Futuron Scooter

[xenologer]

Just a little space scooter. Meant to fit in right alongside the official ones of the time.

Sometimes it's fun to try and build in classic style.

[DJ Force]

Cool little creation! Swap the minifig and it´s an Explorien scooter. The blue and red dishes combined are Exploriens rather than Futuron.

[Christine]

Cool little creation! Swap the minifig and it´s an Explorien scooter. The blue and red dishes combined are Exploriens rather than Futuron.

I can't for the life of me remember what the trans colours used for Futuron where (as it's been many years since I last rummaged through my lego) was it just trans blue?

[DJ Force]

I think it was, yes.

Sometimes they used transred for signals or engines, but in most cases it was transblue for everything else.

[KDog]

That's great. I thought I was looking at an actual Futuron set that came out in the late '80s, not an MOC.

[CP5670]

Cool little model.

Many of the space factions had two different transparent colors, a "primary" one for windshields and other large parts, and a "secondary" one for most smaller things like lights and antennas. Futuron used transblue and transred for these respectively, so those colors fit in perfectly fine. Although I think it would look nicer if the two radar dishes in the front were the same color.

[Shoc]

Cool little creation! Swap the minifig and it´s an Explorien scooter. The blue and red dishes combined are Exploriens rather than Futuron.

I was about to say the same thing! It is a very good model though, I like the hovery torchy thingies (do they have a name?).

:skull:

[DJ Force]

Well, Shoc, you know what they say. Great minds think alike :D

[Shoc]

Well, Shoc, you know what they say. Great minds think alike :D

Or maybe it's "great minds know their Lego Space subtheme colourschemes" hehe

:skull:

[zero1312]

Nice!!!

[xenologer]

Thanks for looking.

The main reason one radar dish is red is because when I was building, one wing/thruster was black and the other white due to a parts shortage. (I have very few of those antenna/wing things)

So going with the mismatched colors, I did the same with the dishes.

I've gone and made a LDD version

It's a bit different, but I think you get the same idea.

One nice change is on this one, all of the thrusters can swivel now. Not just the wingtip ones...

LDD link

Edited July 11, 2008 by xenologer

[Jibbajaba]

One of the main things I like to do when building Lego is to try and create sets that would have fit right in on the shelf along with other sets from my favorite themes as a kid. This is an excellent example of such an attempt. This is the kind of set that I would have happily plunked down my allowance for back in 1989. Great job!

Chris