This superbly-liveried rhubarb-and-custard DAF XG was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr, and comes from regular bloggee Ralph Savelsberg (aka Mad Physicist), who has recreated one of the real trucks used British agricultural haulage firm ‘Manners’. Only mini-figure scale, Ralph’s DAF packs in detail that belies its small size, which is further enhanced by some lovely replica decals. There’s more to see at Ralph’s ‘DAF XG’ Flickr album and you can mind his manners via the link above.
This time of year it seems every advert is for a holiday. Even the ones here at The Lego Car Blog have switched to promoting trips to sunnier climes.
Which is sadly of no relevance to this TLCB Writer, what with this gig paying the square root of nothing.
However he can at least imagine a trip to somewhere less cold thanks to previous bloggee BigPlanes and his spectacular Airbus A220 in JetBlue livery.
Recreating the airliner in incredible detail, BigPlanes’ creation includes working landing gear, a fully fitted interior, and a passenger list of mini-figures luckier than this writer.
There’s loads more of this amazing Airbus to see at BigPlanes’ ‘JetBlue Airbus A220’ album, and you can join us wishing we were on it via the link above.
We have a bumper post for you today, with a no less than nine dodgems across a pair of fairground creations, each constructed for the ongoing Iron Forge contest on Flickr.
Utilising the LEGO Mudguard Arch ‘seed’ part required by the competition rules, Syrdarian (above) and Dominique Boeynaems‘ (below) ideas have collided, with the pair bouncing to the same conclusion and each squeezing a multitude of mudguards into their bumper builds, from the dodgem cockpits to the roofing.
Each is a wonderful homage to the joy of deliberate gentle collision, and there’s more to see of their brick-based bumper cars at their respective photostreams. Buy your tokens at the fair via the links above – just remember to save the head-on bumping until your last ride of the day!
“I know…. Isn’t in beautiful?”
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Previous bloggee _Tiler has one of them in the back of his Gotham City police car. We’re not sure he’ll be there for long…
We’re having a whimsical return after our Christmas break, and it continues with this splendid hovership by Flickr’s Konajra. A quad of hull-mounted anti-gravity engines provide the ‘Zephyr Voyager’ with lift, whilst the traditional masts provide, um…
It looks beautiful though, and perhaps beauty doesn’t need to make logical sense. Float on over to take a closer look at Konajra’s ship of the skies via link above.
*Today’s wonderful title song.
We’re back! And mostly sober. The Lego Car Blog Elves, locked in their cages over the festivities, have recommenced their hunt for the best Lego creations that the web has to offer, and no sooner had they been released it seemed, than one of their number had returned with this lovely vintage truck, complete with a Christmas tree, mini-figure family, and a pair of otters for some reason. We’re not sure otters are known as yuletide animals, but no matter, they’re wonderful nevertheless, and there’s more to see of K P‘s truck, family, and otters on Flickr via the link.
We regularly feature ginormous trucks here at The Lego Car Blog. Because we’re five. But today’s is rather smaller, being just seven studs in width, yet packing in as much detail as models several times its size. Built by regular bloggee Ralph Savelsberg, this Mercedes-Benz Arocs replicates the real world trucks run by British heavy haulage firm Allelys, and you can see more of it, the trailer it pulls, and a few of Ralph’s other superb small-scale haulers via the link above.
It’s been a while since we last posted a sci-fi creation, which is mostly because, well… we’re rubbish at it. However even we can spot the brilliant ingenuity in newcomer Outer space BRICKS‘ unique ‘BT-SHIKRA’. Classified as ‘Neo-Blacktron’, OSB’s complex trapezoidal design is one of the most original ship shapes we’ve seen this year. There’s more of the creation to see on Flickr, and you can take a closer look at some terrifically clever Blacktron-based tessellation via the link above.
The SUV dominates today’s new car market. Whether they’re four-wheel-drive or only look like they’re four-wheel-drive, all are tapping into the marketing of an outdoorsy lifestyle. Which usually means adverts showing impossibly handsome people parked at the beach. Or going hang-gliding off a mountain. Or unpacking some kayaks.
Of course the most adventurous thing the owners will actually do is watch a nature documentary on Netflix, but that hasn’t slowed the unstoppable rise of the pseudo-4×4. Today though, we have two proper all-wheel drive icons, the legendary Audi quattro, and the evergreen Jeep Wrangler.
The Audi (above) comes from Sam Andreas (aka Sseven Bricks), who has placed his superb Speed Champions Audi quattro Sport in its natural environment, navigating a perilous icy mountain pass high above Monaco. It’s here the quattro demonstrated to the world the benefits of all-wheel-drive in a performance car, and today almost every high performance saloon, estate, and yes – SUV, is driven by all four wheels.
