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    We don't have a LEGO store within 200 miles of where I live so that's not an option for me. Official sets are too expensive and limited for me as I don't build LEGO model to sit on the shelf and collect dust, I like my models to work, my last model travelled like 50 miles (real miles not scale models). I always buy my LEGO parts from Bricklink, I get the parts I need without any parts I don't need.
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    I can't answer your questions about turning circle but when I designed the 4x4 drive train for my a Morris C8 FAT (field artillery tractor), I had open differentials in the front and rear but no centre diff, I personally think it was the best option for that model. It could crawl up almost anything without any issue. If one of the front wheels was broke traction, the rear axle would keep pushing it along. With a center third diff, if one wheel became loose, all power would go to that wheel, something which wouldn't happen with only 2 differentials. You could put a diff locker on the centre diff or make it a limited slip differential for the centre. It depends on how you want your vehicle to perform offroad and climbing hills plus how much space you have within your chassis. As for turning circle with or without a centre diff, I would think it would make a huge difference for a LEGO model.
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    Thanks. Initially I was going to do that, however when the shelving unit is build, the front of the bottom shelf will rest on the desk which will prevent any parts from falling down the back of the shelf. There is a small gap between the desk and the wall on the right side caused by the skirting board but most of my building will take place in the centre and left side so I'm not too worried about that, I could either move the right side leg inward by ~20mm or place a wood strip on that right side to prevent any parts falling down. I will keep an eye on this and deside whether it is needed or not. I do need to make a cutout on the back support brace for my telephone and WiFi router's power supplies which I couldn't do until I fitted the desk as I didn't know the size that the cutout needed to be. Ill likely do that over the weekend.
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    This is my third desk I've built for my living room. One for my computer, one as my electronics workbench and now one for my LEGO. I perfer to build desks to my specs rather than buying factory made desks, it normally works out much cheaper to build your own. Pink is my second favorite colour, purple is my first but my landlord would make me repaint the room like 5 times when I move if I painted my living room dark purple. Lol I love anything technical. I'm not into pink fluffy unicorns (or ignorant horses as I call them), more stage lighting, LEGO and engineering in general. Thanks alot Yeah Ill be adding a light to it, I mentioned it in my first post: If you look at the SketchUp image I posted in the first post, you'll see the gray and white light at the top of the shelving unit. This is the LED strip my Dad gave me that will go on the bracket at the top of the shelving unit. I had to remove and resolder a different cable on it as the wire it came with was only about 8inch long. It also, rather stupidly, didn't have an earth bond. This cable is a 3 core and I modified the light fixture to have a proper CPC bond. My parents have one of these in their utility room which lights up the entire room so it will be bright enough for my building desk. This light is not colour changing, it just has warm white (3000K) LED's. Its a worklight, so I don't see the point of using an RGB light on it.
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    I got my LEGO building desk painted and is now inplace in the corner of my living room. I'm yet to fit the L-shaped shelf on the right side for my 1x1 storage bricks. I'm also going to put a small shelf on the left side for my landline phone and WiFi router. Dad and I are going to start building the shelfing unit and wall unit on Friday.
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    @Seb84 Welcome to EuroBricks, just a friendly reminder, this is an English speaking forum. We understand if English is not your first language but please try your best. Check out this page for the site rules. Regardless, nice crawler, looks like it could climb a mountain.
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    And helical versions of all the different size cogs *hint hint LEGO*
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    Thanks , Although I live less than 2 miles from the coast (as the crow flies) thus we never get low hunidity levels, when the weather is hot like it has been recently, paint will dry fine. The emulsion base coat only took bout 20 minutes to completely dry. Gloss paint is obviously takes much longer but is does dry fine here. Thanks for your kind words. Indeed, when I'm building something, I will take the lids off and leave them off. But during extending periods when I'm not building (e.g. longer than a month), I will put the lids back on to protect my collection from dust. I'm not bothered if a little bit of dust gets onto my parts from overnight but I don't want huge amounts of dust to get on them. I normally perfer to DIY stuff like this instead of buying it as I can build it exactly as I want. Tis the same with my computer desk, my electronics desk and my hamster cage, I designed and built them all to suit my needs instead of buying overpriced factory products that may not offer the features I want/need. Building stuff like this always gives you the satisfaction knowing that you designed and built it from scratch. I did look at buying a load of plastic storage draw units but the total cost of them for the amount I need would have been almost double the price of this solution. Plus with the number of some parts like 2L fiction pins I have, I would have had to use like 3 or 4 draws to store them in. Using these plastic food containers, I can fit all my 2L friction pins in one tub. Lol glad you like it. Feel free to copy my design if you want to build something similer. I will post the SketchUp file when I know I haven't made any errors in it.
