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You did a good and clean job, for sure your tutorial will be useful for actual or future 5571 owners. They're even warned that thoses damn 18 patern tiles are really hard to find In 2005, there was no LEGO official software, parts files were in .dat (and some were really difficult to find), and I didn't know at that time if making instructions was possible. So the only thing I could transmit was the first .mpd file (I still have it). For weight problems, I think I was more concentrated on looking for solutions for other conception problems, the (mono) pneumatic system for example was a great occupation. The other problem with that kind of structure is that when you conceive a 3D model before buying anything, you know it will be virtualy huge but didn't how exactly, so I made a (maybe too much) basic thing for the wheels, and crossed my fingers. On my first pictures you can see that the 2 back end wheels suffers a little. The fact I wanted the trailer to be slighlty (and intentionally) slopped doesn't helped for sure. Globaly, it was important for me to refer to something simple and classical like that. Maybe a 16 axle tense with many technic bricks (wholes) could be a improvement ? For the rest (doors problem), as the first model was modified by someone else, I can't assume what happened after. The only thing I remember is that the solution I found was the best at that time and worked great. Your solution seems to look like mine. If I can notice two missing things : the red tiles to complete the red roof line, and the black cat on the front (which is the perfect link between the truck and his trailer )

Hello to all, I'm surprised and glad to see that model that I created in 2005 is still "active" 10 years after Here is the original model with some pictures released for selling it on eBay, before the person who bought it released some modifications and restored the Black Cat to it original state. http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=192169 And after modifications : http://www.techlug.f...2149.html#p2149 Now it seems that original and complete Black Cat travels a lot because I sometimes I see it in some French LEGO conventions, and I can say that I'm really amazed to see that some people made instructions, bought pieces like I did on Bricklink, and finally build it ! To be honnest, that was something I hoped when I decided to sell it in 2006 because I joined the original 3D CAD I've made at that time as a bonus, but I never thought I would ever see it on the web ten years after. Now I think that some better solutions could be found for some details, especially for the pneumatic system that wasn't really perfect to support the weight of the whole trailer (I can remember that the buyer reinforced it after he received the set), and maybe the fifth wheel coupling. Great effort from you mnpumar