60043 Prisoner Transporter Modification

[PUCI]

Greeting,

I am very happy to share my recent modification on the 2014 police series of Prisoner Transporter.

Background

I am usually a fan of Medium size Lego Police vehicle, e.g. 7033 in 2003, 7245 in 2005 , 7286 in 2011. In 2013, I was originally excited to hear from EB forum that a medium size prisoner transporter van would be coming in the 1st wave of 2014, but when I saw the pictures of 60043 Prisoner Transporter, I decided to give it a skip as the outlook of the set wasnt appealing to me (No flashing light bar, not too colourful). Besides, in 2014, we saw a great fleet of city vehicles rolling, hence it gave me further reasons for not picking this set up.

It wasnt until late November 2014 I had a change of heart, after looking at the sets of 2015, both the swamp police and great vehicles, I found a lot of 2015 sets are bulky and related to water, which are not really my cup of tea. Therefore I decided to re-consider 60043, as I began to see a lot of MOD-ability in this set.

I also went on the internet to see pictures of this set, and how did the others view the set. The more I looked to the set, the more I liked it, and I made the purchase in retails, though making modification on this set was always on my mind.

After building according to the instructions, in some ways, I was slightly disappointed about the proportion of the van, as I considered it too short, but then, because I was prepared to be disappointed, I immediately know only by MODding this set would this set feel completed. With a few hours of MODding, I now present you the upgraded Armor Van.

Armor Van / Mod Prisoner Transporter

The actual modification was actually quite straight forward, what you see what you get, the MOD is 1 brick higher than original.

I decide to maximise the use of flashing light, partial arrow-lightbar at the roof, and the 4 no. of grill/forward light

I have yet to form ideas to develop the interior nor replace the funny door at the back, thought I am confident I will come up of a few ideas later, it is currently same as the original.

The new Amour Van shares the same colour scheme (battenburg) as my previous Police Van.

I want to keep the scale (minifig to vehicle) similar to the Sprinter Van similar for display purpose.

Scale

On the topic of scale, I found this scale keep the realism while maintaining the feeling of Lego blocks. Over the course of 2014, I made a few MOD to suite this scale, as follows:

Thank you for your attention.

[lightningtiger]

Nice pimping of those sets 'PUCI' and great looking MOC's too.......Brick On 'PUCI' !

[Silverback]

Do you have instructions for the police van as my 10yr old autistic son loves it and would like to build it or bye one kind regards silverback