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Build Day 4 - Days build time 5hrs 15mins / Total build time 16hrs 55 mins Due to time constraints this evening you'll no doubt be pleased to hear I'll not be boring you with another installment of ramblings. You lucky people . Being pushed for time I'll just say I had a longer session building today so have made pretty good progress with no problems.

Beautiful build. My 5yr old Grandaughter loves it. Very happy to support it

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Excellent build. Wonderfully detailed, inside and out. Great work.

OMG! I know I said spend time well before your holiday but I never imagined you’d be able to spend it this well. The stats alone are amazing. Oh how I dream of being this talented.

Very nice model with great functions

Very impressive indeed

Having had a look at the instructions & build and it appears the 16T is indeed held by a 3789 axle pin without friction Ridges. This is of course assuming that I'm looking at the same 16T as yourself

Thank you Bart. The outrigger assembly is a nice design utilising the parts of the day and I think better than using the dedicated parts we have today.

Thank you Andy. It's coming along nicely. You're correct about it being the steering and outrigger assembly with the latter being a great design. It's very solid, braced as it is by numerous 2 x 4 L liftarms. All in all it's been a pretty productive day.

Thank you Jeroen. Hmmmm... I can see what you mean. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll take a proper look in the morning.

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Build Day 3 - Days build time 5hrs 30mins / Total build time 11hrs 40 mins Building has been pretty straightforward today with a decent amount of progress. The only exception being the parts arrowed in pic 1. As you can see (from the instruction screenshot) the red 3 x 5 L is held in place by a single pin that locates into the 5 x 11 frame. Manouvering and fixing this assembly into position looked easy but proved not to be so. Due to where the pin had to be fitted I couldn't get any purchase on it to press it into place. After numerous tries and a bit of thought, turning the whole build on its side and trying from underneath seemed the obvious answer. Fine in theory but the assembly kept falling out of place. After around 30 minutes and more by luck than judgement, I had the pin lined up with the hole and it was squeezed into place with the help of my trusty clamps. The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that the upper assembly in picture 16 isn't positioned correctly. That's because in pic 13 & 14 there are supposed to be 2 black pins fitted in the middle two 2 x 4 L but I'd fitted them on the underside by mistake. Because of this the upper assembly wasn't located properly resulting in it being 1 stud too far back. I corrected this before fitting the complete sub assembly to the main build. Surprisingly, everything else went really well. Shortly after building the 8258 the first time around I came across Designer Hans excellent mods and promised myself that if I built it again I'd incorporate them. Unfortunately as all but one of my boxes of spares are sitting in our Sons loft (I know, it's a daft place to keep them) I'll have to continue building as per the original and maybe mod it another time. It's a shame as I do love those duallies.

What a brilliant, brilliant build. So much detail and I agree with deraven, those inake fins are a stroke of genius. Just WOW. I know you've encountered many problems building this but all that time, effort & frustration has really paid off. Great work.

Thank you Bart. I have to apologise for the quality of the pictures. I’m not sure what’s going on with my mobiles camera. I’ll fish out my old S3 and see if that’s any better. I don’t think having shutters has helped as it just leaves the fluorescent lights as the only light source. Thank you. I think I’d look great in blue.

Careful there Jeroen. Pointing members toward my build thread is likely to cause an outbreak of mass narcolepsy

I can’t decide if this is the product of a warped & twisted mind or a mad genius. Either way, I absolutely love it. Great work.

Build Day 2 - Days build time 2hrs 50mins / Total build time 6hrs 10 mins After a few days away by the sea it's back to the scorching temperatures of home. While we were away our Son made shutters to go over the windows on my shed to block out the sun so with help from 2 fans, it was bearable being out there today. Building's been pretty good today with no real difficulties. I have to say I've really enjoyed building this changeover mechanism. I've made a point as I build of really looking at where things go and why and it just amazes me, it's so intricate. It's very clever, I wouldn't have a clue how to go come up with something like it but I guess that's why Uwe etc., do the designing and aren't knocking on my door for me to join them. As you can see, the stickers haven't faired well over time. I've got some unused original sticker sheets somewhere and once I remember where I'll replace the peeling ones.

Fantastic!

What a great little car. Love it

When I first saw this I didn't rate it at all but the more I see of it the more I like it but I'll damned if I know why.

Fantastic builds! Who'd have thought builds with such a variety of colours could look so good.

That’s very kind. Thank you. As for my collection. Yes, it’s a good collection although the photo shows only about 20% of it. I did keep the whole collection in my shed but since our wonderful Grandchildren now have their own build table and keep some of their LEGO in there I’ve moved the majority of my collection into our loft and our Sons.

Thank you Edwin. I'll certainly have fun building this most excellent set.