Kristof

I don't recall any instance where re-designing and further re-building had negative effect on my model. In fact, in nearly 100% occasions, I find out to my surprise that I can include worthy improvements which I didn't see before.

From the guidelines which you have carefully read: The guidelines are very thoughtfully written in this point. Neither direct rejection, nor a discrimination for anyone. You are only asked NOT to say that you are under 18. I think that's quite easy to understand. agrof just did you a gentle reminder of this, there was no demonstration of power or whatever so don't get pathetic this easily :) By the way if you are so convinced that the age doesn't matter (I agree with that in fact - I have many premature friends whos skills beat mine), then you shouldn't bring it up in the first place ;) I don't see that much negativity in this thread, unless I specifically try to find it beyond every line. Sometimes people write briefly and mattef-of-fact, rather than over moderating their replies to avoid any possible confusion. It's then easy to perceive bad tone if you presume it to be there. No need to get overly touchy, no need to further explain the meaning of each previous post, no need to apologize for every single slight misunderstanding. All of this just makes the thread look weird and repelling and the original content vanishes.

If it comes to anything, taking a reasonable challenge according to your current skills while utilizing trial & error learning from own mistakes is great. A reasonable challenge, I shall repeat. The doubtful tone that you can perceive from some of the replies and which may seem a bit huffy, that comes from people who recognised this might be rather excessive challenge. Some people would argue but I think that taking more than you can chew is usually non productive, if not directly negative (in this case, damage to the motor or parts could be the example of unfortunate consequence, that is better to be avoided). My all - consider all the suggestions and perhaps reconsider the goals :)

All dump trucks that are meant to go off road have AWD. But still it's a minority I think. Though most manufacturers offer models with AWD. And newer dump truck have this feature more often, especially these big 8 axis ones :)

No, it was rather exaggeration. But realistically speaking, if I really needed to double up the motors, I might have taken the challenge to bastle my own splitter, perhaps with on board power amplifier. Such thing could be rather simple. Programmable multiplexer like this is far from simple though and I'd have hard time building such thing, certainly spending much more than $55 with an insecure result :)

In case you 'tried' with about 4 KG of load on your chais (which is the bottom approximate of what such model will weight) and it worked, you are good to go :) But something tells me you didn't. You really better study the succesful MOCs of such kind carefully, taking the advantage of learning from other's experience. Otherwise you select the path towards many failures and frustration :)

I see, I can imagine that it's hard to control precisely with standard motor. I bet there would be an engineering solution though :) Maybe using some spring which the motor would have to push against, so it springs the pen up faster for the dots.

^ Exactly my thought. It's definitely original, yet in my opinion overly simple - there is nothing much to the remote controlled light. If you had the actual morse writer on the receiving side, now that would be something :)

2 XLs sounds like the very minimum if you want it to ever move at least at snail speed :D To bad. In such scale, that's somewhat obligatory to make AWD :D It looks super flimsy with those half beams. These half pins will suffer. In this scale, you simply have to deal with real-truck issues, like weight distribution, torques etc. Big dump trucks usually have the suspension designed that the wheels tip inwards when there is no load. Otherwise these would bend outwards when loaded. All in all, I'd suggest you to check as many big truck mocs as possible. And you can start with Lucio's garrage :D Good luck!

Good luck! Even if it's true that starting with smaller might be a little wiser, I say go for it :D It's never a fault to buy parts, even if you didn't finish this eventually, I'm sure they won't end up useless :) One remark - you will need much more power than on XL to propulse this a reasonable way ;)

^^ 55 bucks for a splitter... I mean, I know this is probably very exclusive, though this really feels that I'd rather hack solder my own crude version :D

Fair enough. I was just curious :) It's still great feat of technic engineering, the chasis and everything. I wonder what will be your next project.

Impressive! Do you have any plans with it or is it just experimental design to find out whether it's possible or not to build such climbler? Would be wonderful if this evolved into some robot that it able to operate on multiple floors :) Dedpending on your budget, I think that the most effective option to increase the performance is to double up the propulsion motors - I have seen guys doing that with these monstrous mindstorms projects, like full size wheelchair or go cart.

I can only second (well actually third) that. Great how you squeezed all the functions in and also captured thre shape perfectly!

