[MOC] Jeep CJ-7 Renegade

[firefabric]

Finished another MOC, the Jeep CJ-7 Renegade. This build is on the smaller side, at least compared to the previous post (Sierra Railway Locomotive), but it was an interesting build nevertheless. Since it was inspired by a scene in Back to the Future, I'm posting this in the Licensed forum as it could theoretically be a "movie car". A well-informed Back to the Future fan can probably tell which scene I'm talking about:

It's done in the 8-wide format, however being a smaller car in size, I felt like the chassis should be a bit smaller so I did some experiments to make it 7-wide. I wanted to use the larger and wider front wheel arches to match the real car, but since those are wider than the rear wheel arches (1 stud), I needed to make the chassis 6-wide in the front. I tried a few different ways, but the only thing that really worked was to build the front and and back of the chassis as separate parts and join them with a half-stud offset.

Another detail to note is that the front grille and lights attachment is built upside down, mainly due to medium blue parts availability. But as it happens sometimes, I feel like it turned out better having those constraints. Other than that, the structure is fairly normal and built using mainly plates. No large chassis pieces were used, I do try those out at least once in a build, but so far there has always been some limitation or issue and haven't been able to use them. As usual, I also created instructions, if you are interested there's more information about that on Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-135181/firefabric/jeep-cj-7/

 

Thanks!

[Agent Kallus]

'Jeep renegade sponsors Gotham on fox.'