Charbel

Update : Instructions available here : Hey ! I'm pretty happy to present you my latest MOC which I have been working on for the past 2 years. The goal was to build a 1:8 replica of the very famous McLaren 720S. I wanted to have a bodywork with only panels and avoid as much as possible connectors and beams. I also wanted to have a fully modular build, for both the bodywork and the chassis. SPECS : - Fully modular chassis and bodywork - Steering with HOG - Manually operated butterfly doors - active rear wing - Openable hood with 7*7*5 studs front compartment - Independent suspensions on all wheels - Foldable display like the real car - 8 speed sequential gearbox with @Didumos69 stepper. More pics : https://bricksafe.com/pages/Charbel/mclaren-720s

Hello, I am sharing here an idea I got over a year ago: fix the paddles to the steering wheel in order to make up space and therefore make the supercars' interiors much cleaner. The idea might seem a bit complicated but thanks to the use of a mini LA, it somehow becomes much easier. Putting the LA through a mini turntable allows to transmit a translating movement while still allowing the mini turntable and therefore the steering wheel to rotate. The design I am showing uses @Didumos69 stepper. I am quite happy with how it it performs and how it looks even though it may not look like that inside a car. The process behind this took about 200 different designs and iterations and I was helped by @T Lego who will use this idea in his car... Instructions : https://bricksafe.com/files/Charbel/instructions_charbel_imad.pdf

Thanks ! Lorenzo's instructions are gone so I made them : https://bricksafe.com/files/Charbel/Luggage_720S_Charbel.pdf

Hello, I have finally decided to upload the instructions to Rebrickable : https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-46762/Charbel/18-mclaren-720s/?inventory=1#comments

Hello, I am sorry for the late reply, school is keeping me extremely busy. I didn't know you had to get a level 3 account on Rebrickable, the most direct way to get in touch with me is by the email you find here : https://www.youtube.com/user/CharbelLEGOcreation/about @Robo-Knight I don't know anything about this, it looks like a mix of a copycat set and lego bricks. And there quite a few errors form what I have seen. At this point I am considering putting the instructions on some website to make it easier for everyone, as Chinese companies managed to copy it anyway. I don't know yet and I don't have experience with any of them. The file has a password and is 700mb so I don't know if it will work on Rebrickable.

Hello @Semka08, you can't unfortunately send messages directly here as it isn't allowed for new members, but you can send one on Rebrickable !

I've had the exact same idea with the microphone on the current version of my gearbox !

Well I think Sariel was doing this way before me : http://sariel.pl/2009/04/2-speed-automatic-gearbox/ Concerning this particular design, I like it but I'm a bit concerned about that rubber band, it looks to be about to break each time it reaches 4th. Maybe using a gear rack and extending the rubber linearly could help.

Hello, I am not very experienced with the price range of 1:8 supercar but I think it should be around 400-500€ max. The part list is for the white version and all of the white parts are for the exterior so to choose another color you will have to change the color of all of the white parts ( there may be a feature on rebrickable that allows this but I'm not sure). Also, @lego_tactics took another amazing set of pictures of his version :

hello @vss2sn and @Seba1234 my rebrickable inbox was full, you can now send me a message !

@Seba1234 Hello, see the first post ! @Phlsupr34 Instructions for the chassis only aren't planned, sorry.

Genuinely honored. I am still amazed by this design, you achieved to build such a beautiful bodywork with a very clean chassis !

@fedcor check the first post ! Thanks for sharing, it looks surprisingly fast !

Thanks you very much for sharing ! Looking good, especially with all of the supercars together.

Hey, yes it has been discussed a few pages earlier. I will know for my next builds ( if there will ever be ) that this method isn't useful. But I will still keep the current method for the future buyers, I am very busy and this helps limit the number of instructions sold.

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Thanks @Seo-onDaddy, as I said, you can create a rebrickable account and send me all the pictures and screens needed so I can check everything.

Hi everyone ! I'm trying to respond as quickly as possible to everyone. By the way, Peter Schott ( @lego_tactics) did an amazing wrap on the car :

Hello, as @Nebulaire said, I have some very important exams coming up soon and I am very busy currently, but I will try to respond to the dms I received, thanks for the wait !

Thank you all for your messages ! Definitely not what I wanted to happen but I guess it is inevitable nowadays. @Ethan0080 I think it's almost impossible, it could be someone who decided to resell them to somebody...

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Hi everybody ! So today, I'm really happy to present you the car I've worked on day and night for the last 3 weeks : a Porsche 919 Hybrid, my dream Porsche ! So the model features : - Direction with a HOG and a working steering wheel - Independent suspension on each axle - Realistic door opening mechanism - 4 speed sequential gearbox - V4 fake engine with turbo. The design : I worked a lot on the design, trying to make it look as close as the real model. Functions : Front suspension are done like this : This system allow a small travel and it lets enough space to place the gear rack just under the shock absorber, so the front axle is really compact. The door are opened by a simple mechanism using 6L links. The most important function is the 4 speed sequential gearbox. It use NLF77 shifting system, slithy modified to make it smaller, like so : The V4 engine is just above the gearbox, to save some space. The gearbox is not really special, except the fact that the 2 driving rings aren't close to each other ( a bit like the 42056, except the fact that it works ) Full flickr gallery : https://www.flickr.c...157669736641790 Video :

Hello, the picture with stickers is edited, I haven't done any stickers sheet, sorry.

Thank you very much @Leewan ! It motivates me to keep working on the next car.

I agree that I can't be 100% sure that everyone that purchases the instructions don't have bad intentions but I try to limit error as much as possible : If I feel that something isn't perfectly right, I don't allow the person to get the instructions and I have already done that quite a few times. So even if in most cases there is no issues, I can decide not to sell the instruction to someone.