MOC: Twin Racers

[Illerejug]

Up to this point, I had been designing with an eye toward incorporating weapon systems in my 8-wide vehicles: The Can-Am Racer and the 1950's Car (not yet posted, but visible in the background of some of the images below). It turned out that I never actually incorporated weapon systems in those vehicles, so I decided to design my next one without even thinking about weapons. This would be a pure racer.

While playing with LDD, I found a particularly good purple + blue + white color combination. Because this was a relatively feminine color set, I tried for a curvy design.

As with my other designs, playability was also a major factor. My two young boys need to play with this car without it falling apart accidentally.

Unfortunately, after finishing the basic design in LDD, I discovered that some of the major pieces weren't available in purple or in the light blue that I had intended. So I had to tweak the color palette to incorporate black (instead of some purple) and blue (instead of light blue). And then, for no particular reason*, I used LDD's color change function to switch the colors of the pieces to match those available on pick-a-brick. The result was a bold use of red and black; it was so striking that I wanted to make two cars, one with the purple+blue color scheme, the other with a red+black scheme.

* I say no particular reason because I planned to buy, and eventually bought, the pieces on bricklink, which isn't as limited as pick-a-brick.

Each is 123 pieces, not including minifigs. The front section is 8-wide, while the back section flares out to 10-wide. TLG did this with some of their 8-wide vehicles, so it's still within the scale I was trying to match.

Here are links to the LDD file for the purple+blue version and the red version. Pictures follow; many are clickable for larger versions.

If you click on the first picture, the larger version shows off my other 8-wide MOD/MOC vehicles pretty well.

Enjoy!

[Gryphon Ink]

Sweet! But have you thought about adding a weapons system?

No, really. Very nice. Instantly brings all kinds of old cartoons to mind.

[XimenaPaulina]

Great work on both of these Speed racer-type Racers Illerejug! I like the purple one better, looks very fresh in the eyes. It's also nice to know these started as LDD designs, now realized in brickform.

Edited December 1, 2010 by KielDaMan