TheNextLegoDesinger

yeah i get your point. but i like the look it gives when standing.

Once i wanted to make a baja truck, and i failed. though as you should do in life, i stood up and tried again. and suddenly, i had a frame. and a 'little' later i had a baja truck. fuctions: Full suspension: Front; double wishbone (travel: 1.5 studs) Rear: live axle (travel: 5 studs) RTC steering (Servo motor) RWD (XL-motor) Full RC I started making a front suspension which had to be soft and a good height clearance and RTC stearing. After a while i had a very sturdy stearing module, so i started making the rear axle.The XL motor is mounted on the live axle. it has a 1.66:1 which gives it a speed of 243.4 RPM and 8.7 N.cm. of torque. I used the short steering link to make the suspension freëer then used the 3X5 L links to connect to the springs. The battery is pretty high above the center of mass, but it doesn't affect the performance weardly. the IR receiver is possitioned just under the widnshield which makes it pretty easy to reach. The body is made out of 3 pieces, The bumper, a nose scoop and the rest of the body. the body is connected in 14 points to the chassis, the scoop only at 2 and the bumper in 6 places. I might do instructions on the chassis, but i don't know if i will on the body (only if enough demand). Greetz TNLD more pictures:https://flic.kr/s/aHskvfPA6Y LXF file of the chassis: http://www.mediafire.com/file/2w3uet74f11bamk/Baja_Truck.lxf

Looks superb, nice idea.

nice i really like it, although the short end makes it like it was pushed together. if you get what i mean. Still nice work greetz TNLD

I knew this comment would come :) I can understand you feel it is a copy of the 42065, of course I tried to make it look like it (just like my other 4 look-a-likes) but in reality there are only 12 parts (not counting the tracks) in the same position, everything including the cabin, has been built from the ground up to make eveything work and fit. If a look-a-like is reason for disqualification or low votes, so be it, im not in this to win, i am in this for the fun and I enter to try and show something new or different. I personally do not care about how it looks, im all about the functions, i don't think this technic contest was about decorating a pullback motor, but to each his own way to have fun building, to me this was fun! I'm in the same cathegory as you, i'm also a guy of function, nether do i care of how it looks, but when it's finnished i try to make a nice body around it, which can take me more as 2x the time of building the inner part. but when i do, i get a feeling it's much more finnished. still, i get your point Greetz TNLD

A great man once said “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” (G. Marx). When i saw a topic popping up of a tracked ripsaw, i was intrested. But when i saw the pictures, I was SOLD, i just loved the moc, it was so simple, yet it was so nice. i wanted something like that to. and so I ditched everything i had to do (studying) and i began. I started improving on the mistakes he made, and i made my chassis. added a subtractor put the motors in and started testing. for now i have only 1 XL but i'm gonna add another one when i freed that one from a moc (still have to make a topic about that one). this because it lack's a little bit of power (now 1:1 transmission, might change to 1.66:1 or 3:1) as suspention i wanted a soft but 'strong' suspension so i went with springs. i aslo wanted a lot of vertical clearance, so i used near vertical 'bogies'. For a feel of the size, tracks are 92cm long atm chassis is around 45 cm. PS: the side pannels are primarily for looks, secondarly for strength. PPS: the topic where i got the idea: Greetz TNLD

simple but effective, nice maybe a little more bodywork would make it better. do you have those orange beams in LBG, it mightlook better then use the yellow as an accent or something (just thinkng to make it better, as i don't have a pullback car i like helping ;) ). greetz, TNLD

nice work, really one to follow. i would like to see a picture of the spring connection to the chassis, as i don't quite get it why it's done that way. still, nice job, keep going. greetz, TNLD

nice finished version, but i don't like the body. It's a copy of the 42065 and i know that's what the topic is called, but i think it doesn't fit in the 'mind' behind the contest it's made to make new moc's, not half moc's. i really think you can come up with something better. but still, nice chassis greetz TNLD

DUDE, I'm gonna try and build something like that to, i don't like it, nether do i love it, I ADORE it. it's just SO (because swearing isn't allowed ;) ) awsome. The problem with the track is probrally dude to the slack of lego technics. you might be able to avoid it by using 2 connection points, wide from each other.

i saw it, but i had already wrote this before wacthing the other topic

instead of using a moutain bike tube, you could use a race-cycling tube cut in half, they have a diameter of just more than 1cm non inflated so you get a 3.14 wide band and they are prety long so you have plenty of length. race cycling tubes are thinner and rounder so 2x better i think

yes, unless, you make the lever different, you can acchieve different distances. i.e. if you make the lever for the first and last 1 stud, and for the second and third 2 studs, and make the first half move oposite to te second, you can actually make tank 'turn' forwards and backwards

same opinion as @Leonardo da Bricki

@Tommy Styrvoky I must say your model looks astonishing, although i didn't like the torsion bars, as it isn't so real life. that's what i like about the pnuematic aproach, but i get that the weight makes this near impossible.

i wouldn't call it a tank, i'd rather say it's an APC but the idea i awsome

yeah so true, but still so nice

Thnx for the comments. This was the original picture and the eddited side to side

yeah, i didn't want to buy it until i have udes as i don't want to buy a tank that i might not like to play.

Thnx, i do, they are pretty sturdy, I had them on my last tracked vehicle to, which I run a lot and they didn't even wear 1 mm.

@kbalage those are nice pictures A picture I shot last week, it does have som heavy photoshopping put it gives it more vibe. Atm my screensaver shot in depth mode using dual camera

There is no place for it as there are crossbeams cossing it. They do only run till the middle axle.

Oh yeah, i know that. I knew it was a problem but I was out of studded beams so i couldn't fortify it that way. I might think about another way to strength it butI dont now atm. In that pic it was 5mm of the ground at lowest.

can't wait for pictures as i play worldof tanks where i am grinding towards that awsome tank

What do you mean with to much bending? i know, i am not a native english speaker, so i try to do my best greetz, TNLD