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Thanks! Green is my favourite colour and I've been waiting and watching for new elements to come out in this colour for ages. No reason for the IR remote. It was just to hand when I made it! I suppose it gives a bit more control than an onboarding switch.

Thanks for all the kind words! I see what you mean. In fact now I look at at, this may have been the original intention! Thanks for the comment. I guess it's personal preference, but I much prefer a combination of manual and electric. One of my goals was to only use one motor. Besides, I don't think any more would fit!

Hello Lego enthusiast. I'd like to share my latest MOC with you all. The MAN Hooklift truck. The truck is based of the MAN TGS series with fully working hooklift mechanism. It took a long time to figure out the mechanics to make this work to a reasonably realistic level. I'd like to give a huge shout out to @efferman for the inspiration. My model features a a fake inline 6 engine powered by rear differentials, HOG steering, tilting cab, opening doors and of course a fully functioning hooklift. The hooklift is powered with one large PF motor and an IR receiver. The main functions are switchable by a gearbox and selector switch situated just beneath the container behind the cab. It was a big challenge to generate enough power from the large PF motor by gearing down in a very tight space. I doubt there is enough power to lift the container loaded with anything more than cotton wool! The cab is styled with a Model Team aesthetic with a complete interior consisting of seats, steering wheel and dash. I am particularly proud of the styling although, this wasn't without its challenges. The green I chose could possibly have the least amount of useful elements of any Lego colour. And the round arch brick used for the front fenders only come in a very small handful of colours. Hence the Dark Bluish grey. I can't even begin to tell you how many iterations of headlights I went through! I'm still not 100% satisfied with them, but it was the most simple solution I could come up with to create the angles required. Anyway, enough of my waffling. I'll let some photos do the work... I also made a couple of amateur videos demonstrating the functions! This was the reference I used. Along with many others of the same truck. Link to Efferman's model: CUSTOMBRICKS.de - LEGO Technic model Custom RC TGS hook lift for container - MOC Custombricks MOC Instruction I hope you like it. As ever, comments and constructive criticism is always welcome.

Damn that's good!

Check out this thread over in the LDD forum. Because Lego stopped supporting LDD the parts are basic and newer elements don't get added. So some clever people worked out how to add them. Hope this helps.

Yeah. That was my thinking. It's mainly the new tires I wanted anyway .

If anyone is in the UK, Argos are selling the e-tron 42160 for £82. It's a 'black friday' thing so probably won't last long. I am tempted as it looks like a good parts donor. But I'm not sold on the control app stuff.

Amazing. No inconvenience caused. Thanks for the awesome work!

Hi. Thanks for the amazing work on the LDD parts update. With the latest update (version 20231023) I have a few bricks showing error. It just shows a generic 2x2 brick with an exclamation mark. I can't list them as LDD also unexpectedly just closes on me now. Any idea how to fix this? Many thanks in advance.

This is rather nice. I like the shaping you managed to create on the rear end. And the use of the mudguard piece over the headlights is very clever. I think the front wheel arch could do with a bit of tweaking. It feels a bit blocky compared with the rest of the build. All in all its a thumbs up from me!

It might be a bit difficult to implement. But could you use some struts like this?

This is true. I didn't take that into consideration. However, the frame could be modified to fit.

This is coming along nicely . I have a suggestion regarding all those bevel gears in the lift mechanism. You can get rid of a few of them with this setup: With this all the mini LA's will be rotating in the same direction and will have less friction due to less gears.

I like the way this is going. I think it belongs in this forum, but I'd imagine it would fit the creator forum too. I'd say PF over PU but only because I think it integrates with Technic better. And I don't like all this smart phone enabled stuff. Looking forward to seeing more progress for sure.

This is really intriguing and with such lovely movement. I might have to have a go at reverse engineering it! Thanks for sharing it.