Well the nights are cold and dark now so i needed a VX related project for the evenings. I decided to see if i could build a VX220 out of lego.
As mine is black it seemed like the colour of choice. Once completed it looked a bit to black so i've gone for some yellow highlights - like a kind of Lightning in reverse!
There were obviously a few compromises due to the scale i choose and the lego itself.
I'm pretty happy with the result although if i had more lego i might have choosen the next scale up (the downside being all the preformed bits would have had to be made from scratch and there are no figures any larger - not to mention the cost - spent enough on ebay as it is!)
I searched the web before hand in case anyone else had done this before but couldnt find anything.
All the pictures are here :
https://picasaweb.go...82114/LegoVX220#
what do you reckon - recognisable as a VX ?
anyone else had a go at this before ?
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:09 PM
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:13 PM
Good effort there.
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:19 PM
Tubby boot seems to scale there 
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:20 PM
Very good Kevin. There was a lego elise on SELOC:
and an esprit:
and an esprit:
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:29 PM
Good effort......you must have been bored!
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:38 PM
Good work!
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:40 PM
Pretty good! 
Suspect you may have done it anyway if you had the parts but I reckon smooth black tiles would look alot better on the roof, bonnet etc to cover up the 'locking dots'.
Suspect you may have done it anyway if you had the parts but I reckon smooth black tiles would look alot better on the roof, bonnet etc to cover up the 'locking dots'.
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:42 PM
When are you posting pictures of the lego one?
That's brilliant, great effort! No turbo spoiler or BGW?
That's brilliant, great effort! No turbo spoiler or BGW?
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:51 PM
Eh? LHD?
Good effort
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 05:05 PM
Yep very good, now post it up on SELOC they'll love it :-)
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 05:12 PM
now post it up on SELOC they'll love it :-)
No don't it will just add to their arsenal when it comes to the skip / brick slurs!
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:49 PM
thanks for the comments - smooth black tiles would have been nice...its a mod on the list 
LHD - not sure why - think its cos i'm a lefty and it just seemed the correct side!
LHD - not sure why - think its cos i'm a lefty and it just seemed the correct side!
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:50 PM
Very good Kevin. There was a lego elise on SELOC:
and an esprit:
nice esprit - elise looks more like the bat car!
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 07:00 PM
Looks better put together than the real thing!
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 07:07 PM
Looks good...you sad b*st*rd...
..whats the next project...a nude body lounging around on the bonnet like Mr Simba's
HH
..whats the next project...a nude body lounging around on the bonnet like Mr Simba's
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 07:33 PM
Nice effort, the VX definitely lends itself well to a lego build!
Are those Bridgestones?
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 07:34 PM
Seloc will love that!
No hardtop is a bit disappointing 
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 07:48 PM
The esprit looks like a scirocco!
I tried a vx in Lego a while ago. Bloody tricky and I gave up in the end. Fair play for sticking with it.
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 08:12 PM
Seloc would say the VX is ideal for a Lego model.
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Posted 09 December 2012 - 01:13 AM
The esprit looks like a scirocco
Looks like a white Delorean to me
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