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  1. Gray Gear
    Instantly recognizable, very nice MOC. But it definatelly belongs in the scale modelling Section of EB if you ask me.
  2. Gray Gear
    I use that technique on my car MOCs as well! Try to improve the one side, compare it to the previous version on the other, repeat.
  3. Gray Gear
    ´Dont worry mate I even test fitted them on my Nissan GTR MOC just to make sure everything works fine
  4. Gray Gear
    @astyanax very nice mod, these glow in the dark bars are about 80 cents a piece on Bricklink, which isn't as bad as I expected considering they were only in 2 tiny turbo cars fom 2008. The car looks definatelly closer to the real car with the small round lights at the top added. But I wish that the round light wasn't there on the real car, and on the model as well. It makes the "eyes" of the car look really weird, and is one of the things I absolutely hate on the sian. But that's just my personal taste
  5. Gray Gear
    Holy these panels are crazy expensive in lbg, those prices are out ot this world... So black it will be I belive I could change the entire car in light bluish gray color using GoBricks pieces for 100-150 EUR if I wanted to Keep in mind it will take me at least 3 months after newyear, but probably quite a bit longer till the GTR instructions are finished
  6. Gray Gear
    I have a question for all you LEGO specialists: what color is more expensive in general: Black pieces or light bluish gray pieces? And can you see any pieces on this car's outside body right away that are not available in light bluish gray (exept for the wheel arches)? Thank you I will get myself a new PC for christmas that should have enough power to easily deal with these big MOC's in LDCad and LPub3D. Then I will make normal building instructions for the GTR. There will be no video instructions.
  7. Gray Gear
    Mould King often uses bricks from GoBricks, and they are the best there is in the chinese brick universe. Maybe 99% LEGO quality. Never had a problem with GoBricks pieces ever, and I ordered quite a few.
  8. Gray Gear
    @astyanax I never liked the sian taillights, but these look a lot better imo. Transparent things should be transparent
  9. Gray Gear
    I cannot do that I have already built 3 cars in ~1:8 scale and they should fit together nicely. A 1:10 car would look very out of place, and I doubt I could still fit my transmission design inside
  10. Gray Gear
    Some poeple told me to try using the Land Rover wheels+tires for a 1:8 car because it allows for more complex front suspension. So I got myself a set from BL and this is what I came up with: As you can see this design is fwd/AWD capable, has Ackermann steering geometry and a quite serious caster angle. The shock absorbers are located on the back to make everything nice and compact. The possible steering angle is quite good compared to the posche wheels, the limiting factor here is the maximum pivot angle of the cv-joint. In a RWD setup the steering angle is even better This suspension setup was originally developed for a drift car, but I might try to use it elsewhere as well. Only problem is that the Land Rover wheels look quite small in 1:8 Scale. A 1:8 scale car that looks cool with these will have to be 1995 or earlier, where smaller wheels like this were "period-correct"
  11. Gray Gear
    LEGO also spends a pretty penny on advertisements, especially for these 1:8 Supercars like the Chiron or the Sian. That must not be cheap. Cada on the other hand does not have any advertisement expenses. They just grow on their brand reputation and us enthusiasts talking about it.
  12. Gray Gear
    Wow, ingenious solution! I dont use sequential transmissions in my cars, but I would try to use this if I would build a modern supercar
  13. Gray Gear
    Why should nobody have enough cada bricks to build the Porsche 911? Why would you just assume that? I certeainly have enough non-LEGO bricks from a single brand to build it no problem.
  14. Gray Gear
    Well they are only illegal until a LEGO designer decides to use it, and the rules get bent... Who cares. The fact is this model is better than any 1:8 car LEGO will ever give us, especially for the price. I think y'all should just give CADA a chance, buy one, build it, and if you dont like it you can just sell it for a small loss on Ebay. Its worth the experience.
  15. Gray Gear
    There are murtiple things I dislike about photo instructions: 1. They look low quality 2. I would have to completely disassemble the Model, and I dont feel like I could do that without making mistakes (there is a very specific order) 3. My personal model will always be a little different from the instruction version. The colormatched pins would also make them quite hard to see, and I dont think many people would be able to get lbg pins for the engine bay etc. 4. I couldn't generate a parts list, and I dont feel like counting and checking 3000-4000 pieces.
