Metro 6R4 Rally Car

[midlife crisis]

Hi all,

This is my first foray into Eurobricks and wanted to see what you all think of my Metro 6R4 1:12 scale rally car model. This is what it looks like:

This Lego Metro 6R4 is my third MOC car since getting back into Lego in my forties, nearly forty years since I got my first of many classic eighties Lego and Technic sets. I built it to approximately 1:12 scale using hand drawn front, rear and side profiles which I backed with card and repeatedly held up against the developing model to make sure the proportions were spot on. It is 14 bricks wide by 40 bricks long (excluding that outrageous front splitter!), and uses approximately 1,500 bricks, the majority of them being common rather than 'specials'. I drew the bespoke stickers manually in AutoCAD and printed onto clear adhesive sheet. There is a full and detailed interior and engine bay.

 

The car took around a year to build, fitting Lego time in around family and other hobbies, and every time I thought it was finished I would spot something that needed tweaking. I think that's how I have got the details and dimensions right, by having the model on view for several months and constantly spotting bits that needed improvement. And although it's now 'finished', I'm sure it will be in bits several more times as I spot the next thing that could be improved! The finished model was very kindly photographed in my back garden, in front of a piece of plywood, by my lovely neighbour who is an amateur photographer.

 

Thanks for reading everyone :-)

 

And thanks to all the kind and patient people who have shown me how to embed images!!! Thanks @Milan, @dantheman12 and @1980SomethingSpaceGuy!!

Edited Monday at 01:58 PM by midlife crisis

[Milan]

Make sure to read the rules and guidelines about posting images.
You should not upload images directly on EB. Use an image hosting site, like Flickr, Bricksafe, etc...and just paste the links in your post.

[midlife crisis]

Ah, thankyou! Will do that. Great start, breaking the guidelines on my first post!!

[dantheman12]

looks great, the level of detail is impressive. Love the trailer as well :)

The links work, but I believe you can embed the pictures automatically with a link, I've used flickr before but don't post on here very much. You can also click preview when you go to post so you can see if it embedded before you post. That's all I've really figured out, other people will almost definitely have some tips as well.

[midlife crisis]

Thanks Dan the Man. I'm new to all this, and thought I would get it quickly set up over a lunch break! Will take a look when I get 5 minutes and try and embed. Thanks again.

[Milan]

51 minutes ago, midlife crisis said:

Ah, thankyou! Will do that. Great start, breaking the guidelines on my first post!!

It's okay.
I will hide all the unneeded posts, and leave only the relevant ones.
I have posted one image in your post, hosted on postimage.com. That site is okay since it gives you an option to resize it to 1024, which is the max allowed size.
Let me know if you need help.

[1980SomethingSpaceGuy]

Nice model!
You seem to be using onedrive; select the image you want to share in onedrive, look for the "</> Embed" feature, click "Generate" then select 1024px and copy paste the yielded link to this editor; it'll automatically display the image.
If that's what you did and it produced the above links, clear your browser cache data.

Hope this helps!

[2GodBDGlory]

10 hours ago, midlife crisis said:

Ah, thankyou! Will do that. Great start, breaking the guidelines on my first post!!

I wouldn't worry about that--that's virtually everyone on their first post!

That's an impressively obsessively detailed model! Very nice work!

[Paul B Technic]

Nice looking build and I love the trailer.

[bruh]

Wow. I love the detail on this. Very clean great job.

[midlife crisis]

Thanks for all the support and encouragement everyone! It has been a bit of an obsession, but I'm a (probably slightly autistic) engineer, and love getting into the detail. As it says above, the car sat on my desk  for around a year while I was working, and every now and then I would spot something that wasn't quite right. I'm a fan of the clean build, so was constantly tweaking bits to, ironically, stop it looking like a Lego model and more like an RC car...

Wish I'd taken photos of each 'finished' model to show how the detail developed. I have other models (a Ford Escort XR3i in both hatchback and cabriolet, as well as a Toyota Mk1 MR2) and I did take early photos of the MR2, thinking it was finished, and the difference between that and the actual finished model is night and day! This Metro 6R4 is currently on Lego Ideas, but annoyingly I can't add the others due to existing Lego intellectual property rights :-(

7 hours ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

I wouldn't worry about that--that's virtually everyone on their first post!

Thanks! You're a very kind bunch!