Two racers-related creations

[mahjqa]

These are two of my creations. Yup, I'm a racers addict. Ever since I found out that Lego now produces pullback engines (something I've been wishing for since age 6) I've been interested in them. As the racer models usually leave something to be desired, these creations were my tryout to build something nice around these somewhat clunky pull-back engines.

Small, stylish; clone of a mini. Posted it some time ago at LUGNET, but as ApophisV here expressed some interest I thought I'd repost.

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Parts used (The ones in dark red can be any color; they won't be visible when the car's finished)

Instructions Not more than 10 steps to the final car.

Later on, I created a bigger version, twice as high, wide and tall as the small one. It lacks the cleanness of the original design, though. It's powered by a 3-wide engine. Pictures: [ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 ]

Second one; a motorbike. I suppose everyone here knows where the inspiration came from... My goal was to build a sturdy bike, somewhat realistic, and fully playable. I suppose this is what Michael Knight would ride if KITT ever broke down. I'm especially happy with how the front looks. Also, this was one of my first attempts at getting acquainted with the new studless technic Lego.

Pictures!

front & back

side-back

side-front

luverly windshield

[ApophisV]

Sweet!! I really love this little thing!!! *wub*

But what is it? Is it based on a real car? (looks a little bit like the old Citroen 2CV)

And about the motorbike: Though I'm more into "classic" bikes (I'm riding a good old Yahama XS-650 from '77), this looks very good!

[mahjqa]

Well... I didn't want it to look all that modern... the Mini Cooper gave a lot of inspiration. However, if you want to make an exact replica of a car in this scale, you often end up with impossible constructions and the limits of what Lego bricks can do. So, I created an imaginary car instead.

[jonfett]

Great work! Nice to see new things here.

You mini car looks great, the shape looks really good and it captures the essence of a mini cooper well.

I like you motorbike too, very stylish and sleek and the parts used work well.

Hope to see more cars and creations from you!

Jon.

[Jipay]

The car is great. I'm not that much into motorbikes but everything looks nice. I like the way you took your pics. Those are really clean (and this animated bike it's just sooo funnn)

[mahjqa]

The car is great. I'm not that much into motorbikes but everything looks nice. I like the way you took your pics. Those are really clean (and this animated bike it's just sooo funnn)

Yeah, being into graphic design I try to get my pictures and graphics as clean as possible. (I needed to airbrush some black parts to make them stand out better, black is a female canine to photograph) If you're into rotating stuff, check My hoverbike.

[ApophisV]

Wow, this Hoverbike is so sweet!! Blacktron I.... *wub*

Do you have a page where you display your MOCs?

[mahjqa]

I don't have a separate lego-page, I'm afraid.

The things you see in this thread are pretty much the only things I bothered to photograph.

I've dug through my webspace to find everything lego-related I have...[start imagedump]

Pixeled Lego bricks:

Yay for Escher.

(click it for instructions)

5-wide cars (the second image shows how they could fit in a 6-wide container or truck)

How to create lego dice:

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I'll post something as soon as I build something new worth looking at :D

[jonfett]

Yay for Escher.

Man, that got me thinking.. I've always wanted to do something like this but cannot ever manage!

I like you 5 width cars, the bumper of the yellow onw caught my attention for some reason?!

The dice is a nice idea too, maybe I can reate a biased dice to cheat in games! ;)

Jon.