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Great looking Toyota T100, as above - like the way the livery has been done without use of stickers. Headlight cluster is well done and fantastic use of the red ‘Hot Dogs’ for the spare tyre knock off! 👍🏼

The same, but different - a couple of @T Lego’s Italian brothers together. 🇮🇹 A work in progress… The build so far has been a bit of a challenge - with no instructions initially I started out slowly building the main monocoque cabin like others using speed build videos and photographs. Now that I have built sixteen 1/8 scale cars the reverse engineering is getting better, but not perfect! Also trying keep track of the running design changes and work arounds with using Lego parts. The LaFerrari’s monocoques construction has a few design cues from the Lamborghini Centenario that I built a couple of years ago. Using all the new 12t and 20t gears like in the recently built Pagani Huayra BC gearbox, it really smooths gearbox and steering. The best mechanical feature of @T Lego’s LaFerrari the ‘Dynamic Steering’ that is integrated in the suspension - inducing body roll into car as it steers, something that hasn’t featured in previous cars built. The LaFerarri appears to dance as moves along steering left to right. The front end lift is smooth in operation too. Over next few weeks hopefully get the rest the build complete, along with the Hero Factory Armour dash and couple of my own changes/modifications.

@astyanax yes, the 15L Liftarm has temporarily been removed, will be replaced with a Modified Perpendicular Liftarm when it arrives. Glad the piggy-back reservoirs passed the test with the virtual model. @EdwinSiu10 the Pagani Printed Tiles (Logo 2) with the elliptical key lines are coming from Chrome Block City. @langko the shocks with Silver piggy-back reservoirs look great 👍🏼

@langko and @astyanax thank you for your comments. Even when building the Ferrari Daytona SP3 the axle holes in the new 9L Shocks were begging for a piggy-back reservoir, built up a few versions at the time but it wasn’t appropriate for the Daytona. Another image of the engine cover from a better angle with clam-shell removed.

First of all, a big thank you to @langko for deciding to share his Pagani Huayra BC with us. You have got to appreciate @langko‘s craftsmanship, the Huayra chassis is rigid, superb modular build - an absolute work of art. Also thanks to @astyanax for his clear instructions, notes and the helper parts, top notch. Customisation is mentioned in the introduction in the instructions and becomes it’s own rabbit hole when you start looking through Huayra photographs - every car is different. The build process of any custom Lego project includes the chase for parts and the Pagani Huayra BC was a biggie. All in there was 34 Bricklink orders (four from Australia), four complete discounted Lego sets purchased and this was on top of a good stash of parts from the home warehouse! What contributed to so many orders was obviously the range of parts, but there was also quite a few older colours too. I used the Rebrickable inventory and exported that to Bricklink and created a Wanted List and deleting all the existing parts I had. Using the Wanted List with my usual ‘go to’ Bricklink sellers I was able to compile most parts. Just two items remain on the Wanted List, work arounds currently in place and can be easily switched out down the track. I have made a few minor changes along the way - first up was adding the subtle Italian ‘Tri-Colour’ slopes to the top of front guards. Glow-in-the-dark Bionicles and Bars are fitted. The Red 3 x 11 Curved Panels were the most expensive parts, the Pearl Gold Round Plates were also expensive and Round Tiles with hole weren’t available in New Zealand. There are a few printed Pagani round tiles on order for wheels and top of HOG. A new registration plate will grace the Huayra once it arrives too. The suspension and engine cover are the areas that I customised the most. Yellow Thin Quarters and Technic Steering Arm feature the rear. Originally ordered Red 9L Shocks and then decided to run with Blue instead - more contrast and while not a yellow spring an Ohlins inspired shock with piggy-back gas reservoir. The exhaust is a work of art - love the use of the Purple 7mm Hoses. The Pearl Grey parts I got for the exhaust didn’t match well. I don’t usually buy used parts, I ended up using Dark Bluish Grey and that looks good. I’m thinking about doing the whole exhaust in Metallic Aluminium from Chrome Block City. I found a Huayra for sale on Collecting Cars with a lot of engine shots - I used these to re-build a few engine covers, currently version 3.0 is in place. The engine covers range from quite plain to a major pieces of sculpture. The air intake side pods have the AMG logo on them, I wanted to include these too. I tried to source some 75877 Mercedes AMG GT3 stickers, but these were like $32.00 in NZ!! Ended up getting a couple of Curved Slopes with the AMG logo printed on them for the side pods, that worked out as a better solution for $0.37 from the 76909 Mercedes AMG Project One car. The four pieces of luggage with cash and gold ingots are a nice touch. I have replaced one of the door springs with a stronger Red Shock (will do the other too), it keeps the doors up better when opening up the rear clam-shell. The Pagani Huayra BC on full display. The front axle lift is a nice feature and works well, this is where the helper parts help do their job! Using the steering HOG to activate the front and rear flaps is also smooth in its operation. I’m almost tempted to do another in a combination of Black and Dark Bluish Grey using some of the new parts in the Peugeot 9X8 Hypercar, maybe later in the year…. Looking forward to seeing some of the other Huayra BCs as they progress.

