Evan Almighty and His Toy Collection

(05-28-2017, 02:47 AM)Super Wrote: Hi AC, nice to hear from you again and that is a cute story about Evan, thanks for sharing it with us...On a serious note, give Evan my number and whenever he wants to buy something that you have told him costs too much that we can work out something on the side using your his collection of Plarails as collateral

He will not get a phone until he is 30!!!! LOL

Won't you be in a old folks home long before that?

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Evan asked that he wanted to play with some Tomica trains
Went to the basement and we dug up what he wanted... for now...

Way to go Evan!!!

Did you get the new Lego Speed Champions Maclaren yet AC? Lovely looking model assembled in a very unusual bright Orange

(06-05-2017, 01:18 PM)Nigels Wrote: Did you get the new Lego Speed Champions Maclaren yet AC? Lovely looking model assembled in a very unusual bright Orange

Not available yet from our Toys R Us (Odd) But I have been building a versions of it with available parts since introduction in March.








Our Multi Color Mercedes AMG GT3

Flintstones?

What was built last week or 2.


And of course

I should have known better lol!! I've got two of the official ones so far, love the design and the colour.

Out of interest have you dug into the old racers yet? The 'World Racer' series have a couple of nice cars as do the 'Speed Racer' (I think its called that).

One thing I have got quite hooked on are the 'Tiny Turbo' range, I've managed to get hold of quite a few of those as well as built my own designs. Found a nice way to spice them up a bit without the stickers - I use either Automobile 'stripes' (available on rolls from a car parts shop) or more recently the rolls of tape used by nail bars to decorate woman's nails, you get some great metallic as colours as well as holographic effects type tape for a song off eBay (30 mixed types for a couple of quid).

Just adding some metallic stripes to a racing car tiny turbo type design really improves the impact of it.

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Actually I just realised the one you got there AC is the McLaren P1, I'm talking about the new 720; McLaren

(06-05-2017, 08:35 PM)Nigels Wrote: Actually I just realised the one you got there AC is the McLaren P1, I'm talking about the new 720; McLaren

They are the 720s, I just made them look like "GT3" style. Added the Wings and front diffusers

Here's the normal looking 720s. Again I was using parts that were available, like the brick for the headlight, Lego only has 3 versions: Black, Blue and now the orange for the 720s.

You made all of these from scratch AC?

(06-06-2017, 01:57 AM)ActionChugger Wrote: They are the 720s, I just made them look like "GT3" style. Added the Wings and front diffusers

Here's the normal looking 720s. Again I was using parts that were available, like the brick for the headlight, Lego only has 3 versions: Black, Blue and now the orange for the 720s.

Ah ok gotcha lol!!

Where do you source all the less common parts? They are not generally available on the Lego 'pick a brick' site, I guess BrickLink is another (if expensive) option to obtain them, or do you just buy extras of the current kits that carry the parts and break them? (if you do you're not alone I've been known to do this )

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(06-06-2017, 12:05 PM)Super Wrote: You made all of these from scratch AC?

More to the point has AC made any 'from scratch' that are not pre-existing Lego models (i.e. not available in kit or instruction form)?

I've been looking at more F1 cars and some of the Le Man's types...