Would You Use a Plastic Body Shell on Lego Truck?

[DLuders]

On his Brickshelf gallery, Bardian posted this picture of a Lego Technic Trial Truck chassis sporting a non-Lego body shell. The Lego Lego Digital Designer (LDD) .lxf building instruction file shows how one could make a simple Lego Power Functions chassis (using 1 ea. PF XL motor for propulsion, 1 ea. PF Medium motor for steering, 1 ea. PF Receiver, and 1 ea. PF Battery Box).

How do you feel about using a plastic body shell on a Lego truck (not necessarily THIS ONE)? Do you like it? Why or why not?

[Brickend]

Lego never looks truly real, but the uniformity of the method gives it an aesthetic appeal that has it's own beauty.

If you introduce an element made by a different method, you remove the cohesion and the styles clash. So I prefer pure lego.

[timslegos]

Yucky Yucky Yucky....

tim

[dikkie klijn]

Haha that was only a quick way to show you guys what you COULD make on this chassis, say the body of a super car.

I never intended it this way, why use a plastic body if you could make your own in little plastic pieces?

It's mine by the way (click) I needed a place to put the ldd file so I used my old brickshelf account

Edited December 10, 2011 by dikkie klijn

[DLuders]

@ dikkie klijn/ Bardian: I opened up your LDD .lxf file to see the Power Functions chassis, and I can see these advantages:

1. The simple, SMALL chassis could easily handle the light weight of various RC body shells.

2. People could build the same chassis, and then race them (with different body shells) on a Lego Trial Truck course. That way, the drivers could tell them apart and it would be DRIVER SKILL that determines the champion.

3. RC body shells are EXTREMELY TOUGH and almost indestructible. If a Lego Trial Truck rolled, the flexible body shell would help protect it from impacts.

4. A small Lego PF vehicle (like the one you built) has few places to attach a 100%-Lego body, without making it significantly larger and heavier.

[prateek]

I'd say it looks okay. If you're gonna be rough with your RC's and drive it like a maniac, I think this is the better option. Besides, who wants to ruin their Lego pieces?

[dikkie klijn]

@prateek This thing doesn't go really fast so you own't ruin your lego I think

@DLuders those are some interesting points you make . The light weight of a RC body would definitely make a difference especially in performance. But you could also try studless building (like this). Studless has the advantage being able to connect to just about anything in just about every angle. And constructed good studless is more than strong enough for eventual rollovers

But I'm getting quite curious on how a RC body would look like on this thin in real life.

Edited December 10, 2011 by dikkie klijn

[prateek]

@prateek This thing doesn't go really fast so you own't ruin your lego I think

I mean like driving it off jumps and small cliffs and such.

[dikkie klijn]

I mean like driving it off jumps and small cliffs and such.

Oh that way.

[Badger]

@ dikkie klijn/ Bardian: I opened up your LDD .lxf file to see the Power Functions chassis, and I can see these advantages:

1. The simple, SMALL chassis could easily handle the light weight of various RC body shells.

2. People could build the same chassis, and then race them (with different body shells) on a Lego Trial Truck course. That way, the drivers could tell them apart and it would be DRIVER SKILL that determines the champion.

3. RC body shells are EXTREMELY TOUGH and almost indestructible. If a Lego Trial Truck rolled, the flexible body shell would help protect it from impacts.

4. A small Lego PF vehicle (like the one you built) has few places to attach a 100%-Lego body, without making it significantly larger and heavier.

Sorry but rc shells arnt that tough , i have a hpi e firestorm flux and i split mine within a day , just my 2cents

[dikkie klijn]

/BUMP/

I've made full page by page instruction for the model,

flickr set

Edited January 14, 2012 by dikkie klijn

[El Garfio]

When I see the pic I have remembered that I have a monster truck from a clone brand.

It has the holes for joining the body with the chasis using bricks.

I think it would be joined to a technic motorized chasis without problem.

[DLuders]

OK, folks, would you consider the other way around -- a Lego Technic body shell over a non-Lego chassis? Here is a

by JavierQ615 that says "My girlfriend bought me the Lego Technic Supercar set 8070 for Xmas. I wanted it to make it into a fast RC but lego motors are slow. I built the supercar around my 1:10 scale RC drift car chassis that she got me 2 Xmas ago. Combined ......came out this. My supercar is powered by a 12v Ni-Mh battery on a brushless motor." What do you think about it? Compared to the original 8070 pictured below, this one looks more like a Monster Truck: