Metal Grudge

[Blakbird]

The two receiver deal -does- give a slight advantage in acceleration and maneuvering. However, it's not enough to justify the purchase of another receiver for people who may be new to Power Functions. Also, after a while there were some problems; the internal safety of the receiver seemed to kick in at random intervals. Never figured out how to get rid of that. Since I don't want to deal with people complaining that the model doesn't work, I changed it back to a single receiver which may lower performance a bit, but is way more reliable.

Of course, if you want to go completely nuts, there's room for two battery packs in the vehicle.

OK, I took the instructions and made an MLCAD file and the attached render. There were a couple of things I couldn't replicate. The Hero Factory shields on the sides of the turret did not exist in LDraw, so I made an add substitution. The Bionicle chain links also do not exist, but I was able to find all of the other parts.

One more thing I noticed about the change from 2 IR Receivers to 1 is that we lost the cool grenade launchers.

[mahjqa]

WHOO! That looks awesome! Thanks! Your alternative for the hero factory shields works nicely.

Yeah, I substituted the grenade launchers (or whatever they were supposed to be, in-game they're miniguns, I think) for something a little more sturdy. For those who want to install the originals, here's a good view of them:

Edited March 12, 2011 by mahjqa