Now. If you don’t know who Ed ”Big Daddy” Roth is, then you shall Google it. This man is the single biggest inspiration for me. My art, cars, drawings, paintings, MOCs, whatever is strongly influenced by what this guy did. This whole world of Hot Rods, Kustoms, Choppers wouldn’t be the same without that man.

The Rat Fink is surely one of his most notorious characters, and was a kind of anti Mickey Mouse, a figure that I can’t stand, therefore it’s easy for me to like this filthy green rodent.

The build was a pain. It took forever. This guy was literally years in making. I knew pretty long time ago that I’d use the BELVILLE plates for ears, I had those green safety rings set aside since I developed the SPONGE BOB FLYING DUTCHMAN, feet were lying around since early 2010 and so on.
The actual kickstart for building it was the appearance of a pic of a new LEGO Line, the Mixels. The eyes on my R.F. were for quite a bit made out of lever bases and looked awful. Now, one of those Mixels features a printed voodoo ball as eyes, and that seemed more than obvious.
I just drew two dots on a plain white ball, and went from there.
It took the better part of three months to build his face, half plate offsets, “bending” bricks, uneven connections, all that just to get the face “right”. The Rat Fink has something about thim, the silhouette, the slightly tipped head, I don’t know exactly what the hell makes him “Fink”… In the end it seemed to be slight things like blacking out the bricks in the mouth, shortening teeth in the front, adding a “tilt” to his ears, shortening the snout, lowering the head as much as I could, and trying to get the eyes as close to each other as possible…

I did’t entirely succeed in building the expression on his face I intended. I mean he’s fun, there are a gazillion drawings, sculpts, toys, compared to them he's as R.F. As he can be or more, but I have this one from Revell on my mind, and although he seems fine to most people he's not exactly the way I wanted, but for now I feel I did the best I could with the elements given and ideas I had.

The eyes from Mixels are not available yet.
My plan was to wait until April, but since I painted the dome for his belly anyway, I figured I do the same with the eyes, the base was spraypained using a mask, just a plain dot basically, and then the I added different blue shades, and a black dot using a brush and acrylics from citadel. At the end a spot with a white Edding, done. One set of the eyes features some bloody veins, but I don’t know about that just yet. Might be an overkill, then I could have also painted the hair on his ears and whatnot. The dot and the R.F. are in places LEGO elements would be printed anyway...

I also spraypained quite some elements again, the Rat Fink can’t be built in any known color as far as I am concerned. Best would be this “middle green”, but there are no bricks avaliable I could use, and it's odd when I paint an entire surface without at least mixing in some elements in actual color...

Some bricks were spraypainted over white, they seem to match the original colors way better. Actually to the point where you can’t tell what was painted, especially on the green guy because the spray has more shine to it, but stuff like the hinges and those BELVILLE plates I had just in very dark colors, what made me spray them many times, and therefore this strange dark shade.
Because of the painting the Hands on the green guy can’t be moved without damaging the surface. I tried Bricklink for strange colors, but the voodoo ball in green is something that will have to happen. Of course, this ain’t gonna be taken apart anytime soon, and I will try to replace the bricks as they come out. Maybe.

There are many literations of the Rat Fink, I made two. The green is the most popular, the grey version is inspired by the box art of the Revell kit from the 60es. I made that one because it seemed easier to find a certain “feel” of his face while using gray bricks. The green seems too dark, so I couldn’t really decide on contrasts, especially with the “grin” where that mudguard piece makes this finky curve. Funny enough, I had one in dark grey that was spraypainted just on the outside sitting there for forever, and so the inside of his mouth was dark. For the pics I painted a white brick very thorough and this shade disapeared...

That's it... I guess. I never write so much about my stuff because I never care. Built. That's it. I don't do notes, writedowns, it's rare that I even think while building. I laugh at people who talk about flow, shapes, balance, beauty and stuff like that. I build toys.
But this one was important enough to share some thoughts...

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Just checked, the first version of this car I had built on April 20th, 2013. It's been cooking ever since. Goal was simple: build the most detailed, as accurate as possible, and most die-cast looking LEGO Ecto-1.

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It’s about four years now that I built something for myself. The A-Team GMC was on my list forever now, and since the Dimensions Set with B.A. Barracus came out, even more. At first I simply wanted to copy the van that LICHTBLAU built in 2012, but I quickly began to tinker with it. Without changing stuff that I considered very good like the visor, rear spoiler, the rear doors and so on, I still managed to rebuild most of it. The front end is 100% redone, I was never a fan of the cheeseslopes for the hood, but back then this was the only option I guess, I added the front spoiler, added the antennas, changed the rear bumper, changed most of the interior changed where the rear numberplate is, added a gas tank and and the exhaust. The van out of LEGO is a boring box, so I added the fuelcap door, some marking lights and a rail for the swinging door on the right side. I also changed the wheels, for me it’s more important that the wheels have a deep dish, than that they feature spokes. Looking at pics and watching the series I felt the truck needed a rake so I gave it a rake. Also, everyone that built the van before me apparently uses the Hot Wheels model as reference, and thererfore the lower headlights are always trans yellow, even though on the real van they are all transparent (the lower ones have yellow light bulbs in them once in a while). I’m not set on two things, the seats which are light gray in the real car, but lighter than the LEGO light gray, so I went for white too, and the length, the real GMC came in three sizes, and the Vandura form the A-Team was the middle version, you could easily take out one stud out of the middle, but then that thing looks stubby. So yea… I don’t know.

