Classic Lego MOCs

Classic Lego MOCs Designer and creator of classic vehicles and machines made from Lego. All my creations are one-offs, and No instructions are offered or supplied.

Classic Lego MOCs is about the great nostalgic cars and machines of the past, and its also about getting it right! That means I do spray, cut and file parts to achieve the end result, but that's development and that's what the creative designers at Lego have to do and that's how we get new Lego parts etc, so in that regard I have no guilt or shame. I've been privileged to have been around when Leg

o first went plastic in the 60's and since then I've pushed Lego to the limit and sometimes beyond. In my time I've seen Lego outlast Mecanno, and partly thanks to Lego Technic panels, the quality and accuracy of Lego MOCs can stand up against the plastic kits produced by Airfix, Revell and Tamiya. The reason for this is purely to protect the value of the creation and design, for once instructions get out, the Chinese will have these designs in full production within a month. Eventually however, I do realise that these MOCs will have be sold or auctioned at some point. Therefore if there is a MOC that catches your wish list, then by all means private message me with an offer and I will give it serious consideration. With some of my MOCs I have taken inspiration from other Designers and in these cases I have cheated and broken the rules of Lego to improve them. None of my creations would be possible if it wasn't for my friends at BrickLink and Chrome Brick City for supplying the parts, International stickers for the Graphics, and RC models for the tyres.

The Royal Aircraft Factory SE5 fuselage is complete and fully rigged with bracing wires, and I used brass model boat tur...
27/02/2026

The Royal Aircraft Factory SE5 fuselage is complete and fully rigged with bracing wires, and I used brass model boat turnbuckle screws to wind up the tension. Rudder and elevator cabling is rigged up and fully functioning. The upper bridge cradle will be taking the full static load of the wings which will be pinned into place with ball & socket connectors giving each wing a touch of pitch and dihedral.

RAF SE5Front section of the aircraft complete, and I’ve split the top half of the cowling to reveal the Hispano Suiza en...
08/12/2025

RAF SE5
Front section of the aircraft complete, and I’ve split the top half of the cowling to reveal the Hispano Suiza engine and fuel tanks etc. It’s basically a box frame girder, the upper box frame being the most important one since it has to take the static loading of the upper and lower wings. This box frame has had to be braced up with whipping twine and model boat brass bottle screws to prevent any twisting or racking. The cockpit detail and seating is complete and the Lewis gun slides back on its rail mount for reloading the drum magazines. The lengths of loose whipping twine are the aileron cables which are ready to thread through the wings once they are fitted. All the control cables are fed through round fairleads to minimise friction.

Just finished the V8, 16 valve over head camshaft, Hispano-Suiza - an aero engine with a racing car heritage The main is...
18/09/2025

Just finished the V8, 16 valve over head camshaft, Hispano-Suiza - an aero engine with a racing car heritage
The main issue was how to upscale an engine to 1/10th scale using Lego engine parts. The crankshaft was enlarged using 6575 technic cams, and the piston rod and bottom end lengthened using 87083 axels and 44 connectors. The cylinder block was enlarged, or rather extended, by drilling 10mm hole into 3022 2x2 plate and adding them to the bottom of the cylinder blocks, and perhaps something Lego could consider as a new part? At this scale, I had room to drive a working overhead camshaft with spring loaded valve rods. The cams are made from Lego cranks by opening up +hole for the technic axels. The engine and its valves all work together, but despite using feather light springs, the bevel gears do occasionally jump as the torque to drive all the running gear is way too high, but it will turn using small movements.
The British built these engines under licence at Wolseley motor factory and named it the ‘Viper’. These light 11 litre V8 engines were used to power the Royal Aircraft Factory SE 5 at the latter end of World War 1. Indeed, they were so good that after WW1 they were installed in racing cars, namely Formula Libre Delage Bequet. Before taking on the licence to build these engines, the British tested a Hispano-Suiza engine and ran it a full throttle for 50 hours, without anything failing. Hispano-Suiza, was named after the Spanish founder and his Swiss parter.

Thanks to Chrome Block City for the nice Copper and Black Chrome parts.
This engine will be fitted into my 1/10th scale Royal Aircraft Factory SE5.

My Koenigsegg ONE is taking shape and should be completed before the end of summer. Going for an Aluminium finish using...
14/05/2025

My Koenigsegg ONE is taking shape and should be completed before the end of summer. Going for an Aluminium finish using spray paint from Plasikote. This paint hardens and cures to a strong durable finish that doesn’t leave finger prints etc.

