Hello there fellow brick fans and welcome to my very first blog post!
Today I’ll be sharing my first 1:120 scale model, which is the smallest 4 wheel vehicle in the US Army lineup, and it is none other than the Willys MB(G503), more commonly known as Willys Jeep.
A little background info, the Willys Jeep was built in large numbers for the United States during World War II(1941-1945) and is an off-road four-wheel drive light utility vehicle. If you’ve watched any WWII show like Saving Private Ryan, Platoon or Band of Brothers, you’ve probably seen this jeep ferrying around troops or supplies.
So to start my journey into building Micro Brick Battle vehicles, I made this version of the jeep and made sure it could fit some nano soldiers. I quickly found out that to make something so small yet have some functionality is no easy feat. But after some trial and error I ended up with this version you see here.
The brackets used for the front look like headlights so I left it open. Then, to finish the model, I added an M2 Browning gun on top and slapped on a sticker to show it’s a US Army vehicle.
If you are interested to buy these supplementary pieces, you can buy the nano soldiers from Brick Mini, stickers from Brickmania and M2 Browning from our store. The lego parts you can always rummage through your stash or buy from Bricklink.
I could talk all day about how I made the custom M2 Browning but I’ll just say it was a big pain in the butt and expensive to boot, although they do help to elevate small MOCs like this.
Of course, I couldn’t stop there, I had to make a few more versions; one with the top cover, one towing a supply trailer and another with a small howitzer.
The one with top cover cannot fit any men but is nice to look at, whereas the version towing a trailer is just a variation of the jeep with a 1×1 clip attached to the trailer section. Same thing for the one holding a howitzer, I just changed up the clip and bar usage.
Anyway, if you would like to build one, here’s a tutorial on how:
Tip: Get to know your brackets, they range from 1×1 to 2×4, come in normal or inverted types. Every one of these can do something a little different.
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