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I love it! And a very nice video as well...

"Awesome" does not even start to describe this one... This is simply unbelievable!!! /Kristian

Unbelievable!!! Awesome job!!!

When building my latest Lego Set (#8049) one piece happened to be missing. It had never happened before. I filed a request for missing parts on the Lego webpage, waited a few workdays and then received a new piece and an excuse letter from Lego. Of course I was frustrated by not being able to continue my build at first, but "sh*t happens" and the customer service I received was plain and simple top notch. /Kristian

I am MORE than impressed. This is pure art. But I am also wondering where did they got all the bricks to complete such a piece? Bricklink? Wouldn't that be one very large investment? /Kristian

Fantastic! I really like how you managed to fit so many functions in such a small scale! Congratulations! And you have many solutions that I'd like to try on my present MOC attempt. I was playing with the idea of using a worm gear straight on a rack to achieve a compact assembly...I'd like to see how your solution.

Great work! I loved the original, and the 2012-version seems to be no less! I may give it a try...

That is pretty cool, to say the least...

Update time: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that I managed to put together a rather acceptable mechanism for raising and lowering the 3rd axis and also to fit a motor within the frame above it. It works quite ok and compared to the version in the first set of pictures, this one have a much longer vertical stroke. I hope you can see something in the pictures above... The bad news is I don't like the end result when I start to put together things. Tow trucks a beefy, compact but powerful. The fifth axis outstretches the vehicle too much I think, and it ends having way too much empty spaces... I'd better get rid of that fifth axis, don't you think? Another feature I want to have on this machine is "swinging" fwd outriggers, as you can observe on the picture of the Scania truck I posted previously. That is next on my list of things to tackle. If the result should be pleasing, I'd like to try redoing the cabin as well...

This is a fantastic project! Can't wait to see more!

nice. I like it!

OMG! That thing is HUGE! Amazing work btw

Blackbirds pages are gold! What an impressive effort of his...

Impressive!

Ok, let's try again with pictures this time... What I want to do is modify the crane truck into something like this: But I want to add a 5th single wheel axis in front of the boogie. Also I want it to have a crane and a tow-bar. So what I have done so far is starting from Han's modifications, I raised the XL motor to free space for a transmission axis to the last axis. Then I "let me inspire" from the 8285 Tow Truck for the tow bar that you can see here: Finally a view of the things in becoming: I'm having a hard time with the 5th axis that I want to be liftable. I don't want to use pneumatics, but the best mechanism I could fit so far is shown here: It works, but it's far from good. Moreover, I think that fitting a motor there will be a challenge...Any tips here are MORE than welcome!!! Well, I hope I'll keep you updated with progresses. Please don't hesitate to comment: I feel that I have much to learn! /Kristian

Very interesting build you have going on there. I will follow closely your progresses...

Hmm...I thing I saw this set recently on sale in store close by...After reading your review I'm really tempted to give it a try. Especially because those 4 mini linear actuators wouldn't be bad to have...

First of all I'd like to say hello to all the forum members and express my deepest congratulations for the incredible accomplishments that can be witnessed among these pages. You have all been of great inspiration for me! I have been lurking around these pages for some time, and now I felt it was my time to try to contribute. (Please observe: "try" is a keyword here...) A little bit of history. I was a huge LEGO fan during my whole childhood (35 now... ) but it was a long time ago me and my brother got our last LEGO at Christmas: the (at the time at least) incredible 8865 Test Car. Moving very fast forward, one and a half years ago, almost out of the blue (I had been chatting with a friend of mine about this amazing new LEGO set and she overheard us), my wife bought to me the 8258 Crane Truck. Well, never having build stud-less and not having touched LEGO bricks for many year, the build was a great challenge. And a new learning of building techniques...Not many months later, in our usual store they happened to display a limited number of 8043 Excavators at almost 50% off. What should I have done? I bought it!!! And little by little, the LEGO bug had me on the hook! But since last time, now I had MY money and no parents to ask permission to. And my wife's got to be the best in the whole world. In her recent trip to the USA I asked her to keep an eye on possible sales of the 8110 Unimog. It ended up with her coming home with the 8110+8052+8109. The was a 3x2 sale she said! I finally bought the 8049: looked like good pneumatics for the money... I wish I could show some pictures, but the systems doesn't seem to allow me yet. I will divide the original post into separate pieces, until I have posted 5 times. So keep up with me, please. /Kristian

Hi all! I'm going on a business travel to Lexington, Kentucky, USA. I'd like to take the opportunity to look for some LEGOs to buy. Does anyone know any good store to recommend? I'll have a car at disposal, but wouldn't like to drive too far, if possible. Thanks!

Among the pics in his folder it can be seen that there's another crane in a corner of the room. Here's a picture of it (also from his collection of pictures). I mean, this is the "little brother" of what he's building right now!!!

Thank you all! That was really FAST!!! BTW: Once I have put together a reasonably large list, is there a way to find the store that has in stock most of the parts I have listed? /Kristian

Hi all, I've recently dug out all my old LEGOs after years I didn't touched them. I thought I'd clean them and "prepared" them for my son. He's currently 2yo but - you know - dad can play a little while he grows... Anyway. While cleaning and sorting I discovered a number of broken bricks that I now want to replace via BrickLink. But I cannot manage to find the attached brick anywhere. In LDD4 it's called "Ladder 1x2x2" but there's no such ladder in BrickLink... Does anybody know where this (very common) brick is hiding? Thanks, /Kristian