Custom 8X8 Crawler

[Hans Domke]

In the makings is a fully custom 8 wheeled rock crawler. Plans include motorized suspension and wheels (too many motors) tank-like steering, plenty of other electronic gizmos and all remotely controlled.

It wont be easy because it requires some non LEGO parts but it sure will be an adventure! A difficult, long, expensive adventure... What am I getting myself into... Help me, please.?

Edited June 10, 2018 by Hans Domke
This is me going far back (5ft) to take a picture then cropping it to the correct file size. Now it is all blurry. There has to be a better way.

[M_longer]

9 hours ago, Hans Domke said:

Help me, please.?

Ok, an advice for you - do not start topics before having at least part of assembled model.

[Edwin Korstanje]

Just like M_longer said, please start a topic with some pictures and then maybe we can help you.

[Hans Domke]

2 hours ago, M_longer said:

Ok, an advice for you - do not start topics before having at least part of assembled model.

 

1 hour ago, Edwin Korstanje said:

Just like M_longer said, please start a topic with some pictures and then maybe we can help you.

I have pictures but the site wont let me upload them because of the file size and I dont know how to make these pics smaller do you know how?

[Littleworlds]

You can resize pictures with programs like photoshop, irfanview or gimp (the latter two are free), then uploading photos without loss of quality should not be a problem.

As for the build itself, I can't say much yet. Is it modelled after something in particular? If not, it better fits in the Technic subforum.

[deraven]

Hi Hans!  

Eurobricks is not for hosting images. That small 100k of local storage is for your profile picture and potentially small images/icons used in your board signature.  To post images in topics/comments, you want to use a 3rd party host like Flickr and deep-link the images.  Here's a tutorial on that:

[Edwin Korstanje]

From your first picture, i think your 8x8 Crawler topic don't fit the Scale Modeling Forum.

You can ask the moderators where you can post it the best.

[jimmynick]

20 hours ago, deraven said:

Hi Hans!  

Eurobricks is not for hosting images. That small 100k of local storage is for your profile picture and potentially small images/icons used in your board signature.  To post images in topics/comments, you want to use a 3rd party host like Flickr and deep-link the images.  Here's a tutorial on that:

Or brickshelf, which is a bit more straightforward if you can resize the images by yourself.