Greeble Farm
‘Greebling’, one of many nerdisms from the Online Lego Community, involves outfitting a creation – usually a spacecraft – with a myriad of tiny grey pieces to add texture, complexity, and to make them...
View ArticleIs It a Train? Is It a Tram?
No, it’s an NS omC! OK, that’s maybe not as catchy as the famous Superman musical lyrics, but we have at least learned something here at The Lego Car Blog, having had no idea what an ‘omC’ was before...
View ArticleToyota-ish
When is a Toyota not a Toyota? When it’s a BMW or a Subaru… At least if the JDM-fanatics of the internet’s comments section are correct. They’re not correct of course, because a) the fanatics of any...
View ArticleThere’ll be Honda Coupe
What we value, particularly our vehicles, depends very much upon time and place. The sixth generation Honda Civic, built from ’95 to 2000 (and its Rover 200/400 counterpart), is worth scrap money here...
View ArticleDictators Welcome
Are you a discerning despot living life at the top? Do the buildings project your image, the people bestow you with affection, and toil not for their own glory but for that of the motherland? Have you...
View ArticleRoving Big
Febrovery, the annual building bandwagon in which ground-based science-fiction vehicles take over Flickr, is complete for another year. Which means it’s complete here too, which is good news for TLCB...
View ArticleLittle Red Corvette*
The Lego Car Blog archives are full of Chevrolet Corvettes. From official sets to large scale replicas, Corvettes of every generation have been replicated in LEGO. The C3 iteration, built from 1986 to...
View ArticleCometh the Harvest
It’s been a relatively quiet week here at TLCB Towers, but we can end it with three thoroughly excellent models in one. This fabulous ‘Van der Vlist’ liveried DAF XF-105 truck, Gebruder Recker...
View ArticleThree Horse Race
TLCB Elves are rather fond of Lego Ferraris. Particularly red ones. Which means we have a happy contingent today, because here are no less than three of them. Each is the work of previous bloggee...
View ArticleForkin’ Stud
No, not this TLCB Writer (despite the fame and girls that writing about Lego cars brings*), but this rather lovely and decidedly old-school replica of a Vallée 4DA20 forklift, as built by Philippe...
View ArticleThe Terminator
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, shelling important strategic military targets such as maternity hospitals, apartment buildings, theatres, shopping malls, and schools, at the cost of over...
View ArticleForking on the Desk
We’ve all wanted to do it. Build a desk-toy forklift that is. Well Flickr’s Nathan Hake did anyway, and has done so, with this neat and brilliantly-engineered desk-appropriate creation. A knob at the...
View ArticlePew! Pew! Kablamo!
Or alternatively – because this is taking place in the vacuum of space – silence… But we suspect even there you’ll still be able to hear appalling George Lucas movie dialogue. Anyway, this...
View ArticleBlack Box
Previous bloggee 3D supercarBricks doesn’t just build, well… supercars. No, he also builds mediocre European hatchbacks, such as this 2010s Opel/Vauxhall Corsa. The model includes a detailed engine,...
View ArticleStow-on-the-Wold Avoiding Chipping Norton
Running from Burford to near Worcester, the A424 is a main north/south road in the Cotswolds, passing through the pretty Norman town of Stow-on-the-Wold whilst avoiding the busy conurbation of...
View ArticleOutta My Way, Pencil Neck!
Benny the Cab may not have been drawn like Jessica Rabbit, but he still got some glorious lines of dialogue! The 1988 masterpiece ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ remains an icon of cinema, and is fondly...
View ArticleMy Other Truck’s Also in Space
LEGO’s new for 2024 Spacey Technic range is the mash-up we never thought we needed! It also features some superb new parts, which TLCB Master MOCer Nico71 has put to wonderful use though his brilliant...
View ArticleRetro Racer
Formula 1 is, these days, quite fantatsically uniform. Restrictive regulations aimed at creating closer racing have stifled the freedom to innovate, and thus nineteen of the world’s best racing...
View ArticleClearing Up
We’re back after a short Easter break, celebrating the story of things seemingly irreparably broken, being eternally fixed. On to today’s creation, and one part of humanity is always working to tidy...
View ArticleTopless Smokeshow
First-time visitors to this website today may not have expected to see images of a Lego Ferrari on fire, but you’re here now so on with the show! This is a Ferrari F355 Spider. Specifically it’s...
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