The M106 Mortar Carrier is based on the M113 armored personnel carrier mounting a 120mm mortar. The M106 provides mobile fire support with a degree of protection for it’s crew. The mortar is mounted on a rotating platform in the rear of the vehicle. The concept is to provide a mobile launch platform that can be moved from various firing position rather than being set up in a static location. The 120mm mortar can also removed from the vehicle and mounted on a large swivel base. The M106 has been in operation since the 1960’s and the latest version, the M106A4, is still in use today.
Additional information about this Brickmania custom Lego® kit:
This Brickmania custom kit is only being offered as an exclusive reward for helping to launch the Brickmania Track Links™ on Kickstarter. All photos are shown using LEGO Technic track links, which will be replaced with the more realistic Brickmania Track Links when the kit is delivered. The only way to order this kit now s to pledge now for delivery when the new tracks are ready (we are aiming for sometime in July). Your opportunity to own one of these kits ends Saturday Jun 8, at 12:25pm CDT.
The M106 kit has the following features:
All Brickmania model kits are made of new-condition LEGO bricks and this one includes compatable weapons by BrickArms. This model comes disassembled and includes completed printed building instructions and comes packaged in a sealed box.
More Images of the M106 Mortar Carrier
After receiving the LDraw files for the double wide track links, I couldn’t help but to (virtually) fit them to one of Brickmania’s M4 Sherman tanks. We’ll have to consider offering an alternate version of the Sherman with these wider tracks, or at least instructions on how to convert the existing kit.
The video promo for our new Kickstarter Project posted to YouTube. Full information: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brickmania/brickmania-track-links-custom-add-on-for-the-lego More updates to follow.
Hello project supporters!
We’re not even a week into this Brickmania Track Links™ Kickstarter campaign and we’re already almost half way to goal! Well, I have some exciting news, in that I have received completed LDraw files of the new links for use in the reward kits’ instruction manuals.
Ldraw is the virtual building program created by and for the international LEGO community. Chris Dee, one of the long-time gurus of the LDraw community, has authored both single-wide and double-wide versions of the chevron pattern links. I plan to make the LDraw files available for use by the community once the real pieces are put into actual production.
Here are some screen captures of models made for the instructions manuals that will be included as pledge rewards. Images of the models using the double-wide tracks will be posted soon.
Thanks for your continued support and for helping to make this project happen!
– Dan
KettenKrad
M106 Mortar Carrier
P.S. This project has recently been blogged by Brothers Brick and is gaining traction (har! har!) in other LEGO fan forums as well. Let’s roll!
Brothers Brick head editor Andrew Becraft reviews Brickmania’s M113 ACAV kit. Click image to read the review.
I am sure many of you will be looking forward to the annual Lego Military Build Competition. I know I am. I was a participant in 2008 and 2009 (with some success) and helped organise and judge it in the last few years. This year it is being run by Magnus Lauglo, D-Town Cracka, -Mainman- and Aleksander Stein, all of whom will be familiar to military builders and to long-term readers of this blog.
If you are interested, you should make your way to the special contest group on flickr for more information. The contest starts today and runs until July 10th. In previous years, the quality of many of the entries in this competition was excellent and I am eagerly looking forward to seeing the results this year.
By Ralph – Reposted from Bothers Brick.
We set up the newly expanded diorama today at BrickFair New England in Manchester, NH. It will be on display through Sunday afternoon. Thanks to all the helpful folks that lent a hand setting it up! You may be able to spot some of the new over-molded Japanese prototype weapons from BrickArms in some of the pictures. Enjoy…
Many people have been asking if they can obtain additional exclusive Brickmania kits from this campaign. Unfortunately, the default Kickstarter pledge system will only allow you to pledge at one level at a time. In order to allow our supporters to purchase additional rewards, we are offering many to be purchased as “Add Ons” to your pledge.
How to get Add Ons:
1. Add ons are available to anyone who has pledge $33 or more (Sergeant level pledge). If you have not pledged at this level you do not qualify for Add-Ons!
2. Calculate the value of the items you desire from the Add Ons Menu. Be sure to included overseas postage if you live outside the USA.
3. On the main Brickmania Tracks Links™ Kickstarter Page select the “Manage My Pledge” button. The Pledge Amount field should show your current commitment level. Add the cost of your desired Add Ons to the original amount, and this will be your new total pledge level. Your Pledge Amount should equal the original pledge PLUS your Add Ons.
4. When the campaign is over, we will send out a survey to all contributors. When you complete the survey you will let us know all of the add ons you purchased. Please be aware that YOU are responsible for keeping track of your add-on items. Write it down, keep it safe!
As of this writing we are more than 25% on our way towards the project goal. Once our inititial project funding goal is reached, we will unlock additional Add-Ons and Stretch Goals.
Thanks for your support!
Dan
We are happy to announce that there will be free Metro Transit bus rides available on Saturday and Sunday of Art-A-Whirl thanks to a special partnership between NEMAA and MTC. Click HERE for more information and to download your free bus passes!
We are pleased to announce the addition of local woodcarver Brandt LaFave to our lineup of guest artists at Brickania Toyworks.
We will be having some dinnertime entertainment at the Toyworks on Saturday evening. This is the schedule for Saturday night:
5-6pm and 7-8pm:
The Dang Ol Trio (local bluegrass)
6-7pm:
Liquor Store Apostle (local acoustic folk punk)

