This big block of red and white is a DAF XF Space Cab heavy duty recovery truck, as operated by Neil Yates Recovery. It’s the work of previous bloggee and DAF specialist Arian Janssens and, like yesterday’s DAF model, it’s a remarkably detailed thing. There’s an extensive gallery available to view on Flickr – see more via the link above.
This incredible 1970s DAF FTT 2600 crane truck arrives courtesy of previous bloggee Nanko Klein Paste, and it’s one of the most beautifully detailed models of the year so far. Behind the stunning realism Nanko’s truck is built for play too, and features a host of remotely controlled functions.
A third-party SBrick gives Nanko bluetooth control for the DAF’s drive, steering and that superb rotating crane. There’s lots more to see of this beautifully built, decalled, and photographed model at Nanko’s Flickr photostream – click the link above to make the trip.
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
This spectacular Ares 7 Mars rover, inspired by the motion picture ‘The Martian’, comes to us from Jeremy Williams. It features fully independent suspension, Power Functions drive, and twin-axle steering, and there’s more to see at Jeremy’s photostream.
It’s 50 years since Ford famously finished the Le Mans 24 Hour race with a 1-2-3, thanks to their stunning Lola-developed GT40. Half a decade later and Ford returned to Le Mans with their new GT, aiming to prove to America that big inefficient V8s really have had their day, and the future is smaller, more efficient, and turbo-charged.
This astonishing creation is the work of professional model-maker Pascal Lenhard, who was commissioned by Ford to build a replica of their 2016 GTE-competing racing car. Three weeks and 40,000 bricks later and this is the incredible result.
A full gallery of images is available to view at the Autoweek website (thanks to one of our readers for the tip!), where there are also images of an original 1960s Ford GT40 model that Pascal built to accompany his recreation of Ford’s latest Le Mans challenger.
And 50 years on, did Ford manage a Le Mans comeback worthy of their original result? They sure did, with the new Ford GT winning the GTE class and taking third place. In fact the team were only denied repeating their remarkable 1966 1-2-3 finish by some cheating Italians.
It’s good to have you back Ford!
This beautiful creation is a near-perfect scale replica of Ferrari’s magnificent 275 GTB, and it comes from a long-lost car builder Thomas Poulsom aka DeTomaso Pantera. Tom’s been busy over the last few years campaigning for his LEGO Ideas Birds project. With his Birds models now in stores around the world it’s great to see Tom back with the genre where we met him.
Built as a collaboration with TLCB legend Nick Barrett this Ferrari 275 replica was commissioned by the owner of the real car, someone who clearly has an equal sharing of money as taste! Being a partly Nick Barrett creation this 275 GTB features a fully working and beautifully engineered chassis underneath the spectacular full-stud bodywork. More details of this will likely surface soon, but until then you can check out the stunning exterior images via Tom’s Flickr photostream at the link above, plus you can read more about the builder (and his past collaboration with Nick) in the very first entry in our Master MOCers series here.
Only a few short days after his last appearance here at TLCB, redfern1950s returns with another stunningly creative motorcycle. This one’s a hard-tail chopper and it uses some of LEGO’s weirder parts brilliantly. See what you can spot via the link above.
Car names were better in the old days. This is a Mercury Comet Cyclone, built by Flickr’s Lino Martins, and if there’s more a ridiculously brilliant name for a car we’ve yet to hear it. You can see more of Lino’s magnificent ’65 Comet at the link above.
Following a post earlier in the week featuring a build from a large collaboration one of our readers got in touch with another creation from the partnership. Now we love your suggestions, but when you suggest sci-fi builds it does fill us with fear, because we know nothing about sci-fi at all. So… here’s a Space Crane by Flickr’s Gilcelio chagas, featuring much Spaceness and even a little Spacenicity, and if you’d like to see more you can check it out at the link!
‘Uh oh…’ thought this TLCB writer upon entering the office today. It wasn’t a particularly big or eloquent thought, but it summed up the situation that lay before him rather well.
