Bricktrix

Just finished this so thought I'd share here: Features working "just about everything", it has a micro motor to power the intake fan rotor, delayed flashing engine lights and constant lit fuselage and wing tips lights. Power is supplied via a 9v battery box housed inside the ground support vehicle. This has 2 switches on it, one to power up the lights, the second to power up the intake fan along with a red led on the support vehicle. Full details / explanations can be seen in my Flickr album, along with some videos and many more pics:

As an update to these, I've just added another: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/87703/updates R300 lightweight racing spec, just to inspire ideas of what could be! Link to full album on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bricktrix/with/16475003122/ Thanks again for the support so far, it wouldnt be where it is without them

Very cool, thank you for jumping through the required hoops they put in place Again thank you very much, every single vote counts. I'm with you on the R500 fav, .....so far,..... I'm working on a couple more updates, so watch this space Thanks for the confidence You initially confused me as to what you were reffering to, but I think your talking about the bonnet catches (the thin minifig neck brackets). Yep, I'm also with you on the prefference, I'm just concepting design options into the mix, so some of the models will have different methods used to replicate the same thing, one may be stronger than the other, so trying to cover bases.

Another update: You want a kit of a kit car, well here you are: Redesigned to be built in modular easily removable sections, I would recommend looking through the complete Flickr album to see all the possibilites: An example pic below:

Thank you A pic update of another version on its way:

UPDATE: Project now hit half way point for required votes :) Huge thanks to all concerend to get it this far. Every single vote counts so please keep them coming in and lets see if we can make this a reality for all who want it.

Thanks for the comments and support , its all very much appreciated and all helps too!

Happy New Year to all I thought this may warrant a new thread for this project / update. Some may remember last year I posted these first version models up here: http://www.eurobrick...929&hl=caterham To cut a long story short I got overwhelmed with requests at shows of how "can I get one?", "put it on ideas", etc so after many months I finally did 4 weeks ago, with a view to making them completely "set friendly" and legitimate builds. So, I'm showing these new versions which are completely legit build wise now as ideas to throw into the mix for the project. I hope you like them and if you do, please help support the project by voting and or spreading the word. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/87703 It is on its way to the half way stage after 4 weeks of being live and Caterham themselves are also "routing" for it to happen, so all good news so far R500 620R and R500 Both models feature a rolling chassis, positionable front steering, removable nose cone, bonnet / hood , tonneau cover and wheels to reveal more detail. The blue 620R version has a removable engine, whilst the white R500 has a working piston engine and linked steering. These are not the final versions, just more ideas to throw into "what could possibly be" and a variety of colour options are available. Links to full "break down" galleries: R500: https://www.flickr.c...57649494604928/ 620R: https://www.flickr.c...57649889984995/ Original models: https://www.flickr.c...57645005982832/ Full Flickr stream: https://www.flickr.c...otos/bricktrix/ Twitter feed for project updates: https://twitter.com/Bricktrix_Carl

Supported and good luck with it from a fellow trainhead. I notice you mentioned my name a few posts above, feel free to contact me if ever needed and I'll help out where-ever possible / if possible with time, etc. I tend to not put my own trains on Ideas as I always feel they are too "niche" a market, i.e. U.K, and they would have to be dumbed down to be legit which isnt a problem, I just dont get the time ;) I would be all over a collaborative venture if it were mustered up, IF I could find the time to dedicate to it, which would be a big IF at the moment. Good luck with the project James, you certainly deserved your first with LEGO, that put you in the history books, I see a good appeal to this idea :)

I'm afraid not, HOWEVER, these were submitted onto LEGO Ideas a few days ago, so if you would like to see them get a chance of being made as official sets then please support it: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/87703

