More MOCs! Vehicles this time.

[ACCURATEin]

I've been busy with some MOCs. All my ideas are jumbled in my head and i am having a hard time focusing on any one in particular. But I now present to you all my latest batch of creations.

The first one is not exactly a true MOC. It's more of an increase in size of the original model from the 90s. I simply widened and elongated the truck to make it 6 wide.

The next MOC is an ambulance. It resembles the medical response unit from Duke Hospital. I originally was going to build a white ambulance with an orange stripe, but opted to make the Duke ambulance instead. It is 6 and 8 wide.

I also decided to make the Duke Life Flight helicopter to go along with it as a set. Now all the city needs is the actual hospital itself!

So the other day I was thinking to myself as to reasons why I left the Lego hobby. I think the main reason was receiving my driver's permit, which from that point on until now I have been a car guy. Which is also another hobby of mine. So as a return Lego guy, I have decided to make some models of my favorite automotive vehicles. I plan on making the entire fleet of Spoon Sports, a Japanese tuner of Hondas..

I found that it took a lot of concentration to make this thing!!

Spoon Sports Honda S2000 and Honda F1 Earthdreams paired side by side...

And the most recent MOC is the Spoon Honda Fit...

That's all for now! More to come soon!

[prateek]

i like the fit a lot. itsd very accurate. how did you white out the window of the s2000?

[Marko]

Good. Octan truck is like real LEGO company one. Real life Hondas I like a lot (my first new car was Prelude ) but for me S2000 does not have such a huge canopy roof. And what I appreciate the most is that you use colors to deepen your creations, specially the Fit and ambulances.

[Ralph_S]

I got into building minifig scale vehicles not all that long ago and I enjoy seeing other people building similar things.

The Octan truck could do with mudguards. You've put antennas on the cab, but if you were to use light sabre blades instead, added a clip to the top to attach them to the roof, and then add a 1x1 tile with clip to both of them you'd have excellent rear-view mirrors. It often takes only little things to make an ordinary MOC into something special.

The ambulance is my favourite among these vehicles. Its level of detail and the overall finish seems to be higher than that of all the other vehicles. The only things I don't like is that there are a few holes in it. For instance, for some of the flashing lights on the side you've used 1x4 technic bricks, which means that there's a hole between them. Two 1x2 technic bricks side by side each holding a single light would be an obvious solution. I like how you've incorporated diagonal lines in the colour scheme, but there's an ugly hole in the pattern on the left side of the vehicle. It could easily be filled with a 45 degree 1x2 slope in black and a 45 degree 1x2 inverted slope in blue. This seems so obvious that I'm guessing you simply don't have the parts.

I'm not sold on the helicopter. Once again there seem to be holes in the fuselage and there are too many random bits sticking out. It also doesn't seem to have a tail rotor. I know that there are helicopters that don't have tail rotors, but it doesn't look like any of those either.

I have to admit that I don't know the Spoon Sports Honda S2000, but it looks a little rough. I'm pretty sure the real car won't be wider at the front than at the rear. Perhaps you are being a bit too ambitious.

The Honda Fit (which I know as the Honda Jazz) is nice, although it too looks a little rough. I do like the colour scheme and the way you made the rear side windows in particular.

There's one final issue: scale. I know some people prefer classic 4-wide vehicles over the larger ones that LEGO produces nowadays and other people prefer to build vehicles large enough to sit two minifigs side-by-side. This is mainly a matter of personal preference and depends on what you intend to use the vehicle for. If you want playability and lots of detail, large is good. If you want you cars to fit in your LEGO city and have pedestrians and cyclists around them, a somewhat smaller scale is a good idea. For my minifigs I tend to build 5-wide cars and 7-wide trucks. No matter what your preference is, it's a good idea to at least be consistent. Your Honda Fit is wider and has larger wheels than your Octan truck. The helicopter looks much too small next to the ambulance. On their own they might look OK but as part of the same layout they look awkward.

Please don't take this the wrong way. Since I myself mainly build cars and helicopters and the like, I tend to look at MOCs like these much more critically than I would look at, say, a pirate ship or some sci-fi model. There is a lot to like here, but I think it shows that you're having a bit of trouble focusing on one thing, because all of them look as though they could be truly great if you were to spend a bit more time and effort on refining them.

