astyanax

@LvdH Agreed. I was merely reacting to the claim about there being no specialised windscreens across the board. I think another argument against a windscreen here would be that it might look too inconsistent next to the other 3 supercars in this line. Coherence on display might be a factor considered by TLG.

And it's no longer the case only non-Technic sets get specialized windscreens. See for example set 42130.

That doesn't seem true to me (although I can't look into the future). See for example sets 75341 and 76139 and 10274.

Here is the image at 1920x1080.

Promobricks writes they 'heard' it'll be released 1 June. That's really soon. I'm reaching for the spoon of salt before getting too excited...

Well a virtual model contains steps and subassemblies too. That's the only sane way to even construct a virtual model of this size. I talk from experience. Since I always disassemble everything in order to recover the parts, keeping virtual models of my ideas and builds is a must for me...

Although what I've seen of the front view is quite lo-res, it doesn't look to me like there's any windscreen...

Thanks y'all for the compliments! I needed some time to finish the virtual model, now done. In the meantime there were no suggestions for improvement, so I went ahead and published it on Rebrickable. Link in the first post. Enjoy!

But I got those on the bonnet of my big Ecto-1 (10274) for quite a while now... Is this what you mean?

Ah yes, indeed they look like part 27507.

Someone cleaned up the grainy image a bit, see for example at bricktastic. Does anyone know what parts the red horizontal stripes at the back may be composed of?

Still not sure... Promobricks.de has a bit more on this story with the 'slipcase'.

Hard to see if there are any new panel molds. But I'm pretty sure I'm seeing these in red now:

I'm just in love with the golden details oh and of course: glow-in-the-dark FTW!

Unfortunately not. Yes the slopes around the pinholes are gone. But the 'ridge' between the pairs of pinholes has remained on the CaDA motors. So you cannot run a liftarm between them. Here you can see the collision (just left of center of image):

That buggy motor looks like the "monster motor" available on ali (i.e., like TLG buggy motor but with integrated cable). The CaDA buggy motor found in the Apollo IE set has a different shape, closer to the BuWizz motor but not quite.

@thekoRngear Are you referring to the gif or the YT videos? In the YT videos, closing is smooth, no? (The gif just loops the opening action.)

Beware though: the 2 trans-clear connectors shown are extremely rare and hard to get. The 15L liftarms are easier. And yes can definitely be used as support, for example:

Not much AFAIK. We have 15L in trans-clear and 4L thin in trans-light blue. I recently used 6 of the latter in a Lamborghini Vision GT (in the roof): But all of these transparent liftarms are pretty rare in sets, though not too hard to score on BrickLink. I guess there isn't much demand. There are also a couple of transparent Technic connectors:

In my collection I have a bunch of transparent bent liftarms: Sometimes they're nice for making extreme head- or taillights on cars. Although the last one (in trans-neon green) I've never used... But still cool to have

Is that tall structure standing on trans-pink Technic liftarms or what? (new set 71771)

I doubt it'll be faster than my earlier build with 4x PF L motor + 2x BuWizz 2.0. On paper that'd give a higher top speed, especially in ludicrous mode. But let's be fair, here we have 2 motors and 1 battery, achieving very respectable speed on a 2.7kg model. Driving it definitely feels impressive. Anyway, the 'exercise' here was not to achieve a new top speed, but to test whether the 4-speed gearbox could work in combination with 2 buggy motors. As far as I'm aware, this is a new achievement. I don't have a BuWizz 3.0 brick, but popping that under the hood would surely be interesting... What I'm sort-of planning to do -- although it may take a few months -- is to disassemble the yellow model, put the buggy motors aside again, then pass the parts to a friend to build the stock model with the 2 L motors from the box. In parallel I'd build the black version with 2 buggy motors. Then we can have a fair comparison of stock vs pimped. Just need to wait for PaB to come back into service (and then another 6 weeks before they ship...), because I don't yet have the black wheel arches...

Perhaps it's just that I can afford to pay such attention to detail, because the heavy lifting in terms of determining overall structure and shape had been done already. The problem doesn't exist, because the car doesn't exist haha! I've seen some videos of a full-scale mockup, but none that shows the car driving unaided... I did look into this. Couldn't make it work. Anyway, it was a hard requirement for me to retain the wishbones. I just looove that part!

This is a model of the Lamborghini Vision GT, based on a design by a Chinese brick company, but built and modified by me using genuine Lego parts. I don't own the Chinese model -- this was built entirely from publicly available material. The model intrigued me, but I found it a bit rough here and there. So I set out to improve it... As the car was designed for a racing game, the rear view is what's supposed to be seen most. The Chinese version was olive green; I made it lime green, using many parts from the Lamborghini Sian (set 42115). I've made the taillights and roof transparent, and the headlights glow in the dark. Because that's awesome. What I really missed from the Chinese version was golden accents. I added all the gold I could. Because it's awesome! Front and back open up. Front is motorized, back is manual. Unlike the Chinese version, this one is driven by 2 buggy motors for maximum speed! The above is using CaDA's white-top battery box. With BuWizz it could go even faster! On the turntable: Part count: 2600. I've published a virtual model on Rebrickable : https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-110131/astyanax/lamborghini-vision-gt/ Do let me know if you see any more room for improvement design-wise!

Progress report! TL;DR car fully re-assembled, buggy motors and gearbox work fine, virtual model published in due time === I didn't have much time for building most of April, but managed to put the car back together this week. This time including the super-duper form-locked gearbox, driven by the 2 buggy motors from CaDA. Added the tricolore to differentiate it from the stock CaDA model. I've driven it around in the house, without problems. Need to stay in 1st gear, otherwise it's too fast to handle safely. I did try shifting while driving -- other than nearly crashing the model, there were no problems. As proof, here's a little video showing gear shifting while buggy motors are running. Near the end there are a few transitions directly between 1st and 4th gear. Surely stressful for the plastic, but no clicking observed. Those who've been reading this thread may notice that I'm using a chain to link the 2 orange wave selectors, despite having been explicitly advised against doing this a couple of pages back. I'm not trying to be obstinate here. The principle reason for using the chain is for buildability. Both the differential and the gearbox are encased in frames, constituting 2 submodules that need to be built separately and then 'married'. I've performed this marriage several times now, and it remains a very tricky step. Using the chain frees up space normally taken by a red 16-tooth clutch gear, which can then be replaced by a bush, which greatly helps keeping one of the drive axles in place while marrying. Anyhow, the gearbox assembly remains a very tricky build. But once you do get it right, it's strong and smooth AF. Definitely I'll publish the virtual model. The buggy motors also fit in my version with the new wheel arches (and side skirts), so I'll run with that. (PDF instructions are a ton of work and IMO not worth it, as they are inferior to the virtual model.) Probably I'll make a new entry on Rebrickable, and also give the model a new color. The only TLG-legal color other than red is black. Which will work great with the tricolore. What do you think? (Obviously it needs some green & red tape on the roof, as on my yellow build above.)