Up till now this Team Salzburg 917 was just an alternative skin to my Gulf Porsche 917, however for exhibition purposes ...
19/09/2024

Up till now this Team Salzburg 917 was just an alternative skin to my Gulf Porsche 917, however for exhibition purposes I thought it best to put on some wheels and a few visible elements of the engine. This MOC is void of any internal details like, steering, suspension, engine running gear and gearbox etc. I may further down the line give it some lights

Camel Trophy LandRover Defender 1/9th scaleI saw this MOC on a YouTube post and thought I’d give it a go myself, using a...
02/09/2024

Camel Trophy LandRover Defender 1/9th scale
I saw this MOC on a YouTube post and thought I’d give it a go myself, using a bit of non Lego licence here and there. The tyres are 1/9th scale RC Mud Pluggers with soft foam inserts and found on EBay. Since the model weighs in at some 5.5 kilos these foam filled tyres squashed flat under the load. So I replaced the foam inserts with plastic rigid flexible piping - as used for draining washing machines. This piping would easily bend around the tight radius of the Lego rims without kinking and wouldn’t deform under the weight. Considering the weight, I also realised that the much harder 79717c01 technic shock springs would be essential. The chassis and suspension is as near to the real thing as possible, with rear A-frame link bars, front & rear radius arms and panhard rods etc. The Rooftop Tent is an RC4WD 1/10th scale ARB Pilbara, again found on EBay, however the tent fabric was screwed to an articulated metal flooring, along with a metal folding ladder. So I replaced the metal flooring with Lego plate and screwed the tent fabric onto the lego plate, thus making the base of the tent and the roof rack compatible. The metal ladder was removed and replace by a detachable Lego folding ladder which was trimmed to the right length or height. The rucksack in the roof rack is from Action Man and the brown box contains a large battery pack. There are four motors crammed under the bonnet: 1 steering servo motor and 1 small motor driving the winch through clutch and finally 2 XL motors drives the vehicle, sharing the power through a differential and down to the 4WD prop shafts via a heavily reduced gear box, which simply does forward, neutral and reverse. I also carefully accommodated space for an S-Brick controller, however they went bust taking their App software down with it, so somehow I’m going to have to find space for a BuWizz controller which is double the size. Despite doubling up the gearing on a heavily reduced gearbox, the 2 XL motors are simply not man enough to drive the vehicle along the ground. So I have resorted to propping up the vehicle on blocks with its wheels off the ground, making it a static model displaying the 4WD and steering. All the seats slide back and tilt with adjustable head rests. The awning is machine stitched and rolls back using an winding handle through a universal coupling. A set of folding tables and chairs slide into the rear compartment.

The gulf Porsche 917 all lit up.
09/08/2024

The gulf Porsche 917 all lit up.

Le Clerget rotary engine. The real engine was 9 cylinders, but for the purpose of scale I could only squeeze 6 cylinder...
28/03/2024

Le Clerget rotary engine. The real engine was 9 cylinders, but for the purpose of scale I could only squeeze 6 cylinders into the 1/9th scale of my Sopwith Camel. The oddity of this engine is that the crankshaft is fixed and stationary, whilst the engine cylinders (and propeller) rotates about the crankshaft. The entire engine hangs off the engine firewall bulkhead using a large turntable bearing. The light blue grey section (and thus the crankshaft) is held stationary by being fixed to the firewall bulkhead. The black section of the turntable, which rotates, is fixed to the engine block, which is also attached to the propeller. The crankshaft, which is fixed and attached to the LBG section, is really a single journal pin which is off-set from the axis of the rotating cyclinders. This pin carries the main bottom end bearing which is also linked to 6 articulated piston rods, so that the bottom end bearing, the articulated piston rods and pistons all rotate off-set from the main axial rotation of the engine cyclinders, causing the pistons to reciprocate within the cylinders. In real life, this meant the rotating masses of engine, combined with the propeller were huge. As the engine rotates clockwise from the pilots perspective, it meant that the Camel’s right hand turns were impressively quick.

Tiger Tank. Tamiya produced a 1/12th scale remote controlled kit of one of these back in the 80s, so I tried this 1/10t...
25/03/2024

Tiger Tank. Tamiya produced a 1/12th scale remote controlled kit of one of these back in the 80s, so I tried this 1/10th scale MOC. Two independent XL motors takes up the main drive, with a further 3 smaller motors driving the V6 engine, the engine cover (see video) and the turret. A series of interleaved 6 stud dishes form the track wheels and these are paired off as a pendulum suspension. As one can see these dished wheels are struggling to hold the weight, so this area needs improving. The tank uses the infra red remote controls and at some stage I’ll upgrade the tank to an S-brick system.

I decided to MOC up an alternative skin to my Gulf Porsche 917K - Richard Attwood’s team Salzburg. Stickers came from I...
25/03/2024

I decided to MOC up an alternative skin to my Gulf Porsche 917K - Richard Attwood’s team Salzburg. Stickers came from International Stickers, Lincoln, England. Eventually I will put some guts to the car, but nothing special, just four wheels and an engine.

Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Special thanks to Chrome Brick City for the chromed parts which makes this a mon...
22/03/2024

Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Special thanks to Chrome Brick City for the chromed parts which makes this a monstrously expensive MOC. There is a couple of short videos to follow showing the engine cowling folded back and with the engine being cranked over. It’s a 4 cylinder engine with a cam shaft, working valve rods, valve rockers and valves.

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