Rainbow Technic Liebherr 9800

[kraai]

I wasn't planning on building a Liebherr excavator in a rainbow colour scheme (really wanted to do the Sian instead), but got a donor set at the end of last year for a pretty good deal, so could not say no. I started at the beginning of the December holidays disassembling the Land Rover and some other models to have enough parts to build this behemoth, which was finished this week (yay!). 

The build was amazing - even with the frustration of rebuilding sub-assemblies multiple times to make the colours work. As always, I tried to stay away from grey and black where possible, and not let any identical colours be adjacent to each other. For a bit of added details, I chose printed tiles for all tiles up to 2x2 in size. The front bucket is really boring in one solid piece of grey, so I will display it holding some Bionicle Zamor spheres to add a bit of colour. 

Shot on an iPhone X in the park outside my house, it's just too big to photograph it with my regular white backdrop. 

 

 

 

[howitzer]

They should make the real machine with this colour scheme.

[chlego]

Probably the most useless but still best-looking MOC I've ever seen!

Edited January 30, 2021 by chlego

[nerdsforprez]

Gives color vomit a whole new meaning.......

[2GodBDGlory]

Fun!

I don't know if I've ever seen someone take mixing colors in a Lego model that seriously!

Not a Technic one, at least...

[dr_spock]

Colorful.  I see some LEGO Friends parts and printed pieces. 

[m00se]

It hurts my eyes.

[Lfm55]

I find this wonderful !

[trekman]

So if they are developing a new prototype machine and trying it out in a quarry, this is the colour scheme which they use.

[paul_delahaye]

wow, little more that can be said.......the number of hours to just assemble this set......

[1963maniac]

On the first and fifth pictures, did you cut/paste the stairs into the photograph. The grass inside the stair image doesn't match the background grass. Just wondering.

[Maaboo the Witch]

34 minutes ago, 1963maniac said:

On the first and fifth pictures, did you cut/paste the stairs into the photograph. The grass inside the stair image doesn't match the background grass. Just wondering.

It's because the model is in focus, while the grass in the background is not, so the grass seen through the railing gaps shows up more.

[iLego]

My guess is that the phone's optics cannot provide sufficiently shallow depth-of-field (to blur the background), so the software is blurring the background. And, of course, the software is dumb.

[1963maniac]

On 1/31/2021 at 9:33 PM, iLego said:

My guess is that the phone's optics cannot provide sufficiently shallow depth-of-field (to blur the background), so the software is blurring the background. And, of course, the software is dumb.

Thanks, that makes sense.