheels – by builtbydavedesigns, who’s taken inspiration from Nismo’s wild GT-R GT3 racers. Opening doors, a detailed interior, and a superbly replicated engine bay also feature, and you can take a closer look at Dave’s beautifully presented dragon at his Flickr album via the link above.

The Lego Multicar Blog

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This strange looking device is an IFA Multicar M25, a small cab-over truck built in East Germany designed to perform numerous jobs. This one comes from previous bloggee DamianPLE (aka damjan97PL) who has fitted it with motorised drive, steering, and tipper, all controlled remotely via a third-party SBrick.

There’s also a tilting cab, under which sits a working four-cylinder piston engine, opening doors, and a detailed interior too, with more to see – including a video of the Multicar in action – at the Eurobricks forum. A gallery of over two-dozen images is also available to view on Bricksafe, and you can find both via the links above.

Trucking Tuesday

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We’re a Lego car blog, which is why all of today’s posts haven’t been cars… OK, we sometimes suck at our brief, but this is a lovely model nonetheless. A DAF FAS 2200 DU, it comes from serial bloggee Arian Janssens, who has both constructed and presented his latest classic truck beautifully.

Working steering, folding drop-sides, a posable grab crane (complete with a mechanism to slide it along the load bed), a steered drawbar trailer, and loaded pallets all feature, with almost two-dozen images of the model available to view showcasing its exceptional attention to detail. Take a closer look at Arian’s ‘DAF FAS 2200 DU’ album via the link above.

Height of Honda

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Some say Honda’s peak was its six-year dominance of the Formula 1 World Championship from 1986. Others the Ferrari-beating NSX that followed. Still others the fantastic S2000, a car with the highest specific output-per-litre of any naturally-aspirated engine for a decade. But we say it’s this, the mid-’00s ‘CL7’ euro-spec Honda Accord.

Launched in 2003 with Honda’s famous VTEC engines, imperious build quality, superb exterior design, and later the option of the brand’s first ever (and instantly world-beating) diesel engine, the seventh-generation accord was a huge success, with its big sales in TLCB’s home market no doubt helped by the best car commercial ever made.

Honda have never since recaptured that mid-’00s success (and neither have increasingly unimaginative car ads), so we’re heading back to the height of Honda courtesy of Mihail Rakovskiy and his incredible Lego Honda Accord Type-R.

Replicating the sharp exterior, interior, engine bay, and even chassis and drivetrain of the seventh-generation Accord beautifully in brick form, Mihail’s model features an opening hood, trunk and four opening doors, and is presented as perfectly as it’s been constructed.

There’s much more to see at Mihail’s ‘Honda Accord Euro-R (CL7)’ album and you can head back to when Honda were on top of the world via the link in the text above.

Tanked Up

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It’s the day after TLCB Christmas Party, which means we’re still drunk. No matter though, as we’ll be tanked up from now until New Year anyway. Cue TLCB debutant JLD25’s splendidly rendered Dodge L700 tanker truck, which could well be full of virtual alcohol. Hurrah!

If the L700 looks rather small for an American semi-truck that’s because it was based on the A100 van, and if it looks a bit more digital than you’re used to here, that’s because it… um, is. Despite the lack of physicality however, it carries both excellent detail and a range of ‘working’ features, and there’s more to see JLD’s ‘Dodge L700 Semi’ album on Flickr. Click the link to get tanked.

Mon Ami

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1960s Citroens were properly weird. This is a Citroen Ami 6, a front-wheel-drive economy car available as saloon, estate, or van, powered by the mighty 602cc sub-30bhp two-cylinder engine from the 2CV, with a reverse-rake rear window, and seats you could remove to form picnic chairs. Because France.

This glorious homage to the little Citroen captures the, um… ‘unique’ styling of the Ami brilliantly in brick form, and it comes from previous bloggee SIM CAMAT who owns the real thing. With opening doors, hood and trunk, plus a detailed engine and interior, SIM’s Ami is a really lovely replica, and you can head to 1960s France via the link to his photostream above.

Tiny Turbo

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This is a Honda’s B-Series engine, as used in numerous Civics, Preludes and Accords in the late-’80s to late-’90s, and the genesis of VTEC. Available from 1.6 to 2.0 litres in capacity, the B-Series could rev to over 8,000rpm, and became one of Honda’s defining accomplishments.

An engineering masterpiece, Honda’s B-Series has featured in quite a few Lego Hondas over the years. Except of course, it hasn’t. Not really. But today we really do have a Lego Honda B-Series, because this amazing creation is a fully working replica of the B16.

Complete with brick-built pistons, crank, manifold, wastegate and ancillaries, this remarkable build captures every aspect of the real Honda engine inside and out, and – purely because it’s cool – in the version we’ve pictured above builder Delton Adams has added a motorised turbocharger for added ‘phish – whuudududu!’ noise imaginings.

As wonderful as it is unusual, there’s a whole lot more of Delton’s incredible Honda B16 to see – both in original and turbo-modded forms – at his Flickr album of the same name. Reliably rev your way to 8,400rpm* via the link in the text above.

*Unless you’ve added turbocharger for ‘phish – whuudududu!’ noises of course.