At the other end of the four-wheel-drive scale is the Jeep Wrangler, a car derived from a vehicle so synonymous with off-roading it became the catch-all name for anything 4×4. This brick-built version of the Wrangler’s latest incarnation (below) is the work of yelo_bricks, who’s captured the ‘JL’-series in Speed Champions scale with aplomb.
There’s more to see of both four-wheel-drive icons on Flickr. Take a look via the links above whilst we – as SUV owners – go hang-gliding off a mountain or something.
‘Tis the season of love, wonder, and miracles. So here’s an Iranian short-range satellite-guided tactical ballistic missile system.
Mounted on an Iveco Trakker curtain-sided truck, the Fath-360 TEL missile system is so nondescript when covered up, it could be driving down any European street and no-one would know what was inside. Good thing one of Iran’s customers isn’t currently invading a European neighbour then.
Of course you might be wondering how sanctioned Iran, and its allies Russia and Syria, are getting their hands on an Italian truck on which to mount a ballistic missile system, particularly as Italy (along with the rest of the EU) are supporting Ukraine, the very country invaded by Iran’s key customer. Well, us too.
Whatever, this neat mini-figure scale replica of the Fath-360 missile system and the Iveco Trakker that transports it comes from previous bloggee Ralph Savelsberg, who has captured it superbly, particularly the ‘curtain’ stacked over the cab to allow deployment. There’s more to see on Flickr, and you can join some Russians driving an Iranian ballistic missile system covertly through a Ukrainian town, courtesy of Italy, via the link above.
In the late ’60s Ford were massive in Britain. With dozens of models produced in dozens of factories, they were the best selling car brand by miles. But we’re not here for their cars today, we’re here for something much more important. The Transit.
Launched in 1965 and built not far from TLCB Towers, the Ford Transit immediately became the best-selling van in Europe, and with the Mark 1 in production for twenty years it became so ubiquitous that even today many Brits still call vans ‘Transit-Vans’ regardless of the make or model.
In fact the Mark 1 Transit’s dominance was so great that by the early ’70s London’s Metropolitan Police estimated that 95% of all bank raids used one, as of course did the police themselves.
The Transit’s legacy continues today, with the fourth generation being the best selling vehicle of any type in the UK, and since its release in America, its the best selling van there too.
But back to 1965, and this fantastic 7-wide Speed Champions homage to Ford’s most important post-war vehicle. Constructed by Flickr’s Versteinert it captures the classic van’s aesthetics beautifully, and Vernsteinert’s superbly presented model looks the best way to move stuff about in the late-’60s that we can think of. Of course in the late-’60s, the Transit was pretty much the only way to move stuff about.
There’s more to see at Vernsteinert’s photostream, and you can join every other ’60s van driver from florists to bank robbers via the link in the text above.
It’s ‘Bat Man’! Kinda… but he is bequeathed with as many super-powers as the actual one.
Pictured here doing top superhero work rescuing a cat from a tree, PigletCiamek‘s ‘Bat-Man’ includes everything a baseball-based interpretation of the Dark Knight could want. If what they want is a van shaped like a baseball cap on a ball.
Join him in the strike zone at Flickr Park via the link above!
We might be a car blog here at The, er… Lego Car Blog, but we do like ships too. Particularly piratical ones. Of course LEGO’s ‘Redcoat’ soldiers were not pirates, but they were armed to fight them, and Flickr’s Evancelt Lego has equipped his Redcoated mini-figures with this fantastic napoleonic galleon to do just that. A suite of brick-built cannons, a neat yellow hull, and a curious wake (considering the sails are furled) can all be found at his photostream – click the link above to don your red coat, and take to the seas in pursuit of pirates.
With under three-hundred 288 GTO units produced, each now valued at around $2.5million, Ferrari’s mid-’80s homologation special is slightly out of reach for most of us. But not today, because this fantastic Speed Champions Ferrari 288 GTO by Flickr’s László Torma is entirely recreatable at home. Able to fit two mini-figures side-by-side and utilising common pieces found within the Speed Champions range, László has released building instructions for his 8-wide 288 so that you too can own one. Join the 288 GTO Owners club via the link above.
LEGO’s 60409 Mobile Construction Crane continues to take City sets to new heights, both physically and financially. It also comes with sixteen wheels (and hilariously a portable toilet), which means there are plenty of parts available should you wish to convert your construction crane into something else. Or indeed somethings else.
Cue Marek Markiewicz (aka M_longer), who has transformed his 60409 Mobile Construction Crane set into an M1120 HEMMT complete with a whole heap of cargo. And a drawbar trailer. And a telehandler.
It’s an excellent way to use sixteen wheels (and a portaloo), with each B-Model being a fantastic Town/City vehicle in its own right, and there’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at Marek’s photostream by clicking here.
