Mountain Pearl
Even the best of us are intimidated by something or another. For me its a stunning custom ’53 Ford F100 pickup called Mountain Pearl. I’ve seen it numerous times in hot rod magazines over the past few months and thought about building it in Lego...but the pearl white and red flake truck with a nearly fifty year history of sweeping awards seemed too beautiful, too rare...too curvy to to be done any justice in such a difficult, blocky medium. With the magazines put away but the mystique of the elusive Pearl still in mind, I moved on to build other things...a coconut crab, a Fokker triplane, a giant hornet, a Hillman Imp. All along the Mountain Pearl persisted in mind and I thought maybe...someday. Someday.
Along came the Iron Builder competition against my good friend Guy Himber and I knew if I had any chance whatsoever of winning I’d have to do something very special. The slew of white 1x6x3 1/3 curved brick arches they sent me gave me the ok, the courage to try my hand at the Mountain Pearl after long last...so here it is, my second Iron Builder entry. I used twelve of the requisite pieces. Like the real thing, this Lego replica has swivel seats, chopped roof, side lifting hood and truck bed and a clear firewall so that the occupants in the cab can enjoy viewing the all chromed out engine. Jeweled doorknobs adorn the grille and the shiny chrome rims were special ordered all the way from the Netherlands. Steel minifig top hats were machined and given to me almost a year ago by Guy Himber himself so they were used in the engine as a salute to my competitor. I mean, yes, I’d like to win this competition but I still like the guy. The smaller version of itself satisfies the requirements for this month’s LUGNuts challenge called Size Matters where we had to build the same vehicle in multiple scales. Hey, what can I say, I’m an efficient builder. But no matter what happens, no matter who wins this thing...I can take solace in knowing that I’ve overcome my fears and I’ve done what was previously thought to be impossible...
...I’ve captured the elusive Mountain Pearl.
Mountain Pearl
Even the best of us are intimidated by something or another. For me its a stunning custom ’53 Ford F100 pickup called Mountain Pearl. I’ve seen it numerous times in hot rod magazines over the past few months and thought about building it in Lego...but the pearl white and red flake truck with a nearly fifty year history of sweeping awards seemed too beautiful, too rare...too curvy to to be done any justice in such a difficult, blocky medium. With the magazines put away but the mystique of the elusive Pearl still in mind, I moved on to build other things...a coconut crab, a Fokker triplane, a giant hornet, a Hillman Imp. All along the Mountain Pearl persisted in mind and I thought maybe...someday. Someday.
Along came the Iron Builder competition against my good friend Guy Himber and I knew if I had any chance whatsoever of winning I’d have to do something very special. The slew of white 1x6x3 1/3 curved brick arches they sent me gave me the ok, the courage to try my hand at the Mountain Pearl after long last...so here it is, my second Iron Builder entry. I used twelve of the requisite pieces. Like the real thing, this Lego replica has swivel seats, chopped roof, side lifting hood and truck bed and a clear firewall so that the occupants in the cab can enjoy viewing the all chromed out engine. Jeweled doorknobs adorn the grille and the shiny chrome rims were special ordered all the way from the Netherlands. Steel minifig top hats were machined and given to me almost a year ago by Guy Himber himself so they were used in the engine as a salute to my competitor. I mean, yes, I’d like to win this competition but I still like the guy. The smaller version of itself satisfies the requirements for this month’s LUGNuts challenge called Size Matters where we had to build the same vehicle in multiple scales. Hey, what can I say, I’m an efficient builder. But no matter what happens, no matter who wins this thing...I can take solace in knowing that I’ve overcome my fears and I’ve done what was previously thought to be impossible...
...I’ve captured the elusive Mountain Pearl.