Auroralampinen Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 Well its not perfect it tends some how make impossible connections:/ Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 On 2/7/2025 at 10:17 AM, Mikdun said: I know it's based on 8043 but personally the look and colour skin reminds me of 42053 - Volvo EW160E Expand Well here is the mini 8043 compared to(still under construction) volvo ew220e:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Progress on the instructions i have now fixed most of the issues there is still few and i have shrunked instructions to 299 steps they might get more shrunked and i have to make boom and few other detail instructions and to add those to instructions:) On 2/7/2025 at 6:29 PM, Auroralampinen said: Well here is the mini 8043 compared to(still under construction) volvo ew220e:) Expand And with the mini 8043 i have fixed all issues releated to superstructure turning the ew 220 suffers from not great superstructure turning its not smooth while the 8043 is smooth as butter:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 (edited) So with the all fixes the mini 8043 is my all time best excavator wich i have made the volvo ew220e has the most complex boom because its 2 piece but i kind of love more the mini 8043 its so fun little beast and its strong and not fragile:) and compared to legos small excavator the 42121 its night and day difference the mini 8043 is million times better than the 42121:) And the mini 8043 scale is pretty close to soon releasing 42203 so now the dump truck has matching excavator:) Edited February 8 by Auroralampinen Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 More shrunking in progress now this has 276 building steps:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 (edited) Well this has been fun and i have sorted the impossible connections best i can but still this has been kind of nightmarely process but im really happy with my first 3d model:) Edited February 8 by Auroralampinen Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Well now digital instructions are done i just need to make boom and details instructions:) And i have few ideas on the instructions design and i will try to corporate them but the instructions are free as usual. All of my designed mocs instructions will be free and i won't charge anything for them and i try my best to make them as premium as possible and easy to understand:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Well now the digital instructions are done i added my ideas on instructions and now i will make the boom and detail instructions and ad them to the instructions and then the instructions are finally done:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Well now almost week long project is done soon there will be instructions and now these are my first ever digital instructions and im sorry if there is some impossible connections i have try my best to improve stuff and steps but im not expert on 3d models i like more of building physicaly so it was a true pain to make the 3d model Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 https://bricksafe.com/files/Auroralampinen/my-lego-projects/instructions/8043 mini model instructions.pdf well lets hope this work so here is instructions:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 Well im now rendering the model so i will put the link to the 3d model in here:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 On 2/8/2025 at 5:41 PM, Auroralampinen said: Well im now rendering the model so i will put the link to the 3d model in here:) Expand Well it did just rended a picture so i don't know how you share a 3d model or if its even possible and since im from stone age and not familiar with 3d model software i maybe have to scrap the idea Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 But im now soo happy that i know how to use studio v2 so now my future mocs will come with instructions while its a pain to make 3d model in computer for instructions its still a rewarding process and yes i might worked too much on computer because i got many times a headacke for watcinh too much computer screen but it was worth it as now my hard work has payed of and now i can sleep better again as this project is done:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 Well i did notice afterwards that the bush plane did come with yellow wheel rims so here is mini 8043 with yellow rims:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 Well i submitted this to rebrickable with full parts list this has 1326 pcs so this has 200 pcs more than the 8043:) Quote
2GodBDGlory Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Always nice to see people sharing instructions! That looks like a lot of work. To share a 3D model, I'd just upload your .io file to Bricksafe, and share that link here Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 On 2/9/2025 at 7:09 PM, 2GodBDGlory said: Always nice to see people sharing instructions! That looks like a lot of work. To share a 3D model, I'd just upload your .io file to Bricksafe, and share that link here Expand Thank you i will check now if the io file to bricksafe will work and yes i do try to put a lot of effort for my instructions and make then clear:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 And in case if you are wondering yes the gearbox needed a ton of tought process and thinking outside of the box and i builded this a few times the first attempt worked but the gears were all over the place and since i wanted to keep the gearbox swithing mechanism same as 8043 a lot of creative engineering and thinking outside of the box went to design the final 6 gear gearbox and yes this was a true challenge to squeese a 6 functions gearbox in the mini 8043 but the final product is work of art and im really really happy with the gearbox and there is no cracking so this was a true engineering nightmare:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 https://bricksafe.com/files/Auroralampinen/my-lego-projects/instructions/excavator2_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy_Copy.io well lets hope the 3d model link work since im not a expert:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted February 11 Author Posted February 11 https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-210719/Auroralampinen/8043-mini-version/#details now the model is on rebrickable:) Quote
Auroralampinen Posted March 9 Author Posted March 9 https://bricksafe.com/files/seregiz/instructions/8043-mini/8043_excavator.pdf well now there are fixed instructions and a huge thanks to seregiz for making fixed instructions:) Quote
Ngoc Nguyen Posted March 20 Posted March 20 Is it just me or there's nothing "mini" or "8043" about this creation? Quote
Maaboo the Witch Posted March 20 Posted March 20 On 3/20/2025 at 5:32 PM, Ngoc Nguyen said: Is it just me or there's nothing "mini" or "8043" about this creation? Expand It's not just you. Quote
Timewhatistime Posted March 20 Posted March 20 On 2/4/2025 at 4:41 PM, Timewhatistime said: The colour scheme yellow/black reminds me a little bit of the set 8043, which was a tracked excavator with 4 PF motors and a big bucket. Expand It's me as well... since 2/4/2025... Quote
Auroralampinen Posted March 21 Author Posted March 21 Well the reason why i ditched the tracks was that i wanted to keep the same mechanical complexity as on the 8043 and with wheels now the minimodel can have 6 function gearbox like the original but if i go with the tracked version there would be only 4 functions since this isint motorized and on no motorized set wheels work better than tracks and i wanted to keep the fun play value the same as on the 8043:) And yes im fully aware that this might not be the most acurate looking mini 8043 but the 8043s spirit was the complex 6 function gearbox and this model has the same 6 function gearbox Quote
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