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ETF HTX-380 Mining Truck.
Saberwing40k posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
A work in progress version of a 400 ton ETF truck. More info soon. Edit: some quick stats: 28 wheels, 14 L motors, 14 turntables, and 2438 parts as of right now. So, yes, it's really big. When I started this project, it was smaller, scaled down to the only type of wheels I had the right quantity of. Much to my dismay, they were far too wide for scale. I tried literally every other tire in my collection, and got the same result, except for these tires. Even so, building the axles was a pain, I'll tell you why tomorrow. Update: The axles were a major pain in the butt to build because of the fact that I had to include a differential in a module only 5 studs wide. However, this first iteration (shown above) was not strong enough, or geared down enough. So, I modified it, keeping the same torque tube design , but with the c bracket turned on it's side in order to accomodate portal axles. I also moved the motor from on the axle to a spot within the chassis. My model is currently roughly the same size as the one efferman is making, but since I have more motors (14 versus 10) and hopefully less weight overall, mine will be far more powerful. It also helps that these motorcycle tires are very, very grippy. The chassis was also updated, with the frame rails now being 5 studs apart, providing room for the steering servo motor, and steering reduction gearboxes. Also shown in this picture is the power module, with 6 receivers. 4 of the six will be slaved together, and provide power to the L motors. the remaining 2 will control the rotation of the bed, the tilt of the bed, and trafficators. Yes, it's going to have turn signals, and likely flashing warning lights. And, thanks to the fact that this model has a lot of internal room, I can include several engines, likely two supercharged v8s The red beams on the chassis merely mark the outlines of the cab and dump bed, and will disappear by the time this is finished. The bed is currently in the prototype stage, as I am still working on the bed lift, and how the whole shebang is going to connect to the chassis. March Update: This project is moving forward, albleit slowly. The mechanism for the turn signals is complete, but I have no photos. I'm actually building the truck as 3 sub models (the front, the rear, and the dump bed), due to the fact that the computer can't really process LDD models above 2500-600 parts. The engines have been incased, and will be lit from below. P.S. Does anybody know if you can slave an M motor to the same channel as the servo motor, and have the M motor continoulsy rotate even if the servo stops? And, it's update time. I've started on the cab, which will have seats, and house the trafficators. No, the yellow and black colors aren't a mistake. Those will be the final production colors. Rear view: this view shows the trafficators. The bottom motor is slaved to the steering channel. (I hope that it is possible to do that with an M and servo motor.), and the top motor is slaved to the drive mechanism, giving the model flashing warning lights. If you all are wondering what happened to the rest of the truck, I had to divide up the model so that the computer would stop freezing. The dump bed has also been rearranged, and has the linear actuators, but not their drive motors or shafts. Still to do: Finalize dump bed frame. Finalize turntable connection, and add motor. Add motors to control bed lift. Add bed front and back walls, and dump gate. Finish cab. Mount Trafficators Finish bulking up frame. Colorize. Real life testing. Make instructions. So yeah, lots to do, since this is a school project, I can afford to work on this a lot. Should hopefully be done by late April/ early May. -
So... Just why did I build this? It all started because we were going on a 14 day New Year’s cruise to Hawaii with 10 at sea days, just at sea, no land, just the ship... What was I going to do? I immediately thought of LEGO! I have been wanting to build a MOD of the Grand Emporium to make a 16 wide, hmmm... sounds possible, but what else is in my closet waiting to be built? I looked and saw several Prince of Persia sets and I really liked the colors, so maybe something based on the colors, those dark tans, light tans, white and gold. Great colors, so maybe I want to do something with those colors. Where to start? I looked up MODs of the 7573 and found this mosque http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=47068 using 2 7573’s and I really liked the modularity, colors and the fact that it was a 16x16. I also found this MOC Modular: PoP Hangout at: http://www.flickr.co...hoto_4929709781 and I thought about what I liked about the 10190 Market Street. I decided to make a building according to the Modular Specifications, a 16x16 with an open air market area like the Market street. I ordered another 7573 (for parts) and started to pack. In the end I packed baggies of parts from 2 7573 (Battle of Alamut) and 1 7571 (Fight for the Dagger). I figured this would be enough parts as I was going to be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean without access to my inventory, so that was all the parts I was going to have. Fortunately we were driving to the port, so weight was not an issue with luggage, and being on a cruise space was not as much an issue as a flight to somewhere. I first decided to build the Battle of Alamut just to see what it looked like and get an idea on how some of the parts were used in case it would be of some help to me. So on my first “at sea” day I assembled the Battle of Alamut (no photos, we all know what it looks like. I then disassembled sorted all the pieces from all the sets into large food storage bags and claimed 2 of the 3 drawers in the desk for my LEGO project. The building is a “free build” no LDD, just from my head to brick. We know how that goes... You get an idea, put it together, take it apart and put it back together again several times until you get what you wanted. In order to take photos and avoid a bunch of reflections I had to use a couple of bed pillows as background. Here is the result... The Oasis Carpet and Coffee Shop a front view... