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  1. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    What a spectacular model! The scaling has really paid off with beautiful proportions, and the B&W colour scheme works brilliantly. You've reached a very high level of design mastery in a very short time! But most of all, that engine...
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    Here is a Ferrari LMP1 Car I recently completed, built in the Model Team/Creator Expert style. It is based on this fictional Ferrari LMP1 Concept design by Oriol Folch Garcia. The model contains just over 1,000 parts and features many detachable sections and lots of internal detail. The front section is removable and reveals (non-functional) steering and suspension detailing, and an electric motor on the front axle. The cockpit cover detaches to reveal a racing seat, pedals, adjustable steering column, fire extinguisher, and a water bottle. The engine cover also detaches, revealing a removable V6 hybrid engine within a detailed engine bay. The model was fully designed in LDraw. Instructions available at www.bm-mocs.com. Click through for the full gallery.
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    Sorry, it is LDraw, not LDD. Here's a quick pic instead. This is still a mock-up from spares with many incorrect parts/colours, but it shows the mod I was talking about.
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    I was playing around with this a bit more today and found a simple and effective way to align the 1x1 rounds below the seat outwards instead of downwards. Updated file HERE.
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    You're right, that looks a lot better! Back on my wanted list then.
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    That makes sense. With the 4740 dish on the rear the exposed stud and axle can be capped with a red 1x1 round tile. I've also added a red 47458 on the rear right side, and used a 1x2 plate with handle to fill in the gap under the rear section. I understand the colour preference, as the 'real' one is brown. The only parts in the center section that I've changed to black are the 1x2 brackets, simulating the top of the seat, so the only difference is that it is a fraction wider as well as being lower. Anyway, thanks again for sharing a brilliant MOC!
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    The movie was definitely weird (and wonderful) and open to many levels of interpretation—which is what makes it so powerful. At its core, I think the movie is about a modernizing post-apocalyptic society coming to terms with how to control the power of new science and technology, which is pretty much where Japan was at the time the movie was released. I love your design of Kaneda's iconic bike. I've seen many versions from many different builders, but this is the first one to motivate me to immediately build a copy. I really like the simplicity and cleanness of the build. Thank you for providing YT building instructions. In making a copy though, I did make a couple of small alterations. One is to the seat—I took out the 2x2 plate to lower the seat and added a 2x2 plate behind the seat back to bring it forward. The result is that the driver sits lower (with his eyeline below the top of the windshield, and the seat back sits flush against the driver's back. The only downside is the seat has to be black rather than brown (as there are no brown 1x2 brackets). The second change was to the rear axle, where I have put 4740 dishes on both sides of the wheel. This leaves a stud on the right side (compared to the smooth 2654) but the dish fits much more snuggly against the wheel.
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    Where do 1:17 scale car MOCs go these days? I mean, consider the following three sets as if they had been MOCs. The 5540 Formula 1 Racer was Model Team which is supposed to be part of the Technic forum, while the 8143 F430 Challenge would fit in the Licensed forum as a Ferrari product, and the 10248 F40 (also a licensed Ferrari product) was Creator Expert (the modern equivalent of Model Team) and would appear to fit under Creator within the Special Themes forum. Yet all three are clearly performance car models of roughly the same scale and level of detail. This seems to be a category that straddles multiple forums at present. In particular, is there any real distinction now between Model Team (Technic forum) and Creator Expert (Special themes) building styles with respect to MOCs?
  9. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    Here are the three Ferrari SF16-Hs together.
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    Awesome. Thanks a lot everyone. I'll ditch 15461 and connect the parts with long friction pins instead.
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    I'm hoping someone can help me out with an assembly here. I'm working on a model in LDraw that will use part 15461 shown here: The assembly I need is shown below. I don't have this part so I cannot check it myself. Part 15461 is in black on the left. What I want to do is insert 3L bars (shown in pink) inside the pins to connect the blue and red sections together. LDraw says this should work, but my concern is that they may not go all the way in to finish flush on the front face (and they will need to). My back-up solution is to use cut sections of flex tubing, but the 3L bars would be better. Can someone be awesome and check this for me?
