Alternate Models for Set 5867

Name of Model: (various, but they are all alternate models for set 5867)

Created by: NK DeSign-er

Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32900512@N02/tags/5867/

Details: Remember the alternate models for set 4100? How about the 4939 Cool Cars alternate Oldsmobile? That same builder (and former LEGO kit designer) has struck again lately, creating alternate models for set 5867 Super Speedster - 11 of them by my count. One thing I particularly like is that there is a variety of sizes here - 8-wide and 10-wide are well represented, and each race car chassis comes in around 6-wide, and the truck comes in at 14-wide counting the side-view mirrors. Even though these are all cars, they show a good deal of variety.

A brief note about the current state of LMOTD: posts will be intermittent for the rest of the month, and we'll be getting back up-to-speed come July

LUGNUTs' "For the Ladies" Roundup

Name of Model: New Ford Territory 2011

Created by: lego911 (Peter Blackert)

Roundup found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-ladies-round-up.html

Details: The LUGNUTs have been at it again - this past month, they had a theme loosely based around the Valentine's day holiday. "For the Ladies" brought out the usual interesting and impressive mix of vehicles. My personal favorite is this 2011 Ford Territory, which I actually had to check to see that it was made out of LEGO bricks. The curves of this one are almost too believable, and it looks like the doors even really open. The actual offset techniques here are things we've seen before, but the application is spot-on and really sells this design.

LUGNUTs - By Random Appointment Roundup

Name of Model: 1937 Bugatti tipo Cinquantesette Atalante

Created by: r a p h y

Round up found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2011/01/by-random-appointment-roundup.html

Details: For December's LUGNUTS challenge - "By Random Appointment" - members of this elite club of LEGO car builders randomly swapped assignments to build specific vehicles. While you can always count on LUGNUTS to collectively come up with some great designs, this particularly challenge required people to commit to participating before they were assigned a car to build - which brought out some different approaches than we've seen in the past. Case in point: the model I've pictured here, built by someone who generally builds in the 4-wide "Tiny Turbo" scale. That the jump to minifig scale worked at all is impressive, but this is actually a classy-looking 1937 Bugatti that'd fit well in any minifig-scale town. Elsewhere, we can see some more welcome improvements in the variety of models showcased - while "Model Team" style models are common in the group, it looks like Technic builders are finally starting to make serious inroads into LUGNUTS. You should, of course, check out all the models you can from the links above.

LUGNUTS' The Scuzz And The Fuzz Roundup

Name of Model: Volkswagen Passat

Created by: Mad physicist

Round up found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2010/09/scuzz-and-fuzz-roundup.html

Details: It's time for another LUGNUTS' roundup. This past month, the flickr-based car building club's monthly challenge theme was "the scuzz and the fuzz" - a sort of police and criminals theme. As usual, it's brought up a great set of car models in a variety of scales. My personal favorite that is not by lego911 (a great builder but he's not the only LUGNUT deserving of our attention) is this Volkswagen Passat, based on the unmarked vehicles frequently used for undercover surveillance in the Netherlands. There's often a few clever takes on a theme that keep all the cars from being too similar (although in the case of this challenge, there were enough options that there wasn't much overlap in what people actually built), and this completely unmarked vehicle looks great without looking like too much of a police car.

LUGNUTS' Kickin' It Oldschool Roundup

Name of Model: Oldsmobile

Created by: NK DeSign-er

Found at: Oldsmobile: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32900512@N02/sets/72157624118916410/ Round-up: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2010/06/kickin-it-oldschool-roundup.html

Details: It's time for another LUGNut's round-up. This time, the challenge was to recreate a car manufactured before 1950 (hence the "Kickin' It Oldschool" title). As usual, there were many great entries, but my personal favorite is the Oldsmobile pictured above. While it's not based on an exact make/model/year of car, it's an evocative, distinctive design that gets the idea of curves down without actually using many curved elements. Better yet, it's an alternate model that can be made out of only the parts found in set 4939 Cool Cars.

LUGNuts Animal Kingdom Roundup

I apparently picked the AC Cobra 427 Sports Car as the model of the day just a few hours too soon to properly feature the roundup of entries into that LUGNuts building challenge. The official Animal Kingdom roundup is now live on the LUGNuts blog. There are, as always, plenty of interesting cars to be seen here, but for the sake of my arbitrary rules for how often to post here and how quickly I should repeat themes, I won't be featuring any others from this challenge. Not that it'll pose any issue - next month they'll have another round of cars. I've featured some of their challenges here before, and there have been other great entries (that I haven't featured) in these monthly challenges as well.

