Graydingo

I remember your bagged Unimog! Clever to flip the portal axles. I also briefly entertained a central body mounted piston. Have you seen Doc's Lincoln Continental?

Very cool! The red is most striking. Nothing like brand new parts! dat shine!

Body work is coming along. I made and mounted the doors. They open manually. I had to rework the seats to make room for the air switch and tubing behind the passenger. Also mounted the steering wheel. It has the wrong ratio, so it spins quite quick when the wheels steer. I might try to gear it down later. I guess I could have picked a more complex body design. Modeling it in Technic has been interesting. A lot will come down to the grill and cab. Let's hope I have some pieces left by then. The tonneau cover fits within the bed and at the right level. I built a first draft hood. The real hood seems to have more curves than a Kardashian. Is it weird that I'm excited to build some big ol' clunky side-view mirrors? haha. That will be last. Spent some time tucking all the air lines and motor cables in the bed safely away. I reinforced the pump motor as it was getting kicked around a bit. Next up is the front fenders and maybe the grill. Thanks for all the nice comments. I really appreciate them.

This is definitely one of my favorites so far! Great use of LA's.

Ran into a major hurdle. Some of you may be amused by my lack of foresight so I thought I'd share. The front small pneumatic cylinder's are simply too weak to lift the weight of the front end. Though they tuck nicely in the front, they just can't lift they weight. I can 'finger assist' and it will stay up, but I still have to add all the weight of the front end so... I did add a spring to try to compensate and help, but it doesn't work very well. The good news is the back end large cylinders work very well and lift the heavy rear end with no issues. I did add the final two motors. Both M motors, 1 for the pneumatic pump. and 2. for the air switch. Don't mind the switch mechinism, it's not mounted so I could temporarily install the pneumatic lines to test. The system works pretty good and with all this in the chassis, it's a wonder where I would have placed everything with a transmission. You really have to admire builders who can cram all those awesome motors and functions into a moc. Well it's off to bricklink to buy another 2 larger cylinders for the front end. Should be interesting to see if I get'em in time.

Got the powertrain in today as well as the battery box and pneumatic pump. Battery Box behind rear axle. Top of the air bags Two L motors for drive. Which I believe falls into the 'exception #1 ruling' for TC6. Also decided to mount the IR receivers in the cab. Good mid chassis area for my available cables.

I'd say the L motor can handle it, but it is not ideal. I do have XL motors, but I used them both in another moc that i recently built and I'm not about to tear it down. :-D I added more info about my gearbox journey above in the post. It's been both frustrating and rewarding because i spent a LOT of time building them only to have them all fail. The bottom line is, the moc will not have a transmission for the contest, just a direct drive to the drive shaft with a gear driving the fake v8. I'm focusing on fitting in the air control mechanisms.

This looks awesome! Show us some work in progress pics!

Hi all, This is one of my first MOC's after a dark age. I'm really excited about the sbrick, and though it looks like serious competition, I thought I would still enter and complete my project as a personal goal. We have a 1966 Chevy C-10 Truck on air ride suspension. Loosely based on a real 'rat rod' truck. The model is 'bagged' on air ride pneumatic suspension. 4 motor functions: 1. L for Drive 2. M for Steering 3. M for Air Pump 4. M for Ride height via air switch. I worked really hard on trying to get fancy with a transmission, but they are either too big for the limited space I have or just aren't robust enough. In my pictures you can see that I tried various setups based on some notable Technic builder's models. Ultimately, they just didn't function as smoothly as I had hoped. I did have fun building them though. :-) With the frame on the ground, and it being a short cab, I didn't have room to implement the transmission with PTO to control the air pump (as originally planned) so I'm scrapping the transmission and just simplifying so I can make the deadline. First Transmission 4 speed, using a small LA to shift And here is the LA installed on top: The shifting was rough and the resulting transfer to the wheels was sketchy at best. I tried a two speed robust from Sariel and also one of Sheepo's 4 speed compact transmissions that uses rubber band tension. Sheepo's transmission is really clever. I tweaked it and had modest success but overall it was too complicated for my model.The real truck was supposed to be a '3 on the tree' so i might work that in after the competition. Here we have slfroden's linear gearbox. It uses a large LA and works very well. It's just huge. It can fit sideways in my model behind the cab, but the height is 4 studs too tall. Also getting it transferred to the drive train seemed overly complicated considering the placement. I think in a future moc, i'll start with the transmission and build the car around it. The LA is under the M motor. It's a WIP at the moment so keep that in mind. I do have a servo motor, but I JUST built lucio switch's awesome white 4WD truck. It used up my two XL motors also so I planned to use the L motor I have to drive this moc. It's probably not enough, but being as it is a 'cruiser' with air ride suspension, it certainly isn't built for performance. Stay tuned for more body work and a video. Thank you for any suggestions or comments.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Yeah definitely. And I did buy them already. Point is I think they are newer pieces so a lot of people may not have them in their parts bin. Edit - when I said "you can't get around" i didn't mean you can't buy them, I meant there wasn't an easy work around using an alternate part. :-) Here is the part. http://www.bricklink...tem.asp?P=15462

Waiting on a few pieces to complete the bed. Thanks for making this Lucio! It's quite a good looking truck and has some really fun features. The best part is that the instructions are free! Anyone who is thinking of building it, be aware that it does take a few new/odd pieces that you may not be able to get around - such as the 4x the 5L tan axle with stopper? on the end and a 5L black axle.

Huge! Agree with the bottom of the front. Definitely worth getting a few parts on bricklink to really take this to the next level. And I'm not sold on the stacks. Overall it's a really fantastic moc.

There's a big "street truck" scene here and in Japan. Seems like if they wanted to do trucks they could go with lowered street scene trucks. The slicks could just be low profile tires on big wheels. That was all the rage in the 90s. A lot of RWD short bed trucks were lowered and "slammed" as it were. At least it would be in the same racing genre. Of course you have the problem with all the race theme stickers

I have the 42000. It's the Red F1 style racer. The B model is like some kind of race truck. I feel like TLG is obsessed with truck racing. How many of their sets have been racing trucks? odd. Here in the US Truck Racing seems very niche. You would never see a semi looking thing on slicks. Or if you did, you would write it off as silly.

Nice work. Just built this last night and was a little disappointed with TLG version. Definitely would love to build this version.

I'm in the market for both the RC motor and the power puller tires I want to put the tires on my 9398 and I'm interested in building a supercar with an sbrick and the buggy motor. If you want to part with them, one afol to another, I would offer a fair price. I just don't see myself shelling out close to $100.00 for 4 power puller tires and wheels any time soon. Rather save up for the 2015 flagship. I do like the idea of letting your kids play with it.

Kind of the opposite of what you are asking but 42037's B model is so close to the A model that it made you wonder why they bothered with a B model in the first place. Definitely a weird choice for B. We need some good C builds for this kit.

Space. More compact with the A-arms. The new green buggie has front a-arms and spindles as well.

Gorgeous! Love the interior and overall attention to detail. Great choice of colors. :-D

Looks fantastic. Saw one on bags like this at the SEMA show a few years bag. They can definitely get that low in real life.

Wow that is completely awesome. You need to finish it!

Yes sorry about the vid being blocked in some countries. I used Ace of Spades by Motorhead. My next one I'll be sure to upload using my own music. It just seemed to fit the theme. :-) You can bypass youtube blocking by using zenmate plugin for chrome or other to place you in the US or other unblocked country.

Checking in from Vegas. Happy New Year! http://imgur.com/XBZEd6B

Spectacular! Been wanting to build a supercar. Would love to build this one!