Future Projects
Note: to stay up-to-date with the progress on my models, be sure to check my Facebook page and my monthly video workshop reports.
Currently building:
- M1A2 Abrams tank – 90% complete
- Triggo urban vehicle – 70% complete
- A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft – 60% complete
- Jeep Willys SAS – 50% complete
- Lamborghini Aventador – 45% complete
- King Tiger XL tank – 35% complete
- ORP Orzeł submarine – 30% complete
- TOG II tank/boat – 20% complete
- M4A2 Sherman tank, “Twaby Ark” variant – 15% complete
- T-34 XL – 10% complete
- MBT-70/KPz 70 tank – 10% complete
- K-Wagen tank – 5% complete
In the queue:
- 1969 Corvette Stingray car
- 1970 Dodge Challenger car
- 2015 Dodge Challenger police car
- Airport Crash Tender
- Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 car
- Aliens Dropship
- B2 aircraft
- BMW i8 car
- Bucket Wheel Excavator
- Caterpillar 953 Tracked Loader
- Caterpillar 7495 Electric Rope Shovel
- Caterpillar D6K2 Dozer
- Dodge Viper car
- Doosan CX Concept Excavator
- ELC AMX tank
- F-117A Nighthawk
- F-22 Raptor aircraft
- Ferrari 360 Spider car
- Ferrari 599 GTO car
- Ferrari LaFerrari car
- Grizzly Combat Engineering Vehicle
- IS-7 tank
- Jeep Wrangler Snowcat car
- Kalinin K7 aircraft
- Kamov Ka-50 Hokum aircraft
- Kenworth K100 truck
- KITT car
- KV-1 tank
- Lamborghini Countach car
- Lamborghini Reventon car
- Lead Sled car
- Liebherr LTM1250 mobile crane
- Liebherr R924 excavator with Leonard Boom
- M2 Bradley APC
- M6 Heavy Tank
- M35 Wrecker truck
- M41 Walker Bulldog tank
- Mad Max Bigfoot car
- MAN SX truck
- Matilda Mk2 tank
- MAZ 7310 truck
- Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
- Mi-24 Hind aircraft
- P-38 Lightning aircraft
- P-51 Mustang aircraft
- Peterbilt Wrecker truck
- RAH-66 Comanche aircraft
- Ratte tank
- Rocket 2 trike
- Steiger Panther tractor
- StuG III tank destroyer
- SU-47 Berkut aircraft
- T18 Boarhound car
- Uboot type VIIc submarine
- V-22 Osprey aircraft
- Vermeer T1255Commander 3 trencher
- Versatile 450 tractor
- Warhammer Stormblade tank
@Minotaur
Most of these are fairly complex and well-thought plans already.
@Sariel
Ya,it’s in the middle of the list.Are all the vehicle’s just all the things you can think of at the moment,because thats a pretty big list. 🙂
@Minotaur
We’ll see. I’m months away from even starting to build it.
Speaking of the Lamborghini Reventon,will it have a gearbox?If so,how many speeds?
@qwertyuiop
No.
havebt you already started building the reventon?
I think you should make a MOC of a striker 8×8 firetruck. They have independent suspension i believe, eight wheel drive, two steered axles in the front, and if you build that MOC with the water nozzles, you should put one in it.
The only thing missing is some woman sitting on the car in the picture:)
@Minotaur
Yes, the C6 is very nice.
Like this one http://wikicars.org/en/Corvette
@Minotaur
I like the regular Corvette much better.
Hi Sariel,
I’ve been thinking,I’d like to see you make a 2010 Corvette Stingray Concept Car!Maybe you can add some weird feature like a pneumatic exhaust system 🙂
@William
You just have to pump air into water-filled bottle, that’s all.
Can you really make a onboard water tank with motorized pump?
If you can, please make the intructions first for me.
@Sariel
😀 yes, and you seem to have modelled that perfectly!
The wheels you are using were a good idea from LEgo, they suit a lotof models, they’re big enough but not too small, and look realistic I think.
@Mike
Quite and extreme steering lock, I’d say.
@Sariel
like with forklifts, they don’t really carry too much of the weight. They have quite a good steering lock I guess.
@Mike
There is some friction, but I think it’s acceptable. No, rear wheels in a reach stacker are completely different.
hmmm I like the Ford but it’s time for some real Sariel-kind of complex model, full of mechanics and motors. One question: won’t multiple holes of beams, liftarms serve as a better bearing? on’t these little turntables generate too much friction? Anyway, I’m ver curious about some future close-ups on the bearings.
