Ron Dayes Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Hi everyone, Recently i stumbled across this topic started by fellow builder Kevin8. It was about building a minifig mini cooper, small and detailed enough to look good with modulars, yet containing 2 Minifigs, possibly next to each other for more realism. Since the classic cooper is a really small car, it has to be 5 wide (scales 1/36 - 1/42). I kinda wanted to try if its possible - and it is, if we trick around a little^^ See for yourselves and if you want, tell me what you think. LDD file attached. Cheers Side note: the roof kinda is unstable , yet it is connected, no floating parts! Also, there is no wigs possible for the figs :( The vehicles height is exactly as high as the fig itself, if you count the stud on top of its head (or add a wig), the fig is taller than the cooper Classic Lego Mini Cooper by Ron Dayes, auf Flickr NS classic mini cooper 2.lxf Edited April 20, 2016 by Rick Image size changed. Please keep embedded images to a max. resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ER0L Posted April 21, 2016 Interesting approach. Looks quite cozy in there, great use of the cups! The windscreen could be improved in my opinion, can the 1 x 4 hinged part be used here somehow? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gotoAndLego Posted April 21, 2016 Might as well make it taller because classic Minis were not that long compared to the height. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MatthisMcfly Posted April 30, 2016 It could be a revolution with the Lego cars ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Imanol BB Posted May 1, 2016 It looks fantastic, nice work Ron. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iammac Posted May 2, 2016 Kudos for using a prime width for that car. I personally believe that 7-wide is the glorious size, but it is very difficult to get builds to be very stable... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ron Dayes Posted May 2, 2016 Interesting approach. Looks quite cozy in there, great use of the cups! The windscreen could be improved in my opinion, can the 1 x 4 hinged part be used here somehow? Thanks buddy! yeah, its actually not so much into my usual scale anymore and i never build so narrow before, but i really tried hard to have it stay true 5 wide^^ . Im actually really disliking that windscreen btw! i first used the classy 1x4 hinged one, but the figs legs kinda prevented its attachment. I worked a bit fast on this, since its build intention is rather "5 wide car 2 figs" . I think, if i only fitted one fig in, i could improve this build a lot and used the said windscreen (definately the better choice here!). It needs reworking for sure ;) See ya around :) It could be a revolution with the Lego cars ! many thanks man! It looks fantastic, nice work Ron. Many thanks to you aswell! Kudos for using a prime width for that car. I personally believe that 7-wide is the glorious size, but it is very difficult to get builds to be very stable... thanky you, i really like working with prime widths. Sometimes it just makes sense to have 6 and 7 wide cars/trucks if we compare them to some scaling in the real world. At first i had a hard time with 7 wide aswell (i started building cars in that width about a year ago), but you can get it stable with some heavy use of plates and tiles ;) If you ever need help with getting a 7 wide more stable, feel free to send me a private message and maybe i can help you out on those ;) cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
