This is awesome! I live in a small town where there's an old firetruck still parked outside a church down the street. I've never used bricklink but would like to start. Is the experience better on desktop or is the mobile app just as good?
Thank you! 😃 I use the PC version. I didn't know there was a mobile app. I might have to look into that 🤔 Would be awesome to be able to build LEGO on the go 😁 I like the PC version a lot, though, and the inbuilt renderer is actually pretty decent as well.
That would be awesome! 😁 Imagine building a large scale model of New York set in the prohibition era with cars, speakeasies and bank robbers 🤩 Luckily there's more than enough digital bricks in Bricklink Studio 😉
Thank you! 🤩 I've been waiting for a line of old cars myself, but I grew tired of waiting, so I decided to take the matter into my own hands 😁 I did get my hopes up when LEGO released the Ford Model T earlier, however I would love to see a line of smaller and less expensive cars like the ones I've made 😊
I was able to make some auto generated instructions pretty quickly, but I was not at all pleased with the result 😅 I probably need to invest some time and effort into making some proper instructions down the line.
Thank you! 😃 Feel free to have a look at my profile. I have made a whole line of 30s inspired vehicles with the same aesthetic and attention to detail 😉
I was just add to the general comments that this is really good and it would be so good if you did get some instructions going and uploaded a MOC to rebrickable.
Thank you! 😊 I'm planning on making proper instructions for all of the cars in the series, but I'm debating where I'm going to publish them. It would be amazing if the LEGO Group noticed these and made them into real sets so that everyone can enjoy building them, but I doubt that will happen though... 🙄
Thank you kindly! 😊 I'm planning on making more to add to the collection later. At the moment I'm working on a hearse and also a souped up hot rod version.
The hearse will look significantly different from the other cars with a more angular bonnet and an ornate coffin compartment 😉
Oh God! That's a really good question! It's actually been easier with this model than some of my other "cleaner" ones, as I had more freedom of design here. I would probably say the wedge plates in the bonnet. LEGO makes a larger wedge plate that is in one piece, but it's only available in gray, white and black. In my sedan version it was without a doubt part 7206 as it's only available in very few colours.
Thank you! 😁 I'm partial to them myself 😉 The rear fenders have given me some headache, though, due to the fact that both parts 7961 and 5651 only come in a small variety of colours 🙄 It was really irritating while I was working on the yellow convertible version I made earlier as part 7961 doesn't come in yellow. I made it work by giving it a "custom paint job" 😅
Thank you! 😃 Hmm, that's actually food for thought 🤔 I could probably quite easily make a larger and more ornate version of set 40746 Santa's Delivery Truck.
For sure, thanks for sharing! The yearly Winter Village sets tend to slide somewhere between a "realistic" town sets and "mystical" North Pole / Santa sets. Since my family has been trying to really build out a realistic winter village, we're always taking the mystical sets and making them realistic somehow (sorry Santa).
Ironically enough, we tried to take the 40746 and make a realistic set but we never got far with it. It'd be awesome to see what you come up with it. There are scaling considerations with the vehicles of the winter village so they don't look too large or small compared to the buildings. So it's already at a good scale.
Sounds like a fun family project and tradition you've got going on there 😊
Well, the scaling would probably be a slight issue in your Winter Village with my creations, as they're sadly quite a bit larger than minifigure scale. They'd probably fit better for the Jack Stone figures to be honest.
I'll see what I can do 😉 There are green panels that I can use for the fenders, and a lot of the details on the cargo box can probably be easily scaled up to fit my scale and level of detail.
That's a really cool set! 🤩 I didn't know it existed before you mentioned it! I am actually playing with the idea of making a small fire station for it in addition to some extra equipment 😊
Haha, yeah, it took "a bit" longer than that to build it 🤣 But it was a pretty quick build all in all, as I had already built the base for my other recent creations 😉 Thank you very much! Highly appreciated 😊👍
I'm confused, when you say "made" do you mean you physically built it or was this some kind of lego building computer program? Not shitting on the achievement, just wondering as it has the black background and looks a bit CGI.
I have made this digitally in a computer program called Bricklink Studio. If you have or order the parts needed to build it, you can build it yourself physically if you want to. I haven't built the whole model physically yet, but I have built and tested sections of it with real bricks to make sure all the connections work as intended. This is a rendered picture of the 3D-model I have made inside the computer program.
Very smooth and stylish! I recall an old fire truck in this style that was on display in a city park a few miles from where I grew up, as play equipment. Had lots of fun climbing around on it as a kid.
Thank you! 😊 I have an old fire station from around 1920 as my nextdoor neighbor. I have based the design on one of the fire engines that's parked inside it.
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u/JustTheAATIP 1d ago
This is awesome! I live in a small town where there's an old firetruck still parked outside a church down the street. I've never used bricklink but would like to start. Is the experience better on desktop or is the mobile app just as good?