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382006855/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382006855/]Oasis Carpet and Coffee[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr A side view... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382006957/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382006957/]Side view of the Oasis[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr The back view... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382007089/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382007089/]Oasis back view[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr The Market Place... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383089664/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383089664/]Oasis, The Marketplace[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr A top view of the Oasis... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383089992/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383089992/]Top view of the Oasis[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr Inside the Carpet store.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382007747/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382007747/]Inside view of the Carpet store[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr Front of the Coffee Shop... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383090186/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383090186/]Front of the Coffee Shop[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr Top-inside view of the Coffee Shop... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382007999/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382007999/]Inside the Coffee Shop[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr Coffee Shop, inside the back window... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382008111/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382008111/]Coffee Shop in the back window[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr It was really great until it was time to pack it all back in the suitcase and come home. We carefully packed each floor in a separate large plastic bag with lots of padding (socks and whatnot) to try to minimize damage, and just in case, at least each floor would be in a separate bag so I could identify parts for each floor more easily. Well, here’s what happened after the Quake... http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382008975/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382008975/]After the Quake[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382009147/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8382009147/]Coffee Shop after the Quake[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383091610/][/url] http://www.flickr.com/photos/74992335@N05/8383091610/]Marketplace after the Quake[/url] by http://www.flickr.com/people/74992335@N05/]MyPlasticBricks[/url], on Flickr Since this is WIP I do plan to get back to it, rebuild and finish it. I can’t decide if I should keep to my original challenge and only use the parts from the sets I took with me, or maybe use additional parts as well... This is my third MOC, and the first I have published on EuroBricks in this detail, so C&C are welcome any ideas are appreciated. If you want to see more at my Flickr http://www.flickr.co...s/74992335@N05/ Here is my stream. Thanks, Andy D
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Compact Uniknick design
Morj posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Somebody (legomuppet9) asked me to publish compact uniknick steering/articulation part (based on Mbmc design published in this post). Well, here you go. It's still untested in a finished truck, but no gear cracks or clumsiness under manually applied stress. Being a bit lazy now to build a truck around it, need inspiration. Obviously, the intended use of this center part is to connect battery and cab to the inner half of the turntable opposite to the steering motor (the front one) and to connect powered axles to outer (gray) halves of the front and rear turntables. P. S.: brickshelf folder with high-res here. -
Hello there Here is what i've worked on in the past two weeks, it's still a Work in Progres (it will always be ) More Photo's and some Video's http://www.flickr.com/photos/epjl/ Index: 24-2-2013 30-4-2013 3-6-2013
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Custom Elder scrolls V : Skyrim Scaled armour
Pyrovisionary posted a topic in Minifig Customisation Workshop
On the flickr community, There is a lego elder scrolls group. The group is starting to host an elderscrolls rpg. This isn't an advert, Merely an explanation as to why I molded it. This is the Scaled armor piece as seen in TES v: Skyrim. It is only a WIP of course But I thought that I'd share it. And here is the reference picture: -
Trial truck Unimog (WIP)
jorgeopesi posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
A easy trial truck with 2 gears and steering with a small linear actuator, with Hispalug trial truck rules. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGVS4XgWTk&feature=plcp -
EDIT: It's done (for now)!! Still waiting on a few more bricklink orders and several more hours bangin my head against my desk finishing decals in photoshop, but as my first MOC post & first post-darkage creation I was a little excited to show her to the world. Not 100% if I'll stick with #6936 because it's still running in UP's heritage fleet, or #6913 because its in Texas. As you can see the yellow is still off in the decals plus I have a few hundred more to apply but these are just the first ones I printed to fine tune the colors on my printer. I'll have HQ pictures on brickshelf in a few days once my camera comes back from repairs.
