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PEBE Programm 2000 Bausteinbox 703 : House & Small Cars
Read more: PEBE Programm 2000 Bausteinbox 703 : House & Small CarsThis wonderfully serious-looking architectural masterpiece comes from the second page of the leaflet of the PEBE construction set Bausteinbox 703, part of the mysterious and ambitious “Programm 2000” series. Judging by the illustration, PEBE designers clearly believed that the future of housing would involve very straight walls, very red roofs, and absolutely no unnecessary curves….
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400-4 Red vintage car
Read more: 400-4 Red vintage carToday we build this little red car with a long nose circled in black on this picture. This is extracted from set 400-4 leaflet. This set introduced the small wheels with axles to the Lego inventory. It is fairly easy to build and doesn’t require much bricks. I have asked AI to render a realistic…
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400-4 Vintage basic racing car
Read more: 400-4 Vintage basic racing carThis vintage basic racing car is designed on this leaflet extracted from set 400-4 introducing small wheels with axles to Lego inventory. It is fairly easy to build except for the trans-clear macaroni brick on the top that is supposed to represent the windscreen of the car. I don’t think this is realistic to set…
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Set 400-4 : Vintage simple car
Read more: Set 400-4 : Vintage simple carLet’s build this very basic small white car with no doors visible on this Set 400-4 leaflet, introducing small wheels with axles to the Lego inventory. It is fairly easy to build and only take few minutes. I am not sure if this is inspired from a Jeep or something else. Anyways, here’s my proposal….
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400-4 Cadillac
Read more: 400-4 CadillacLet’s build today this big car that looks like a Cadillac and that can be found in this leaflet out of set 400-4 introducing small wheels with axles to the Lego inventory. I improvised a bit the inner structure as it can’t be seen on the picture, but I tried to remain precise for every…
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400-4 Vintage Paddy Wagon
Read more: 400-4 Vintage Paddy WagonLet’s build this nice vintage car out of Lego System set 400-4 introducing small wheels with axle to the pieces assortment. It is easy to build and renders nice. It looks like a vintage paddy wagon. I have asked AI to generate a IRL version of it and the result is pretty cool : All…
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400-4 : Vintage utility car
Read more: 400-4 : Vintage utility carThis nice vintage utility car is extracted from this leaftlet ideas out of box 400-4 introducing wheels with axles. It is a simple yet nice vintage car made mainly of slopes, plates and bricks without bottom tubes. The 2 windows at the front come with extended lip and glass, as in set 315-3. Easy to…
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400 / 315-3 European Taxi
Read more: 400 / 315-3 European TaxiThis fun vintage car called European Taxi in set 315-3 can also be found in the leaflet of set 400. Even though the set 315-3 came with instructions , I had fun trying to rebuild it, and considered it as part of set 400 to deliver this page. All the other builds visible on this…
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UN Jeep
Read more: UN JeepIf you’ve ever explored the early days of the LEGO System, you may already know that set 400—released in the mid-1960s—was a fascinating little box of creativity. Unlike modern sets with detailed booklets, these early kits offered only a handful of illustrated models on the packaging itself, encouraging builders to imagine, adapt, and rebuild endlessly….
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1963 Lego French Ad : The Truck
Read more: 1963 Lego French Ad : The TruckIn the beginning, there were bricks. Not the ones that hurt your foot in the dark—that came later—but bright, indestructible, Scandinavian ones that promised a future of imagination, tidy playrooms, and precisely zero loose screws. And in 1963, in a small corner of France, some enterprising children, possibly named Jean-Claude and Sylvie, built what may…