MOC: Antarctic Snow Cruiser - An Epic Vehicle

[bigboy99899]

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a vehicle designed late 1930's, intended to facilitate transport in Antarctica. It has a very interesting and adventurous history.

Cruiser (known as Turtle), a very innovative vehicle, designed to operate at extreme conditions.

Plane (known as Eagle), a Beechcraft D17 Staggerwing type airplane mounted on the roof of the cruiser. (To get the airplane on or off the Cruiser, a ramp of snow was to be built-up to meet the sloping aft deck of the "Turtle".)

This set presents the Arctic Snow Cruiser with a correct minifig scale. All the parts connects fine, the whole vehicle is very stable to grant great playability.

With tons of features the set offer a very good playing for everyone.

You can find it at:

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/46670

If you like it, please support it. Thank you.

More to read about:

http://www.joeld.net...nowcruiser.html

or at the project's page:

http://antarcticsnow...er.blogspot.com

Edited June 15, 2014 by bigboy99899
Title adjusted

[Meatman]

Have you actually built this? I think people like to see a physical build along with the rendered one.

[Legoofmyleg]

Wow!

Firstly, thanks for bringing this to my attention I hadn't heard of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser. It sounds like a fascinating piece of history.

Secondly, that is a nice looking MOC. You've captured the likeness really well. I hope you can built it physically

Thirdly, all the best with the Cussoo project. It will be a tough sell to attract a large crowd because I don't think many people will have heard of it (my be wrong). Perhaps you can use the style of the vehicle to win supporters (it looks almost futuristic).

[TheLegoDr]

I've never heard of this but looks really interesting! That plane looks especially awesome.

Great rendering.

Have fun building it in the brick if you ever get a chance to.

[bigboy99899]

Thanks for the replies. This was a unique, with a mysterious history, good to be built from Lego. I like to tell stories with my creations.

(My) only problem is that i can't afford to build it (yet).

[SirDuc]

That is great. I was just wondering how is the airplane supposed to get down from the vehicle ?

[AC_]

I was going to try building a model of this at some point (if I ever got round to it, which I probably won't...), so recognised it immediately. I always thought it looked kind of like something that could have been in an episode of Thunderbirds.

Your version looks pretty much spot on. Awesome stuff.

[bigboy99899]

Thanks. A ramp of snow was to be built-up to get te plane to the roof, i think they used the same way to get the plane off.

[bricklayer7]

This is a great idea, I really like the plane.

[FuzzyBallz]

Somewhat interesting read. I can't believe they're dumb enough to put treadless tires on a snow vehicles though. Epic fail.

[bigboy99899]

Not this snow vehicle was the only one with tires. Maybe on large vehicles the chains are to heavy and hard to repair.

[Herky]

when I first saw the topic, I thought it was going to be a sno cat, but this is great, really like the story and plane and all, so did they really build this and use it on Antarctica? I can't imagine loading and unloading it down there. Great set, nice story and good luck on the votes

[kermit]

This looks like an excellent concept but it does look like it will be a big set. Isnt there a limit on the amount of bricks that a cuusoo project should have?

[bigboy99899]

@Herky: Thanky ou very much. Man can't believe it, they used it on Antarctica.

@kermit: No, there isn't a a limit for the bricks count. This set has not so extreme brick count, just like a bigger creator set.

[bigboy99899]

Finally the Antarctic Snow Cruiser was built:

[Inna Halle]

Cant write you a message, maybe you can get in touch.

[AndrewJohnN]

Sweet!