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    Eh dunno. Seems like if designers have to spend months placing and re-placing 1500 black and blue pins in a huge set....they might not have so much time for designing neat mechanisms 8109 remains a high point in neat designs for me. It kicks bum for a mid-range set. Mechanism is really nice. But if we wanted to nitpick....the battery box access sucks, and the winch is pretty lame. But I dunno. Where's the quality bar? https://brickset.com/sets/8109-1/Flatbed-Truck
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    Well yeah, but the flow on motorised compressors is always **** poor eh?
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    Not so much 'we' as there's always the ones with the axe to grind innit? And if they're challenged, then they retort that everyone else are uncritical sheep, allowing TLG to walk off the cliff of quality. The internet: clearly the future, right? At least when @allanp kept going on about pneumatics vs. LAs, he didn't throw his toys out of the pram when he was asked to shush.
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    Should I eBay mine?
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    Co-incidentally found this forwarder in a box. It's hacked from two buggy / go-kart things, and is about 20 years old. It's has one main function: push it along the floor Even steering is 'true hand of god'. Suspension is pretty good eh though. Not sure that the colour scheme is worse
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    There's more than one type of pile driver mechanism eh?
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    I think we each notice different things depending on our own views I notice other voices more. . I think this nails it. Sticker price is up, piece count is up. Space required to store it is bigger. But the toy isn't systematically better. FWIW, I see no distinction in build or play experience between stud-ful and stud-less. It's all one continuum of Technic to me.
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    Forwarder is soooooo ugly. I'm a buy it
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    Googling 'why people think the past was better than the present' gets a lot of results I've been around Lego Technic since 8841 https://brickset.com/sets/8841-1/Dune-Buggy . It's not getting worse. Extreme voices tend to dominate internet forums.
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    Glad that helped
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    When to use the highlight colour is a judgement call. My further £0.02: foreground is background, only a few things can be highlighted balance and visual rhythm matter, there needs to be a cadence to the use of highlights the highlight colour can be applied to parts that move interestingly the highlight colour can be applied at transition zones, e.g changes of direction, splits of motion etc the highlight colour can be used to relieve a large block of background colour sometimes it's just dictated by available parts
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    I like to use yellow, sparingly, for parts that move. The rest I mix LBG, DBG and black in whatever way seems right. It's great to have a colour theme. But it's also good to judge by eye what looks like, and not be slave to a rule https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-does-this-mean-foolish-consistency-hobgoblin-109167
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    It's not cheating. It's just expensive ?
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    Wow do we have enough 2018 threads yet? Maybe I start another
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    +1. What I've seen so far is potato/potato compared to PF 1.0 I'd be happy to see: the adapter to PF 1.0 support for more than one device per output (already often mentioned here and in train PU thread)
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    Nice truck. Is there some kind of list of how to an 'approved' Eurobricks MOC? Like some instructions for a MOC or something I can get so I can make a winning 'my MOC' thread? Sorry, being naughty, maybe ignore that Yours is more finished than mine
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    I can't find any steel mill vehicles. I found a city-style straddle carrier with technic wheels, but it's for intermodal containers Found this Kress carrier MOC. It's a mine hauler, but Kress also produce steel industry vehicles. The hauler users the Kress independent wheel units which might be worth a look. http://superk-technic.com/2017/03/04/kress-coal-hauler/ Be interested to see how you get on. I drew some mill haulers for a game once in pixel art (similar to the dozer in my avatar icon).
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    +1 It's a 30-years-newer equivalent of this box my school had, which let BBC Micro programs control Lego 9v motors. https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Control-IT-buffer-box/ Except no box needed, just laptop
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    The design of mine looks old now, I've thought about rebuilding it to take advantage of new parts. But eh :) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=310890
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    Most all kids toys in the UK have screws on the battery compartments now. It's annoying, but I guess we don't want kids eating batteries eh? Especially leaking ones
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    I did a Fastrac with one HoG steering gear for each axle. Crude, but eh, simple mechanism Supports 4 basic modes: front steer, rear steer, both axles opposed, both axles aligned (crab). High play value, but I get no prize for neat technical solution
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    Nice. That M motor on the boom.... if only we had an 'S'
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    TLG's primary purpose for 'gearboxes' is spamming them into models to split a PF motor output (So not really a gearbox, just a splitter) I guess they'd want to showcase this new part in splitters. I haven't figured out how that would work in detail though
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    Perfect tracking mechanism can be seen here https://www.kellyengineering.com.au/tracking-trailer/ Think it requires front and rear steering, cross-linked, with input from the tongue (drawbar). Road trains probably don't track perfect
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    If you want more background (and a dose of highly fake not-really-a-drama-mate drama), Outback Truckers is a good show
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