Double wheels in the rear also, with the same bearings?
@lewi
No, thanks.
elphinstone trailers sorry
do the kenworth but make it a kenworth t909 or t908 or make a logging truck (kenworth t658) and fold up trailers (moore trailers)
@SPARTA
7 kilograms. I believe you can convert it into pounds yourself.
How much did it weigh in pounds if possible.
@SPARTA
The chassis was crumbling.
Why did you not finish it?
@SPARTA
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=397659
What is your biggest moc?
It would be awesome!
@SPARTA
That would be “elephant scale” 🙂
What I thaught you meant was using the unimog tires.
@SPARTA
That’s what I meant by “very large scale”.
It is not impossible I have just made made one of the pairs of wheels with suspension using the same sized wheels from the 8258 crane truck.@Sariel
@Sariel
too bad.. but still they can come handy.
@Mike
Even 16 micromotors won’t be able to move a thing.
@Mike
Actually these ETF trucks don’t exist yet, do they? What you find on the web are only animations (very good ones though). They’re making a little propaganda for them 🙂
@Mike
but we have to agree that these ETFs look like spaceships compared to regular trucks… I kinda like them, I think they look very cool. But reproducing them with Lego.. that’s a bit hard 😛
I think they have electric engines in the wheel units, and the diesel engines (one truck has four “smaller” ones that are turned on/off as the load requires) power only generators.
I think this is common on large five-axle Oshkosh military trucks. And locomotives 🙂
@Sariel
Let’s toy with the idea, just on a theoretical plane. Take 16 Micromotors :P, integrate them into the rotating frame of the suspension. Making it able to swing would be hard, but maybe, these frames could be built, maybe without even the suspension itself (or maybe use a small pneu cylinder). Using small wheels (like the ones you hate, Paul, or maybe even smaller ones) probably the Micromotors could move the truck, at least an empty frame that just shows that it can be done.. but quite probably if there was a body on the chassis it would be too heavy.
But who has 16 Micromotors? 😀
@SPARTA
That doesn’t make it any easier.
But the middle axle doesn’t seem to rotate.
@SPARTA
I’m afraid the drivetrain of this truck is practically impossible to reproduce with Lego, except for a very large scale perhaps.
You should make a ETF mining truck but it might be hard to find specs for it.
@SPARTA
Maybe.I don’t really know at the moment.
Are you ever going to make a backhoe?
no i was talking to joshua
@random
Yes, I have.
his porsche (which is a newer model and toataly awesome as well) it probably better than the bugati
no instructions though
have you seen sheepos one. it totaly awesome (7+r gearbox, brakes motorized spoiler, etc) heres the link http://www.sheepo.es/ @Joshua
@Joshua
No, I don’t.
i love all of your creations epically the peterbilt 379 do u know how to make a Bugatti veyron ss
@SPARTA
Yes.
Have you ever tried a lego water pump before?
The roof of the Ford is very low, will Lucius be able to see the road?!
Oh and please install 4-point safety belts.
@Sariel
Good luck, it’s a tough challenge to keep the weight low… but it already looks fast 🙂
@Mike
I have already taken a few liftarms after this photo was taken. And I like turn signals. They would work well with the RC unit and make model more realistic.
hm, if you’re working against weight, why add turn signals? I understand it’s not heavy but each brick counts, doesn’t it?
The nose looks great, but maybe you could take out a few liftrams while still keeping the contours.
@Sariel
I have Quentin Willson’s The Classics of Car History (if that’s the original title) and there are some photos of the Ford in that light blue-orange, and of course, dark gree, the British racing color 🙂 It wouldn’t be a reasonably-priced option.. but I think the car would look cool in dark grey with orange stripes 🙂 but this red-white is maybe the best you can have.
@Mike
You’re right about the colours, I have plenty of photos of various versions from the sixties. But none of these uses colours that are easy to get in Lego.
GT40 looks like a catfish 🙂
No, joking. It’s getting along very nicely. I thought red’s getting boring for supercars, but it suits the Ford well.
I wonder how it would look in yellow with black stripes, or in blue with orange. I think there was the Gulf team in the sixties that had light blue and orange color theme for this car.
Anyway, it’s going to be spectacular!
Oh, I should If guessed that 😀
@TheTechnicKiwi
Yes, alphabetical.
Is this list in any sort if order?
@Mike
No, I don’t think so. It’s going to be 24 studs wide, as usual, I have already calculated all dimensions.