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Hello all, Just wanted to share my latest (first) MOC....Bowling! I was playing around with LDD for the first time today and whipped this up real quick. Very simple and I plan to add to it. I used SNOT for the lane itself, but I want to add a seating area. I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out how to transfer from the SNOT lane to a regular studs on top seating area. Comments, criticism, questions are all welcome.
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Hi everyone! Having a day of (literally) nothing needing to get done, I decided to take advantage of the time and build myself a new modular building. I've incorporated some design inspiration from the Fire Brigade set. As a matter of fact, this building is made exclusively of parts from the Fire Brigade (save for the masonry [brick] bricks). So far this is only one floor. I'm not sure how high I will make it, but this is what I have for the time being: There is no interior. I don't do interiors. Locutis
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LEGO Sci-Fi universal WIP feedback thread. Do you have a Work In Progress (WIP) build that isn't working ? Do you have a problem that you can't just figure out how to get the look that you want? Did you create something but not sure how to use it? Do you want to help out a fellow builders? Then this this thread is for you! During the great EB oppsies of 2012, one of the discussions had off forums was the creation for a universal WIP thread that everyone could post what they were working on, this helps clean up the forums a bit, as well as provide a proper and centralized location where people could get some help on what they were working on. So EVERYONE post away! Throw in things you're working on and our esteemed Sci-Fi members will chime in and help you the best we can. I'll start! This was an attempt at a micro-ship / drone.... WIP micro ship drone thingy by Si-MOCs, on Flickr I've had this thing sitting on my desk for awhile, it had promise, but I just couldn't really get it to a point where I liked it. The idea was almost a bio-ship that felt a bit like armadillo armouring, with some asymmetrical striping. But it's kinda just a blob... Anyone got any ideas? or just scrap it? ...
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Hey everyone! Hawken Just had a big Beta Event for the weekend so I fianlly got off my butt and got some game time in, had a blast! Between this and Mech Warrior Online looks like we'll have lots of Mech goodness for sometime! Hawken has a great Aesthetic so naturally it got my creative juices flowing! I had been having a good run with the Rocketeer mech, so I designed this guy based on it(or at leat it's weapons) Had a lot of fun with this, Hawkens Aesthetic and my Dense Building style meshed really well and I'm really liking hte overall size I got here, big enough for figs but small enough to be able to (relatively) easily build more than one or two! I think I'll try to build something based on the Assault Mech next, I've grown attached to it's big square head! So hit me up with any C&C you guys have, but keep in mind that these won't be you average LDD MOC, these are built and colored with Actual Bricks in mind! There are NO Floating parts, NO iffy connections and NO Parts in un-produced Colors(mistakes still happen thought), just keep it in mind. Mike
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As a Lego fan, I am slowly starting to enter some grey age again. I can easily without my bricks, but when sale hits in, I'm getting pumped up again. Last weekend I saw the Diagon Alley set for €99, quite a bargain you should say, but because of my 'grey age' I left it on the self. But ideas kept crawling through my mind to turn these buildings into some modular buildings. For inspiration, I browsed through the Google and stumpled upon this site with some photos of the Harry Potter Tour in London. So I opende up LDD and started building. As Ollivanders is one of the most iconic buildings of Diagon Alley, I started with this one. I'm really pleased with the round windows (and the door in between). But I got stuck on the roof, so it's just 10217's Ollivanders roof for now. Then I started with a rather common building for Diagon Alley, that I turned into Quality Quidditch Supplies. Here are some printscreens straight from LDD (should try that render plug in sometime soon to make the pics a bit more attractive) As you can see I used a lot of bricks that are actually in 10217, as I wanted to experiment with the bricks in the set (of course I'll add the required parts from my own collection) But I'm in doubt, does this moc have the potential to be brick build, if so I buy the official set this Saturday, or should I just leave it with the LDD.. In any case I would like to have some feedback on the build itselfs, especialy on the rooftops and the best colour for the Quidditch shop to go with the green. Thanks in advance
