Heavily modded 42043 Farewell

[Mirco Hussmann]

Hello everyone,

 

as I am currently a student and thus have not that much money at hand, I have decided to take my heavily modded Arocs apart - almost every brick that's worth something as well as nearly all my motors were devoured by this monster - so I can start building new stuff again.

But I didn't want to destroy the thing I put quite a few hours into without sharing it, so here are a few impressions.

 

https://www.pic-upload.de/gal-1108866/9x2lk/1.html

 

What I changed:

- (except for pneumatic controls) fully RC, 2 L-Motors for drive, M-Motor for steering, see http://www.doktor-brick.de/index.php/Thread/4169-Lego-42043-MB-Arocs-3245-Mods-und-verbesserungen/?pageNo=12

- modification of efferman's Palfinger Epsilon crane and a custom base for it with rearranged pneumatic controls

- elongation of the whole thing by 4(?) studs in order to fit motors for each individual function in it

- LEDs in the 4 front lights, a blinking LED for the roof light, 4 LEDs for rear lights and 2 LEDs for reverse lights (attached to a PF cable on the drive receiver port) as well as 4 LEDs for the trailer

- snow plow and a mount for it

- pneumatic exits for snow plow and trailer as well as a switch for selecting one of them right after the splitter for the crane pneumatic supply

- connection cable for the trailer lights

- pneumatic tilt function, manual stabilisators and actual leaf springs on the trailer

- rear bumpers on the truck itself and the trailer

- kicked out the stabilisators on the truck because NO SPACE, at least I couldn't find a way to keep them inside

 

Things I would've changed if I could:

- swap the PF battery box and receivers for BuWizz (better looks, stronger battery, the thing guzzles the batteries in like 5 minutes)

- make the compressor automatic

- maybe add turn lights

 

I hope you guys like it, I'm a little sad I'm gonna take it apart now, but it was an awful lot of fun to build this thing and that's the most important thing I guess.

 

Cheers

[1gor]

Hi @Mirco Hussmann, modification is not bad, but I have one suggestion (at least for future). Please use bricksafe.com or similar picture hosting servers to post a link of image that is not bigger than 1024 px here on forum. In that case pictures will appear here so we do not have to browse outside forum to see them. 

[Mirco Hussmann]

Yeah, I'm sorry for that, I didn't remember that option, but if I find the time, I'l edit it soon.

[Aventador2004]

Wow! I love the mods!