Well, luckily he's very small fish I'd say. Hardly over 100 videws on his videos. Anyway, I tried following your steps Sariel but the first one fail already. It automatically redirects me onto the form which assumes that it is MY content being copied. I could research some more but I sort of doubt it really matters :) Hopefully they shut him down based on your report or some others who succeed. Edwin - that's a shame... is it worth it? Not to share some great video content just because copiers? I mean, they can copy your images as well, much more easily in fact. I don't see an irritation from copyright issues as a solid (single) reason for quitting the channel :) Unless there was more to it. EDIT: I should better read twice before taking action. Browsing over the post fast, I thought you were askibg others to report the guy. Now I can see it's just advice for others with similar trouble. Thanks ;)

An interesting machine. Although I can't imagine a practical application of such model. Since it's supposed to dig a narrow channel into the ground...? I know that it's quite similar with BWE actually, still that one can be put in action more easily I think :)

I really like it! The bodywork looks very interesting. Such combination of technic and studded plates is rarely seen. The better impression it makes :)

...well you promote them nevertheless. Ignoring is perhaps worse than active fighting against, yet it's better than promoting and bringing them to awareness. Which is exactly what you did, no matter how you interpret the topic. Wait a bit and see the new Death Star... But that's not the point. LEGO financed the design, very very difficult and expensive process. Nobody has right, even moral right, to profit from it. Especially not in such glaring fashion. Speculating about how aftermarket UCS MF prices will be affected by this is pure nonsense. People who can't afford it - I'm great example myself. I couldn't afford it even for the RRP - siply can't afford it. Period. They are not customers for the re-sellers. Hardocre collectors who can justify spending such money, however, will hardly ever buy your Lepin clone. So the snowball theories really aren't reasonable here. I know I'm being blunt now, don't take it as a personal offense. CLONES ARE BAD. It's as simple as that. And what Lepin does is the worst case of copying. Some people even hate Megablocks for copying brick desing, which they do. But at least they design their own sets, some quite good ones. Anyway, you are right that clone brands will hardly ever disappear. Toy infurtry is full of them, not just Lego. But ignoring them is the least that any Lego fan can do, and in fact should do in my opinion.

I'd say no matter what the price is, you are still promoting a CLONE brand, an unfair business, company which STEAL the design, therefore save all the cost LEGO has to put into their product development (which is indeed much higher than the cost for molding the plastic), and only flush out the pieces, print STOLEN artwork on the box and sell it. In think such post, shouldn't be here, regardless your intentions!

Great review. I especially like the intro, which really puts the model into perspective :) Thanks!

Consider this just an (un)educated guess. I don't have any real data to support it. Anyway, from just observing the community (here and on other forums/websites) I think that you'd struggle selling few hundreds copies. To reach 1000-ish sales, I can only imagine you'd need some marketing - direct effort to promote your instructions. Not just a forum post here and there. I have no doubt that there is a thousand of people who'd buy your instructions (given that these are quality ones for a good mode), regardless whether they actually build it or not. The tricky part would I think be to find them :)

^ You do generalize things way to much. Eventhough something you said is true in some instances, it doesn't apply everytime. Re-creating existing things is completely natural. I understand completely that someone builds Porsche rather than some slightly different generic car. Building real things is one HUGE part of all MOCing and it is absolutely alright. It doesn't imply that we are loosing fantasy. Building out of fantasy is just other part and you don't need to try very hard to find gazzilions of builds of such fashion. Most people I know to be seeling quality instructions charge quite little for it, or offer the buyer an optional donation, which is, as repeated many times, rather small compensation for the laborous task of creating the manual. It really takes a lot of time and most people will report that it is not very joyful (of yourse there are exceptions) work. In most cases, instructions are actually demanded by other fans who are happy to pay something to support the work of a creator. Calling this 'trying to get advantage' coultn't be more false.

Great looking MOC! Not so sure about TC10 entry though. Sure, if you include at least one cylinder, you sort of qualify, yet it clearly looks that pneumatic is not the main focus here :) Plus for the hook lift, linear actuator is much better choice I think. Still it looks excellent. I love the orange cab too!

Ah I see :) green is alright.

Not that I wouldn't like yellow, but for this truck, I think it's not the best choice :) I'd love white or blue.