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With a Firetruck, and a Fast Car, I wasn’t quite done with the floating vehicle idea. I wanted to try again, a different way, to get the wheel-arch on top and bottom. Once I had a chassis, it seemed like a box van was the way to finish it off. A small cab and a nice sized container behind. I found the flip up doors and that part started to come together. After building it once, I decided to try and get a brick-built diagonal color in there. The two slope pieces don’t quite join up as I would like but don’t seem horrible.

I seem to have found lots of plants while sorting so I put a few flowers in there and crates of carrots to make this a vegetable delivery truck. The fancy guy in selling (or buying?) isn’t happy with the delivery driver though.

Another small ship; I like making them as they are easy and don’t require a huge commitment on my part. This one I recall taking apart more than a dozen times to get just the right combination. It was made a few years ago when I saw someone else’s “monkey arm steering” controls in a vertical style. I revised it a few more times, as noted, and just recently remade the platform to display it on.

I was sorting my collection and pulled out all the plant stuff, so this gave some interest to the base. Then, the platform was just a plate on the girder brick so I embellished that. I found a nice way to put a little ladder up to the cockpit and attached a hose for visual appeal.

Once I had a firetruck, I thought I might want something faster. The long slope with the sticker was spotted while sorting and it started to come together. I have the Ford GT from Speed Champions and was interesting in trying to use the side slope leading to an air intake technique. I realized that is 6 studs long and I was only 4, also starting a little closer to the pilot and didn’t get the same effect. I wound up swapping out the parts for a clip instead of a hinge and it kinda works as a door now. I redid this one a few time to clean up the back and really get the sides to work with the colored angle bits.