BrickWild Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 (edited) A small Penske rental truck for moving house! As well as an opening tail door, it even includes a car trailer carrying a small pickup truck! And here's a pic of the real thing for reference! Edited December 26, 2010 by BrickWild Quote
Fires-storm Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Well done, this is a very good representation! If you ever build this in real bricks, a custom sticker for the side would complete it utterly Quote
lightningtiger Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Cool LDD creation 'BrickWild' - now make it for real would make it AWESOME ! Great work and I'm a conformist! ! Quote
CarrollFilms Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Very good LDD indeed, now if you did make it in Real life, add stickers. Quote
Ralph_S Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 I'm not quite sure how this is a MOD rather than a MOC, because I can't think of any sets that look similar. Is it because the pickup truck is based on a set? I do have two recommendations that I think would improve the looks. Lego bright blue and medium blue are fairly close matches for the colours used by Penske and although you obviously can't make the lettering in bricks/plates, having some stripes along the side of the aft body would make it look more like the real thing. You could even put a white brick where the Penske lettering is on the real truck. I'd also suggest trying to make the front of the van narrower than the back and to have the rear wheels tucked under the body as on the real truck. It would make the model a lot more complicated, though. I built a combination like this on a larger scale many years ago, so I obviously like the idea and it's nice to see it done to minifig scale. I like the detailing and the trailer, in particular, is really well done Cheers, Ralph Quote
BrickWild Posted August 5, 2010 Author Posted August 5, 2010 I'm not quite sure how this is a MOD rather than a MOC, because I can't think of any sets that look similar. Is it because the pickup truck is based on a set? I do have two recommendations that I think would improve the looks. Lego bright blue and medium blue are fairly close matches for the colours used by Penske and although you obviously can't make the lettering in bricks/plates, having some stripes along the side of the aft body would make it look more like the real thing. You could even put a white brick where the Penske lettering is on the real truck. I'd also suggest trying to make the front of the van narrower than the back and to have the rear wheels tucked under the body as on the real truck. It would make the model a lot more complicated, though. I built a combination like this on a larger scale many years ago, so I obviously like the idea and it's nice to see it done to minifig scale. I like the detailing and the trailer, in particular, is really well done Cheers, Ralph Your Penske & trailer looks very nice! I also like your other models too! Quote
Ralph_S Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Your Penske & trailer looks very nice! I also like your other models too! Thanks. I only linked to it to illustrate that I like the idea. In many respects it's easier to build this sort of thing to a larger scale. Building a realistic representation of a real vehicle to minifig scale is difficult in general and I think Brickwild has done a nice job. Cheers, Ralph Quote
legomaniac83 Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Nice MOD, but I must say that trailer looks exactly like the one I posted a while back: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26458&st=0&p=457663&fromsearch=1entry457663 Quote
Ralph_S Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Those do look rather a bit too similar for it to be a coincidence.... Quote
prateek Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Great truck. If you plant to make it for real, a sticker would be perfect! Quote
XimenaPaulina Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Very good design, I think you pretty much captured the overall look of the real truck. Now we just need to see it in brickform and it'll be perfect! Quote
BrickWild Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 Nice MOD, but I must say that trailer looks exactly like the one I posted a while back: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26458&st=0&p=457663&fromsearch=1entry457663 What a nice trailer it is! I've also made the trailer in different colours! Quote
vgsprites Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 Nice work. Can't wait to see this in real form with stickers either. Love the front end with square headlights. Great job BrickWild! Quote
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