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УАЗ-452, nickname "Bukhanka" [bread loaf] -- This tough as simple van has been produced with minor modifications since 1965. It is used as a transporter, ambulance, military vehicle -- a typical multifunctional utility van. Recently it has been promoted as a lifestyle van for camping and offroad adventures. I modelled it in its simple stock design, using a record number of 1x1 SNOT bricks. I chose to design the front with different kinds of slopes set off just a bit to get both a horizontal and a vertical shaping. The roof is made from 1x2 panels representing the grooves and a slight bow, the tiles in front allow for a slight overhang of the roof over the windshield.

Tags: Lego 6-wide MOC car Bukhanka Buchanka Soviet van UAZ-452 offroad utility vintage military Russian socialist industry

Volkswagen T1 Camper Lego MOC front
by PalBenglat

Volkswagen T1 Camper Lego MOC front

by PalBenglat

N 115 B 8.6K C 13 E Mar 10, 2023 F Mar 10, 2023

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This is my bricked version of the often-MOCed Volkswagen T1 transporter/camper/vanagon/bus/bulli/kombi, in a scale in between the official Lego sets 10220 and 40079. These and other toy remakes (e.g. here), as well as prints on T-shirts and posters contributed to the van's status as a popcultural icon. And, of course, the #vanlife style of living of hippies in the 1960s and 1970s, and hipsters today did its part. What I found intriguing, reading about the van recently, was that the van had originally been the idea of Dutch VW importer Ben Pon Sr., rather than the company’s own engineers, who in 1947 drew up a front-seated rear-engined van based on the beetle. Later, they named a Hannover street in honour of him, where the van and its successors haven been produced. Intriguing this story is moreover, because PON Holdings today not only sells cars and trucks on an international level, but owns a number of bicycle brands, including Cervélo, Cannondale, Gazelle and Santa Cruz. As I have noted elsewhere (Peugeot 504 Tour de France), cars and bikes should, as they have before, go together well ...
The bricked MOC of the van uses similar techniques as my VW T2, such as SNOT in all directions, hidden clips for a curved shape of the nose, as well as a half-step positioning of the roof to create the characteristic roof overhang in front. The camper version features a pop-up roof, kitchen cabinets and storage options in the side doors. The ideas of leveling the mid-section of the roof with brackets as well as of using an upside down 1x4 panel as a rear fender have been adapted from Brian Williams. The triangular tiles and cut-corner 1x2 slopes as the iconic nose design have been adapted from BlueBrixx-Special 102544, hachiroku24, and legocampervans at Rebrickable, but placed over angled 2x2 plates mounted on clips, which I developed for my T2 and which make the front more realistic and round looking. To be sure, not as round as 1ssac W.‘s T1, but maybe a little more stable and closer to TLG production type cars.

Tags: 10220 40079 Lego minifig scale Volkswagen T1 #vanlife 6-wide vintage van camper split-screen