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Your attention to detail is terrific. Oh how I wish my 42030 looked this good. Great work!

Anyone else had trouble contacting the Sbrick support team lately? I've sent 4 emails over the last 3 weeks but have had no reply.

That's great. Thank you.

Sorry for bumping an old topic but I’d like to know is anyone knows of a good quality 3rd party charger for the 8878? The official one at a penny under £25 +£3.99 p&p is ridiculously expensive.

Thanks to Racing Brick I now have the icons I need. Thank you allanp for your kind offer.

I wonder if someone might be able to help me please. I’ve been trying to create 3 images to use as icons to import into my Sbrick profile for the Ultimate 42082 but with no idea what I’m doing the results have been predictably bad. Having setup sequences (with the help and seemingly limitless patience of Racing Brick) to select each steering mode by the tap of one of three buttons rather than using a slider I’d like to have icons to indicate which button selects which steering mode, Front Wheel, Crab and All Wheel. I found these two pictures online which (without the car outline) give a good idea of what I’m looking for. I’d like the icons to be yellow (I would’ve liked red but when outside yellow shows up better on my mobile's screen) and have a transparent background. I hope this makes sense. I’d be very grateful for any assistance and am more than happy to pay for your time. Please send me a PM if you’re interested. Thank you. PS I posted this request a few days ago in the Digital Design forum but have just realised that it meant LDD etc

Good Evening I wonder if one of my fellow Eurobricks members with digital design experience can help me please. I’ve been trying to create a couple of icons to import into an Sbrick profile but the results have been far from satisfactory. The icons I need are to indicate steering mode. I’m looking for something like these. I don’t need the blue vehicle outline just that shown in yellow and with a transparent background. I’d be grateful for any assistance. Please send me a PM if you can help. Thank you.

What with this, the 42099 and 42100 my poor ol' bank account's going to be considerably reduced by the end of the year

Thank you. I really enjoyed building it. It’s a great model and so much more playable than the set on which it’s based. I’m looking forward to the Liebherr. It looks like a mighty impressive build.

Thank you my Friend. I don't know about the construction yard but my shelves are heading that way. Another build or two and I'll have to start thinking about getting a few sets dismantled and put back in their boxes

Outstanding!

Building Time 17hrs 15min - Total Build Time 68hrs 40mins In previous posts you may of noticed that I hadn’t fitted the boom at the stage at which I should have. This was because it’d have been in the way when it came to fitting the panels around the superstructure. At the time this seemed like a good idea and in practice it was as I got all the panels on with no hinderance from a particularly lengthy obstruction and little trouble. It was a this point I realised that with said panels fitted the hole that the axle holding the boom in place and from which it pivots was to be inserted was covered. Luckily the offending panel could be pivoted up and out of the way by removing a 3L axle with Stud. Cue huge sigh of relief Fitting the boom turned out to be fun. I tried numerous ways to do it most ending in farcical failure including balancing it on my shoulder only for gravity to do its thing and despite my juggling like fumblings, it ended up on the floor. It's a testament to the strength of its design that nothing broke off or came apart. Anyway, in the end a couple of wheels and a good measure of trial and error proved enough to get the job done. So, after almost 69hrs this build is now complete. Despite being hampered by mistakes of my own making, this build’s been really enjoyable. Jurgens builds always are. Fitting all the motors required for this version makes for a very dense build, especially in the chassis. Add a pair of battery boxes (one a 88000), a PF Switch (8869) and a couple of Sbricks (in place of the 4x IR Recievers) and there’s hardly any free space at all. What free space there is a small area in the superstructure in which I want to resite the Sbrick down and back a few studs as I'm not happy with it's position. This was a great set to start with but the addition of the motors has to me, made it so much better. The functions work flawlessly and, unlike the set on which it’s based, can all operate simultaneously. The motorised functions are: Driving (XL Motor) Steering: All-Wheel / Crab (2x Servos + M Motor operating PF Switch for mode select) Raise / Lower Outriggers (M Motor) 360° Super Structure Rotation (M Motor) Raise / Lower Boom (L Motor) Extend / Retract Jib (M Motor) Raise / Lower the Hook (M Motor) Jake, George and Penny have been playing with the model all afternoon. They’ve had a whale of a time with it lifting everything from a bundle of kindling to a rather surprised looking garden gnome. When asked if they had fun they all gave it a double thumbs up and to me, that says it all. Apologies for the lack of finished build pictures. After we’d finished playing and just minutes before I was going to go in the shed to take the pictures our neighbour took out a power line while trying to excavate a tree stump with a borrowed JCB leading to several hours without power. Note: To the best of my knowledge the outage in South America was coincidental although looking at the size of the pile of dirt towering over our 6ft fence I can’t be entirely sure of this. I’m busy for the next week so will take more pictures and maybe even try to do a video sometime next week. The only way I found to fit the boom. Once secured in place a third tyre added to the pile raised the boom enough to enable the actuators to be connected. As you can see from the photo below, I need to get a bigger sheet of white foam board before I take more pics as the build is far too big to photograph against the one I’ve got.

Very much looking forward to seeing where this goes

Oh my. That’s magnificent. You certainly know how to make a return.

I like this a lot. I can see what fellow members Yevhen and Captainmib mean about the weak point in the extended tracks but I wouldn’t have thought I’d take much to sort out. Great work nonetheless.

Great to see you back working on the Iskes Telstar Edwin. The engines etc, look really good and the illuminated wheelhouse is terrific . I look forward to seeing this project progress.

Like is an understatement. That’s some really excellent work you've done there. The 8043 and the Mack are both very much improved by your changes which I might have to implement on mine when I build them.

What a terrific build. George has seen this and really wants to build it and he can due to your kindness in making free instructions available soon. Thank you.

Building Time 8hrs 15min - Total Build Time 51hrs 25mins Fitting the sub assemblies around the superstructure, a task that should have been quick and easy but thanks to a lack of clear vision & coordination caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure (a regular quirk of my condition) and my reluctance to stop (there’s that stubbornness thing again) things proved particularly problematic. I put parts together incorrectly & more often than not put them in wrong place and I’m sure I must have broken more parts off the build than I was trying to fit. Take my word for it, reattaching parts for the sixth or seventh time is particularly frustrating. As is usually the case, after half hour or so with my ‘chair tipped back the BP was north of stupid so normal service was resumed and all parts soon assembled correctly and fitted in the right place. Building the boom was straightforward and, for me anyways, reasonably quick. It's a big ol' thing and feels very solid helped I'm sure by being clad with a plethora of panels and dog bone Liftarms. While building I’ve been wondering whether a 3 stage boom along the lines of the one Christophe Moittie came up with for the Ultimate 42009 would be worthwhile addition to the RTC. From what I could see of my U42009 sitting up on the shelf the two booms aren’t too dissimilar in size. I'm curious to know whether anyone else has tried it? When I get time I might try knocking one up just to see what equipping it with a 3 stager looks like. Until then the original will surfice. With just the superstructure's panelling and the operator's cabin to do the end of this build is in sight. Apologies for the number of pics.

. Yes, it's not a pretty sight at the moment.They'll get good tidy up when I have time. Thankfully they're not in as much of a tangle as those in the chassis

Building Time 7hrs 30min - Total Build Time 43hrs 10mins Just a quick update as I’ll not have time to build for the next week. Yellow liftarm only used for support while taking photo.

So creative, very cool and in my opinion, way better than the donor set. Great work.

Thank you my Friend. The build's going pretty well. Thanks for the heads up. I'll have a think and come up with something to keep those 3L axles in place.