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    Just a friendly reminder, this is an English speaking forum.
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    Dad and I had a day free yesterday so we went to B&Q and picked up the 18mm sheet of plywood needed for the desk part. We got B&Q to cut the sheets of plywood and here is all the pieces laid out. We had a couple of offcuts not pictured here. The long pieces against the wall is for the wall unit. The desk is built and ready for painting. Side-ish view of the desk. Base coat of emulsion paint applied. I've started painting the desk in white gloss but since the it takes 16 hours to dry, it will take a couple of days to apply 2 coats need and for it to dry properly. Once the gloss painting is done on the desk, Ill post another update.
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    The roller cupboard is a great idea. Not suitable for my use but still a great solution. Bargin, nice find. Perfect for keeping spare parts in when doing truck trials and shows. I just thought I let you know I posted a Seperate Topic for my building desk and shelving unit since it is a big DIY project and felt it needed its own thread instead of spamming this one up with updates. Ill post my finished desk in here once done.
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    The other day I posted a reply to the Stroage and Sorting LEGO thread showing my plans for a building desk and storage shelves for my LEGO collection. Considering that this is a big DIY project I thought I post a seperate topic showing my progress. Incase you didn't see my post in the other topic and due to some of the details in my other post having changed from my original plans, I figured I would repost the updated details in this thread. The desk will be made from 18mm plywood and will be 1650mm long, 533mm wide and 660mm high. The shelving will be made from 12mm ply and will have 28 shelves, each shelf will be 801mm long and 150mm wide. Total height of desk and shelving unit will be 2262mm. I am also going to build a wall unit to give me extra shelves which will be 825mm long, 150mm wide and 1120mm high. The main shelving unit on the desk will hold 168 plastic food containers and the wall unit will hold another 60 containers giving a total of 228. Each shelf on the desk and wall unit will be angled at roughly 15° and they have an edging strip to stop the containers sliding out. I have added a piece of offcut in the centre of the desk shelving unit at the top that sticks out to fit a worklight as this unit will be in the corner of my living room which isn't that well lite. My Dad had a spare LED batten light fixture that will be screwed to this bracket. I have also added a L-shaped section under the desk for my 1x1 storage bricks that I have all my Power Functions stuff in.  This image shows the SketchUp drawing of what I'm building. Ignore the different coloured textures in this image, I have coloured them like this as the SketchUp file also contains a cutting plan of each sheet and the different colours help me to know which part is what. The desk, shelves and wall unit will be painted gloss white to match my computer and electronics desks. The image shows part of my LEGO collection stored in plastic food containers which will be placed on the shelves and wall unit. Still have loads of parts that still need sorting as you can see to the right of the photo. Hope you don't mind me creating a new topic but this is a big DIY job and I felt it should have it's own thread. Plenty more updates to come.
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    During extended periods (e.g. longer than a month) when I not building anything I will put the lids on, When I start building something I will take the lids off and store them under the desk. Otherwise taking 200+ lids on and off all the time will get annoying fast. There is 100mm between each shelf so there is enough space to allow the lids to be placed on the tubs and for my hand to pick parts. While I'm on this topic, I should post an update, due to family stuff, I haven't been able to do anything to this desk this week. However I have made a jig for the shelving units to ensure the spacing between the shelves, shelf angles ect is consistent. I have also managed to squeeze another shelf on the wall unit, bringing the total of plastic tubs I'm able to store is 228. I am hoping to start work on my desk next week. I am also hoping to post details of my artic lorry towards the end of next week as well.
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    Awesome model of a cool car. Very clever gearbox and gear shifting design. Great work .