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Hello everyone, finally more creations of mine after I moved into my new apartment with its nice big basement room – this time it's a completed section of a snotted street and the wall between it and the lakeshore: ...wih my well-known houses in the back. Note that "officially", the walls would be solid without the big openings. But I need them so I can reach the trains that will be parked on the hidden tracks behind the wall. Without cars: Close-up with tram tracks: "Officially", the tram line is to be imagined to enter from the right, turn right into the narrow street, take a loop around the block and re-enter from the left, then exit to the right. However, since I'll try to make a motorized tram, I want it to drive just the loop around the buildings – hence this curve. I forgot to print the bike sign on the road and the parking ticket machine for the other photos, so here they are only on this one: I actually tried to make a mosaic with bricks (tiles, cheese slopes) for the bike sign, but didn't manage to build one at that size that also looks good, so here's a printed sticker only... Close-ups of wall and shore – I'm wondering if I made it a bit too old-looking... There are some statues: Freddie Mercury, an exotic queen and a mirror-like droid: Also a piper whose music isn't loved by everyone, and a strange procession: Now what are these guys doing there? That's what the reporter's asking, too, so let's listen in: "So who are you guys?" "We're the local FOOLOO cult – that's Followers Of One Long Orange Object." "I see. And why are you worshipping this... thing?" "Well, erm, it's long, it's orange..." – worshippers murmur "ooooraaaaange" – "...and it comes from the God of Separation. We worship him this way in order to ask him to separate what we want to be separated, and to keep together what we want to remain together. Do you want to join?" "Erm, no, thanks..." And a look at the entire room: On Flickr, there are more photos, including the backside of the wall, the underside of the road, and from setting up the tables. Comments, suggestions, ...? :)
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I just visited my local toy store and was pleasantly surprised that almost all LEGO Games sets were on big discount. So I decided to pick up a few to make a modular mostly out of the sets. The shopping list consists of: - 5 Minotaurus. 8 euro each - 2 Ninjago, 10 euro each - 1 City Alarm, 5 euro (it was the only one) - 1 Lunar Command, 8 euro (ditto), 271 pcs - 1 Heroica Fortaan, 10 euro - 1 Heroica Nathuz, 8 euro This all for a total sum of 91 euro's! For 2584 pieces, including 5 green and 1 gray 32x32 baseplates and 114!!! microfigures! So I thought, what better way to get rid of all those hideous microfigures than to build a modular store for them to be sold. I hope to post some pics of the progress during the weekend. Comments and requests are welcome!
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Layout Latest Updated 24/10/2012: Image of the progress so far: Full report in latest post here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=66901&st=25#entry1416038 Original Post: Not going to bore you too much with a detailed post (unless you really want it). I have a building space in my office and I am going to be building a large City scene, using City sets and then using the same techniques used in the sets to build extra elements to make a full scene. I am using LDD to plan the build and I am doing it stages, after building a stage on LDD I will then purchase parts I need, photograph it and move on to the next stage. Stage One - Is the Lego City Marina, I have built the Marina on LDD (This is first time I have used LDD was building the Marina). Stage one has an area of 4 32x32 base plates wide and 2 back and will have 9 official sets built in it or on it. For further detailed info visit: http://brickfanatics...o-city-project/ Here are is the LDD Concept image: Update 1 includes more LDD images: http://www.eurobrick...dpost&p=1241062 Update 2 Building progress of the Marina plus the extension of the dockside: http://www.eurobrick...dpost&p=1250434 Update 3 Major update, beach, surf shack and much more completed as well as new to do list: http://www.eurobrick...dpost&p=1301988 Update 4 Marina entrance complete with pavements done and loads of minor features added: http://www.eurobrick...dpost&p=1351763