Brickmania has been successfully producing custom building kits using LEGO® brand bricks for many years. Our most popular models are those that fall outside of the official product lines, including historically accurate military subjects, particularly tanks and armored vehicles. While we as builders have all greatly benefited by an ever-expanding parts pallet being developed by The LEGO Company (as well as after-market customizers), no one, not even The LEGO Company, has produced a high-quality, functioning, and historically accurate caterpillar track. That is, until now. Introducing Brickmania Track Links™.

Prototype mold test links. Made by our designers for proof of concept. Actual production links will have a more refined appearance.
Brickmania has teamed up with an experienced plastic parts designer and reputable injection molding company, and have come up with a design for a new caterpillar track that will be functional, compatible, and easy to create future variants. The first two tracks will be available in both single width (1 LEGO brick wide) and double width (2 LEGO bricks wide) and have a chevron pattern found on many American and Allied tanks and armored vehicles. They will be injection molded with black ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene), the same plastic The LEGO Company uses to manufacture LEGO bricks, and will be packaged in bags of 100 links (enough to make a small armored vehicle). Brickmania Track Links™ will be 100% manufactured in the USA.

Brickmania Track Links will come in two different widths: Single and double (single is the same width as a LEGO brick, double is twice as wide).
Creating such complex parts in ABS requires a very elaborate set of injection molds to be made. Brickmania has already laid the groundwork for the mold design and we are ready to have them manufactured. Our mold maker has offered us a considerable discount to have molds for both tracks sizes made at the same time. They will, however, still be very expensive to have made, but the savings over doing them one mold at a time is significant. The design for these molds will actually lay the groundwork for additional patterns of track links that we will be able to produce at a later date.
We here at Brickmania have always prided ourselves at being completely self-funded through the success of our products. The up-front expense of complex mold making, however, extends us fiscally beyond anything we have previously attempted. Rather than stretching our financial resources to their limit, we are asking our supporters help give us a jump start on the most expensive portion of the project.
In return for your support in this project, Brickmania has set up numerous project rewards, starting with a token amount of the finished product, up to the chance to command your own play armies comprised of exclusive custom LEGO® kits, designed by Brickmania’s master builder Daniel Siskind. Once the project is funded, a series of stretch goals will be introduced, opening up an even broader range of reward options (alternate colors, additional bonus figures, and more).
NOTE: LEGO® is a registered trademark of the LEGO® Group of companies, who does not officially endorse or support this project.
For pledge prices see the Kickstarter page.
NOTE: Images of these exclusive kits are shown WITHOUT the Brickmania Track Links™, but WILL include them in the final versions. The kits shown are EXCLUSIVE to this Kickstarter campaign and will not be offered anywhere else.