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  1. Appie
    Three words come to mind when seeing this awesome model: Hall Of Fame.
  2. Appie
    You're welcome. Enjoy
  3. Appie
    Well, good news, finished the LDD: A few points to note: - Couldn't align the hood with liftarms properly, the open space in the hood needs to be attached to the yellow parts on the chassis and attach the black pins on top of the hood to the dashboard - Missing these hubs in the LDD. The suspension is at the maximum angle (I wanted maximum ground clearance and depth of suspension), which means steering is a little harder. Make sure your hubs are easy to move in the sockets of the wishbones. Mine were brand new and I had to "break them in". - The rear fenders actually don't align. Apparently I bend them a little to fit in this part. I didn't even notice this, since the panels flex so easily. It's easily fixed by replacing the part with this, except you'll need a second 42039 or use a different colour, since I used 4 of these of the 42039 already elsewhere on the model. The 62.4 wheels won't touch the fenders with this modification. - Panels in front of the model wouldn't align, but it fits as front fenders - Didn't find a PF switch in LDD. It needs to placed between the battery box and the IR reciever (on the Technic brick there). The IR reciever is attached to these parts near there. LDD didn't want to slap it on there. - LDD also didn't want the rear panel to attach. Looks to me as the same mounting distance as in the 42039, but whatever. Download here: https://www.dropbox.... Final.lxf?dl=0 On a different note, while making these LDD's was pretty fun, I will not be making one for Wall-E or the upcoming Batmobile. Had to break down half of these models to figure out which pin/axle I used where. Wall-E is too tightly packed and broken down too much during its creation to do it again, sorry. As for the Batmobile, I already went crazy trying to get some angles half decent in this model and that thing is full of them. Anyway enjoy the buggy if you want to build it.
  4. Appie
    This thing was a blast at the meeting a couple of weeks ago seeing it in action that I waited eagerly for the video. It did not disappoint. Great video for an awesome little model. You've already seen my forklift, but maybe this image is useful to get an idea for the size of my MOC.
  5. Appie
    And when I clicked this topic after reading the title, I almost thought DrJB was posting a MOC... Anyway big thanks to Blakbird for Technopedia, all his awesome renders and all the other stuff he did.
  6. Appie
    Nice. Battery box is pretty centered like that. Might be a bit high. Try it sideways on the 30 degree slope and see if it tumbles. If not, try a steeper angle and see when it tumbles. Pretty much anything will fall once you get closer to 45 degrees I think.
  7. Appie
    Easy to test: - Can it run over your foot? - Can it climb a steep hill (30 degrees?) Those are usually the first 2 tests I do when I finished a trial truck, if I hear rattling, it's getting fixed with additional bracing or whatever is needed. The location of the battery box concerns me a bit though. Its current location makes it rear heavy and it's set pretty high, making the vehicle more likely to tumble on its side. Suggestion would be to move it between the front and rear wheels, perhaps "below" the bed (might sacrifice a bit of ground clearance).
  8. Appie
    I quote your post, but this applies to more people on this page: How about reading the previous 20-30 pages before staring yet another discussion about the price? At least the first 20 pages of this topic were fun with people reverse engineering the gearbox. It has 3000 pieces and a Porsche license fee. Don't like the pirce? Wait for a discount at a local shop (bound to happen) or... don't freakin buy it?
  9. Appie
    Thanks, updated the LDD, found a rigid hose for the engine. Link updated in previous post.
  10. Appie
    Sorry, I am not much of a digital builder, but I learned working with LDD the past few days and got pretty close to the full product: Download the LDD file here: https://www.dropbox.... Final.lxf?dl=0 Few points of note: - I can't find a 6L rigid hose in LDD for the piston engine, the 4 clips in front of the model go there. (LDD file above is updated) - The 5L black liftarm is for the midconsole, couldn't align this properly in LDD, yellow 3L axle in the LDD file goes through the second hole of the liftarm. - The 3 gears I couldn't align either, also colour coded axles to yellow where they belong - Steering is yellow because it uses old Lego Technic 1990's pieces that I couldn't find in LDD, specifically these 2: one and two And funny thing I just noticed when making this reply, exactly one year ago I made this topic edit: Wondering if you guys need a LDD for the trailer, since the thing is pretty straight forward. Most important part is to put the black bevel gear in front of the turntable for bracing of the drive or it will rattle. Also don't go reverse edit2: tweaked a few errors
  11. Appie
    Awesome car and cool program to go with it. Love all the sounds. Great job.
  12. Appie
    Don't think this was mentioned yet: Great little set imo with suspension, working engine with chain and steering. The looks are good as well.
  13. Appie
    I'll try to build this mockup from Barman tomorrow and show you in a video, because I really think he nailed the mechanism that will be in the model. Great work Barman! :thumbup: I see potential to use this for my Batmobile
  14. Appie
    Use GIMP. Sariel made a tutorial for it. Google 'Sariel GIMP tutorial'.