With Autumn arriving along with some wet weather, it was time to have a crack @Lox Lego ‘s Torana A9X, with a few of my own mods. Holden and Ford have always butted heads in New Zealand and Australian motorsport, as a kid October signalled the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama - a day in the front of the TV watching the Holden vs Ford. Bathurst during the 70’s the Holden Torana was pretty dominant at the hands of Peter Brock. Also in mid 70’s our local neighbourhood was populated with few Holden Sunbirds (a 4 door family sedan the same shape as the Torana), but there were a couple of hot Holden Torana SL/R 5000 (Sedan) with a 5-Litre V8s - these must have been heavily taxed by the NZ Government at the time due to the ‘Oil Crisis’ by being over 2.7 Litres or maybe it was their choice of colour - Purple/Black Graphics & Lime/Black Graphics. I used a couple of Torana images to work from, one of just the shell to firm up the front ends general shape - headlights, grille, indicator lights and brake ducts. The colour of choice like images was a combination colourway of orange and black - Papaya Orange being a standard Holden colour at the time, like those famous Kiwi McLarens. One thing that was ionic with Holdens at the time was the shape of the front bumper, wedge-shaped grille and headlights - my dad had a Holden Kingswood ute with similar lines. Drawing on these details I wanted to reflect them in my Torana. The first thing was to build the main chassis structure and re-shape the front end and bonnet. Fortunately a Bricklink seller 200km south of us had parted out five McLaren F1 cars, that proved to be a worthy, but expensive source of orange. Maybe red would have been cheaper option, but the last four builds have been red - another in the works is red too. Then along came Cyclone Gabrielle on Valentine’s Day and halted everything - the only essential freight coming in was by NH90 and Black Hawk helicopters. Gabrielle had also taken out three intercity bridges, closed the State Highway north, a lot of infrastructure damage (power & data) and reduced work hours for a month. April - Freight services have resumed, but only using Bricklink sellers to the south from quicker deliveries. Due to the lack of 5 x 7 Liftarm Frames in Black in NZ, I had ordered a few expensive Orange ones to get me going while I waited for a Bricklink order from Australia to arrive. This was a blessing in disguise as it highlighted the Orange bodywork behind the grille much like the actual car in a few areas. I tried to get the spoiler under the bumper to look right, I ended up reducing the front part of the chassis by two studs to flatten its shape. I removed two 3 x 11 panels from the sides of the bonnet, adding one across the front along with new Lego small panels. The bonnet scoop has also been revised removing four of the flex-axles and making the sides of the scoop more vertical like the original car. The seats are an awesome build with the fore and aft adjustments and seat tilt, just added Light Bluish Grey ‘racing-stripes’. Under the bonnet a brake master cylinder straddles the steering axle, a water reservoir, radiator with hose, battery and leads. The rear bumper has been lifted a couple of studs to similar height lines as the front and shape contours to the rear bodywork. Tailgate lock - printed can lid. Those Lego #13 & #14 panels have leaped in price! Ended buying a second hand 42007 motorcycle for the two panels - revealing mint panels under the decals. I also wanted to have the ‘Drop-Tank’, long straight exhaust pipes, revised taillights (with black trim through the centre) and the classic Aunger Louvre across the rear window - a stylish auto accessory that quickly became a must have with car enthusiasts in the 70’s. The addition of the rear louvre obscures the manually operated actuator from being seen as well and ‘Putting a bit of Lamborghini style on your fastback’ (Aunger’s Advertisement). The small printed Bugatti panel symbolic of the Aunger Oval. I enjoyed the build and expanding on @Lox Lego ‘s original Torana A9X - finished in off with a set of OZ Racing centre caps. A great addition to the rest of the fleet. Just waiting for a few printed tiles and get the ‘SS’ decals made for orange.

