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  1. astyanax
    I enjoyed the vid but it would've helped if you'd insert pictures of the sets being talked about at the moment they're mentioned, there's plenty room on the sides.
  2. astyanax
    Correct. It's possible to modify things a bit and use a 3L liftarm. I did that at the time, as  wasn't yet available in Red.
  3. astyanax
    Another perfect fit: The inner angle of the bent liftarms is such that they can be stacked with half-module offset, maintaining the same alignment on the 'upward' side:
  4. astyanax
    Have you been given any reason why?
  5. astyanax
    Those 'specialized' lattice frames may in fact hugely improve the building experience for the 'average' builder. I've seen reviews of a certain enormous crane sold by Mouldy King, and common complaints are that building the booms from many standard parts is 'super boring' and even 'like hell'.
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    My kids do, but we live in a Swiss banking city... Especially the Urus is popular here, it seems to be considered as a nice family car...
  7. astyanax
    Just for clarity: we have absolutely nothing to do with any Huayra model produced by any (Chinese) blocks company. (Also, there were already a few completely different Huayra models out there before.)
  8. astyanax
    Evidently there's been a material change in Technic connectors over the past 1-2 years. Nowadays they're much softer to the touch, and in some scenarios they have ways less clutch power. For example try this: Take a and push the studs of a 1x2 plate into the pinholes. Super tight fit! Now take the new version and push the same 1x2 plate's studs into the pinholes. The plate almost falls out by itself... (Of course: YMMV. But this is my experience with many Technic connectors!)
  9. astyanax
    Just noticed that you went for those barrel-based exhausts like me! In my build, I placed them at a 1-plate offset, like so (this is the right-side exhaust): (And yes they stayed on securely...)
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    Perhaps this question has been obviated in the age of Rebrickable? Small technic sets often get lots of alt builds, often free too. Example: https://rebrickable.com/sets/42102-1/mini-claas-xerion/?inventory=1#alt_builds
  12. astyanax
    The important thing is not to acknowledge, but to pay. Other Chinese blocks companies often do 'acknowledge' the fan designers from which they steal the designs without compensation.
  13. astyanax
    @n2kar_jw I like the solution with the rigid hose! At the time when I built her, also did not yet exist in Red, so I remodeled this area quite a bit, in order to fit instead. See my video embedded on the first page for the result. Edit: can also be seen on these photos: https://bricksafe.com/pages/astyanax/laferrari_t-lego
  14. astyanax
    Both those part usages were my idea, happy to see they got incorporated! [[insert sound of triumphant chest-beating]]
  15. astyanax
    That'd be the first ever usage in a Technic set for this Technic connector....
  16. astyanax
    Perhaps we'll see this Pearl Dark Gray axle-pin used a lot in MOCs where a Blue axle-pin would otherwise be too visible and distracting -- provided the friction isn't needed.
  17. astyanax
    According to the inventory Rebrickable imported from TLG for set 76252, the frictionless axle-pin will come in Pearl Dark Gray...
  18. astyanax
    Any fans of pink technic connectors and bushes?!
  19. astyanax
    Exactly & precisely my thoughts.
  20. astyanax
    Perhaps you possess additional information, but from the pictures it's not clear to me that the 'red thing' can't be just part 72008.
  21. astyanax
    Where do you see that?
  22. astyanax
    Finally I was able to dig up my old building instructions. They came with an additional loose 2-sided page to 'correct' steps 18 and 19. Specifically, the White wheel hubs are replaced by Light Gray ones, and the Light Gray towball-axles are replaced by Black ones. I do not know the reason for these replacements. Perhaps there was a weakness in the White wheel hubs. To be clear: my set 8880 contained all parts for either step 18. Following the corrected step 18, I was left at the end with 4 White wheel hubs and 4 Light Gray towball-axles. The new step 19 only contains some clarifications:
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    Ah yes, in the same way, I have 4 of in Black, which came with 8880 Super Car when I bought it in 1994. But Rebrickable vehemently denies this part exists in Black...
  24. astyanax
    Correction: they're Dark Orange
  25. astyanax
    For sure it's included in the LDraw.org parts inventory.
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