[MT] Lotus Esprit

[Jeroen Ottens]

Hi,

Time for another update. IRB this time :

And a view of the engine compartment with the four cilinder Lotus 907 engine (including a really nice green drivebelt ):

The model is more solid then I expected, but not as solid as a real TLG model would be. It uses tons of SNOT techniques. To illustrate that point: in the whole model there are only 8 (!) normal bricks and that is including the 4 transparent bricks that are used for the rear windshield.

It features:

Openable doors

Openable hood

Openable rear

Steering

I will apply a few stickers to make the black line continuous and to get an angle at the front bumper

And of course I can now finally start on the last feature: submarine transformation

Comments are appreciated.

[jantjeuh]

It's a beauty, great job

[aol000xw]

Is not always the case, but this one looks better in bricks than in LDD.

[MajklSpajkl]

It looks great! Perhapse I don't like the front hood to much, the sides are maybe to much curved - maybe that curved slope near the lights should hevacregular slope... The back is fantastic! Overall: You rock!!!

[legomuppet9]

This looks great good job

[grum64]

Terrific job. You've captured the lines brilliantly, it's instantly recognisable.

Very well done

[rm8]

Wow! incredible! :thumbup:

[Chapachuk]

I love the black line. The build is awesome. My winner.

[MrNumbskull13]

Absolutely astonishing :')

[Rishab N]

Amazing work. Definitely one of my favorites

[Dapper-D2]

Looks good. Nice job with all the angles.

[Jonsson]

You captured the lines really well, good job! :)

[antp]

Amazing. It was already nice in LDD, but in real bricks it looks really good!

It is quite likely that you'll be amongst my votes, as in addition of that good result it is a car model that I really like :)

[Jeroen Ottens]

Here is a teaser of the submarine conversion. I'm really pleased how this turned out.

Still waiting for an answer about the cutting of the rigid hoses though. For now I assume it is allowed, so I have cut them exactly to length. Hopefully this will not be disallowed

[__________________________]

Looks very good! So it can transform from the road car to the submarine? Do the wheels fold in?

Also, is the LXF available? To do a different color scheme?

[Jeroen Ottens]

Looks very good! So it can transform from the road car to the submarine? Do the wheels fold in?

Also, is the LXF available? To do a different color scheme?

Thank you

Yes it can transform, but with the poor man's solution: You have to take the wheels off and add the wheelbaycovers. Also the rearsection with the fins, the bars at the windows and various submarine accesoires have to be added manually.

I made an LDD file before building it in real bricks, but half way the building process the file became so finnicky that I stopped updating it, so I only have a half-finished LDD file that has a tendency to become corrupted the moment you add a brick to it.

[Chapachuk]

This is insane. More pics as soon as possible :)

[rhplus]

the teaser looks great, you are getting my vote but I want to see more this beauty

[timslegos]

Greta lines all around, cant wait to see the sub version .

tim

[Jeroen Ottens]

Submarine version:

[efferman]

This is fantastic!

[Dapper-D2]

Love the submarine version and the golden gun is a nice touch. Great entry!

[Rishab N]

Stunning. Looks just like the real thing

[Lakop]

Brilliant entry. Glad I found it.

H