Even smaller Technic sets are not to be over looked. The small Technic 42132 Motorcycle, picked one up for NZD$14.00 - over 70% shared parts - 118 common parts from the motorcycle’s 163 parts. There is more than enough chain-links too, plus some spares - an expensive item to Bricklink, paying per chain-link. A good selection of axles, connectors and the two round tiles with hole for the dash. And as I stated above I purchased a couple of 42153 Nascar Camaro sets, one set has 470 common parts. The Bugatti Bolide alone includes 26 x Pin Connector Hub 65487. Progress is moving along - rear clam-shell mostly finished with some temporary place holders, waiting for the correct expensive red 11 x 3 Curved Panels. Plus a couple of small red curved panel 89679 coming from a local Bricklink seller who has parted out a Jazz Club Modular Building. 😂 Rear flaps are smooth in operation on the chassis. I just need those Shock Absorbers to arrive from across the Tasman.

Glad to get this underway, thanks to @langko fantastic design and @astyanax clear instructions. Wow, the 4,700+ parts list though, it’s been a steady stream of courier deliveries over the last few weeks. I already had a good stash of Red panels and parts from multiple 42125 sets - so will go the Red & Gold colourway. I now have the bulk of the parts, just waiting for 5 x 7 Liftarm Frames and the new 9L Shock Absorbers to arrive from Australia - nothing available in New Zealand. I brought a couple of 42153 Nascar Camaros with 25% off - a good parts pack, especially for those 2 x 1 Axle/Hole Liftarm in Red! ✌ Started off building the gearbox and motor module this morning, impressed with how smooth it runs with all the new gears. Hopefully get it finished early May all going well.

Sorry, late to the party on @brunojj1 Ferrari 488 Pista (Manual Version) with @astyanax headlight and wheel arch modifications. Built in 100% LEGO, such an enjoyable build and the finished car looks good too - better than the Ferrari Daytona that it’s sitting next too! Used a selection of black connectors for the bottom of the windscreen, instead of the red soft axle, slight mod to tail-lights and side mirrors a work in progress. A standard New Zealand ‘FERRARI’ registration plate in place, just waiting a few more printed ‘Scuderia Ferrari’ items to arrive to finish it off.

Received a the Bugatti 42151 for parts, so was able to put @astyanax mod in place. It significantly strengthens the front end too, I can now pick it up without dislodging the slopes on mine.

Final hit out on the Ferrari Daytona SP3 - ICONA 3, now time to park it up for the New Zealand summer. Cheers to @jb70 the Pimp my Ferrari Instructions, another outstanding job! An addition of Fog Lights into the lower grille. @zonoskar folding roof mod and @theGbrix door mod - doors hold up better with the addition of the shock absorbers. Steering wheel has been tilted to conventional angle, instead of being flat.

