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  1. Gray Gear
    What are you trying to say? Of course wheels don't look worse on the vehicle they were made for only because they will be reused later. But if there is a second UCS Superbike coming, it will for sure have custom wheels again, because on that second bike they will look off. Nobody would have liked the Chiron better with wheels form the Porsche 911 GT3 RS.
  2. Gray Gear
    Tires possibly, but not the wheels. Look at how many times the Supercar wheels have been reused. Exactly, never. And that's how it should be. If you pay 200 bones for a bike you can expect special wheels that recreate the real ones.
  3. Gray Gear
    Interesting! I hope we'll get some nice new pieces apart from the wheels. But I can alredy see the GBC guys using them in very cool ways. A bit weird to up the scale as it will no longer fit with the other bikes. I guess main the goal was to make a bigger, more expensive Model that is supposed to be displayed alone. Or maybe there will be more in the future... They better use a solid brick for the wind shield this time, It is going to be a UCS after all. But I wouldn't be suprised if they just do the Kinder suprise egg plastic again like with the Ducati. We'll see.
  4. Gray Gear
    Cool idea, and impressive execution! I love all the small details, like the ice skates in the turbines.
  5. Gray Gear
    Good luck with this project! It sure looks like a challenge due to the lack of space, and the rounded bodywork won't be easy either. I will be looking forward to your solution for the front splitter. I made a rear diffuser for my Mazda RX-7 FD MOC, and I ended up using plates and tiles, as 1 liftarm height was too thick. Seems this will ba a similar case. But since it is only mounted using these 2 mounts in the front it will be even more difficult to get a strong design.
  6. Gray Gear
    The Fiesta drivetrain is pretty cool. AWD in such a small car! I like the looks of the mustang better (no sticker version), but I dislike the drivetrain. The steerig motor could have been moved in front of the gear rack, wich would have freed up space for RWD with a differential. Still, two nice cars. Thx for sharing!
  7. Gray Gear
    +1. I have seen enough new people recently uploaded 4 pixel images to EB instead of reading 5 mins how things work. Thank you. Cool looking B-Model. One question: As far as I can see the height of the fork should change if you tip the fork assembly. Have you tried to route the string close to the hinge of the fork to avoid this? Or is it not a problem at all? Thx for sharing
  8. Gray Gear
    @m2fel Thank you, I thought along the same lines but since I am the opposite of an expert it is nice to hear the thouhts of someone with real life experience.
  9. Gray Gear
    @nerdsforprez yeah true, I meant it is disappointing the diff will try to split in the first place. But with just a click connection that has to open again it is unavoidable with enough power I guess. @pleegwatthat's a good point. Not that much of a bother for me, but some people might find this very helpful.
  10. Gray Gear
    @The_Cook but wouldn't be brick 71709 (2x3 Liftarm) be made with just two half moulds, and not require any inserts from other directions? The shape seems pretty simple to make...
  11. Gray Gear
    @allanp good point I think using then inside a frame (one brick, not a built frame) is crucial to stop them from expanding. Still kind of disappointing this is a problem
  12. Gray Gear
    @TeamThrifty But it does say something when the set costs 450 bones but some random guy can develop a contol app in his free time preferrable over the App LEGO provides.
  13. Gray Gear
    @howitzer yeah those few bricks alone arn't going to break the bank. But suspect there are a lot more small bricks like this that shouldn't be expensive but still are, so it is still nice to see it coming back. If you disassemble the model again, yes. But not everybody will do so, so buying more is required.
  14. Gray Gear
    I disagree. It is a very useful part imo, and I like it a lot. @LvdH Sorry m8, and the 180SX will have 9 I think
  15. Gray Gear
    1€ for ONE black connector? Damn. I am glad I don't have to buy from Bricklink or Bricks&Pieces for 95% of my bricks.
  16. Gray Gear
    @brickless_kiwi Well yeah the B52 can carry a lot of bombs, but they are carried inside the aircraft. Show me one plane that has 100% of the wing undersides covered with bombs. It just looks weird.
  17. Gray Gear
    You should lose some of those bombs to beginn with, no plane can carry that much load. Second I'd suggest you build in real life first and not in LDD. That the wings can't support their own weight is no suprise, because the design is weak. If you had built it irl you would have noticed it right away. Digital designs almost never work the way you want them to irl, at least in the technic world. (I'd also suggest to drop LDD because it's trash and move on to LDCad or Stud.io if you have to work digital.)
  18. Gray Gear
    @2GodBDGlory If such a system were created in an official Lego set that would be cool... But just think of how many poeple we get here already that arn't even able to put in the differentials in the right way
  19. Gray Gear
    @2GodBDGlory You are correct! I didn't now about that, it's an even better example. Learned something new: The Honda 3rd gen Honda released in 1987 came with this: Looks very similar to the system in 8880. It is a purely mechanical system that is steering the rear wheels in the same direction as the front ones if you only steer slightly and reverses steering direction if you start to turn the front wheels a lot. The idea is that If you go fast you only steer a little, and a slight crab steer helps with high speed stability. And since you'd only turn the front wheels a lot when you are going slow, a smaller turning radius is achieved. It works using this super complicated system in the rear (Hinteres Lenkgetriebe). Problem is, no matter what speeds you are going hte rear wheels will start to turn and decrease the turning radius if you steer too much. If you are going fast into a tight corner and steer to much the rear wheels wills start to decrease your turning radius, driving you closer towards that inside Guard rail. It seems Honda also noticed that problem as ne 4th gen Prelude released in 1991 featured a 4WS system using sensors and hydraulics, like I described above.
  20. Gray Gear
    @howitzer most 4WS systems use computers and sensors to calculate in which direction and by how much the rear wheels should turn. The rear wheels are then steered either using hydraulics like in the R32 skyline or electric motors like in the R33/R34 skylines, not connected to the front steering system at all. Of course the 4WS on the 8880 is a very simplified version of a real 4WS system, as is everything else built from Lego.
  21. Gray Gear
    @howitzer Many Japanese cars from the 90s came with 4 wheel steering, like the Nissan's HICAS system featured in the Nissan skylines and some of the S-Chassis cars like the 180SX Type X I am building now as a MOC. The 8880 is also from the 90's, and like the pop-up headlights the designers were probably also influenced by japanese cars. The 90's were a golden age for cars from the land of the rising sun, so it only makes sense.
  22. Gray Gear
    It looked rwd to me too! Can you show how the front wheels are driven? Must be a very compact system!
  23. Gray Gear
    I disagree. First of all the defender isn't even a Supercar to begin with, not even a sportscar in general. The defender transmission is a mess. Using a bunch of U-joints inside a transmission is a terrible idea and it is no suprise it doesn't work well. Adding a HOG to any of the newer UCS Supercars is a lot easier than to fix the defender's transmission problems.
  24. Gray Gear
    Big improvement over the first version for sure. Some great panel work, and the working active aero is also very cool. I think your MOC is as ugly as the real counterpart, so you did a good job But I respect the quality of this build.
  25. Gray Gear
    I think the overall shape is pretty good. Only thing that looks off is the angle of the lower plate of the front bumper. I think it shouldn't be that angled. Engine bay details are very nice, and the exhaust I am not a fan of cars with no functions, at least steering would have been a must for me...and the pop-up headlights... Well, I guess those are scale problems. That's why I build in 1:8 Scale
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