billyneon Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 I've had a bunch of licence-related MOCs on the go for ages, but this time last week, inspiration struck - and I've quickly pulled together this MOC of 'The Homer'. This is the car from The Simpsons episode Oh Brother Where Art Thou? where Homer designs a terrible, terrible car for his long-lost brother's car company. In the show, the results are disastrous... But for me, this has been a lot of fun. I built it across three evenings, and used the recent Hot Wheels version of The Homer (only £1.75 in supermarkets here in the UK!) for reference on the proportions. I avoided looking at the one or two other MOCs of this out there. DSC_0263 by MOChael, on Flickr That's the main image and the gallery has more shots, including some comparisons for size with Wetwired's excellent LEGO Ideas ECTO-1 from this summer. Most pleasing part of the build has been using part #12708 - this is one half of the Christmas Baubles you can by from LEGO S@H and the retail stores. I've wanted to use one in a build for ages (and have a bunch of ideas in my head but not had any time to implement them until now). Here, I think the contours inside the dome (which usually hold a dish when actually used as a christmas bauble) suit the windscreen really well. It's obviously an unorthodox piece, but I do consider it a true LEGO piece - the whole on the tab at the top of the dome is stud-sized! That's how I was able to make something with a Technic peg/pin that created a structure to hold the horn and also helped hold the dome in place. I build it with a bunch of PAB wall pieces - that lime green colour is rife at the moment, and spot on here - plus four Mixels packs and some of my spares. Quote
B Rick Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Nice! I'm only familiar with the hotwheels model that you,ve used as reference and can only say: you've nailed it! Quote
Zerobricks Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Where on Eart did you find that dome pieces. Looks really like the real thing, you migh add some lime stickers on the dome. Quote
billyneon Posted November 4, 2014 Author Posted November 4, 2014 The big dome piece is one half of this: http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/LEGO-Santa-Holiday-Bauble-850850 The small dome is http://brickset.com/parts/design-50747 Quote
Kez Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Awesome! I love this MOC, it's also nice to see the use of a Lego christmas bauble in the build. Quote
Krikkit Posted November 22, 2014 Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) Nailed it! I see this and have visions of Herb crying that he is ruined... Edited November 22, 2014 by Krikkit Quote
Robert8 Posted November 22, 2014 Posted November 22, 2014 Dude... you nailed it Congratulations! This should be in LEGO Ideas :thumbup: Quote
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