  16. Gray Gear
    Damn, I will think about making instructions in the future. There should be ways to fix the pieces that are only available from GoBricks, but compromises will have to be made. But I definatelly won't do it until I have a new computer, my laptop wasn't able to handle the RX7 in LDCad well at all. I will never do instuctions for a bigger model again on this crapbox PS maybe y'all are right and 20 Bucks is too expensive, I dropped the RX7 to 15 Bucks as well, same as the NSX.
  17. Gray Gear
    I know JDM cars are a niche market But you would think that if somebody is willing to pay like 500€ for a model then 20€ for the guy who put in all the work shouldn't be that hard to swallow. And I dont want to complain, I learned a lot making these instructions
  18. Gray Gear
    Whats up everybody, I just wondered: Have any of you ever thought about drilling actual holes in the Bugatti brake rotors? These "fake holes" on the brake rotors have been bothering for a while, today I finally did it. I am quite happy with the result, it wasn't very difficult but took quite a bit of time to drill all the holes on 4 rotors. But easily worth it imo, looks so much better. Here is a comparison pic with the Bugatti wheels And finally the improved brake rotors on my Nissan GTR R32 MOC. These wheels cover up a lot, but it still looks great. What do you think? I think these pieces should have had actual holes from factory...
  19. Gray Gear
    @Ctan It happens to all of us, but dont let it make you feel down. Just forget about it.
  20. Gray Gear
    Yeah I wondered why bricklink was making up an estimated price >1000$ when I made the model... White seems to be especially expensive
  21. Gray Gear
    I used 2x 99780 trans-clear in each headlight: there is no way these could be replaced.it just looks like a 1x2 plate from the outside. I also used these in black to mount the C-pillars. these cannot be replaced either. Only available from GoBricks as well. I spent way to much time making the building instructions for my Mazda RX-7, and even though lots of people seemed to like it, almost nobody has bought the instructions. Probably because you need a small number of non-LEGO pieces to complete the build. I can respect that, but that means I will probably never make building instructoions again, at least not if there are non-LEGO pieces required. Sorry. Hopefully that'll happen for the next one as well I always try to improve wherever possible Black was the only possible color, believe me. I wanted to rebuild the car in a different color than black, but it wasn't possible. The next car might be a drift car, I am currently playing around with a front suspension setup that allows for a better steering angle. But I can already see the S-Chassis cars will give me problems in a few places, especially in the rear wheel arch area... We'll see if I can come up with a solution
  22. Gray Gear
    Adding the Rollcage helps so much with body rigidity. It can totally remove the weakspots that usually exist where the doors are, and the A-Pillars are almost always a quite weak connecting the roof to the frame. There is no flex at all in the body. @LvdH is right, I sourced them from 3303 DECOOL Mustang Hoonicorn. I dont like that they stole the MOC, but I just bought the set as a parts donor and never unwrapped the instructions, so I dont feel bad. I must give them props for making the custom Wheels as well tho, they compliment the GTR's black body very well imo. I am sorry to disappoint you, but I have no plans to make instructions for this MOC. I had to use a few pieces in colors that LEGO does not offer, especially for the head- and taillights. There is no way these could be replaced, and it wouldn't be that easy for y'all to get your hands on these pieces, even if you wanted to. If you like JDM cars, you can check out my Honda NSX and Mazda RX-7 on Rebrickable https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-30093/Gray_Gear/moc-90s-honda-nsx/ https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-46448/Gray_Gear/moc-mazda-rx-7-tuned-by-re-amemiya/#details
  23. Gray Gear
    I added the Video at the top. I tried to show the gearbox shifting as good as possible
  24. Gray Gear
    @ibessonov Do you have more progress to show on this MOC? It looked quite promising. Or did I miss the thread presenting the final model?
  25. Gray Gear
    Wow the 3 ships docked together looks very cool!
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