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Firstly, this in an English speaking forum so we ask that you use English and not German. Secondly, this thread was created almost 5 years ago, if the original poster has removed the LDD file from the internet for whatever reason, then you are too late. Once you reach 10 posts you can of course send them a private message to ask them for it but they may have deleted the file from their computer.

Hahaha, if bills are paid and have food in our stomachs, what else are we going to spend our money on??? Love the pic, I wish I had that much LEGO.

That's me screwed then, I can't have kids .

I don't, there's no point trying to fight it, my addiction is more powerful than I am.

I can kinda play the drums but living in a block of flats, a drum kit wouldn't go down well with my landlord or my neighbors so buying a drum kit so I can get any good at it ain't an option. I may get an electronic drum kit one day but they ain't as good as a proper acoustic drum kit.

Thanks for all your advice. I have thought about what you said and I figured that where possible I should seek the permission of the designers of the parts I have used in my lorry, whether necessary or not, I felt doing so was a mark of respect and kindness to my fellow AFOL community members. I have contacted @Sariel and @2LegoOrNot2Lego... who both allowed me to use their designs in my model. LegoOrNot2Lego... asked if I could credit them which as stated in my original post, I plan on clearly stating who designed each part as well as providing links to their website. So a big thank you to Sariel and 2LegoOrNot2Lego for giving me permission. There is also one other person who designed parts of my lorry but I cannot find any direct contact details for. I will do some more digging on the interwebs to seek their permission. If I have no luck contacting them I will assume consent as they have released LDD files and images on their Brickshelf page of parts of their models. Other parts that they have not provided LDD files for I have reversed engineered and modified to suit my needs. Again I will, of course, credit them and provide links to their Brickshelf page. I will still try my best to contact them regardless. Thanks again for your advice.

As most of you will know by my signature, I am building a 1:16 model of an artic lorry which is almost complete. Before I create a new thread of my lorry (should be sometime next week), I just wanted to run something past you all just to make sure no one gets annoyed with me. My artic lorry contains multiple designs by other people including @Sariel and @2LegoOrNot2Lego.... For example my model contains the 4 speed sequential gearbox that was designed by Sariel. I already typed out the text for the thread and I have clearly stated which parts were designed by other people and added links to their website or Brickshelf page at the bottom of the post. I will not be making or releasing/selling any instructions for the cab unit. Therefore, is it acceptable for me to publish images and details of my model on here? Both from a forum rules point of view and from a community point of view. Sorry for posting what seems a stupid question but I just wanted to make sure so that my thread doesn't p*** anyone off. Thanks for any advice and sorry for wasting your time with a dumb question. Morgan P.S. Sorry if this has been asked before, I did do a quick search but came up blank.

By "too much stress", I mean applying forces onto the axle hole in directions to subjects the plastic to more stress than what I is designed to handle. See pic:

No I cant say I've ever had any issues with any half beams. I guess your putting to much stress on them. They are only plastic and not metal so they can't handle huge amount of force. These parts below I've broken a few times on my old 4x4 truck, but that was due to bad engineering on my part by having the entire weight of the truck on just 8 of these.

I picked up another 1x1 storage brick in blue today from Toymaster for my LEGO Power Functions motors. I already have a red one for my IR receivers, battery boxes ect. I also received some more parts that I ordered from Bricklink for my artic lorry. One more order and it will be moreless finished .

No worries, if I have information that someone might be interested in, ill happily share it. Indeed, Scammell and Britian as a whole were very innovative back in the day...when Britian actually made stuff, but the baby boomers thought that selling insurance, selling coffee and constantly going on strike for no good reason was far better and let our industries be swallowed up by other companies who did nothing other than closing our factories down so they could make more money for themselves. Scammell was swallowed up by DAF, English Electric was swallowed up by General Eletcric and Napier, who made the crazy but awesome Deltic engine (which I have a LEGO display model of (although its not my design)) which was fitted to the British Rail Class 55 Deltic, is now technically owned by Siemans. Now look as us, an overpopulated laughing stock of the world. Anyways, rant over. If LEGO managed to get the likes of Mercedes and VW to agree to making licenced products. There is no reason why DAF wouldn't, its just up to LEGO to approch DAF with a contract. But the chances of LEGO making a deal with DAF to produce a Scammell is 0%. LEGO would take one look at a Scammell and think "no that's a lorry that was around in the 1920's, that way too old, we need to make modern vehicles to apparel to the younger generation". You just have to look at all the licenced products LEGO have make over the years, all of them were real life products around at the time LEGO made the licenced version. There's no chance LEGO would produce a model of a 1920's lorry despite how much I want them to. Yeah, more life like wheels/tires or better suspension components would be nice. Waterproof motors/electical hardware don't matter to me but it would be nice. The thing I really want LEGO to sort out is better cogwheels, those with angles teeth to eliminate backlash when one has a large number of cogs in a gearbox or drive train. My lorry will moves like 3 inch due to the backlash...its annoying. I only clean my LEGO when I tear a model apart or its there is so much dirt, I start shattering gears. I like my models getting dirty, it happens in real life. It shows that my models work hard. Clean LEGO = display models, dirty LEGO = LEGO that earns it's keep.

