This stunning B-17 Flying Fortress by Ace in a Day was discovered on MOCpages. It looks like it’s been in better nick, but what a wonderfully re-created scene this is. Visit the link above to see more of the crash – it’s well worth your click.
It might not be a car, but Fujiia‘s bicycle is certainly one of the most beautifully elegant Lego creations published this year.
There are a lot more bikes in the world than cars too – for most of the earth’s population bicycles mean freedom, and for most of us they were our first wheels too. You can see more of Fujiia’s at the link.
This brunette mini-figure looks like she’s having a fun ride with a chunky rod*. Tommaso Garosi is the builder of this neat two seat Town-style hot rod of which you can see more on MOCpages.
It’s not a very Christmassy post today, but if you’re reading this in December have some fun with the falling snow on this page – you can blow it about with your mouse!
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*Something about your Mom.
If Santa used a car to deliver his presents rather than his magical sleigh, this would probably be it.
Toyota’s Land Cruiser is one of the most successful off-road vehicles on the planet. Upon it’s arrival in Australia, Land Rover’s market share dropped from 90% to 2% within just a couple of years, because it’s all very well having a car that can get you into the middle of the bush, but if it breaks out there it’ll be the last trip you make. And in Santa’s case that’d be bad news for all of us.
MOCpages’ Egor Karshiev (aka RM8) has faithfully recreated the legendary 4×4 – complete with Santa’s paint scheme – from Lego Technic, and he’s packed it with engineering goodness. His FJ40 Land Cruiser is driven by a Power Functions XL motor, with a servo motor taking care of the steering and an M motor powering the winch. There’s live axel suspension, a removable hard top, opening doors, hood and tailgate and – of course – all-wheel-drive. You can read all the specs over on MOCpages via the link above, plus you can check out the FJ40 in action via the video below.
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These mini-figures look a bit on the small side for this monstrous roadster, but when their ride is this cool we’re sure they don’t mind. See more on Flickr below.
*Apologies Eric Teo, we know you’ve named this ‘Betsy’, but there’s isn’t a song we can use for the title, so we dropped the ‘s’!
Discovered by both a very excited TLCB Elf* and a TLCB Reader, today we’re bringing you seven models in one! TLCB favourite (and previous Master MOCer) Nick Barrett has beautifully reconstructed six cars that he’s previously owned, plus a truck on which to transport them.
The truck steers and the trailer has a realistic mechanism to allow the cars to drive on, but really it’s all about that payload. See if you can identify all six of Nick’s eclectic cars before visiting MOCpages or Flickr to find out if you’re right!
*Which did of course try to ague that 7 meal tokens and 7 smarties were an appropriate reward. It did not win its case.
As proven by BBC’s Top Gear, the Toyota Hilux is the toughest vehicle ever made. Favoured by emergency relief agencies, the SAS, and er… al-Qaeda, the Hilux is in use in probably every war zone on the planet. It was also the car of choice of Back to the Future’s Marty McFly, and it’s this version that previous bloggee Paul Kim has chosen to recreate from our favourite plastic blocks. You can see more of Paul’s brilliant 1980s Hilux on both Flickr and MOCpages.
Yup, that most exotic of materials usually reserved for racing car parts and expensive toilet seats could be coming to Lego creations! And unlike the farbon ciber residing in one of the cars in the office car park, this stuff is the real deal.
There’s a Kickstarter campaign underway to put Lego-compatible carbon fiber tiles into production, started by three boys and their Dad (nice one Dad!).
If you’d like genuine carbon fibre pieces to be available to add to your Lego supercar simply click this link to support the project.
After a few days of small posts we’re back to blogging the big stuff. And if you’re going to build big you might as well build shiny too!
This stunning 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible is the work of newcomer and TLCB debutant gertman 2000, and was suggested to us via the Feedback page. Mr. 2000’s favourite car is the ’57 Chevy, so he decided to recreate his dream car in Lego form, using an LDD design by another builder as a starting point.
A lot of chroming later and the results are as spectacular as you see here – but there’s much more to see. Visit the link above to visit the Bel Air’s MOCpage – it’s worth your click.
We’re not fans of Eastern Europe’s communist automotive efforts. Like, at all. But if there’s proof that forced induction, wide arches, and racing stripes can make anything cool, this is it. Raphael Granas‘ ’80s Polonez twin turbo is one of the coolest Lego cars we’ve ever seen. Click above and get ready to want it.
We continue our run of Town vehicles here at TLCB with two more mini-figure delights. Suggested to us by a reader, Brickshelf’s keko007 has built a pair of superb construction vehicles. Both his MAN cement truck and Volvo L60 front loader feature a few working functions too, making them nicely playable creations. You can see more of these and keko’s other models via the link above.
Splendidly-named builder Dwalin Forkbeard has constructed a sweet Victorian ride. His steampunk Henderson motorcycle (a company that actually started production very shortly after the Victorian era) can be viewed on Flickr, and we’re pleased because it’s allowed us to make a tenuous link to an underwear company that we had to Google purely in the name of research. Victorian bike > Hell’s Angels > Victoria’s Secret Angels… See, it all makes sense…
According to The Lego Car Blog’s Submission Guidelines, the Elves prefer models to have, “Clean, contrasting backgrounds…”. We had to make an exception in the case of Petris Sprogris’ “Project_BLACK” vehicle. The rusting metal panel, which looks very like the top of the TLCB beer fridge, does actually contrast nicely with this all black build. Adding a spray of water, some carefully chosen lighting and a good macro focus has given Petris some winning photos. The Elves also liked the reversed tires, angled windscreen and blend of System and other parts. Click this link to MOCpages or this link to Flickr to see more.
The LEGO Company makes a perfectly good one-piece motorcycle. Here at TLCB we’re at the lazy end of the building spectrum and so we simply stick a mini-figure on it and move on. However there are builders out there with considerably more imagination than us. One such builder is Flickr’s Project Azazel, who’s gone and built his own Town scale police motorcycle from a myriad of LEGO’s most fiddly pieces. You can see more of his brilliant brick-built bike via the link above.
This glorious 1991 TVR S3 comes from Flickr and MOCpage’s Mortal Swordsman, who’s been commissioned by the Auto Trader car selling website to recreate readers’ cars in Lego. You can see more of this lovely early ’90s S3 on Flickr, and you can read a little more about the now defunct TVR company by visiting one of our previous posts here.