Your fellow HISS tanker Hobbes-timus Prime made this custom Cobra LEGO Rattler.
“This was the most troublesome vehicle I’ve made. There’s a few regrets on the final build, and I may revisit it someday, but I think that overall it fits nicely with the other vehicles I’ve made and it’s recognizable enough to evoke the warm fuzzies in me.”Click the Discuss button for all the pics & details.
Hobbes-timus Prime says
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This was the most troublesome vehicle I've made. There's a few regrets on the final build, and I may revisit it someday, but I think that overall it fits nicely with the other vehicles I've made and it's recognizable enough to evoke the warm fuzzies in me.
Can't wait for that Kre-O Trubble Bubble to join the line-up.
Cobra Rattler 1 by Hobbestimus, on Flickr
Cobra Rattler 2 by Hobbestimus, on Flickr
Cobra Rattler 3 by Hobbestimus, on Flickr
Cobra Fleet by Hobbestimus, on Flickr
John_0515 says
Wonderful. I love your customs!
Was it difficult to get all the blue pieces? You use Bricklink, right?
Which of all the vehicles was the most challenging?
Hobbes-timus Prime says
Was it difficult to get all the blue pieces? You use Bricklink, right?
Which of all the vehicles was the most challenging?
I did buy an Alien Conquest set with the sole purpose of using some of its pieces here, though. First time I'd ever done that.
Otherwise, everything here came from my collection that I've amassed since childhood. Some of the bricks on the Rattler are probably 30 years old (you can tell because some of the older ones are discolored. Hopefully I hid them well enough, though).
The Rattler was definitely the most challenging: making the wings moveable and sturdy, matching the right round shapes of the A-10, and finding the right ways to sub in other colors (mostly gray) for when I didn't have enough of or the right kind of blue pieces for what I wanted to do.
Glad you enjoy it!
John_0515 says
Fantastic. Make sure you use bricklink, it'll save you money.
I look forward to some of your future sets!
I did buy an Alien Conquest set with the sole purpose of using some of its pieces here, though. First time I'd ever done that.
Otherwise, everything here came from my collection that I've amassed since childhood. Some of the bricks on the Rattler are probably 30 years old (you can tell because some of the older ones are discolored. Hopefully I hid them well enough, though).
The Rattler was definitely the most challenging: making the wings moveable and sturdy, matching the right round shapes of the A-10, and finding the right ways to sub in other colors (mostly gray) for when I didn't have enough of or the right kind of blue pieces for what I wanted to do.
Glad you enjoy it!
minitrue says
This is getting interesting- I'm almost done with my rattler. It is 6 studs wide instead of 4, and all three landing gears retract. Do your wings actually turn or do you just take them off and put them back on at the vertical angle? I'm trying to work out a technic way of getting them to lock at any angle. I'll try to finish mine in the next day or so. And- like others said- bricklink is awesome.
Larry
G.I. Shaft says
Those vehicles are awesome.
vapor says
Wow! Im digging this a lot.
ilzuccone says
nice
Hobbes-timus Prime says
Larry
That's mostly why I don't have a functional rear turret. There's no room for the minifigure to fit with the hinge running through the plane.
Can't wait to see yours!
cardensb says
really cool!
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