Yes. I cheated, the van needed lights on the top, so I cut the “stem” off the diamond element. Sue me.

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Big Bopper! Max's Interceptor! At last! Both cars have been done forever but I was not shwoing them since they use two brand new parts, the 1x2 curved slope on the hood, a piece that prooved very helpful while building cars, although I had to paint it yellow, and the all new rubber out back, that fits these cars just perfectly, giving them this tiny rake and muscle car look.

Both cars were built while consulting Lichtblau for quite some time, he came up with several ideas based on the BoB Interceptor, that came handy with the yellow cars. But even him hasn't seen the cars done yet, as I kept taking the new bricks off every time I send him pics to have a look at. March Hare pending, unless somebody comes up with a brilliant idea for the front of that car, I thought it will be a walk in a park after these two are done, but it seems to be way more complicated than that.

All stickers are genuine LEGO items, mostly Sentai Fortress, Racers and Technic.

The Chrome wheels are from my friend Auri:

www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Aurimax

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Now. If you don’t know who Ed ”Big Daddy” Roth is, then you shall Google it. This man is the single biggest inspiration for me. My art, cars, drawings, paintings, MOCs, whatever is strongly influenced by what this guy did. This whole world of Hot Rods, Kustoms, Choppers wouldn’t be the same without that man.

The Rat Fink is surely one of his most notorious characters, and was a kind of anti Mickey Mouse, a figure that I can’t stand, therefore it’s easy for me to like this filthy green rodent.

The build was a pain. It took forever. This guy was literally years in making. I knew pretty long time ago that I’d use the BELVILLE plates for ears, I had those green safety rings set aside since I developed the SPONGE BOB FLYING DUTCHMAN, feet were lying around since early 2010 and so on.
The actual kickstart for building it was the appearance of a pic of a new LEGO Line, the Mixels. The eyes on my R.F. were for quite a bit made out of lever bases and looked awful. Now, one of those Mixels features a printed voodoo ball as eyes, and that seemed more than obvious.
I just drew two dots on a plain white ball, and went from there.
It took the better part of three months to build his face, half plate offsets, “bending” bricks, uneven connections, all that just to get the face “right”. The Rat Fink has something about thim, the silhouette, the slightly tipped head, I don’t know exactly what the hell makes him “Fink”… In the end it seemed to be slight things like blacking out the bricks in the mouth, shortening teeth in the front, adding a “tilt” to his ears, shortening the snout, lowering the head as much as I could, and trying to get the eyes as close to each other as possible…

I did’t entirely succeed in building the expression on his face I intended. I mean he’s fun, there are a gazillion drawings, sculpts, toys, compared to them he's as R.F. As he can be or more, but I have this one from Revell on my mind, and although he seems fine to most people he's not exactly the way I wanted, but for now I feel I did the best I could with the elements given and ideas I had.

The eyes from Mixels are not available yet.
My plan was to wait until April, but since I painted the dome for his belly anyway, I figured I do the same with the eyes, the base was spraypained using a mask, just a plain dot basically, and then the I added different blue shades, and a black dot using a brush and acrylics from citadel. At the end a spot with a white Edding, done. One set of the eyes features some bloody veins, but I don’t know about that just yet. Might be an overkill, then I could have also painted the hair on his ears and whatnot. The dot and the R.F. are in places LEGO elements would be printed anyway...

I also spraypained quite some elements again, the Rat Fink can’t be built in any known color as far as I am concerned. Best would be this “middle green”, but there are no bricks avaliable I could use, and it's odd when I paint an entire surface without at least mixing in some elements in actual color...

Some bricks were spraypainted over white, they seem to match the original colors way better. Actually to the point where you can’t tell what was painted, especially on the green guy because the spray has more shine to it, but stuff like the hinges and those BELVILLE plates I had just in very dark colors, what made me spray them many times, and therefore this strange dark shade.
Because of the painting the Hands on the green guy can’t be moved without damaging the surface. I tried Bricklink for strange colors, but the voodoo ball in green is something that will have to happen. Of course, this ain’t gonna be taken apart anytime soon, and I will try to replace the bricks as they come out. Maybe.

There are many literations of the Rat Fink, I made two. The green is the most popular, the grey version is inspired by the box art of the Revell kit from the 60es. I made that one because it seemed easier to find a certain “feel” of his face while using gray bricks. The green seems too dark, so I couldn’t really decide on contrasts, especially with the “grin” where that mudguard piece makes this finky curve. Funny enough, I had one in dark grey that was spraypainted just on the outside sitting there for forever, and so the inside of his mouth was dark. For the pics I painted a white brick very thorough and this shade disapeared...

That's it... I guess. I never write so much about my stuff because I never care. Built. That's it. I don't do notes, writedowns, it's rare that I even think while building. I laugh at people who talk about flow, shapes, balance, beauty and stuff like that. I build toys.
But this one was important enough to share some thoughts...

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