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    Fair enough, though I've found that to be less of a problem after switching the front axle out to 21445 modified 1x2 plates. The vehicle base can then go quite far forward, which is what I did on my 919. Again, not a criticism. Just sharing ideas.
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    Awesome improvements! The back is better and the front much improved. That vented front wing is especially good. Also great to have a steering wheel! Have you tried a minifig barbell weight there? It might not fit vertically, but it would be the right size if it does. Not a criticism, but I'm surprised to see you haven't used the standard vehicle base, as this gets the driver lower down than a plate thanks to the thinness of the central recess. I assume this would have clashed with your internal structure? Anyway, great work! The underside looks fantastic, and the whole thing is now very distinctive and accurate to prototype.
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    The comparison shot also reveals a big difference in the rear wheel arches. The original ones were nice and snug. The official ones have quite a sizable gap between the wheel and the arch.
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    Looking more at the reference pics, it would be cool if you could hollow out the rear more. Maybe using these in place of these would help.
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    Very nice! Smooth lines and I like that adjustable rear wing and the wedge plate behind the windscreen. Would like to see the underside, which is where all the interesting things are happening on the real car. Watch out for chasing dogs with those tail lights! It would be good if you could fit a steering wheel in there though. And while it looks great as is, it would be even more accurate to prototype if you could shorten the nose a little somehow. It sure looks great in comparison with the McLaren in that last shot! Love it.
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    Agreed. I didn't see it at first, and just assumed it was a poor camera angle, exacerbated by the lack of exhaust on that side. But you're right, and I can't think of any good reason for changing the overall proportions like this. Hopefully it will be possible to modify the set back to its correct proportions.
  18. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    Neither the wheels nor tires are new. They are 15413 tires on 56145 rims, as per Carl Greatrix's original submission. It might be possible to reintroduce the steerable wheels. Will have to wait and see. Should be a fun set to modify in any case.
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    Less detailed than the original submission (as expected) but still looks good. Engine bay seems decent. Looks like they may have removed the poseable steering though. I hope I'm wrong on that.
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    How so? Obviously it is a bit less detailed than the originals, but that was expected. The overall proportions and shaping look the same as far as I can tell. They may have taken the poseable steering out though, which would be a pity.
  21. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    Yes, new slicks would be really good, especially with F1 returning to wider tires next year. And yes, your 917K is another excellent example of improving over SC proportions. Did you keep your model at 6-wide? (I see you were considering 7-wide at the end of the thread.) Also, I do have full instructions for the 919 Hybrid on my website if you're interested.
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    I agree that the SC sets are all flawed in their proportions, but I don't think this is impossible to overcome. Eight-wide becomes too big for minifigures in my opinion (except for Hummers and the like) but many builders other than myself have produced 6-wide city-scale cars with much better proportions.
  23. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    Thanks. I didn't buy the SC LMP cars as I really don't like their proportions. To be fair, it is all but impossible to capture LMP proportions while still fitting a minifig, but I've done my best to improve on the SC versions. Both models are the same width (6-wide), but my version (left) is two studs shorter (at 16 studs), and while the same height overall it appears lower due to having lower sides, shark fin, and windscreen. In comparison, the official set (in my opinion) looks far too long and tall for its width. I also felt the official set was too square at the front and too sloped-back at the windscreen, so these are what I've tried to address. And I've also added an engine and allowed the driver to actually reach the steering wheel. :)
  24. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    Free instructions for the Ferrari F1 Car HERE.
  25. BrickMonkeyMOCs
    New additions are now built... Both are built in a modular fashion, allowing for engine access and stripping components down to the survival cell. The 919 went through numerous redesigns, even after ordering the parts, before I was happy with it. With a new Ferrari F1 car due out next year it will be interesting to see how the above version will compare. I now have the SF16-H built at three different scales — 1:17, minifig, and microscale — so I will eventually post a picture of all three together (though at the moment the 1:17 scale model is awaiting some parts for a small upgrade).
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