brickless_kiwi

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    Suzuki vitara's are very handy cars
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    What I would love to see is the mechanics of how you packaged it all very compact. Very well executed moc. Functions and style. Well done.
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    One day....
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    Grum's Shed

    brickless_kiwi replied to grum64's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling

    Hell yes.. good to see you building Clive.
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    Not my hobby (non drinker) hence I have money for lego and racecars.... just no time for mocs
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    42124 Off-Road Buggy

    brickless_kiwi replied to Ngoc Nguyen's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling

    In the grand scheme of things injection mould making these days has dropped in price quite a bit. Sure there is a different in a mould that will run millions of parts verses one that will run hundred thousands... I have a couple of moulds that have run over a million times from china. A third of the cost for the same mould made in nz. No one will ever win a price/production war against china. Sorry about the off topic... regards matt
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    There are some very impassioned arguments. The one thing I would like to say to all builders please don't stop creating as it's always nice to see mocs of all standards and styles and to add to my bucket list of one day... Unfortunately my job and life do not leave me many hours for lego. So as someone always looking in it's nice to see. But also certainly I feel comments should be positive ( we do live in a touchy feelings world but also look at the diverse range of cultures on eurobricks slang in my language could be highly offensive in another. ) I'm just a simple truck driver ( haha yea right some of you would say)... Kind regards Matt
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    No... I have reversed engineered a couple that madoca made but never released files as not my intellectual property. From the photos and a few good guesses I'm pretty close and with a bit if time and patience you could do it.
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    Someone who has managed to reverse engineer effermans trailers. This certainly is on my wish list.
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    Or those who just work hard put in the long hours. I'd love to be able to sit down for a couple of hours and lego....
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    Eurobricks needs a thumbs up like icon... I like it
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    You think that's bad wait till you build a double woop scissor front end....in real life...
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    There are parts of both that I like and probably would build a mix of the two. Try the 2x2 dishes the ones look not right.
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    At 23 meters bumper to bumper it's the longest proforma combination inside the nzta virm. Those are 15 meter stems. My trailers I can do stems or longs and shorts. Though I can remove the log forks and bolt container locks on and move standard height containers. As for old school street racing. Light weight mx5 first gen (na) with ford serria rs500 running gear. The engine was built to similar specs of the dick johnston racing cars. This was 1996... so 500kgs lighter and 120bhp more than a stock r32 gtr.. will find some old photos
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    Sure... a K200
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    The only one change would be the tail lights. They need to be red. One of the very few tail lights that ever passed me..
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    42108 availability

    brickless_kiwi replied to trinitechnic's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling

    I found while living in the states, and maybe it was just me being a hick backcountry boy...that it is a huge shop at home culture (mail order catalog style ) as the brick and mortar shops held very little. Unless you travelled a great distance to a specialist shop. Currently sitting on a log skid being loaded. You can tell I'm bored... Anyway after much direct searching the 42108 in the states seems to be only on Amazon or Walmart but very expensive.
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    [MOC] [Control+] Oriole Rig

    brickless_kiwi replied to apachaihapachai's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling

    Eurobricks sometimes needs a like button. Liked...
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    Here is a suttle hint... warehouse tend to ship stock to stores generally five days in advance. However generally I'm a tight megablocks and wait for sales or use the warehouse price beat.. Ironically I was in plamy on the weekend picking up one of our feller bunches..
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    42108 availability

    brickless_kiwi replied to trinitechnic's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling

    I hardly think lego would be scalping 42108's on bricklink doesn't quite fit the play well motto.....however after a quick search in nz maybe three of the main players have stock.. and it's not something I have seen on runout yet...either..
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    Oops my bad...blame work.. crazy times...
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    This person in question rang pretty much every warehouse and farmers in Auckland and got all th 42113s put on hold for her.. a friend of mine literally followed her around five shops. Unfortunately the big boxes here do not give a rat's megablocks this is also quite problematic with hotwheels sone one scalps the one you need for the set so your stuck paying premium dollars.. I will be honest if my local big box received the 42113 I would have three sets as I get access to new releases before they go on the shelves I had the 42112 on the 22 of August not something that I would shout about here nor on facebook. I am generally am a hour and a half drive to my closest lego supplier so I'm sure as not going to ruin the relationship we have..
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    You where very lucky we have had to deal with scalpers who I hope rot in hell or the tax department chases.
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    It's a monster. But I like it and looks to be a good fit to the mack anthem scale of container. Interesting ideas and design
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    One to two years design time is not uncommon. It would be a interesting question to the former and current lego staff what was the longest design to production time set lego has produced. The Porsche gt3 was three years according to BBC motoring.