1970 Plymouth HEMI Superbird

[Henchmen4Hire]

MOOOPAAARRRRRR!

Satisfying my muscle car itch.

Needs a few little tweaks, nothing a little colored electrical tape won't fix ;)

Final Version

-Interchangeable engines, see 4th and 7th posts

-Doors and trunk can open

-Minifig scale (8 wide)

-Will attach those floating bits somehow

More pics:

Alternate Colors:

Edited May 2, 2013 by Henchmen4Hire

[Ferrik]

That's a great car design. However, I think that the levers look out of place and you should try and replace them with other pieces.

[Henchmen4Hire]

-Made some minor tweaks, check the first post.

Thanks Ferrik! The levers don't bother me, and I don't know what else I could use anyway that wouldn't look just as "out of place" haha

[Henchmen4Hire]

So I said to myself, "Self, how can you make this Superbird even more superfly? Give it interchangeable engines of course!" And so I did.

I rearranged the hood and pieces behind the nose to create a 3x4 space almost 2 bricks deep to stuff an engine into.

It's enough space to fit a modest engine... or a big honking blown one. Guess which one I chose!

The cross axle plugs into the cross brick in the car so there aren't any loose pieces. Here's the engine by itself:

The cone is just there to make it look pretty, it should be removed to plug into the car of course.

Edited September 16, 2012 by DrNightmare

[Henchmen4Hire]

Final Revision: Added interior and changed all the pictures to updated ones, I'll post alt colors sometime. Thinking of building a blue version, just trying to decide on a color scheme.

I guess we're the only ones who like Superbirds, Ferrik, lol

Edited September 17, 2012 by DrNightmare

[soccerkid6]

Great superbird! The shape looks quite accurate and I like your colorscheme

The ability to switch engines easily is neat too

[Henchmen4Hire]

Thanks SK! Here's another engine, it's ambiguous enough to be either the 440 or 426 and fits neatly under the hood.

Also added 4 color schemes to the first post yesterday :)

[Henchmen4Hire]

Couldn't get all the pieces in that light blue (azure?) color so I had to stick with normal blue for the brick built version.

-Raised the roof by a plate by using 2x4 wedge plates, looks much better now. Height is one of those things I can't judge too well in LDD

-Obviously lots of temp pieces around, pretty happy that I had about 2/3 of the total pieces needed to build this bird

-Refined the insides further, managed to lower the piece count by 6

It's okay if no one else loves 8-wide, 'cuz I do lol

[Henchmen4Hire]

Realized my Superbird is about 98% complete so here's a shot with the Barracuda. It's just missing a few bits to complete the interior and a tile or two so I can finally attach the sweet wing.

Added a snazzy orange stripe because orange is snazzy lol

Edited May 2, 2013 by Henchmen4Hire