Russian Arms
SA-4 / 2K11 Krug Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher And now for a more serious post. This incredible MOC is a Cold War era Russian 2K11 Krug Surface-to-Air missile launcher, built by D-Town Cracka on...
View ArticleIn Russia, Moon Lands on You!
Lego Lunar Lander This beautiful photo comes from Kei_Kei_Flic on Flickr. Depicting the Soviet-era Lunniy Korabl Lunar Module (and a cheery Russian cosmonaught) on the surface of Earth’s Moon, it’s...
View ArticleRussian Patrol
Fresh from our Flickr-feed: something from Russia. We’ve blogged a few East-European cars recently, but we haven’t seen a police car yet. This detailed car which could easily be found in LEGOland is...
View ArticleTriple Filtered
Communistical Transport We’re not sure what’s got into the Elves recently. Until this week we’d probably only posted three Russian MOCs in our whole existence, yet in the last few days alone we’ve...
View ArticleWhite Russian
All the animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others We still haven’t gotten to the bottom of the Elves’ Russian obsession this past week. It continues with this; an enormous ZIL 110...
View ArticleSPAAG
This mean looking device, built by D-Town Cracka on Flickr, is a Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun, or SPAAG for short. This one is a ZSU-23-4V1 made by the Soviets from 1962, and used in a variety of...
View ArticleMilitary Monday
Following last week’s Mech Monday we’ve continued the alliterative theme with today’s post. It’s also a little heavier in tone than normal, but occasionally we like to shine a light where we can. If...
View ArticleRussian Monster
This incredible vehicle is a MAZ 7907, built in the 1980s to transport Russian missiles. It was propelled by over 1200bhp, had 24 wheels (all driven), and was more than 28 meters long. Only two were...
View ArticleMini-Fig Mazness!
These beautifully built MAZ trucks come from Nexus7.1 on Flickr. Check out the full gallery of these and Nexus’ other creations at his photostream here.
View ArticleForgotten Hero
Until now we’d not seen a Russian World War 2 fighter recreated in LEGO. Perhaps this is because the US and UK wrote much of post-war history, or because Russia’s contribution was quickly forgotten due...
View ArticleKRAZzle Dazzle
Ukraine might be in the news at the moment for all the wrong reasons, but they still build a mean off-road truck. KRaZ has been at it since 1946, and this one is a 6233 in Truck Trial specification....
View ArticleFrom Russia With Love
This superb 1940’s Russian ZIS truck with AK31 crane attachment was suggested to us via the Feedback page, after being discovered on MOCpages by a TLCB reader. Built by Ultimate Design the ZIS...
View ArticleRussian Rubbish
The Lego Car Blog favourite Karwik is back, with another beautifully recreated Soviet marvel, this time a UAZ 469. The UAZ, like most Russian metal from the era, was an anonymously-named off-road...
View ArticleGazza
It might sound like the Match.com identity of a guy in a pub in the midlands*, but the Gaz 67 is actually a rugged little off-road vehicle that was originally developed for the Russian military. Which...
View ArticleCold War
The news is making for pretty grim reading at the moment. Russia is on the war path again (yay…), albeit covertly and surrounded by furious Kremlin denials, and America is too, although this time they...
View ArticleRussian Roulette
After struggling to find any cars for the past few days one of the Elves has hit an automative jackpot; previous bloggee Harry Gravett has published no less than seven TVR sports cars in one go to...
View ArticleHippies on Ice
Dude! We like, totally need to tie-dye some warmer threads if we’re going to take a trip in this Vee-Dub. Andrea Lattanzi aka Norton74 has transformed Volkwagen’s faithful T1 Transporter van into...
View ArticleRussian Coal
This gorgeous unpronounceable Russian truck was discovered on Flickr today. It’s been built by Patrick Taylor and you can see more here.
View ArticleThree Garys
Today, like every pub in Birmingham, TLCB has three Garys present. These beautifully built Technic GAZ 51 trucks – in dropside, tipper and crane flavours – were discovered on Eurobricks. They’ve been...
View ArticleExtreme Loggers
This monster MAZ-537 logging truck was discovered not by our Elves, who are now sulking, but by one of you. It’s been built by Pavol Vanek of Flickr, and it is quite simply one of the most impressive...
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