The car is ALL WRONG!!! But, once I got past that, I realized, "This is easily the BIGGEST parking lot in the WORLD!!!" Really though, thanks! It's awesome! I definatly have a new screensaver! As for the car being wrong, I can look past most of it, since I'm sure the creator was going for a simplified design. However, on the bottom of the DeLorean there's 6 (yes, watch the movie) blue hover pad thingies. On his model, there's like, 8 or more. On top of that, they're rectangular. In the movie, they were round. If he's going to include them, he could have at least got that part right... Yes, I'm complaining, but really, great find. I love it!
In case you wondered, I once built a DeLorean out of Legos (I mentioned it elsewhere). Honestly, it didn't look very good. But, it was as accurate as I could get it, including only 6 blue hover thingies on the bottom. The Mr. Fusion even opened, and you could put stuff inside. I even had a flux capacitor (it was a letter brick, with a "Y" on it). The wheel mounts were a pain though. It took me like, a week to come up with a design that was strong, small, and folded the wheels close to the way they do in the movie. I got 2 out of 3. The mounts weren't very small... It was 2x4x1.33 (2x4x1.66 as a standalone model), not including the wheel. On the postive side, that 0.33 was on the bottom, which gave me the room I needed to add the blue hover things onto the model. I have a POV-Ray rendering of the model, but I don't have access to the picture (I had a hardrive failure (months ago), and all the files that were on that drive are being stored on someone else's computer, so that's where it would be).
Oh, and one last thing. Once I figured out my wheel mount, I came up with another a few days later that was 2x2x0.33 (as a standalone model even), not including the wheel. Though, it still only got 2 out of 3. It wasn't nearly as strong as the mount I made earlier, but it was certainly strong enough for a model of the size that mine was. In fact, Bram Lembreck (spelling is probably wrong) came up with the same idea for a wheel mount, and used it in
this model (Lego DeLorean, for those curious). You'll notice that it's not nearly strong enough to hold that car up... Though, I'd bet my 2x4 wheel mount would have held it up (but it would have been difficult to fit in there, I'm sure).
Just for kicks, here's some more pictures of another Lego DeLorean.
This car was built in the rough scale, and detail (actually, a little more of both), of the
Super Car model from 1994. The Super Car had an 8 piston engine, front and rear wheel steering and suspension, and, if I recall correctly, a working stick shift. Check out the instructions to it, and look at pages 52-54 for some nice shots of the Super Car.
Anyway, thanks for the links Gizmo! Much appreciated. Also, just FYI, I did get the email you sent. I just haven't replied yet, sorry. Mouser X over and out.