  15. Appie
    I wouldn't worry too much about it. Between some awesome builders who entered and people who's criteria to vote is nothing more than "oh that looks shiny, I'll vote for that" without looking at any more information about the functions provided for the model(s), your entry could have been just as easily in the top 3 instead of being 12th. Have fun, do your best and ignore the result of a vote if it isn't in your favour.
  16. Appie
    Thanks everybody. It did pretty well in the trial yesterday (video from Mahjqa will show up sooner or later). Its limiting factor was its crappy driver I am not making any promise for a LDD or something, but maybe. It was a very fun trial.
  17. Appie
    Thanks everybody. Your concerns were the same as mine. In fact the model started with 1 hard spring on each wheel, because I actually expected this to be lighter than Zblj's "Blue" (he has 2 soft srpings front and hard+soft in the rear), but it isn't lighter with all these liftarms. I didn't even add the body, IR reciever and BB (which is the lightweight LiPo and not a 6xAAA BB) and the thing was already going through its suspension never to come back up again. So I redesigned the suspension to hold 2 springs for each wheel as well. Tested with hard+soft first. That worked ok, but only up to the point of half the body with BB and IR, more and it would never return up. So I went for 2 hard springs, this was the sweet spot. The problem with this type of suspension also is, there is no angle in the springs, they are straight down, which basically means no friction. All the weight of the car is right on the metal parts of the springs. I also didn't lock them into place. They weren't using the space around them (the brackets PKW mentions), so I made use of that space. The springs being close to the pivot point of the wishbones gives them huge amount of travel and being straight makes them very easy to compress. So easy that up to the point of 2 hard springs per wheel, the car's weight would do it. I would have liked to have one spring on each side of the wishbones, but this would mean the steering mechanism would be further away from the wheels and since I have seen people use this setup on big truck suspensions I figured it could work here too, which it does perfectly. The second spring in line does move ever so slightly (1MM) less than the first spring when fully compressed, but that's negligible in my opinion. PKW I am not sure what problem you mean with the "electronic diff" and how the crawler set has the same issue. I have no issue with my 9398. Could you explain it? I made a video just now of the suspension in action, since that easily shows how fluid it actually is. It's part of a dutch LUG event. I am sure they have LUGs in the UK where they (or you) can host an event like this. Oh and since I promised an image of the buggy suspension fully compressed: A version with this height would be pretty sweet too I think, but not this low since the L motors touch the ground now
  18. Appie
    Everything's already been said, so let's just say this: Grats on the HOF!
  19. Appie
    Here's a Beach Buggy I made for an upcoming truck trial this weekend. This trial only has a few rules: Use 62.4 wheels, 2 motors for propulsion max and 1 for steering. It's based on Zblj's "Blue" suspension, drive and steering, modified to fit my beach buggy/trial needs. It features 4 wheel drive and steering. Was a little bit of work to work with the bright green from only 1 Le Mans set. Forgot to make a picture with the suspension pressed. Might make it tomorrow (bad lighting now). It looks pretty sweet with it compressed. The rear wheelarches look like they hug the wheels (a stud or so of space left between wheel and wheelarch). The car bottoms out with the suspension fully compressed. Here you can see how much I stole from Zblj. I only changed the type of suspension arms, slightly altered the steering mechanism and placed my motors differently for a lower look. (ignore my Lego tripod in the bottom right) Thank you for your time.
  20. Appie
    Exactly. Maybe if this set was released in early 2000's when Lego went nuts with every part in a custom colour, but now? Really doubt it. Based on Porsche's colours, it's going to be Orange or Dark purple (42048). But it's so expensive Appie! 3k parts for 300 euro isn't expensive, it's the norm.
  21. Appie
    Amazing how you made a cool buggy even cooler! Excellent job!
  22. Appie
    Didn't the guy at the Lego stand at the Toy Fair already confirm it's around 3000 parts? So save yourself some work and just go with that?
  23. Appie
    Sweet. I wouldn't worry too much about the steering angle on the A-model by the way. Currently building a little RC vehicle (based on your suspension/drive from "Blue" ) and it quickly became apparent that the CV joints in the hubs don't really like a bigger angle than half a stud. It works with a bigger angle, but you can hear the strain on the motors. So ya, more a problem of CV joints than lack of space?
  24. Appie
    Even if this point of "half liftarm" was brought up before, I'd say count in half studs. I have had way too many occasions where I was able to add a feature thanks to a half liftarm/half stud that I already hate seeing them come back every MOC I make and those things being part of the solution to a problem Love the half stud, don't hate
  25. Appie
    Awesome, just awesome. And I mean everything: A,B, the video and as a bonus a C-model. One thing though: missed it in the video and pictures but the working gearbox you mentioned is 2 speed on the A-model?
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