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  1. Kelkschiz
    Hi Thiago, Excellent English there my friend. I've met a lot of Brazilians, but few write it as well as you do! My family is from the Nordeste, from João Pessoa, but I live in Holland. Warm welcome to EB!
  2. Kelkschiz
    Welcome to EB Bruno. Nice to see another tank builder here!
  3. Kelkschiz
    Love what you've done here. It definitely belongs here. You brought some elegance to technic LEGO. I think you should consider posting it on LEGO Ideas, perhaps after i final touch up. I'd think it do very well there as it will appeal to different groups. Perhaps interest some more females in technic LEGO.
  4. Kelkschiz
    And i learned something new, thank you :)
  5. Kelkschiz
    An other thing to keep in mind is that the Power Functions (PF) that come with 42009 are not compatible with mindstorm. In general Bricklink (BL) is the bestway to get the parts you want. But in order to know which parts you need and which parts exist you first need some experience with building with technic LEGO. So my advice would be to get a 1 or 2 technic sets without PF, unless you want to use both PF and mindstorm. When you know what parts you need, BL is your friend.
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    Cute and sturdy, just the way i like it! Perhaps there is room for a little more refinement to make it truly epic.
  7. Kelkschiz
    Ow man, i know that set, always wanted that one as a child! Good luck with making a mini out of it.
  8. Kelkschiz
    The barrel on the Mark six doesn't really sway even when going over bumps. In the video near the end is seems as if the gun sways up a bit but it's actually the whole tank that is climbing elevated terrain. Actually what i would want is that it would sway in a particular way. What it should do it sway down when the chassis hits the bump and sway up when the chassis exits the bump. In such a way that the gun always stays on the target. Just like in JM's video. Like so: I just noticed the gyro JM1971 was tanking about is a sensor, which could also be useful as it would be able to detect the elevation of the hull and compensate for it. Thanks for the picture, those look interesting, though it's a bit hard to see what function x928cx1, actually plays. You'd think that based on the setup the barrel is connected to the pivot point on one side and the linear actuator on the other. And that the system is rigid. But i guess the barrel is actually connected to x928cx1 first and only then to the brace which is connected to both the pivot point and the linear actuator, thus dampening the movement of the hull for the barrel. Right?
  9. Kelkschiz
    Well ideally you'd want the gun to stay on target regardless of the angle of the hull, just like The Centurion MK III tank does in JM1971's video. As i envision it, that can partially be accomplished with a balanced free floating barrel, you can change the balancing point or just shift some weight from one side to the other to aim it up and down, possibly supported by a gyro as JM1971 suggested. Although it is a very versatile part, i don't see a way of accomplishing that with x928cx1.
  10. Kelkschiz
    Looks like an interesting part, never used it yet. But like Tommy said, it could be very useful indeed.
  11. Kelkschiz
    You are not the only one. A masterpiece for sure. I wish i lived a little closer to you, i am sure it's even more impressive up close!
  12. Kelkschiz
    Looks interesting, looking forward to the video!
  13. Kelkschiz
    Great review, you made me a lot enthusiastic about the set. I love the wide array of PF elements in this set, but i am pretty sure it won't replace the 8043 as my favorite technic set.
  14. Kelkschiz
    I am not a mechanical engineer but i have to agree with Zblj. The process SNIPE describes should not be able to generate torque. It feels a little like a perpetuum mobile; it appeals to logic but just misses the mark. You could easily test it: Just measure the torque with and without the spring.
  15. Kelkschiz
    Yes, using counter weights is possible indeed, i had something like that in my Mark 3. Only the pivot point in that tank was fixed, to make a system that can be aim remotely the pivot point will need to be movable. Which is far from impossible. BTW, pardon my ignorance, but what are hockey springs?
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    Thanks! Yeah those self-stabilizing guns are fantastic :). I wish i had ev3 to play around with. I am sure it would open up a lot of new possibilities!
  17. Kelkschiz
    Thanks for your feedback. Would be nice to see my shooting mechanism in another tank :).
  18. Kelkschiz
    This is the sixth LEGO tank i've build. Technically it's very similar to my Mark 5-2 except that i included a turret-ring this time. I did that to give extra stability to the turret: in the previous build the turret was a little too unstable. I also tried to make the turret even smaller. I think this turret is about 30% smaller that the previous one. The hull is also quite a bit smaller. I believe this is about as small as it can be unless i manage to make the firing mechanism even more compact, which I seriously doubt. Finally, I tried to detail the model a little, and made it a little less blocky, although I still have to learn a lot about that.
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    Slightly off topic. I'd really like it if they did something similar to Cuusoo but for parts instead of sets. there are quite a few "parts" that don't exist but that i'd like to have! And also quite a few as this thread shows that i could do without :).
  20. Kelkschiz
    2nded
  21. Kelkschiz
    I think its time for LEGO to make some steel technic parts ^^.
  22. Kelkschiz
    Any excuse to buy technic LEGO is a good excuse :)
  23. Kelkschiz
    I am pretty sure Andythenorth didn't mean his comment to be taken seriously, the sarcasm is pretty obvious.
  24. Kelkschiz
    I have tried to incorporate both a transmission and a subtractor/adder in my builds, but as i build really big heavy tanks with powerful motors, i always seem to want to put too much torque on the gears. I have come to the conclusion that i must choose between either high speed and high torque or more control/realism, and that is a pretty easy choice for me, i rather have my models move at an impressive speed, more than anything else.
  25. Kelkschiz
    Such realism, really brings back some history :)
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