Adult Fixie-skidders of LEGO

http://brickarchitect.com/

This could be useful if you're on Linux:

https://www.leocad.org/

There's obviously LEGO's own Digital Designer, but that's only available for Windows and Mac:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/ldd/download

I personally don't enjoy using programmes like these as much as using actual LEGO.

I find brickset better than bricklink for set details - https://brickset.com/sets/8880-1/Super-Car

Ha, that's certainly a distinctly more modern site than Bricklink, which does have its own antiquated charm. :)

A busy day in my workshop

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Oh, and incidentally, I know about Brick Owl and Brick Link which are useful resources for this and that but where are these Lego 'mega builders' getting their bulk bricks from?

I’ll just leave this here.
Oliver I am intrigued that so much of what you like in lego is either military or motor based
https://youtu.be/-imVaXltitk

Ha! Perhaps it’s like a tantric exercise, to release foul energies through ritual?

Just picked up the Lego Ideas 'Women of Nasa' for my Neice.

Now kinda tempted to buy another set for me.

If you've followed LEGO over the years, its stock-in-trade are buildings and vehicles, so if you like LEGO you'd better like either or both (supposedly, it is the largest producer of tyres in the world). I enjoy building spaceships because they're large vehicles and you can just make them up as you go along, actual spaceships they could be compared to being fairly rare. :)

Lovely build.

Cheers. I'll get a photo of the real thing added in.

Really enjoyed building this over a couple of days a few weeks ago:

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Anybody going to go mad and get this?

https://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Bugatti-Chiron-42083?icmp=HP-SHM-DPC-TC-exclus-782

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The car doesn't really do it for me tbh, I bet those kits (unopened) will be changing hands for £much in a few years though.

I'm tempted, i was really hoping the next one to come out would have been a McLaren though

I'm not interested in any Technic stuff--I even dislike how Technic elements have invaded other LEGO lines. I can obviously see what others find attractive in it, but what I enjoy about LEGO is, very simply, the original invention of snapping bricks together using studs. Technic is a different toy to me, notwithstanding the presence of some (holed) bricks.

I also dislike this tendency today generally across all LEGO of smoothing all surfaces. I think the model above is a good illustration of how ugly this looks. There have obviously always been some smooth surfaces on models because the sides of bricks have traditionally been smooth, but I prefer it when those are combined with the studded surfaces on top.

I also dislike this tendency today generally across all LEGO of smoothing all surfaces

Got to agree with you there. It just ends up looking scrappy. As soon as you try to include curvature into a model it ramps up the expectation of realism and accuracy. What Lego have done has left that Bugatti looking like the cat's been at it.
It's a bit like CGI'ing a human face onto Captain Pugwash.

I do enjoy this sort of stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxMMtIxDrGk

That was wicked!

Bugatti? No, sorry. Will a Morris 1000 do you? My attempt at an accurate reproduction of the suspension system of these cars supported by a very 'square' bodyshell (WIP). Not by any means a conventional suspension system with torsion bars, no wishbones or anti-roll bars and rear leaf springs. On the model It all functions as it should.

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Her's the latest one, lots of repetition but some fun bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp62YVtejiY

(Incredibly long, though.)

Lego Voltron set now available.

https://youtu.be/9qUCW2vPBJs

Apparently, there are two 14 karat gold Boba Fett (and only two) mini figures in existence.

No one knows how much they cost as they have never been sold again.

Oh. Finished the Apollo a while ago.

Obligatory photo.