Hoonicorn 1
MOC: The Hoonicorn.
For the complete backstory, click the picture below - trust me, it'll explain a lot :)
And no, this is probably not for the purists. Move on, nothing to see here...!
This is my take on The Hoonicorn, Ken Block's rather heavily modified 1965 Ford Mustang used in his Gymkhana Seven driving video. Which has 41 million views on YouTube.
If you clicked the top link in this text, you'll see that the car is now painted in different colours than the ones I've chosen to build it in - I chose black because that was the original colour... and because it's much easier to make the LEGO version look right in that colour :)
This is not a perfect copy, I'll be the first to admit - but that's partly because I didn't want it to be. Mainly, the proportions are off - it's slightly too long compared to its width (which is particularly obvious when viewed straight from the side), and too tall compared to a minifigure. But I wanted to make it roughly the same scale as the LEGO Speed Champions sets currently on offer, and it looks quite nice next to those.
Neat details include the rear diffuser, gearshift and upright parking brake lever (I'll reluctantly go with the US terms as this is clearly a very American car) - and, of course, the fact that it seats Minifig Ken, which was important to me.
The stickers are from various sources, like LEGO and eBay, but the most important ones come from the online Hoonigan store - but some I just couldn't get in the right size, so the '43' stickers on both sides of the car are hand-cut from clean white LEGO sticker residue. And because I needed the wheels in this specific colour, I asked Auri of Chrome Block City to make me some. Being the great guy he is, he agreed. The exhaust pipe surrounds, headrests/rollcage, and rear badge are from the same store, in custom metallic silver.
Hoonicorn 1
MOC: The Hoonicorn.
For the complete backstory, click the picture below - trust me, it'll explain a lot :)
And no, this is probably not for the purists. Move on, nothing to see here...!
This is my take on The Hoonicorn, Ken Block's rather heavily modified 1965 Ford Mustang used in his Gymkhana Seven driving video. Which has 41 million views on YouTube.
If you clicked the top link in this text, you'll see that the car is now painted in different colours than the ones I've chosen to build it in - I chose black because that was the original colour... and because it's much easier to make the LEGO version look right in that colour :)
This is not a perfect copy, I'll be the first to admit - but that's partly because I didn't want it to be. Mainly, the proportions are off - it's slightly too long compared to its width (which is particularly obvious when viewed straight from the side), and too tall compared to a minifigure. But I wanted to make it roughly the same scale as the LEGO Speed Champions sets currently on offer, and it looks quite nice next to those.
Neat details include the rear diffuser, gearshift and upright parking brake lever (I'll reluctantly go with the US terms as this is clearly a very American car) - and, of course, the fact that it seats Minifig Ken, which was important to me.
The stickers are from various sources, like LEGO and eBay, but the most important ones come from the online Hoonigan store - but some I just couldn't get in the right size, so the '43' stickers on both sides of the car are hand-cut from clean white LEGO sticker residue. And because I needed the wheels in this specific colour, I asked Auri of Chrome Block City to make me some. Being the great guy he is, he agreed. The exhaust pipe surrounds, headrests/rollcage, and rear badge are from the same store, in custom metallic silver.