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    Yup your new link works fine. Very cool little model, love the way you've done the headlights. Tis a very nice model indeed.
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    Nope still nothing, just the following error: 404. That’s an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know. Try uploading your photos to Flickr or Bricksafe.
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    Yeah it will take a good few hours to build that desk and wall unit. It will take 3 2440x1220 sheets of plywood to build it. Luckily B&Q (a chain hardware store in the UK) has a cutting service so I get them to cut the sheets to the sizes I need and once I get them home, tis just a matter of glueing and screwing everything together. I live in a 4 room flat (although one of those rooms, one could hardly call it a room) but my living room is a fair size so I have the space to build this desk. This will be the third desk I've built for my living room. One for my computer, one for my electronic bench and now this one for my LEGO. Lol, even though I have a lot of my LEGO in these containers, I still have 3 boxes of normal LEGO system bricks here and at my parents, although I almost never play with the system bricks. Just checking since my post was more of a drawing of what I want to build rather than my actual storage racks, better safe than sorry . Its ok for this kind of thing but its useless for making stuff for 3D printing though. But since most of the other CAD programs want stupid money for crap software or a subscription (which I flat-out refuse to do), then Sketchup it is.
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    Nope, LEGO is the only toy I still play with and collect. I do own some model trains but these days model trains got ridiculous in price so I don't bother buying them anymore. Left to right: Limited edition HS4000 Kestrel - Class 47 - Class 43 HST (in the proper livery) Left to right: Class 52 Western - Class 33 - Limited edition Class 24 Left to right: LEGO model of a Napier Deltic engine - Limited edition LSWR 0298 Class Beattie Well Tank - GWR Pannier Tank - Class 20 I do have more model trains but these are my favorites. Sadly I don't have the space to build a model railway so these are more display models.
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    After 25ish years of playing with LEGO on the floor, I am getting tired of having LEGO-legs everytime I build something. The time has finally come to start building a proper desk and storage racks for my collection. The first image below is a crude Sketchup drawing of what I am going to build. The desk will be made from 18mm plywood and will be 1650mm long, 533mm wide and 660mm high. The shelving will be made from 12mm ply and will have 28 shelves, each shelf will be 789mm long and 150mm wide. Total height of desk and shelving unit will be 2238mm. I am also going to build a wall unit to give me extra shelves which will be 825mm long, 150mm wide and 1017mm high. The main shelving unit on the desk will hold 168 plastic food containers and the wall unit will hold another 54 containers giving a total of 222. Each shelf on the desk and wall unit will be angled at roughly 18° and they have an edging strip to stop the containers sliding out. I have also added a piece of offcut in the centre of the desk shelving unit that sticks out to fit a worklight as this unit will be in the corner of my living room which isn't that well lite. I'm planning on getting an LED batten light fixture which is 1800lm which should be planty bright enough. I am hoping to get the wood and build this next week sometime. This second image is of the plastic food containers I have like half of my LEGO collection in. Still need to sort all my plates, tiles, technic beams and other bricks. Hope you all don't mind me posting this in this thread, but I thought you might be interested. Ill post another update when I have the desk and shelves built.
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    @Sariel, I can't believe you didn't think of it
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    Thank you. Welcome to Eurobricks by the way
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    Awesome models @KevinMoo, love the auto-diff lock, great work :D. @dpi2000 This is an English speaking forum, please use English and not Chinese. We accept that for some users, English is not their first language but please make an effort. Full forum guidelines can be found below.
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    Interesting model. I like the way you did the rear steering on this, I'm not normally a fan of rear or trailer steering on trucks but I don't mind it on this model.
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    I agree with @jorgeopesi and @Leonardo da Bricki, building MOC's is very much a trial and error process. If at first you don't succeed, try again and again and again until you get a result that you are happy with. This is one reason why I love building things with LEGO, it allows you to try different things without costing anything or generating any waste. If something doesn't work, you rip it apart and try something new. My artic lorry has gone through like 8 different design revisions before I was happy with the rear end of it and it cost me nothing other than time.
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    Awesome model. I don't like Jeep (more of a Land Rover person (bring British )) but this is still a sweet MOC. Love it holy s**t handle on the drivers, *cough* I mean passenger side.
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