sky_lina Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago (edited) Hello there! I love building cars - mostly virtual with the help of LDD and Mecabricks, and very rarely come around making my cursed contraptions out of real LEGO. I have an occasional moment of inspiration here and there to build something original, but the vast majority of my MOCs is inspired by existing vehicles (this may include fictional ones, too), which makes them replica vehicles, or replicars =P All of them must possess an ability to fit one minifigure inside and be buildable IRL - at least on the basis of "all parts are connected". Thus, the topic would serve as a compilation of such MOCs in chronological order starting with relatively recent builds (2023 and further), and I hope to update it each time I'll have new things to show. Without further interruption, let's begin with something unapologetically British =D --- [December 2023] LTI/LTC TX4 The London Taxi Company - one that makes the black hackney carriages of London since the later iterations of Austin FX4 (as Carbodies) all the way to the newest electric-powered LEVC TX. What I chose to replicate, however, is their last ICE-equipped vehicle, originally known as the London Taxis International TX4. The reason to do so was a certain spy movie franchise directed by Matthew Vaughn known as the Kingsman. Being a prominent taxicab in the midst of 2010s, TX4 was a vehicle of choice for the eponymous spy agency operating in the capital of England. Their rather modest cover, a tailor shop on Savile Row (based on a very real H. Huntsman & Sons atelier), was also something I wanted to include in my build, so I made a quick approximation of its facade based on some pics from Google Maps =D 3D view is available on Mecabricks. --- [March 2025] Nissan Skyline DR30 2000 RS-Turbo/RS-X "Tekkamen" Skyline R30 is my favourite generation of this car throughout its almost 70-year history, despite having no GT-R trim. For no apparent reason other than I love how it looks. And this build is when I pushed myself to the edge of what I consider legal - LDD went nuts trying to reconcile with my decisions, so Developer Mode was a must. I'm very happy with the result, though. Title picture is a consequence of my obsession with a very comfy indie video game called Keep Driving. There is no Skyline available and I doubt five people and a dog would ever fit into 2-door coupe together, but I felt obligated to clash together two loved things of mine nonetheless. A weird descriptive text of what is even pictured here would be in the spoiler below =P Spoiler Another day, another stop... She's with her antics again - who would ever think of smoking near the gas station??? Well, they don't call her "The Hurricane" for nothing. And you better not say a word... unless there is an urgent need to discover why else they call her The Hurricane. So, you headed to a party with her friend in the cabins... that was the plan, yeah. Until you met The Kid. You'll never forgive yourself if something happened to that innocent girl, so now you must find her parents.. uhhh, somewhere around. So much for party. At least you met The Mechanic along the way. That guy is fine - probably the best thing that could happen to your hunk of junk. He insists you must take it to the Grand Race, though. What a weird idea. The Punk? Probably already with punk friends in his mind or whatever. You have a strong feel he'll ditch you at his destination. At least he had some decency to think where his dog would go. With you, duh. And you're scared of dogs - but, weirdly, not The Dog. She's a good girl and that's all. And what about you? Barely seen in the background, just thinking what else the next ride will bring. Sometimes it's all about destination, sometimes about all the friends you met along the way... But it's not even about you this time, is it?.. All you need is keep driving, and never stop - one day you'll find the road you strive for. Oh, yeah - apparently R30 was a movie star in its' homeland. Seibu Keisatsu aka "Western Police" was a show I don't know much about (and I doubt I need to know), but there were some cool cars with pretty visual modifications, and Skyline was one of them. The car dubbed Machine RS-1 even had a twin machine gun on the roof. And it was an easy modification to make - the famed Super Silhouette would definitely be much harder. 3D view is available on Mecabricks. --- [June 2025] T-180 Racer Motors Mach 4 The Speed Racer (2008) of Lana and Lilly Wachowski is an underrated masterpiece, period. And the Mach 4 design is a Speed Racer (2008) of the Speed Racer franchise, if that makes any sense. I saw a lot of Mach 5s made out of LEGO, based on both anime and movie depictions, but the WRL championship car of Rex Racer wasn't given much love from the fans. Well, I decided to take the matter into my own hands, which resulted in my first vaguely Speed Champions-sized car - but at the same time, the T-180s in the movie are huge, and Mach 4 was no exception to that rule, so I consider it to fit right into my imaginary standards of minifigure scale cars =P 3D view is available on Mecabricks. --- And that'd be all. At the very least, for now =D Stay tuned! Edited 15 hours ago by sky_lina Quote
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