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  1. bonox
    I'm not sure I understand the angst with taking over BL with regard to uncovering a new data source for selling stuff, be it reissues of sets or working out what parts afols want or what's rare - the 6 month sales data is publicly available. Nothing stopping a company this size from employing someone to trawl the sales data looking for patterns if that's what you want. Personally I think it's definately not the reason TLG wanted to take ownership of it. On top of that, for rarity etc, the price guide is also public with an API
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    hi bb88 what in particular would you like to see? Happy to help, but i'm not sure there's much more that isn't in these photos
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    Wonder if the BL colours will get renamed....
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    do what ever makes you feel happy. I personally cut axles using a pair of side cutters - if you rotate the axle a few times and do light 'cuts' before snipping through the whole thing you can generally get very neat edges. If you're purist, find another way
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    The pictures of the creations are nice, but i really like that last one with the two of you , surrounded by your creations, just having fun :)
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    oh wow Given the title i was expecting something else, but i'm really glad that neither of them have a 440 cubic inch plant. I'm loving the body on frame modular style more and more and well sir - they're just stunning.
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    incuding raising a thread from the dead after five years :)
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    wow - that last pic with the bits open is a treat for the eyes. Another fabulous recreation mate.
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    You could hide it in the dark in a hermetically sealed box and still have the whites go brown or you could put it on display and enjoy it. Take it off the shelf and play with it once in a while and put it back on the shelf the opposite way round. Bricks will fade or discolour a bit with age, but aside from that you pretty much can't kill them. Only rubber parts will perish and might benefit from some care. Stickers are very hit and miss about lasting well, whether you take care of them or not.
  11. bonox
    The argument here is about the use of their trademarked name - they can't just wander around and kill other people's IP which reside in a shape/design that isn't theirs.
  12. bonox
    very clever - simple implementation with the arms i haven't seen before in a lego wheel chair, and it's a great looking result. Put it on a treadmill and the kids would love it at the LUG shows.
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    They're all pretty much the same - even the rotator is a small mod to a standard truck. Dennis has a heap of great examples. This one has forks and a straight lift boom (it doesn't rotate). They are common in single, dual or triple rear axle variants. There are even some crazy variants :) or dinky little ones like this
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    A heavy recovery tow truck is a crane in its own right, often with similar load capacities to a smaller mobile crane, but generally a smaller operating radius. There are also two types - the fixed boom and the rotators like this one. Either way, the general idea for a tow is not to lift the thing off the ground but to either raise the steer tyres off the ground to make manoeuvring the thing easier or merely to add enough weight to the tow vehicle that it can tug the load along without spinning its own tyres.
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    and also great to see the granny coffin addition as well. Great effort on the car and the presentation of it.
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    Your instructions look great Charbel. Always appreciated when designers make the effort to share their work. Really enjoyed your 919 and this looks just as great to build.
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    You might want to think about whether you want to buy power functions (which is the old and probably obsolete) set of electrical power components, or start with the new Powered Up, Boost etc set of electrical bits. Newer stuff a bit more expensive but can use your phone to control and has a future. Older stuff - lots around, need dedicated controller or third party parts like sbrick/buwizz for alternatives, but lots of existing models to give you ideas and possibly cheaper for the moment.
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    alternatively use colour - blue for feed lines, black for extend and grey for retract for example. I regularly use clear, red, yellow, blue, black and grey hose for this purpose. Aftermarket silicone hose is cheap and comes in a big range of colours. Otherwise you could use numbered tiles to track them and for building, there's always the folded tape with written label on it until you're ready to plug it into the final spigot.
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    looks spot on - congratulations ona tidy scale model.
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    Sorry but quite false. Plenty of tasks around here require these MC operators to reverse into loading ramps or be able to turn around by reversing the set into a perpendicular street. These guys also happily pick up a third trailer by reversing a loose (ie not B-double) trailer pair up to it with the lateral accuracy of 200mm required to pickup to tow pin. So yes, they really do reverse, and there are plenty of examples on youtube (eg "Reversing 3 trailer road train") of Australian drivers doing so, including around corners as well as straight reverses.No one says it's easy, but there's a reason we have graduated licensing schemes and you can't get to an Multi Combination license until you've held a single trailer (Heavy Combination) license for 2 years and a rigid (HR) on top of that for another year. There are some fun videos with drone footage showing guys reversing quads (4 trailers), although these have combinations of rigid trailer connections - ie no dolly. The loose trailers also wander around, especially without active steering dolly's, going forwards and is the reason that none of these trains is allowed into major centres and most have to drop the third and/ fourth trailer before entering regional centres as well, meaning there isn't a great deal of demand for long reversing, except to pick up trailers.
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    Beginning to look really good. Nothing quite like building your skills at the same time too :)
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    Put in a splitter as well as a range select and you'll get a 16 speed gearbox just perfect for any large truck like Jaap's or 2legoornot2lego's. Effectively a pair of two speed gearboxes paired with a 4 speed is how a standard (eg 18 speed eaton fuller) is made. Do it with a 3 speed main gearbox and you lead to a 13/15 speed depending on how you arrange a crawler gear. With this compact a size, it should even be implementatable and be a huge step up in realism.
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    wow - that model will look fabulous with those sweet rims :)
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    pay kids to do it or offer a portion (10% for example) to anyone willing to sort huge piles. otherwise divide and conquer - bricks, plates, specials, technic etc, then come back to each and bricks, plates into 1x, 2x, 4x etc and so on.
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    It's a model in plastic - very few of even the lego factory models are capable of lifting the crane. Treat them as a visual aid only - they won't be of significant value in supporting the weight of the vehicle.
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