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A car carrier, or other vehicle, with new uses for pneumatics - even yellow construction equipment, with pneumatics, instead of LA's, will be welcomed.

HI erelender, thanks for commenting. Yes - its Technic now, but I will mod to fit the size and replace many Technic elements with suitable brick elements, especially in the Tractor - these images are just the starting off point, we will see how far I can get within the constraints. I am actually going out to a farm next month to see a similar beast in action, so maybe get some additional ideas at the time.

Thanks Jim!

I've been playing around with this for some time, in LDD only so far. Borrowed some ideas off of prior LEGO sets. It is an experimental agricultural soil treatment machine, designed to produce steam on-board, and then inject it into the soil, while tilling. Similar devices are available commercially in Germany and Italy, but so far none of them are suitable for US agricultural purposes. This one has propane fuel tanks on the tractor, and a hose reel to connect to water tankers off to the side. We were going to build something similar, but then the whole concept got tossed in favor of an autonomous 4-wheeled platform, with no driver, just RC control. For the MT contest, I'll modify and add brick built details to the tractor and finish off the trailer. Functions will include HOG steering, driven PTO connected to the tiller, which can raise and lower. Since PF are not allowed, the steam generator will be non-functional Right now its at 75 x 17 studs, so will need some work to get to the correct size. I'd appreciate any feed back as to suitability to mod to MT standards, or should I work on something else?

Thanks a lot, I've got something at 75 x 17 which needs some work on the length, I was hoping for an unfair advantage on the width, so more work for me . I'll shoot for 44x14- does this include fat balloon tires, or can they overhang a bit?

Jim - many Model Team builds use studded Technic bricks, that are even studs in length, how about changing the maximum dimensions to 46x16 so as to better accommodate Technic bricks rather than Technic beams?

This is great, nice work and really brings back memories of this classic movie. How about a moc of the (in)famous "no time for the ol' **-***, just here to check the meter" scene?

Grum, thanks - they are 6 and 9 - even the 16 yo built one, but I couldn't track it down for a pic. The challenge for them was to use parts only from their collections, I was a pleasure to see them working together and sharing parts. Real team work.

You can BL the curiosity rover for about US $30 more or less, depending on how many stores you ping and postage, so I don't understand the excessive markup for sealed sets. I built two this way, for a grand total of approx. $35,00 - albeit I used the original project building instructions and not the LEGO BI, and also changed the colors on the simulated Martian ground. The original Cuusoo project is on Rebrickable, with highly descriptive instructions. Its a nice accurate model of the actual rover, with neat suspension and other features, but it is not a playable set, being strictly for display. The appeal for me, at least, is that my job is tangentially related to current space and future manned Mars missions. I imagine many of the US sales were to similar science-type junkies.

Well, I misread the time, so while its still August 10th, its about 4.5 hours past the deadline, c'est la vie. Here are two small turtles my kids made, still will like to share them

Its been done, see here for the discussion - evaluating cost based on weight of parts, not including PF elements, is a much better means of comparing value of sets

I got the same e-mail, but after I received my Exosuit via FedEx (oh why did I just order 1)

21110 - Research Institute - Theme - LEGO Ideas LDD v. 4.3.8 brickset 1392 LXF file BRICKSET BRICKLINK errors: chemist minifig - missing torso print, wrong head print archeologist minifig - missing torso print, wrong head print astronomer minifig - wrong head print blackboard - missing print

I got two before they changed the order limit from 2 to 1, one set for me (I work in a lab) and one for the daughter who likes science (the other daughter is more Goth, so she gets Monster fighters)

Choices, choices, too many choices... Decision came down to - would I buy this for me or my kids based on functions and presentation. Congratulations to all the builders! 7: 1 11: 1 14: 1 16: 3 26: 1 29: 3 31: 4 33: 1 39: 2 40: 2 46: 1

42022 is on the US site available for sale, and it does look like a nice set!

Well it only took about 25 minutes to get from adding items to the bag to finishing placing the order. No indication that either exosuit or research lab was out of stock. Will wait and see what arrives.

LOL, looks like my desk at work, except the shelves have LEGO models and Angry Bird toys...

Its great to see some of the places and buildings i've been too done LEGO style. Great image collection, thank you for compiling.

Aesthetic and functional. BI, please!

Local TRU (New Haven, CT) has all 2014 Technic sets except 42029.

Bipin - I'd suggest not using the black background, as the tires and shadow areas merge with it; otherwise, looks great

Bottom row, you have : 6641 Technic Changeover Catch, 4261 Technic Steering Arm, and 3651 Technic axle and pin connector - all used in a large number of sets. I am not sure about the brick with knobs, the top part does it have a part number?

Found my mistake, I had set the quantity to "0"

Again, as suggested above, spend some time and thought on lighting (check out Cowboy Studios, they have some budget lighting packages that work great), and pay attention to the background - an even, neutral colored , and continuous background works best, so no seams or harsh shadows are visible - I bought a roll of 60" wide, many feet long, white paper from Hobby Lobby to use as a continuous background, the width and length enables smooth curved transition from 'floor' to 'wall'. @Bipin - those are great looking pictures - but you should provide the source to us, and/or give credit to the photographer. As a (well-almost) semi-pro product photographer myself, I can clearly see that these images were taken with multiple pieces of studio-grade lighting equipment, with careful use of lighting controls - such as softboxes, umbrellas, etc... I see good details in highlights and shadow area, no areas are either excessively blown-out or blocked-up, the shadow areas are all nicely diffused, depth of field manipulated for best effect, and in the last image, effective use of backlight and key lights - all the hallmark of a serious studio photographer - so well done to whoever made those images! I'll add that with good lighting, high quality shots with handheld smartphone cameras or budget cameras are possible. My ~ $100 US camera, bought for vacations and under water use, works great on LEGO and similar sized objects - it is only when you need to manipulate depth of field, use selective focus, or control exposure that more expensive cameras are needed.