The keys to the various rooms within TLCB Towers, (including to the Executive Washroom and Sauna, the Archive Halls and to the Smarties Cupboard) hang on a hook, high above the floor and out of reach of the Elves, even if several stand atop one another to form a wobbly tower.
Said hook only had this one purpose, and it had fulfilled its brief flawlessly. It may simply be an inch of curved metal, but the safety and security of TLCB rested entirely in its brassy embrace. Today though this hook was missing something. It stood naked… unadorned… keyless. This was not good.
A panicked run down the corridor revealed several usually-locked doors ajar, and the sound of a jacuzzi water jet on full thrust. Not the washroom….
Sadly our worst fears were realised, and every single TLCB Elf that was indoors when we left last night was found in our place of peace and serenity, defiling it. We won’t go into any details here, but the pool cleaner has got one hell of a job.
The all-night Smarties bender that preceded the defiling was facilitated by a remarkably rare event of Elven teamwork and this; Máté Lipkovics aka Lipko’s spectacular remote control Technic telehandler. Powered by three L Motors Mate’s model can raise, lower and extend the boom (which includes automatic fork levelling) and can extend and retract its stabilising outriggers remotely.
Mate’s creation also includes several mechanical features, such as a gearbox to allow the motors to perform multiple functions, rear pendular suspension, and some trick three-mode steering (4-wheel, normal and crab).
Unfortunately all of this technological cleverness meant that Mate’s telehandler was the perfect tool for sending an Elf skywards on a key-thieving mission, and that the office’s previously unreachable door handles suddenly became portals to Elven debauchery.
We now have a morning of mopping, vacuuming and disinfecting ahead of us (and we also need to come up with a new key storage protocol) so we recommend that you come back later. In the meantime you can check out Mate’s brilliant, but immensely costly for us, Technic telehandler via MOCpages and the Eurobricks forum by clicking the links.
The washroom may never be the same again.
Despite having an engine the same size as this writer’s first car, Harley-Davidsons are not fast bikes. But they do make a noise like a naval gun and that’s pretty cool, unless you’re trying to leave the house in the early hours of the morning, in which case your entire street will hate you. However, ride one during sociable hours and little else is cooler.
This top quality Model Team recreation of the Harley-Davidson 1200cc Sportster comes from Andre Pinto and it looks loud even in the pictures! There’s more to see on both Eurobricks and Flickr – click the links for all the images.
Yup, we’re out of depth again. We have no idea what this creation by Flickr’s Nick Trotta is or what it does, but it looks properly cool. Sort of like a giant wheeled ant. And it’s descriptions like that which mean we really should stick to cars. You can see more of whatever this is at the link to Nick’s photostream above, where there are also links to the wider collaborative project of which this build is part.
…You need a really BIG fire truck. This one is a huge 8×4 Mercedes-Benz Actros by Smigol, and it looks substantial enough to tackle anything that combustion can throw at it. There’s more to see on Flickr – click the link above to dial 911.
We really don’t get the appeal of caravanning here at TLCB. You drive very slowly to a boring field and then you have to crap in a box.
This looks a much better bet. Bobofrutx‘ Unimog motorhome might still be slow, and you probably still have to crap in a box, but with a vehicle like this you could travel seriously off-piste. Check it out on Flickr at the link above.
This beautiful vintage tram and truck pairing was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr. Both models are the work of Dario Minisini and they’re part of a much larger and brilliantly built town scene. There’s more to see of both creations and the extensive diorama in which they feature at the link above.
This is our kind of vehicle. Why has no auto manufacturer built something like this yet? – If the Nissan Juke exists this bloody well ought to.
A giant triangle (the best of all the shapes) fitted with a monstrous gas turbine engine, David Robert‘s ‘Turbine Dragster’ is just the ticket for the journey home after a long day in the office. There’s more to see (and why wouldn’t you want to see more of this?!) on Flickr – click the link above to make the jump.