Seasider Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) So I was thinking this morning while at work and finally decided on my plan for my Bandit vehicle. Not sure what features she'll have or whether she'll be PF or manual, you'll just have to wait and see. Work won't start till a week today, but thought I'd put my proverbial towel down. Expect initial images some point next week! Change of tactic as I've just spotted the glorious Routemaster ... Topic to be renamed by a friendly mod to ... "The Ice Scream Truck" - Bandits Edited June 15, 2015 by Seasider Quote
nerdsforprez Posted June 16, 2015 Posted June 16, 2015 So I was thinking this morning while at work....... Atta boy.......That's pretty much how my day at work goes as well...... :laugh: ...thinking about LEGO projects.... Quote
Seasider Posted July 24, 2015 Author Posted July 24, 2015 Well time for an update from me ... Jim's most probably been expecting one based on some conversations we've had ! So this is a tale of trial and error ... and 4 ... yes 4 models ! While out in Germany on business (a very common thing for me), I saw the competition info posted, remembered how good M.A.S.K. was as a kid and immediately had a brain wave ... I'd do a London Routemaster that the roof dropped down and became a battle platform command centre ... but low and behold someone had posted a superb MOC of a Routemaster that very day (un-noticed by me) and so literally as soon as I'd started this thread I had to come up with a new idea as I couldn't create a base model anything like that MOC. So to idea 2 ... The Ice Scream truck ... Managed to grab a whole weekend at home and squeeze a bit in between travelling for work and came up with my model ... and got it to an almost complete stage with a few bits in the correct colour winging their way from bricklink. "The Ice Scream Van" But again low and behold there was discussion on the forum about the rules of "battle mode" and "transforming" Battle mode - Bull bars, Gattling Gun from the roof and Jet exhaust so after conversation with Jim, and looking at what I created it was retired from service and work stopped on it to create model 3 ! I decided to do something simpler and work out the transformation first ... or at least what I wanted to transform from / to ... and so the jetski / snowmobile was born but after another few nights work and another free weekend without the better half I made some reasonable progress ... The ill-fated Jetski/Snowmobile and then hit the brick wall of frustration and hated the model as nothing was working ... and so to model 4 ! Been in the UK all week and on Monday after a manic day in the office while staring at the jetski debacle I got the boxes of Technic back out and had another brain wave and went doen the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) route and looked back at what made M.A.S.K. cool ... and that evening started on ... this ! The Dragster ... yes I'd changed sides to Enforcers, perhaps being a Bandit was the problem the whole way through This is how far I've got so far ... no idea if it'll be completed in time as don't have any free weekends (ie girlfriend not around) and off to germany on business a lot over the weeks between now and the end of the competition, but it'll definitely be finished at some point as I'm loving the look of the model so far. And its my first Technic Man size model ... Oh and its name ? "Stiletto" Quote
Seasider Posted August 9, 2015 Author Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) Edited August 9, 2015 by Seasider Quote
MacKaiwer Posted August 9, 2015 Posted August 9, 2015 Stiletto is very nice Enforcer indeed, welcome to our team I like very much that simplicity but still efficiency of transformation and the looks are great too, nice work Quote
Milan Posted August 9, 2015 Posted August 9, 2015 Tis may be the best and most noticeable transformation, for me! Nice and effective! Great work! Quote
PROlego Posted August 13, 2015 Posted August 13, 2015 Saw this in the entry topic and came to say something: if it's a dragster, can it only race/ fly for 5 seconds before it runs out of fuel and needs an engine change or rebuild? More seriously now, I like your transformation, simple and effective Quote
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