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It's evolved slightly since the photos, and the front wings use the 6x1 sope (4569) which works really nicely, as they should be a straight slope not a curve. White all the way - I owned 2 white T-bars, and it's about as eighties as you can get!!

Thanks william. It's on the 'to do' list for some point in the future, so will try and remember to put it on this forum when it's done. Do you also ride an R1 (guess, from your profile)? I commuted on a GSXR750 since 2018, but have swapped to an adventure bike as now I'm getting older the sports bike hurts too much!

Thanks @Timorzelorzworz, good shout! Will look into that.

Hi all, Having spent COVID lockdown creating a clean build MOC of a Toyota MR2 Mk1 (my first 'proper' sports car, if you don't count the Metro GTi!!!!) I thought it about time to throw it out there for others to enjoy: I have a set of pdf instructions from the Bricklink Studio, so if anyone would like to try building it themselves, send me a PM and I will send you the pdf.

Love this! I'm always impressed by alternative builds. Designing an MOC is hard enough, without being limited to a pre-determined set of pieces. Definitely looks better than the Bronco, and instantly recognisable.

Thanks for all the support and encouragement everyone! It has been a bit of an obsession, but I'm a (probably slightly autistic) engineer, and love getting into the detail. As it says above, the car sat on my desk for around a year while I was working, and every now and then I would spot something that wasn't quite right. I'm a fan of the clean build, so was constantly tweaking bits to, ironically, stop it looking like a Lego model and more like an RC car... Wish I'd taken photos of each 'finished' model to show how the detail developed. I have other models (a Ford Escort XR3i in both hatchback and cabriolet, as well as a Toyota Mk1 MR2) and I did take early photos of the MR2, thinking it was finished, and the difference between that and the actual finished model is night and day! This Metro 6R4 is currently on Lego Ideas, but annoyingly I can't add the others due to existing Lego intellectual property rights :-( Thanks! You're a very kind bunch!

Thanks Dan the Man. I'm new to all this, and thought I would get it quickly set up over a lunch break! Will take a look when I get 5 minutes and try and embed. Thanks again.

Ah, thankyou! Will do that. Great start, breaking the guidelines on my first post!!

Hi all, This is my first foray into Eurobricks and wanted to see what you all think of my Metro 6R4 1:12 scale rally car model. This is what it looks like: This Lego Metro 6R4 is my third MOC car since getting back into Lego in my forties, nearly forty years since I got my first of many classic eighties Lego and Technic sets. I built it to approximately 1:12 scale using hand drawn front, rear and side profiles which I backed with card and repeatedly held up against the developing model to make sure the proportions were spot on. It is 14 bricks wide by 40 bricks long (excluding that outrageous front splitter!), and uses approximately 1,500 bricks, the majority of them being common rather than 'specials'. I drew the bespoke stickers manually in AutoCAD and printed onto clear adhesive sheet. There is a full and detailed interior and engine bay. The car took around a year to build, fitting Lego time in around family and other hobbies, and every time I thought it was finished I would spot something that needed tweaking. I think that's how I have got the details and dimensions right, by having the model on view for several months and constantly spotting bits that needed improvement. And although it's now 'finished', I'm sure it will be in bits several more times as I spot the next thing that could be improved! The finished model was very kindly photographed in my back garden, in front of a piece of plywood, by my lovely neighbour who is an amateur photographer. UPDATE 23 June 2025: This has now reached the Lego Car Blog (https://thelegocarblog.com/2025/06/18/bring-a-trailer/) with a link to this Eurobricks forum, so I should probably add a shameless plug here for this model on Lego Ideas: https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/7bdf84dd-75d0-4665-ab7a-2e882c059223. Please help me reach 10,000 supporters! It's also now on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125828087@N07/albums/72177720326899962/. Thanks for reading everyone :-) And thanks to all the kind and patient people who have shown me how to embed images!!! Thanks @Milan, @dantheman12 and @1980SomethingSpaceGuy!!