Tag Archives: Eldorado

My Baby Drove Up In a Pixel Cadillac*

“Why don’t you post digital creations?” we get asked here at TLCB. Well mostly it’s because they rarely look like this.

These two spectacular ’59 Cadillacs come from serial bloggee 1saac W., who has put down his real pieces to painstakingly build each design in Studio before rendering it in Blender. As you can see here, the results look phenomenal, with ingenious parts choices and some deeply complex ‘SNOT’ techniques used in their creation.

Inevitably AI will soon be producing ‘Lego’ creations by the thousand that look like this, so enjoy the talent in these two at 1ssac’s photostream by clicking these words. These Caddies may be digital, but they’re no less magnificent for it.

*Today’s slightly butchered but nevertheless excellent title song.

The Road to El Dorado

This is a 1953 Cadillac Eldorado, a humungous (at 5.6 meters long / 2.3 tons) and humungously expensive 2-door luxury convertible, that – in first generation guise – lasted just one year and 500 units.

With unique sheet metal from the Cadillac upon which it was based, the first generation Eldorado was an ultra-exclusive automobile, and included such luxuries as air-conditioning (a $7,000 option at today’s prices), power windows, a heater, and that mark of unrestrained decadence; windscreen washers.

This lovely Lego recreation of Cadillac’s high-watermark comes from previous bloggee SFH_Bricks, who has captured it beautifully in brick form. Ingenious building techniques and top-notch presentation abound, and there’s more to see of SFH’s magnificent ’53 Eldorado via Flickr. Click the link above to take a closer look.

Eldorado

Lego Cadillac

The painted ladies of the Avalon play in the sun,
Take to the road, to the North there lies the chills of cold,
To the South there lies the tales untold.
But in between there lies the place to close your eyes.

And I will stay, I’ll not be back, Eldorado.
I will be free of the world, Eldorado.

Tenuous link to a slightly odd British classic rock band complete, we can now get on with the car. This lovely Model Team recreation of the classic Cadillac Eldorado comes from previous bloggee Aliencat, it features opening everything, and there’s more to see on MOCpages, Brickshelf and Flickr.

Lego Cadillac Eldorado

Eldorado

Lego Technic Cadillac Eldorado

Previous bloggee Martijn Nab is back with another cult classic reconstructed in Technic. This enormous 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz includes a whole host of Technic functions, and you can see more by clicking here.

Lego Technic Cadillac Eldorado