@Buzzfox The Connector & Bionicle are mounted on a 3L Pin. Addition Red Bionicle mounted in the horizontal plane too. Registration Plate Update.

Step by step images of how grille has been constructed. The bracket plates are clipped into the bottom of the angled 3 x 11 Technic Panel The bottom set of Slopes are then slid back on the studs to sloping set of Slopes

Built up with a combination of these ⏬ and various plates Bear with me, I’ll break down the front end at the weekend and photograph how it’s been down.

I just purchased the LEGO Technic BMW M1000 RR after seeing @JunkstyleGio ‘s studio render of the BMW M1000 RR - 50 Years M-Edition in São Paulo Yellow posted above. I hadn’t considered the set when it was released, I’m not really a motorcycle guy and the fact that it was White with 80 odd stickers - it wasn’t appealing. Last week the set was on special with 20% off so I pulled the trigger on one with the aim of cladding it in Lime parts and minimal stickers. I had a small stash of Lime parts kicking around, left over from Lamborghini Sian changes. The balance of the Lime parts quickly gathered up from local Brick-Link sellers (Wedge behind the seat on it’s way). I enjoyed the process of building the BMW more than the recent Ferrari Daytona SP3. The construction process of building the frame, gearbox (with changes) and fake engine on the work/display stand is a nice touch. The display stand was built in the Lime hue as well with round feet and two workshop stands (front and rear) in Black. I was initially keen to do the M-Sport Motorcycle Floor Mat, but after playing around with the graphic it was going to become too big to replicate well - so just settled for the M-Sport graphic for now. I have made changes/modifications to a few areas for the first cut:- *Seat, adding curvature to the edges of the seat cushion. *Fuel Tank - Thick Quarter Ellipses and Bionicles (in Black) we’re used to round off the front of the tank. *Handlebars - Bull-Horns added as brake levers, Minifigure Head for the reservoir, @Marf ‘s triple tree clamp. *Headlights - Brick built. *Wings - Tried a similar modification to @Terron969 using flags to produce a finer example with different mounting point instead of using the heavy Curved Panel part, still a WIP. *Exhaust - changed to angle to match frame and added a support brace that is common on race bikes. *Other additions are Printed fuel cap, small Round Tile (BMW Graphic to be added) above front wings, Rear Hugger/Chain-guard, Printed Carbon Tiles, deletion of all Yellow Lift-arms/Axles and the use of a few Black 3L Pins. I’d like to do a full Alpha Racing/Ilmberger Carbon M1000 RR Race Bike - Yellow/Black colourway and add some Chrome Block City printed Carbon Panels! Anyway a great build for the cost, I would be keen for another 1:5 scale motorcycle if TLG releases another down the track - with less stickers.

I was recently alerted that one of my photographs was being used, watermarked and photoshopped on AliExpress. The thing is that the ‘building blocks’ supplied/sold will not build my version of the GT2RS as per photograph, Vinkie116’s GT2RS parts list was shown. In particular my modifications to the headlights and surrounding panels are different. As are other areas front grille intakes, windscreen visor, rear wing, rear deck lid intakes, and infilled areas. All built with 100% genuine LEGO parts from a 42056 set and the rest ordered through Bricklink. I purchased Vinkie116’s instructions from Rebrickable last year, the photograph may have been lifted from there. Orginal photograph - complete with decals. Screen grab of MOC for sale - Vinkie116’s 911 GT2RS shown too. Multiple colour variations shown, decals removed and additional background added to make image square 😂 Buyer beware!