1966 Ford Galaxie Cop Car and Round-Up

Name of Model: Ford Galaxie 1966 Police Interceptor for the Lugnuts 1966 Ford Galaxie competition

Created by: lego911 as a member of Lugnuts

Found at: lego911's Police Interceptor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29987108@N02/tags/police/ LUGNUTS roundup: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2010/01/galaxie-of-possibilities-round-up.html

Details: Today's "model of the day" is the Police car seen to the left here, built by lego911. It was built for a contest on flickr hosted by the Lugnuts group, which is for builders of detailed LEGO cars in a variety of scales. This being one of our larger "Sunday edition" posts, I'm actually featuring the whole Lugnuts 1966 Ford Galaxie competition roundup. Personally, I feel that this particular car is the most handsome design in the bunch, and the cop car approach works well for giving the vehicle personality even though this contest requires that everyone participating builds the exact same make, model, and year of automobile. Some of the other interesting designs included detailing made with Bionicle elements, a yellow convertible, a black beauty with an angled front, and even a decent looking 5-wide tiny turbo.

What A Concept round-up

Created by various builders in the LUGNuts flickr group

Found at: http://lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-concept-round-up.html

Details: Every month, the LEGO car enthusiasts in the LUGNuts flickr group have a new building challenge. This past month, the theme was "What A Concept" - the idea was for members of the group to build various concept cars. In all of these challenges, there are a few different scales and a few people who interpret the challenge in a clever and unusual way, but this one might just take the cake on those fronts. There's a bit more here than I usually post in one day, so consider this your "daily fix" for today and the upcoming weekend.

1960 Chevy Impala Wagon

Name of Model: Solar Flare

Created by: Lino M

Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12622904@N03/tags/impala/

Details: There is a group of diehard Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs) that is devoted to building cars. They call themselves the LUGNUTs - a clever mix of "nuts" as in nuts and bolts with LUGNET, which is a popular site in the adult LEGO fan community. Last month, they did a building challenge called Night and Day, which yielded a number of interesting pairings of cars. There were a number of interesting submissions, but this one is my favorite of the bunch. This "Solar Flare" is the "day" to the "night" of proudlove's "Lunar Eclipse". I don't think I need to explain why I like this one - it really shows a love for the original car and some great building techniques. My favorite detail is probably the windows-as-taillights. EDIT: I somehow managed to screw up Scheduled-Post-Publishing today, so enjoy the unusually early Wednesday model. With any luck the rest of the week will show up at the correct times...

MGB Roadster

Name of Model: Minifig scale mgb

Created by: bmck

Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=302094

Details: Here's a take on the MGB roadster. I'm pretty sure it's the roadster, anyway, since it's the convertible model. There are quite a few nice details here but the hood really caught my attention. The two sides are both done with the studs facing the front of the vehicle. The wheel-wells are made with 1x2 slopes and inverted 1x2 slopes. I'm pretty sure that the middle of the hood is using 4 1x6 curved slopes. The combination of that with the studs-not-on-top sides looks great (although the original does have the headlights more set in). The seats look great here too - the almost-all smooth look is very classy. The side windows and rear view mirrors show off some nice techniques with clip-plates too. I'm not sure exactly which part that is on the fenders, though - it looks too thin to be pneumatic tubing, but I'm not sure what else would bend that way.

1987 Shelby Charger

Name of Model: 1987 Shelby Charger GLHS.

Created by: corrado

Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=297341

Details: This gorgeous car has functioning innards made with Technic parts. Suspension? check. Steering? check. Drive train? check. There's even a fiber optic fuel injection style engine (I'm assuming that the builder got a bunch of the parts from an 8880 Supercar). Perhaps more interesting, though, is the sheer scale here - this is nearly solid and larger than most of the other model cars I've seen. There's even a studless undercarriage, an interior, and a sculpted top. Can anyone translate the text file in this gallery? I'd like to know if this can really run with all of that weight on it.

This is Thursday's model of the day

Compatible Car

Name of Model: compatible car

Created by: Moko

Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=278706

Details: This gorgeous minifig-scale car was built almost entirely with studs-not-on-top effects. You have to see it to believe it - and to be honest, I'm still not sure just how some of the parts are attached. The details here are amazing - it's not often that you see a car this size with side-view mirrors. I'm pretty sure that those are held on with black minifig wrenches. An alternate version of the car in the same gallery features a different way of doing car lights and mirrors.

Spacey "Rush Hour"-style Game

Name of Model: A space-themed version of the popular traffic jam puzzle - unnamed so I will not get sued... ed. note: We think it'll be fine to use the trademarked name here :-)

Created by: Jaem

Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=242741

Details: This is a delightful new twist on the Rush Hour Game concept - it's a Space-themed version of the game made with as an avant-garde LEGO® model. Of course, the game itself is hours of fun (seriously - Buy it if you don't have it yet - you won't regret it.) - but this LEGO® rendition uses a number of clever building techniques as well. The "cars" are detailed microscale creations that are designed with parts that reach down to hold the cars in place (there are, of course, skid plates underneath as well). The "tracks" that the cars go back-and-forth on (for those unfamiliar with the game, you cannot turn a car in it) are made with an array of various tiled-plates. The outside of the game has been decorated with a number of curvy and slopey pieces. OK, so this doesn't come with cards or a storage tray, but otherwise, this is one awesome model. You could probably whip up your own version for under $50 too (watch those proportions, though - there's some less-than-a-full-brick-across trickery going on in those grooves...).