2 of my favourite cars and you've captured them both pretty dam well

Thank you all for the great comments, its appreciated :) These will be on display at the STEAM show in Swindon,U.K on Oct 4th and 5th, along with the F1 cars I did, Caterham 7 and of course my complete running train display. Yeah, the grey one got blogged by a few sites before I managed to get the camo version out there! I'm not totally sure what stickers your reffering to for how they are produced? Some are just scaled and printed onto labels and cut out by hand, some are PC cut vinyl decals (things like the logos and any lettering larger than 2.5mm high), using a sign making friend of mine, and the main STAMP stuff is sheets of sign making self adhesive vinyl, applied and cut by hand. Its a winner to me, as the stuff can be easily peeled off some 10 years later leaving the LEGO bricks unharmed. The down side is trying to obtain the vinyl in spot on colour matches to LEGO. For instance, the dark green I use is almost spot on to one of the 6 or so very slightly different shades of TLG dark green. The lighting in my photos tends to throw things off and make it more noticable, but "in the brick" to the naked eye its a good match. However, the green I use for TLG standard green is slightly off, which IS noticable to the naked eye. Its okay if you have a 90 degree transition from say the side of a plate to the top of a plate, you can get away with only covering the top side and you dont notice the difference in colours. But on a camo model like one of these, where I'm using vinyl for a more natural transition between 2 tiles stepped to each other, where one small corner of a different coloured tile would have to have the green vinyl, it was too noticable, so I had to cover all the standard green with the green vinyl. Not something I like to do, but in this case, I think it was worth doing. Its a shame I never got pics of it before the stickers went on, as even the blockiness of the standard build looked pretty kewl, but I was covering black bricks in coloured vinyl to save me ordering the green or dark green legit versions to try and keep the cost down a little with bricks I already had.....I still had to order a load of stuff though, even with being able to build it to 60% correct colours / parts,so this hasnt been cheap

Away from the norm for me again, but finally completed both of these now. Links to both albums with more pics, hope you enjoy :)

Very, very nice

If you click the links to the album for each car, you will see many pics of the break downs. This is an example with nose cone removed and top body pannel off:

Thank you

Hi, just got the last of these 3 cars finished so thought I'd post them up here: All 3 of them are modular, so all body pannels, spoilers, nosecones are removable, engine, gearbox, etc stripping down to the drivers tub. 1979 Ferrari 314T4 Link to full album with interior parts (and also a small sclae version): 1979 Renault RE20Turbo Link to full album: 1975 Brabham BT44B Link to full album: Hope you enjoy :)

Yes I know, it wasnt you I was talking about. Someone brick built a very good rendition and posted the images on Flickr or Brickshelf, but I cant find the emails from them to link the images to or even name the user !

I know of someone (though I cant remember who it was now) who built one using the images from my Flickr album.

Thanks for the great comments all L@go, dont worry there will be plenty more cars now I'm bitten, besides which, I've just about done all the locos I ever wanted to, so these are a welcome change that I think are going to be hard to stop with

Hi all, thought I'd share these here as I've managed to finish these 2 projects today. Initially started off with the green / silver version, wanting to get the tubular chassis within the body shell. Its there, you just cant see it with the engine in! Anyhow, a colleague of mine at work saw the work in progress pics of it and asked if I could build his car for him, hence the yellow version. He didnt want the removable bonnet and engine details so the models do vary in how they are built. His has a removable nose cone and door pannels, whilst my own version has removable, well just about evrything with all internal detailing hopefully where it should be, so it strips down pretty much like the original car. Both are buildable in the colours pictured, (apart from you cant get yellow 1x2x2 slopes) the light grey has been sprayed metalic silver, I think most of the parts done like that on the yellow version are obtainable in orginal met silver LEGO parts. A white R500 is 100% buildable in obtainable parts and may be another model I do. Link to Flickr album: Cars: They have both been a real joy to build, hope you like them Carl

I think this looks really good. You've done very well with all the detailing etc. Nice job

Lovely! :)

I'm not quite sure which part of "Its not quite minifig scale, as the scale was dictated by the wheel / tyre proportions with front / rear, however, a minifig doesnt look out of place in it." you didnt understand?

Hi all, as I mainly visit the "train" section of Eurobricks, this "town" section is quite "alien" to me.....I'm not even sure if its the right place to post this, but nothing else seems to be suitable, so here goes: Flickr set / album: https://www.flickr.c...57644419561432/ I've always said to myself that I'd love to revisit this, as its a car that I loved back in its day, and I used to build it while watching the F1 with my Dad. Its not quite minifig scale, as the scale was dictated by the wheel / tyre proportions with front / rear, however, a minifig doesnt look out of place in it. Anyway, this was more of a "get re-aquainted with it" project, to set me up for a large scale version, which is well out of my comfort zone but something I've always wanted to do with this car. I was highly inspired by Tamiya catalogues back in the 70's, plus my cousin had some of the 1/12 scale F1 car models which blew me away when I saw all the fantastic working details in them, ................so this is something I aspire to now with the next build of this at a large scale, I hope to be able to cram all the detail that I "really" want to get into a larger scale model.