I agree, your truck looks like it could pull a planet much less a truck in the ditch. I don't think it needs a reboot, you did a great job with this truck. Ill put your number on speed-dial incase my lorry gets stuck or I roll it over.

The middle one....Just to be awkward

Yes there is a leafspring on the differential so it can move around and the gearbox on the portal axle can move up and down like a seesaw. I found this GIF of the Pioneer that shows how the portal axle moves. Each of the two near-side wheels are coupled together and the two off-side wheel are coupled together. All four rear wheels are connected to one differential. The Scammell Pioneer was rear wheel drive but the Explorer had a driven front axle, both lorries used the same portal axle on the rear. Nope, no pneumatics or hydraulics involved. The image below was a stunt that Scammell did to show off what the Pioneer could do.

No, they didn't use planetary hubs just portal axles. See the LDD image below which shows how Scammell got such massive suspension travel, something like 4 feet of travel I think.

Very interesting, although I do have one issue with it. IR doesn't have that bad a range considering it's IR and is not "useless" outside. My system works fine outside in bright sunlight, I got almost 43ft during one test in an open carpark at like 2:30pm last summer even with half used batteries. I have tested the range with both my remotes and the speed controller. The speed controller has the worst range of about 30ft but both normal controllers had about the same range. And yes I'm a purest, I have not modified the remotes or the receivers in any way, I've only ever changed batteries.

Lol now that's just a total tease That works both way my friend....

I saw this earlier on the beebs website. Great news for LEGO. Let's hope China take this kind of fraud more seriously.

Glad to see other people on here that appreciate the older vehicles, the type of vehicles that actively wanted to chop your fingers and thumbs off. Damn kids these days and their OTT safe glorified milk-floats like these Tesla things...made by the same person who's rockets blow-up even time they launch or land....on a moving badge of all places....Ka-BOOM-X strikes again. I've always want to have a go in a Scammell, they were awesome trucks. I might have to do a LEGO version one day. Whether a Crusader, Explorer or a Pioneer. These older vehicles and things like the Reliant Robin are what really teaches you how to drive a vehicle. Nowadays there's far too much electronic nannying in the way. Anyways, back to topic...... +1 for a SPMT and +1 for a Mammoet model even if its not a SPMT, they are a cool company. My cousin's husband works for Mammoet. Hahahahaha.

Maybe I'm being a little old fashioned here but I'd love to see LEGO make some kind of Scammell truck. Something like the Scammell Explorer below. Although Scammell no longer exist, I think the brand is now owned by DAF, who rather predictably bought Scammell just to eliminate competition. Scammell made some awesome trucks back in the day. They're off-road ability was way beyond anything any other company like Volvo, Atkinson, ERF or Scania where able to do. Scammell also where the first company to use portal axles, the first to introduce baffles in liquid tanker trailers along with many other firsts. Scammell also made the Scammell Scarab which was a mini 3 wheeled artic lorry, another one I'd like to see LEGO make.

I wouldn't consider my lorry to be a MOC as I have used designs by serveral different people inc Sariel and pipasseyoyo so to call my model a MOC I feel would be unfair to them. That's my personal opinion anyways. 30...is that it??? Only another 2000000 to go.... hehehe. In all seriousness though, YouTube is a great resource for researching LEGO models and getting ideas for your next creation. Just like any subject though, there are loads of good ideas but also alot of bad models and/or building principles. One needs to ignore the bad models and focus on the good ones. Your welcome :D True, MOC's and/or non-LEGO creations is where the fun is. LEGO sets are more for display models or simply good parts packs.

I don't normally buy official LEGO set due to the cost and LEGO don't normally make sets that function as I like. I tend to buy parts from Bricklink and then build the models I want. Hence why my collection is somewhat limited in both the type of parts I have and the overall size of my collection (only about 25000 parts in total inc my normal system bricks (which I never use)). Regardless, the most complex and hardest set I've ever built was 8448, it was a fun model to build and took 2 nights to build, chassis on first night and body work on the second night. Before that was 8842 that my brother gave me back in 1995. The hardest and most complex model I've ever built (non set) is the ~16th scale artic lorry I'm currently building as it is almost entirely of a studless design which is something I've never done before, I'd always combine studded with studless to get the best of both building styles. Thread of this artic lorry will be published on here in a couple of weeks once I've finished it and am happy it's able to drive mile after mile without breaking.

You would need to upload your image to a hosting service like Flickr or Bricksafe. You can then embed the image on this forum. This website allows you to upload small images but is there for your signature.

Agreed, there should not be an upper age limit on LEGO. Lower limit, yes due to small parts, but not an upper limit. Something like "Ages 10+" on the box would do the job. Although I don't believe that the upper age limit "limits the love for LEGO Technic", AFOL will still play with LEGO regardless of what LEGO print on the box. There are 50/60+ year olds on this forum who still play with LEGO.

Wh-acked???