Stranger Squawks

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The eagerly awaited final season of ‘Stranger Things’ is just a few days away, when we – along with millions of others – will return to 1980s Hawkins Indiana for one last time.

Hawkins’ news outlets are likely to be very busy, with ‘94.5 The Squawk’s news van ready to cover the mysterious disasters courtesy of Alex Jones (aka Orion Pax), who has recreated it and its ‘Upside-down’ counterpart brilliantly in brick.

Opening doors, a fully-fitted interior, a removable roof, and an accurate ‘94.5 WSQK’ livery all feature, and you can join us in Hawkins at Alex’s photostream via the link above.

Stealth Bomber

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This is the Northrop Grumman B-2A Spirit, otherwise known as the ‘Stealth Bomber’. In service since 1997 and designed to be invisible to radar, the B-2 is the only known stealth bomber capable of carrying nuclear bombs, which means it’s probably a good thing there are only twenty-one of them.

Well, twenty-two today, courtesy of previous bloggee Kenneth Vaessen. Constructed a decade ago but only recently photographed, Kenneth’s spectacular 1:36 scale B-2A Spirit is built from around 12,000 pieces, with working bomb bay hatches, flaps and landing gear doors, a folding crew entrance, refuelling receptacle, and a wing-span of nearly five feet (146cm).

It’s a jaw-dropping replica of one of the world’s most recognisable (and feared) aircraft, with more superb imagery available to see at Kenneth’s ‘LEGO Northrop Grumman B-2A Spirit 1:36’ album. Click the link above to be spirited there for a stealthy closer look.

Red Removal

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LEGO’s fictional energy company has been supplying fuel to planes, cars and boats, as well as sponsoring pretty much every vehicle in LEGO City with a number, since ’92. Cue TLCB Master MOCer Dennis Glaasker (aka bricksonwheels), who has taken Octan’s iconic white, red and green colour scheme and flipped it to create this huge custom Peterbilt 389 and Polar tanker combo.

Constructed for the Legoworld Show in the Netherlands, Dennis’ spectacular 1:15 tanker features unique decals, custom chrome, and a livery so cool we don’t miss the red absent from Octan’s usual colour-scheme at all.

There’s more of Dennis’ stunning creation to see at his ‘Peterbilt Octan Tanker Combo’ Flickr album, plus you can find out how he creates amazing models like this one via his interview here at TLCB via the first link in the text above.

Bird of Prey

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Military marketeers get to use the coolest names (unless they’re Soviet of course, when it’s just a collection of letters), including Lightning, Storm Shadow, Typhoon, Tomahawk, and – as with today’s creation – Raptor.

Named after a pointy-beaked, pointy-footed bird, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor supersonic stealth fighter is used only by the Unites States, with just under 200 units currently in operation.

This spectacular brick-built version of the F-22A single-seat variant comes from Flickr’s Kenneth Vaessen, and includes an opening cockpit canopy, working landing gear, and opening bomb-bay doors, alongside some simply superb shaping.

A gallery of half-a-dozen excellent images is available to view and you can wing your way there via the link above.

Roman Roads

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This magnificent vehicle is an AM5 crane, mounted atop a Roman SR113/114 truck, and it comes from Pufarine of Flickr.

Beautifully recreating the real Romanian truck and crane combo, Pufarine’s model harks back to LEGO’s vintage Model Team line whilst incorporating a range of mechanical Technic features within.

The truck features working steering, deployable stabiliser legs, and a wonderfully detailed engine under a raising hood, whilst the huge intricately constructed lattice crane can slew and raise, with a superbly replicated winch system controlled via neatly hidden cogs at the rear.

There’s much more of Pufarine’s fantastically presented model to see at their ‘AM5’ album on Flickr, and you can take a closer look at this exquisite creation via the link to it in the text above.

ZIL 130 | Picture Special

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It’s time for a truck here at The Lego Car Blog, and today’s is something rather special. Created by previous bloggee Michael Kulakov / Michael217, this gorgeous ZIL 130 captures one of the workhorses of the Soviet Union spectacularly in LEGO bricks. Plus a few items that aren’t strictly LEGO…

Powered by a mix of genuine LEGO motors and third-party electronics, Michael’s model can drive, steer, and change between high and low gear ratios remotely, and also features a working V8 engine under the raising hood, opening cab doors, a mechanically locking trailer hitch, plus all wheel suspension.

Those wheels are non-LEGO parts, beautifully replicating real truck rims from the period via 3D printing, and are shod in RC tyres. The steering arms too are 3D-printed, and include metal inserts, which – along with some metal driveshaft components – toughen the drivetrain to handle the remote control system.

The rest of the build, including that wonderful bodywork, engine bay and interior, is all LEGO, and demonstrates superb attention to detail. Over a dozen perfectly presented images are available to view at Michael’s ‘ZIl 130’ Flickr album, plus you can find full build details, further links, and a video of the model in action at the Eurobricks discussion forum.

Farm Fresh

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We don’t usually know what’s in the back of a truck, but we do today thanks to those tell-tale openings. Delicious animals, that’s what.

But if you’re vegan don’t worry, today’s other post will be for you. Until then we’re off to have a steak, lamb shank, or rack of ribs courtesy of Arian Janssens’ splendid DAF FA XD livestock truck, and you can join us for dinner via the link.