@Sariel
That’s for sure. Yes, the suspension is unique with the double row of road-wheels.
Could this be your biggest tank yet (because of the firing mechanism)?
@Mike
The suspension alone is interesting. I also hope to make it fire. Besides, it’s a very famous tank with interesting silhouette that will look impressive if modelled properly.
How come you decided to include the Tiger tank? What techincal feature is it that caught you so that you want to model it? 🙂
@Sariel
Yeah my bad, it wasn’t the 540K but an older race car. It got the name I guess because of the front leaf springs protruding forward like tusks. Anyway, your choice is nice, it’s a beautiful car.
@Mike
Um… I don’t think so.
540K the White Elephant? 🙂
@kyle m
“All”. Like “all on this list”? That would be like 10 MOCs per month, you know.
do you think youll be even close to finishing all your projects this year
@TheTechnicKiwi
I don’t know.
they have AUS/NZ on the list, do they always distrubte from everyone on that list?
@TheTechnicKiwi
Yes, I will surely build faster once I’m finished with writing. I’ not sure about the shipping of the hard copies, but here’s the list of international distributors: http://nostarch.com/distribution.htm
Will 2011 be an all-time low creation rate? (you said you think the gt will be the last model of 2011) btw the book looks amazing! Will it be possible to get a hard copy out of the states?
@Michael304
These: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=22969c04
What wheels do you use for the rear axle from ford gt40
You should try to build a boat that is designed to go very fast. Paddles would work well, or I did see a video of a boat that had two large lime wheels on either side just at the water surface, and it sent back huge rooster-tails.
@Sariel
I suspected a color change would be in the mix. Lime parts are out there, but they don’t seem to be very common, and I’m sure it’d cost a small fortune to acquire them for just one model. It wouldn’t be very logical, I’m sure.
@DwiCou14
Thanks, but I won’t be able to build it in lime. I’m planning on red instead.
I just recently discovered your superb work, and have been browsing your site for the past few days. Makes me want to get my old collection out and start tinkering again.
Anyhow, you have several models listed under your future projects that I look forward to seeing, but I’m particularly interested in seeing what you come up with for the Steiger Panther. I once worked on a farm that had a pair of Tigers, one of the larger Steiger tractors, and have always had a fondness for the lime green machines since then.
@Emil
As soon as I have something to show.
When will you post a picture of the Ford GT40?
@Mike
It’s a bug in one of the plugins that pops up every now and then. Nothing major.
@Mike
*Brothers Brick 😛
Is it a bug that the same things are featured at the Technicbricks and Bothers Brick links? –>
@Martin
In the future.
when will you build the LIEBHERR 1200-5.1 ??
Best regards Martin
@Stefan
There will be no next Trial Truck from me.
hey, for your next truck trial, u should try building a model with live axles similar to those in the unimog u400, but with heavy duty u-joints! if you want to, coz i think now that new parts are being introduce, it would be nice to see something other than pendular suspension
I agree with sariel, it is the ugliest car EVER!
@Wout
It’s one of the ugliest cars I’ve ever seen.
please bild a lamborghini LM002
You should make an AC-130, I know you don’t really do planes, but that would be amazing!
@Mecho12345
Yes, I have, but I don’t plan to build one at the moment.
Are neither of you aware of this: http://technicbricks.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-techvideo-2011-08-lego-zeeplin.html
And helium is safe but hydrogen explodes with the slightest of a flame, so it got banned (Or at least in NZ, I think) however helium is running out like oil. Have you thought of making a dackar rally truck?
@Sariel
Not cheap, yup, but what do you mean not safe?
Props: they’re too small…
hmm… a sailing boat, with a boom, and a motor moving (rotating) the bbom to catch wind, and another motor for steering?
@Mike
Nope, propellers in air won’t get us anywhere (literally). Paddle wheels, maybe. But it’s really simple and doesn’t seem like a challenge. Also, playing with helium is not exactly safe and not exactly cheap.
@Sariel
I wasn’t thinking of a plane model in the Lego scale. Yes, we’ll have to accept that this one thing Lego won’t do 😀
One crazy idea: a blimp. Some He-filled ballons with a PF powered hull under them 😀 now I know it’s one crazy idea but admit it, it would be funny. Bet the blonde girl in the park would like it much more than she liked the GG quad 🙂 walkin through the park with a Lego blimp hovering beside you. 😀 😀
Are you planning to continue the boat sequence sometime? Maybe with propellers in the air and not in the water?