Sariel

You could try Wordpress. It's free and with the variety of plug-ins available you should be able to make it meet your needs. I agree with Paul on the costs, apparently servers are very cheap in France, judging from the prices Anio provided. Paul, you could eventually consider Google ads, but they pay only if you have a lot of visitors. I can cover the cost of running my website completely with Google ads, but I have like 4000-5000 hits daily. I'm sorry to say I have a similar experience with Anio. Anio seems to enjoy criticizing and accusing people. Personally, I have been accused by him of having some shady deals with the Lego company, and he was instructing me on how to build, despite having no Technic MOCs of his own. I was discouraged from visiting Setechnic by this kind of behavior. Paul, don't let him upset you.

Well, I think Nico is right. We should not put too much trust into comments at websites that don't require logging in, where everyone can use any name whatsoever. Also, the language is a good point - the person who made that unfortunate comment at Crowkiller's website is clearly more fluent in English that the real Nico is. It looks like somebody is having fun at Nico's expense.

Well, the image quality you got there really stands out. I'm thinking of getting new cam, but I'll probably go for something more universal, like e.g. Sony a33.

May I ask what kind of camera have you been using?

I had them custom chromed. The chassis will be reinforced, of course.

This pic is a bit more up to date:

This may come in handy too. A bit more complex but significantly improved: http://sariel.pl/2010/10/automated-trafficators-system-2/

I like the old-school style, but it could use some cleaning.

How about this one? More: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=435121

I thought monster trucks were supposed to run on huge wheels. No offense, but with these wheels it reminds me more of a shopping cart. Exhibit A: the Original:

Finishing the Charger, then starting a new Tow Truck, with instructions for Landie's chassis somewhere in between.

Well, these two receivers sit side-to-side, with their top 'domes' only 2 studs apart. It seems to pretty much eliminate this problem. Plus, I was driving it only indoors and since the receivers were not obstructed at any time, no signal loss ever occurred. Backdriving you're referring to actually happened once, when I didn't move the switches on battery boxes properly and only one of them turned on. But there was no terrible grinding, the model just barely moved and the motors sounded extremely strained.

There are dark grey minifig hands put into 1x1 round bricks on one side and into 3 stud long black technic pins on the other. The pins are inserted into the turret at various depth. It was difficult to find something a minifig hand would fit into, but I eventually found it fits into one end of the 3 studs long technic pins.

Yes, precisely.

Finally: Features: Torsion bar suspension, drivetrain with 4 PF XL motors, remotely rotated turret, remotely rotated commander's cupola, self-levelling main gun, gunner's machine gun - to - hull alignment system, lights and custom stickers. Full description: http://sariel.pl/2010/10/leopard-2a4/ Gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=450111 WIP gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=450112 And video:

Well, the Swede call it Stridsvagn 103, S Tank is just a nickname :)

Thanks. And pozdrówka z kraju for your wife :)

Whoa. I have to say, I have been fancying making some sort of roundup of my tanks, just not yet... First I want to publish Leopard and my next tank, K2 Black Panther, which will continue the development of some of the solutions used in Leopard. Most importantly, I want to take the torsion bars suspension used in Leo and make it remote-controlled, so that the tank can sit / stand up / tilt in various directions.

I really think the title of this topic should be edited, as it is heavily misleading right now. I think most of us have known about E-Motor for months, and just like Fernando already stated, its usefulness is rather limited. Besides, every Lego electric motor can work as a generator too. It's just not that convenient with M and XL motors, as their substantial internal gearing makes it difficult to 'drive' them manually.

Right.

This is an idea by Erik Leppen, the Ultimate Crane Master :) Personally, I think the main problem with multi-section booms is the friction that increases greatly with every section. I mean, you can built 4, 5 or 6-section telescopic boom, but you may not be able to actually extend it. I've experienced so much friction with long 3-section booms based on Jennifer's idea that many types of string couldn't handle the load while extending. Having said that, I have no ambition to have more than 4 sections in a single telescopic boom. It's possible but impractical.

You, sir, should be aware of Jennifer Clark's ideas: More: http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com/lego/ideas.htm

What you mean is a distribution gearbox which was present in many official Lego sets, for instance in the 8480 or 8258. Why don't you check instructions?

Well, I still like to use paper printouts too. It's convenient to make notes on them :)

So, I got inspired by our dear DLuders who has brought to my attention the need for a software that makes scaling models easier. After a week or two of writing, testing and fixing, here's the refined complete tool: http://scaler.sariel.pl/ It's an on-line application (no need to install anything) that is supposed to work like this: - you load an image into it, preferably a blueprint - you enter certain target dimension (in Lego studs) and then draw this dimension on the blueprint (it can be for instance a wheel diameter, since you probably know which Lego wheels you’re going to use in your model) - a pixels-to-studs ratio is calculated and from now on all dimensions you draw on the image are shown in studs - once finished, you can easily print the image with measurements on it or save it using the Print Screen There is a short instruction included in the tool itself, and a step-by-step manual is available at my website: http://sariel.pl/2010/10/model-scaler-tool/ For those of you who really want to dig into model scaling, this may come handy: http://sariel.pl/2009/12/scaling-tutorial-for-vehicles/ Kudos to DLUders, who's pretty much a godfather of the whole thing :)