Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC)

[Tommy Styrvoky]

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Following the making of the Peacemaker from the movie Mad Max Fury Road, I wanted to build ELVIS, a 32' Ford with 2 V6 GMC engines. This model is powered by 2 L motors and utilizes a Servo motor for steering. It is powered by a Lego rechargeable battery. This model was somewhat difficult for me to build, it features a 2 V6 engines, or a V12, 4 bar suspension on the front and rear axles. The most difficult part is that I have a very limited supply of red brown bricks(>500) most of these parts came from the Star Wars MTT set released a few years ago. So this limited me to what shape and structure I could do with the pieces at hand. I attempted to replicate the rust/chipping paint of the vehicle seen in the movie, by altering the colors of the roof, as that is visible from a couple screenshots of the movie.

Another challenge was the dropped axle in the front, It was difficult to mount suspension and steering in a compact space, without raising the height of the front too much.

Thanks to Sariel for providing Background images for this model, from the game. More like those will be coming soon (during next week).

The real vehicle

Mad Max Fury Road Elvis schematic by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Edited February 24, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky

[lcvisser]

Very very nice! You captured the looks of the original very well and I'm impressed that you managed to fit the motors and battery box inside. It would've been nice if the received had been a bit more hidden, but I guess you can't have it all... I really like how you did the front axle, with the links instead of a rack&pinion.

Did I see correctly you're using headlight bricks on the drive shaft of the engines? I'm surprised they don't get stuck (or do they and then they just slide a bit?).

[Sylvian]

If i may be honest,. I think (the side of the body) is a bit bland,. Specially because you usually set the bar quite high when it comes to details,.. nonetheless its pretty cool! (Maybe its because you have limited brown parts?)

Edited February 24, 2016 by Sylvian

[dougstar]

Way cool! LOVE IT!

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

This is a cool build of a cool vehicle... :thumbup: Yours is way to clean...you should offroad with it...haha...

[Tommy Styrvoky]

Did I see correctly you're using headlight bricks on the drive shaft of the engines? I'm surprised they don't get stuck (or do they and then they just slide a bit?).

yes, they sometimes get stuck, but that has happened twice since building the model.

[JJ2]

very nice model, I like how good it looks compared to the original. On a side not why was it tilted?

[Tommy Styrvoky]

If i may be honest,. I think (the side of the body) is a bit bland,. Specially because you usually set the bar quite high when it comes to details,.. nonetheless its pretty cool! (Maybe its because you have limited brown parts?)

yeah, the body isn't too impressive, I wanted to have functioning doors and improve the window pillars. I do like the SNOT work on the front cowl/firewall.I am pleased with how the chassis turned out though. Edited February 25, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky

[Sylvian]

I like that part also, aswell as the radiator/fanhousing. And yeah chassis turned out great :)

[Tommy Styrvoky]

A Couple more edited photos, I also watched the movie again, and got some more inspiration to build a couple more vehicles in the near future.

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Mad Max Fury Road ELVIS (RC) by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Here's a couple ideas.

Edited February 29, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky

[Paul B Technic]

Very cool, an excellent level of detail.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

I created a longer post on my blog that better describes the process of creating this model.

http://tommystyrvoky.blogspot.com/2016/02/mad-max-fury-road-elvis.html#more