Cheers,

Ralph

[ACCURATEin]

i like the fit a lot. itsd very accurate. how did you white out the window of the s2000?

Thanks! For the canopy of the s2000, i used a white sticker paper and cut the sections according to the shape of the piece.

Good. Octan truck is like real LEGO company one. Real life Hondas I like a lot (my first new car was Prelude ) but for me S2000 does not have such a huge canopy roof. And what I appreciate the most is that you use colors to deepen your creations, specially the Fit and ambulances.

Thanks for the comments! I love preludes, maybe ill build one of those as well. Which year prelude did you have? As for the canopy on the s2000, it's aftermarket which is why it looks abnormal. I'll post a picture of the actual car to see the difference.

I got into building minifig scale vehicles not all that long ago and I enjoy seeing other people building similar things.

The Octan truck could do with mudguards. You've put antennas on the cab, but if you were to use light sabre blades instead, added a clip to the top to attach them to the roof, and then add a 1x1 tile with clip to both of them you'd have excellent rear-view mirrors. It often takes only little things to make an ordinary MOC into something special.

The ambulance is my favourite among these vehicles. Its level of detail and the overall finish seems to be higher than that of all the other vehicles. The only things I don't like is that there are a few holes in it. For instance, for some of the flashing lights on the side you've used 1x4 technic bricks, which means that there's a hole between them. Two 1x2 technic bricks side by side each holding a single light would be an obvious solution. I like how you've incorporated diagonal lines in the colour scheme, but there's an ugly hole in the pattern on the left side of the vehicle. It could easily be filled with a 45 degree 1x2 slope in black and a 45 degree 1x2 inverted slope in blue. This seems so obvious that I'm guessing you simply don't have the parts.

I'm not sold on the helicopter. Once again there seem to be holes in the fuselage and there are too many random bits sticking out. It also doesn't seem to have a tail rotor. I know that there are helicopters that don't have tail rotors, but it doesn't look like any of those either.

I have to admit that I don't know the Spoon Sports Honda S2000, but it looks a little rough. I'm pretty sure the real car won't be wider at the front than at the rear. Perhaps you are being a bit too ambitious.

The Honda Fit (which I know as the Honda Jazz) is nice, although it too looks a little rough. I do like the colour scheme and the way you made the rear side windows in particular.

There's one final issue: scale. I know some people prefer classic 4-wide vehicles over the larger ones that LEGO produces nowadays and other people prefer to build vehicles large enough to sit two minifigs side-by-side. This is mainly a matter of personal preference and depends on what you intend to use the vehicle for. If you want playability and lots of detail, large is good. If you want you cars to fit in your LEGO city and have pedestrians and cyclists around them, a somewhat smaller scale is a good idea. For my minifigs I tend to build 5-wide cars and 7-wide trucks. No matter what your preference is, it's a good idea to at least be consistent. Your Honda Fit is wider and has larger wheels than your Octan truck. The helicopter looks much too small next to the ambulance. On their own they might look OK but as part of the same layout they look awkward.

Please don't take this the wrong way. Since I myself mainly build cars and helicopters and the like, I tend to look at MOCs like these much more critically than I would look at, say, a pirate ship or some sci-fi model. There is a lot to like here, but I think it shows that you're having a bit of trouble focusing on one thing, because all of them look as though they could be truly great if you were to spend a bit more time and effort on refining them.

Cheers,

Ralph

Thank you for your analysis! I also love building vehicles MOCs and hope to build many more.

I started to run out of blue and black bricks with the ambulance and helicopter build. The holes in the ambulance do bother me, and hopefully i'll find the three pieces i need to make it look complete.

The scale is definitely off with these vehicles. I think i'm going to display them aside from the city. The s2000 and Fit/Jazz are more closer to the scale of the F1 vehicles.

[Guss]

I love the blue truck, it's a really really nice truck , the others vehicles are nice too, great job!

[ACCURATEin]

Here are some images of the actual vehicles these MOCs were modeled after.