Karwik’s Jelcz 272 MEX
Exactly eleven years ago, my buddy Karwik presented a LEGO Jelcz 272 MEX. Back then it was a quite trick model, utilizing many building techniques I’m sure Karwik was a precedessor for like flex tube window frames for minifig cars, strange clip connections and so on.
When we were talking, Karwik mentioned how he’d change the model if some day it should be possible, mostly it was the talk about loosing roof height, rounding off corners and so on.
I don’t think that Karwik will be back in the LEGO world anytime soon, therefore I rebuilt the bus to match his ideas from back then.
It’s not exactly a reverse engeneered model, because I have no good pics of it, and no idea how Karwik built it back then, so however I solved the puzzle might be completley different.
The measurements are the same though.
I changed the chairs inside, I gave up making out how it “should” be, and made it my way, adjusting the amount of chairs to plans of the real bus, I made a rounded off dashboard, added some details, rounded off the roof corners, and made some other minor changes. Also used cut up official stickers rather than printing special decals...
One thing I really suck at is Karwik’s notorious use of “half clip” connections, where he barley snaps bars or flex tubes in a clip at werid angles. No idea how he achieved that in so many creations, when I do it right at the “edge” of where the bar needs to be it just snaps on or off, and that’s it. Kind of desperating when you need to adjust a bus roof that relies on a dozen of these being in exact position...
Karwik’s Jelcz 272 MEX
Exactly eleven years ago, my buddy Karwik presented a LEGO Jelcz 272 MEX. Back then it was a quite trick model, utilizing many building techniques I’m sure Karwik was a precedessor for like flex tube window frames for minifig cars, strange clip connections and so on.
When we were talking, Karwik mentioned how he’d change the model if some day it should be possible, mostly it was the talk about loosing roof height, rounding off corners and so on.
I don’t think that Karwik will be back in the LEGO world anytime soon, therefore I rebuilt the bus to match his ideas from back then.
It’s not exactly a reverse engeneered model, because I have no good pics of it, and no idea how Karwik built it back then, so however I solved the puzzle might be completley different.
The measurements are the same though.
I changed the chairs inside, I gave up making out how it “should” be, and made it my way, adjusting the amount of chairs to plans of the real bus, I made a rounded off dashboard, added some details, rounded off the roof corners, and made some other minor changes. Also used cut up official stickers rather than printing special decals...
One thing I really suck at is Karwik’s notorious use of “half clip” connections, where he barley snaps bars or flex tubes in a clip at werid angles. No idea how he achieved that in so many creations, when I do it right at the “edge” of where the bar needs to be it just snaps on or off, and that’s it. Kind of desperating when you need to adjust a bus roof that relies on a dozen of these being in exact position...