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  1. Gray Gear
    @OnyyX DBG will be difficult, I have yet to find the wheelarch pieces in DBG. But white is possible for sure, using some non-LEGO bricks.
  2. Gray Gear
    Damn, that sucks. I am sorry. the same thing happened to me as well on my first 1:8 car MOC, but I was able to decrease the transmission width by 2 studs and keep the suspension. Luckily most of the bodywork was still WIP at that stage. Did I count right with an overall width of 31 studs? I am aware of the amount of work required to slim the car down to a 29 stud width at this stage of completion. But what kind of suspension did you use that is not possible to fit in a 29 stud width?! Good luck m8
  3. Gray Gear
    @OnyyX Wow your Uncle is a happy man... A R32 GT-R VSpec II is a dream come true! I know the dark red color you mean. But I think even with using non-LEGO bricks dark red would be impossible. It is just too rare, especially in Technic.
  4. Gray Gear
    @OnyyX your pic is not working for me I am afraid there will be a lot more non-LEGO bricks nececary for building this car in a different color. I will actually "repaint" my own GT-R to blue color, the bricks are alreday ordered. But a lot of the bricks I'll use will not be LEGO, LEGO does not have many bricks in blue color
  5. Gray Gear
    Pretty cool MOC! I like the amount of detail in such a smalll scale. The bodywork does't look that smooth in some places, but considering the scale I'd say its okay. The cabrio roof seems to work pretty well and looks good when up and down. That's impressive, even though it looks a bit flimsy. Thx for sharing this
  6. Gray Gear
    @TeamThrifty Yeah right, that's not what I wanted to say but okay i guess I just feel like more people that build construction equipment don't care too much about doing bodywork, and I get it. You like building Technic functions, and don't want to spend forever on bodywork as well. But it does not seem like that was the case here to me, and I appreciate the extra time and effort you put in
  7. Gray Gear
    @BrickBuildingFox You could use the older DBG clutch gears instead of the newer red version. Also using older (especially good when bought used) gears in general (not tan) will also help reduce friction.
  8. Gray Gear
    Yeah, that's right. I was too stupid to remember wheel width makes all the difference when calculating wheel offset. My bad
  9. Gray Gear
    It isn't a supercar, but someone still put a lot of effort into the bodywork. Well done Now you just need a lot of attachments to use all that flexibility
  10. Gray Gear
    @brunojj1 Yes the deep offset is very good for making tight wheel wells, but my problem is that the wheel is so wide that the barrel will rub on the wishbones if you turn the wheel too far. A less wide wheel, like the land rover wheel, does not have that problem to this extent. I wish there was a wheel in 1:8 Wheel diameter and land rover wheel width and offset. That would be perfect.
  11. Gray Gear
    yeah that's what I thought as well... I mean what kind of answer did you expect? "Just leave the LED in a glass of water over night and it'll have doubled in the morning"?
  12. Gray Gear
    I think most poeple can't even imagine how much work it is to do instructions with this complexity and part count. And offering the instructions for free... I dont think I would have done that. I applause everyone in this thread that kept and keeps on improving this model. Keep it up!
  13. Gray Gear
    I think that different cars will have very different turning radius. Limiting factor is the witdh of the wheels used, and the scale makes a difference too off course. The normal 1:8, wheels don't allow for a good turning radius, because they are too wide. I'll measure once I get home, and edit this post. But I already know the answer is "terrible"
  14. Gray Gear
    Okay I gotta say I can't completely grasp how the gearbox works just by looking at the picture. (I build manual transmissions, so maybe that's why I have trouble understanding the workings of a more complicated sequential gearbox). Maybe I'll try to build it if I can find the needed parts. But I can see you made a reverse gear without using small 8gears like many others do. Well done! This can make it run pretty smooth. The blessing of a mid-engine car is that there is a lot of space beneath the engine for a complicated gearbox. I belive you've got more room in this 1:10 MOC than I have in most of my 1:8 MOCs, because rear seats are a thing
  15. Gray Gear
    @ralphie I really like your MODs. You did a bunch of stuff that bothered me on the original MOC. Making a real vent into the hood and making it more smooth. adding engine details (even though it could still be more imo). My favorite: the exhaust system. I love to just dump like 10-20 of these maccaroni pieces in my MOCs too, for the exhaust, or intercooler piping, ... One question tho: what did you do to the pop-up headlights? Is this just like a headlight cover with no lights underneath? That would be sad...
  16. Gray Gear
    Very nice Video, and I had to smile as well! I first thought it looked and a bit bland tbh, but placed in your city it actually fits quite nice. Why is it a one-way street tho?
  17. Gray Gear
    Well, every car has a gearbox, but lot's of other features are dependent on the real life counterpart's features. But I agree that stuff like this would be nice in a official set. At the moment you LEGO fans can be happy if the headlights are still brickbuilt and not a print... Oh wait
  18. Gray Gear
    Has already been done by @Jeroen Ottens in his Aston Martin DB11: Rebrickable
  19. Gray Gear
    You thought wrong, young padawan. Those strong with the Dark Side order their Bricks from GoBricks... But be warned, the way of the Dark Side is not without its risks, It will consume you as soon as you get a small taste...
  20. Gray Gear
    @aniking the rollcage was made after looking at some real R32 rollcages, and considering how it can be as strong as possible. So the R32's rollcage is inspired by real design, but not accurately measured. But it doesn't really matter imo, because lots of weld-in rollcages are custom made irl too.
  21. Gray Gear
    @aniking I used this blueprint in the model scaler, and some pics from google for details and to view things from a different angle I like your tinted headlights btw, a nice idea.
  22. Gray Gear
    After looking at it for a moment I think area in front of the rear wheel arches could still be improved. Those angled liftarms leave gaps and don't flow very well with the rest of the bodywork.
  23. Gray Gear
    Yeah well cars are popular I guess I still like to look at your construction machines and other vehicles to find a cool building technique or mechanism that could be adopted for my car MOCs tho
  24. Gray Gear
    Can you explain? Average price on Bricklink for a Basketball is 3.40€, a football 2.36€. Hell nah.
  25. Gray Gear
    I dont know about system heavy, as far as I have seen technic bricks are used most often, and a lot of gears, linkage systems and motors. That's technic if you ask me! But of course only poeple intrested in GBC have the needed parts, nobody else will have a sufficient ammount of these "LEGO sports balls". They were sold like 15 years ago, and even then in pretty limited numbers per set.
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