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Ever since winning a pen at Brickswest two years ago, I’ve wanted to use the
round segments in a MOC. Last semester, I finally got around to Brasso-ing off
the letters. I also found a bunch of pictures of BMWs, the perfect car for a
bunch of round headlights. This past week, I finally had enough free time to
sit down and build. Here’s the result:
The car is a 1995-1997 BMW E34 series M5. The fenders are 14 studs wide, while
most of the rest of the body is 13 studs. The scale is approximately 1:18 in
length and height. A little bit of extra width helps the car look powerful. I
used a bunch of offsets to get the front to taper a bit.
Below are links for the wheel construction and the 0.7 stud offset used along
the sides at the bottom to round it off a bit.
Please let me know what you think! Comments, criticisms, questions, flames, etc
encouraged,
--Bram
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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Please let me know what you think! Comments, criticisms, questions, flames,
etc encouraged,
--Bram
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FLAMES Encouraged??? I think that’s a really irresponsible thing to say! How
dare you suggest that? Why, you oughta....
(how was that? :-) Not a bad little flame, ne? )
Er, more seriously, nice car. Thanks for sharing. It’s always neat when one part
“forces the issue”. When do we get to see it in person?
Spotlighted.
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Bah!
Why did you even bother posting this heap o plastic junk? I mean, come on! No
Suspension, no steering. And still you post it in .modelteam?
All that got is awesome shape and über-cool building techniques that no mortal
dears touch. I mean 1.7 studs?
You rock!
Spotlighted (not like it'll need it to get attention, being on the front page
and all).
You could throw in a Technic fig in the photos with that scale too!
--
Best regards,
/Tobbe
<http://www.lotek.nu>
(remove SPAM when e-mailing)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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> http://lego.bldesign.org/?v=new BMW E34 M5
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> The car is a 1995-1997 BMW E34 series M5. • <snip>
> Please let me know what you think!
Awesome! You've really captured well the complex shapes and design of the real
machine. Excellent work! I hope to see this at Brickfest PDX.
This excellent MOC would be more than suitable to be made into a new LEGO MOC
set (in the Modelteam/Designer theme). But I'm sure your building techniques are
highly advanced and the age rating would have to be 18-99 ;-)
Spotlighted!
best,
TJ Avery
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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Please let me know what you think! Comments, criticisms, questions, flames,
etc encouraged,
--Bram
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As usual your car skills at once confuse and stun me.
Really nice work. And thank you for the very thorough explanation of the 0.7
stud offset. I still have absolutely no idea how you did that.
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Hi
Nice work! I really like that car!
And that’s not just because I like BMWs in general :-)
It’s amazing how you managed to build quite a lot of little details
at such a small scale (fuel cap!, dashboard, etc.).
I especially like the lower fenders at the side of your model (where you used
those wedge plates). The look just like the real thing.
The wheels are also a cool idea.
I’ve never seen one of those headlight parts.
(Maybe that’s because I don’t own one of those pens???)
Would be cool if those parts were available in clear white, though ...
(same goes for the front indicator lights)
Anyway ... great work (as usual).
One of the first “highlights” this year (for me as a Model Team fan)
But 2004 is still young, right? :-)
Andreas
aka “El Caracho”
http://www.el-caracho.de
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In lugnet.build, Jon Palmer wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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Please let me know what you think! Comments, criticisms, questions, flames,
etc encouraged,
--Bram
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As usual your car skills at once confuse and stun me.
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Heh, thanks.
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Really nice work. And thank you for the very thorough explanation of the 0.7
stud offset. I still have absolutely no idea how you did that.
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Well, I used LDraw a lot for a few years, so I got to be pretty familiar with
the dimensions of lego parts, and how they need to be oriented to get everything
to line up properly. Familiarity with the dimensions of technic bricks,
headlight bricks, 1x4-1x2 brackets, and light clips really comes in handy.
Here’s another level, upside down 0.4 stud offset that I used on the Jeep
Cherokee:
--Bram
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In lugnet.build, Thomas Avery wrote:
> Awesome! You've really captured well the complex shapes and design of the real
> machine. Excellent work! I hope to see this at Brickfest PDX.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can make it to PDX, so this model won't be going
unless Adrian wants to tote it there. I have a midterm exam that Monday, and
it's expensive to fly from Cleveland. However, if you want to pay for my
ticket... :)
> This excellent MOC would be more than suitable to be made into a new LEGO MOC
> set (in the Modelteam/Designer theme). But I'm sure your building techniques
> are highly advanced and the age rating would have to be 18-99 ;-)
Well, it's probably no harder to assemble than most large Technic sets...
However, it does use some old (1x1 plate with skinny light clip) and nonstandard
(Lego pen) parts. It also uses a ton of parts...it's quite heavy for it's size.
--Bram
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In lugnet.build, Andreas Engel wrote:
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Nice work! I really like that car!
And that’s not just because I like BMWs in general :-)
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It was partially your M1 that inspired me to build my own BMW model. I was also
inspired by some of you hinge techniques for the opening trunk. The curvature
on the side of your model also prompted me not to leave the sides of mine
completely flat at the bottom.
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It’s amazing how you managed to build quite a lot of little details
at such a small scale (fuel cap!, dashboard, etc.).
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Thanks!
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I especially like the lower fenders at the side of your model (where you used
those wedge plates). The look just like the real thing.
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This model was pretty much built in two sessions a few days apart. The section
you mention is one of the things I reworked a bit the second time around. Using
the wedge plates upside down makes a much clearer line than when they are
rightside up. The cutouts for studs tend to interupt the edge when the parts
are used rightside up.
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The wheels are also a cool idea.
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I used them on the ZNAP wheeled DYAD too, but
this was my first chance to use them for the low profile tire look.
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I’ve never seen one of those headlight parts.
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I’ve always wanted a disc between 1 and 2 studs wide for building cars, and I
finally got one!
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(Maybe that’s because I don’t own one of those pens???)
Would be cool if those parts were available in clear white, though ...
(same goes for the front indicator lights)
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I agree. The double ring of the bottom of the part does give a nice “Angel
Eyes” look, though.
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Anyway ... great work (as usual).
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Thanks!
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One of the first “highlights” this year (for me as a Model Team fan)
But 2004 is still young, right? :-)
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Maybe one of yours will be next?
--Bram
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