After my dark ages: introduction

[robert]

Hi,

Let me introduce myself first. I'm Robert from Holland and I played a lot with lego technic since I was 7 years old back in the seventies. And now my children play with lego and I rediscovered technic, so this winter I couldn't resist anymore and I bought the 8049 set (it was on sale :-)). And now I am an AFOL and I'm wrestling studless technic:-).

I started building all kind of stuff I found online and surfed a lot on eurobricks and also lowlug. And I discovered bricklink and e-bay.

Last week I got inspired by Grohl's blue tongue and I tried to build a copy, modifying it while building, and I decided to create a brickshelf gallery.

Here's the link:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=466470

I don't have a lot of blue beams, so my moc is yellow. I also made some technical changes. I replaced the 2 m-motors with one xl-motor and a differential. Since I don't have a small "return to center" spring I slowed the steering a bit to make it more "controlable". And I moved the rear wheels one stud (longer wheel base) to compensate for my heavy battery box.

Thanks to Grohl for inspiration.

Cheers,

Robert

[Alasdair Ryan]

welcome to the forum you made a greast job of that 4x4 it looks very mean looking, am sure it will go most places mayby if you got time you can impress us more here by making a video to show its real power

[Toastie]

I played a lot with lego technic since I was 7 years old back in the seventies. And now my children play with lego and I rediscovered technic, so this winter I couldn't resist anymore and I bought the 8049 set (it was on sale :-)). And now I am an AFOL and I'm wrestling studless technic:-).

Hi Robert,

wonderful, it is just wonderful; another "lost" LEGO builder inspired by his children. It doesn't get much better.

Have a wonderful AFOL time! BTW, your model is awesome.

All the best,

Thorsten

[Fuzzylegobricks]

Wow! All the places you go when you think about "Lego"