Gingerdave

I was going for the classic look - the proportions are based on the Jaguar E-type, though obviously not the final looks. If it wasn't a c-model I'd have gone for a 10- or 12-cylinder engine to fill up the space. I was working from a (toy car) model of an e-type, and the clearance is pretty high.

Thenk yew, thenk yew verra mich! In parts, but sometimes the limited set of pieces forces it.

I've not thought of anything I can do for a C-model of the rally car, except another car . . . So here we go: The turning circle is enormous, even bigger than the original. It does have front wheel drive to go along with the front wheel steering though! Underside shot: Leftovers!

OK, there's one, and it's a good kit. However, one snow groomer/pisten bully/piste basher (or dinosaur digger as my then 3-year-old decided they were ) in 40 years doesn't seem a lot. OK, they're a bit rare, but you can pack a lot of functions into them - tracks, suspension, skid steering if powered, the forward blade and the rear blade, some have cranes. Any idea why TLG haven't made one? After all, I must have made a few dozen over the years!

Alas no, I built this a while ago and most of the bits are in another MOC . . .

A couple of years ago I got the Volvo L350F 42030 for Christmas, and my boy got the Construction Crew 42023 – so we ended up building the wheel loaders at the same time ?. A while later he got 42047, and I’d been thinking of building a big 4x4 decided that it was time to try the same trick. So using the Police Interceptor as a model, I scaled it up a bit . . . Some underside shots. It's pretty quick - enough to chase small kids with and the turning circle is tiny.

Surely it should be all red! Hmm, which minifig for Gene Hunt?

Well, that's me sold! Not that there was much chance that I wouldn't get this. I don't know how lego do this, every time I think I won't get any new sets this year they think up something else!

I had a long break from lego - the last kit I got was the first control centre (8094) in 1990 or so, until I got 42009 in 2014. So the studless was a shock, and the panels even more so. I didn't like either at first, but I realised just how useful they are. Studless is amazing. When panels are used the models do look better than the old frameworks, and the panels can be pretty strong as well. With studless, even if you could use plates they couldn't take any weight. Now, stickers are another matter . . . having recently built 42025, the stickers make up too much of the look of the model. I may leave the stickers off in future, unless you're careful they make MOC's look a bit odd.

Thanks. The stickers do limit what will look good, but you just have to work with them. I did it mostly from memory, which accounts for the hood and the tracks. I'd have used 2 loops anyway, becuase I wanted to use as many bits as possible, and one track would have made it too long! The gap between them does allow space for the suspension which then attaches to the centre of the vehicle. Attaching to the sides would have been tricky and I don't think it would have been as strong. I'll have a look at the hood/windscreen.

I was looking at the Arctic Truck (42038), and thought that it could make a decent snowmobile. So I sat down to do something about that. I started by building the track unit, as this would provide the scale for the rest of the model. It's based on the square frame on the bottom layer and uses the large ball & socket joints on the upper layer with the return rollers. One of these plugs into the rest of the snowmobile and provides the flexibility for the rear suspension. The next part I built was the suspension and articulation at the front, then the nose that contains the engine in a real snowmobile. Then I had to figure out how to connect them! Possibly not the best order to build in, but never mind . . . I did the steering at this point. Getting the rack to stay in place was more trouble than it should have been. Then the skis and the handlebars. I finished off with the windscreen. I'm quite pleased with it. It's the first MOC I've built in 20 years so the first studless - my lego was tucked away in my folks attic until my now 6-year old got me back into it, and I got a few kits.