JohnBS Posted February 24, 2015 Hello, New member John here. I have been a Lego fan for more years than I care to remember and was always delighted to find new models to build with my children. Now, the years have passed and they have children of their own. I haven't built a Lego model since about 1990 (8862 Backhoe Grader, then pretty well the state of the art in Technic, with pneumatics!). That was until last autumn. I had been in hospital for a couple of months earlier in the year and, while convalescing, I came across MOC Lego models on YouTube. I couldn't resist the Volvo L350F Wheel Loader (42030) and found it great fun to build. Since then, I have bought the 42009 Mobile Crane as a Christmas present to me, and got into the minefield of searching on-line for the additional parts for Jurgens' Ultimate version. This was a terrific and quite challenging build - very much a case of "if all else fails, read the *** instructions". My latest venture is a fairly heavily modded version of the 8043 Excavator. The original was bought on-line, another new departure for me. The main mods were to the crawler mechanism (based on the design by Andrzej N) with two XL motors, one IR receiver and a battery box in the chassis; a boom and arm design, inspired by Jurgens' Zorex, with two M motors in the first section and short UJ drives to the second section and bucket; and a much simplified body with just two M motors, for slewing and for operating the main arm LAs. Result - no drives or wires through the turntable and tons of spare gears and axles. It all seems to work very well, I will post photos if anyone is interested and if I can work out how to do it. I have also started on a Skeleton Clock, an MOC by KEvronista - something completely different, without a motor in sight! My next project is to have a go at the 8275 Bulldozer which arrived a week ago. Best wishes, John Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LittleJohn Posted February 24, 2015 Welcome to Eurobricks, John! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Balbo Posted February 24, 2015 Welcome to eurobricks, John Enjoy! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dr_spock Posted February 24, 2015 Welcome to Eurobricks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
incomplet Posted February 24, 2015 Welcome to Eurobricks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Braunsfeld Posted February 25, 2015 Welcome to Eurobricks! I hope you enjoy your rediscovered hobby! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LiLmeFromDaFuture Posted February 25, 2015 Interesting story! I am glad to hear that your passion for Legos have been revived—It is fun when you can find so much to do with them! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grum64 Posted February 26, 2015 Welcome to Eurobricks JohnBS. Nice to have the beautiful county of Somerset represented. The 8275 Bulldozer is a very impressive model when built. Enjoy the build. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
