TeamThrifty

Not in my house! Never on a shelf, always taken to bits and used in mocs... Keeping the Faith.

No actually - everyone is sick to death of these adult babies that are offended by everything. Crying that someone made a lego model? If they don't like it, don't look and certainly don't comment..no one's interested. If plastic bricks 'trigger' these bedwetters they need telling otherwise they think they're entitled to try and stop people doing things they don't like - They need to grow up.

What the hell is wrong with people?! "Ooooo its a war machine" - NO. It a lego model, get a grip you wokey snowflakes. If, as an adult, you can't differentiate between a plastic model and a real world war then you are immature to say the least. Grow up and stop trying to hi-jack the thread for your own bed-wetting agenda. Excellent model by the way, loving the belly shot and would like to see some more detail around the drive and steering functions. Well said. Thats a bloody disgrace. Admin need to grow a pair and realise that rolling over for these shouty bed wetters is foolish and weak. These are plastic models for gods sake.

Mega model this. Pure technic as well, not a million system parts. I'm veery familiar with the claas axions and you've captured this really well!

You are achieving this very well.. It captures the real machine. I love it. Its inspiring me to progress my optum 440. All the chassis, gearbox, steering and diff locks are done. Time to move on to the 3-point and the cab/bonnet. Feeling motivated! May even start a new thread with pics

Bigger Wheels = Less Tight

A shorter, full width linear actuator. Not like the mini ones that are 1L diameter and weak, 2L full power but shorter - 2 or 3L's less. I want LA powered steering on bigger mocs to replicate the position and use of hydraulics in real life. I'm sure they'd be useful in many situations...

Agree 100%

I'm in love with this build. I've wanted to do a tracked tractor for a while but small scale isn't my thing - what you've done here is excellent! (maybe a quadtrac is next on my list...) I'm currently building a Case Optum 440 using third party tyres - 150mm rears, 130mm front. I like big!! Awesome what you're doing here. Tractors are a sub-niche it seems but they're ideal for technic. No idea why car-coma is so popular.

There's less mocs on display here than there used to be, which i find strange. I'm 99% mocs, have been since i was 8 in 1980... ...I mainly look on here for news of new sets and the rare good moc. But its getting rarer,

me neither - BWE is an excellent example. Its theoretically not my kind of thing, but i saw builds of it, liked it, bought it and built it and absolutely loved it! Its one of my favourite sets. Niche is meaningless, these sets need to be released and people will actually love them regardless of preconceived ideas. Unfortunately we're in era that totally the opposite, no variety just car-coma play it safe sets.

I own 3 bikes, all japanese sports bikes so i'm not a harley fan but i am a lego fan - This bike captures the real thing very well indeed. (I've ridden one once and i suspect that this lego version is better built and probably handles better! The real thing was awful...) Lego can't offer the forked conrod (terrible engineering solution to a problem that doesn't exist) that allows HD's to have both cylinders on the central axis... But does have staggered bigends instead, so looks authentic! The difficulty with bikes is capturing the stance and you've achieved it wonderfully. This is why mocs are better!

On the robotic arm thread i questioned why TLG didn't produce one.... Same question for this excellent engineering example. Awesome. Perfect wake-up from the car-coma. I love to see a build that i can't understand - as the saying goes, if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room - i love this moc. It begs to be used, the opposite of the shelf-megablocks-mentality. I'm a big fan!

This is the reason lego exists my friend If it was meant to stay together forever it would come with glue!

Why doesn't TLG do something like this at full flagship scale? For those of us that couldn't give a sh!t about shelf-queen display models and actually want to engage in clever engineering, it would be excellent 1000 times more interesting than car-coma.