A few of the modifications I have made to my Ferrari Daytona SP3. It was good to see some different photographs of the yellow Ferrari Daytona SP3 at Goodwood and some close up shots too. I have removed the two soft axles from their weird location at the front of the windscreen, instead there a two axles fitted like the ‘A-Pillars’ similar to the rear car. Two-tone mirrors replacing the single red colour. Deleted the black tiles, plates and the transparent panels from the clamshell cover - replacing them with light-blue Grey to match surrounding parts. Replaced the panels with a single 1x4x6 door frame and window - cuts down the visual clutter and a better view of the engine inside. Worked through deleting all unnecessary colours inside the clamshell, sticking to red and black for guards. Also replaced liftarms for the clamshell supports to finer looking friction cylinders and bar with handles - it holds the weight of the clamshell at full extension. Modifications to the engine and rear suspension supports, moved inboard one stud to lower the rear ride height. Fitted fins above the door sill, the 2x3 panel fairing moves with the door and #21/22 panel fairing moves with door mechanism - allowing clearance for door to open and close. Further modifications the bonnet fins - now consist of two thin liftarms, 2x1 comma-shaped fairing and a #21/22 panel fairing. No plastic is bent or harmed! The base of windscreen where connectors are has been fixed in place too and doesn’t move anymore. I’m having a few clashing issues with the steering/paddle shifting mod, will have tear down the body work and revisit this and change. Overall the Ferrari Daytona SP3 is good looking Technics car, it’s definitely a ‘form over (minimal) function’. Personally the I still think the Porsche 911 GT3RS was better, once changes were made to that too. Although recently I purchased another Porsche to build as close to original instructions with just a headlight mod. The Bugatti Chiron had the best presentation and packaging with rims down the side and reversible boxes, but my least favourite of the four Technics cars.

Thanks to @LvdH and @astyanax for the feedback on bonnet mod, hopefully a couple of commas (toilet roll) in Black should reduce how far the fin protrudes (2 modules vs 3). Building rear end of the Ferrari, the Trans Black elements get lost in the structure, I have replaced them with Bright Light Orange replicating photo at the bottom - for better or worse I feel it highlights the light bar better??? Work in progress. Also added a couple Black ingot elements to the ends of the slopes off the exhausts and completing with a custom printed NZ registration plate.

Had to bite the bullet and get the Ferrari Daytona SP3 for the long weekend in New Zealand (Delivery from LEGO Melbourne in two days). 👍🏼 Tackling a few areas first that I had already started over the last month - deleting all unnecessary colour and adding my own changes. Fitted the wheels to my Ferrari SF90 Stradale Assetto Fiorano, looks good - will need a guard mod for tyres clearance.

Can someone please try this mod on Ferrari Daytona SP3’s bonnet. The addition of two black internal fins to either side of the bonnet - to check fit and integration.

Managed to slot in the missing headlights, not too dissimilar to the Chiron headlight design - except using Trans-Clear Slopes. Also playing around with the curved form grille, rather than the flat Black 3 x 11 Panel. Filled in gaps with a Red & Black Bionicle Tooth to each side of the grille.

I managed to fit Charbel’s Rotating Paddle Shifter & Steering into the Ferrari Daytona structure with minor modifications, the HOG steering should easily fit through the existing Axle Pin Connector #2 (rotated 90 degrees in its current position) located in the dashboard panel. I haven’t been able connect up a gearbox at this stage - as I don’t have the actual 42143 set yet. A minor mod will need to be made to the Speedo Tile position to clear the rotating steering column. One of the biggest disappointments with the Ferrari Daytona SP3 is with the contents under the large opening engine cover. The engine details are very basic to say the least, it is a backwards step from the Lamborghini Sian with exhausts, printed carbon tiles and engine bay cross-brace. I was hoping the Ferrari Daytona SP3 out the of the box would be a worthy addition to the “Battle of the V12’s”. But it will need some work and repositioning of the engine cover supports.

zoo:- “does anyone have pictures of the GT3 RS on Sian wheels or even Ferrari Daytona wheels? Very curious to see what that looks like”. Porsche 911 GT2 RS/GT3 RS with genuine LEGO Lamborghini Sian wheels.

It will be a couple of months before the Ferrari Daytona SP3 is available in New Zealand. Started to play around with the front end with Technic parts on hand and workout a few changes.