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Now that's the way to make an announcement in a LEGO community! Congratulations.

I think you are right about that, but I really like the Ice Planet orange mixed with black as well. This MOC (or MOD?) looks awesome to me, and I'm actually building the 6989 in these days! The creator has maintained the bulkiness throughout the model and the bug gun reminds me about the APC from Aliens *sweet* - but so did the M-Tron Mega Core Magnetizer with the crane that could turn down just like the weapon from the APC.

Thanks for the replies. I also think it would look very nice in all black, but the I would loose the contrast and Ferrari-bricks that makes it look "Ferrari-like". Without the contrast in the engine cover and rear, the whole rear end would simply be too plain which doesn't match with the front - it's already on the edge by having so plain sides between the wheels, but I do like the Ferrari Testarossa-like grills. I'm happy about the comment about the engine. It had to be in this design because I use it to hold the sides, but I guess it's perfect because the Testarossa actually did have a V8 boxer engine! As said, this car is very experimental. The front lights are not meant to look as if separated from the body, but I'm not sure I have achieved that effect. It's a shame that the hinge control sticks don't come in red and that the Ferrari stickers are of such low quality. For some reason, some stickers just peel off while others hold for a life time.

V-LV-06F I started building this kind of race cars back in 2002 with the yellow Jaguar like race car. Using some stickers from the Shell promotional Ferrari F1 racer, I made a Ferrari in this style. It had a major update back in 2004, but I can now see that the only picture I have of that version is this one where you can barely see the car and the big change, which was a removable engine cover in Le Mans style can't be seen at all. Now the good old Ferrari has been completely rebuilt using some quite alternative building techniques. I'm always trying to make new designs. This one is quite experimental The exhaust system is also quite untraditional The engine cover is taken off The driver now sits on something - some earlier cars didn't have anything beneath the driver in order to save weight and height! You might have observed that I have "cheated" with the bricks in some places: It is normally only hinge plates with 3 fingers that can hold a hinge control stick, so you will need to use force in order to make it stick to a hinge plate with 2 fingers as I have done in order to make the front lights. The front is only pushed 2/5studs forward compared to the base plate while the sides are connected using half-stud techniques. This gives a difference of 1/10stud which I had to compensate for with the 1x1 round brick seen in the last picture. The exhaust system has been made by forcing a Technic Pin 1/2 in to hold everything together. Update The Brickshelf gallery is: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=223629

Thanks everyone. Unfortunately I'm a bit delayed - the thing I'm working on right now keeps getting more and more complicated. I will post a little thing I made at Christmas tomorrow. There is no end to all the projects I have planned for this vacation, and it seems like I will only finish a couple of them :/

After having been lurking around this forum for a long time, this day seemed like a good day to begin posting. Hello everyone! I'm Lasse Deleuran I'm a Danish student who builds likes to build in my spare time. My favorite themes are Model Team and Space/Star Wars, but pretty much everything has interest. I do have a little building experience and if this holiday works out as planned, I should post my first new creations in a few days. If there is an interest for it, I would also like to see if we can start some new community projects in the future. Oh. And Marry Christmas or happy holidays to all of you!