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Nice job! I think this is one of my favorite entries, because of the polished looks and large amount of functionality

That steering lever solution is pretty cool!

Looks nice! I hope you can get that sequential worm-gear mechanism working, because those are always cool! That UAV launcher also sounds very interesting!

All this discussion is reminding me a lot of my current WIP Backhoe! (Sadly left at school while I'm at home over Christmas) The plan is for it to have 9 different RC pneumatic functions, as well as 6 other mechanical RC functions! It's not using those peristaltic pumps, but I think there are some interesting solutions involved to get all that to happen, using just one PU hub and one MouldKing 6.0 control module. It's mostly done mechanically, but does have some stretched proportions to fit everything in--larger rear tires would be extremely helpful! Anyways, I look forward to finishing and sharing it

Huh, so is the innovative part of it leaving the O-frame out to allow placing the CV joint right next to the differential, and then just counting on the heavy-duty differential teeth not skipping despite having less reinforcement? That's smart!

Looks very nice and detailed! I think the studless DBG gives it a nice gritty aesthetic

Not a bad approach! A little strained, sure, but probably one of the most practical designs I've seen yet! Too bat about the diminished ground clearance on the bottom, though.

Yeah, nice job! The focus on detail does make it special. It's interesting how you used those telescoping parts for rear dampers!

Me too, though I'm not quite American Yep, that's one reason I put up with driving a car that can literally be broken into by unzipping the soft top's rear window!

Because Americans don't like manuals... I believe the last stick-shift on any large American truck was the 6-speed/I-6 Cummins Diesel option on heavy duty Rams through 2018, but that was a very niche option that was quite the curiosity. I think 2010 might have been the last year for a stick-shift on any 1500-grade truck, again on the Ram. You can still get a standard transmission on the Jeep Gladiator and Toyota Tacoma here in North America, but otherwise they're dead in trucks. Anyways, that model proposition does sound very cool and interesting, and I'd love to see something like that, though I doubt Lego is willing to do that kind of thing at the moment!

You would think that that would work, but I believe that if you try it in practice, it doesn't work that way. For example, if you used the left control on channel 2 to set the lights on the train controller, and then hit the right lever on channel two on the normal remote control, the lights will go out, even though you haven't touched the left control. Essentially, the receiver is only able to receive commands from one type of remote at a time, and switching back and forth will override the other one.

Huh, good point! I'd be a bit worried to use it on a bigger wheel, though, just because having only one stud of axle engagement with a standard CV joint wouldn't give much grip. How are you thinking of doing the suspended/steered hub with that?

Looks like a handy part! I can see it being used as a hub for unsteered independent suspensions for small models that don't/can't use 3-pin hubs, but then probably anything that small/skinny can't really use CV joint-style suspensions anyways. Also, in some cases it could work like the lower left part in this image from @gyenesvi's Technic Parts We Would Find Useful thread, though of course in many cases it wouldn't.

Thanks! I do like gearboxes in off-roaders to allow for decent speed but also good crawling, but they definitely do have disadvantages, and I'd agree that they're not worth it for fast, on-road vehicles. It could have been more realistic with independent front suspension, but I didn't think I'd be able to achieve the level of off-road performance I was going for with that setup, unfortunately. Yeah, I am far away from that Lada's homeland! Interestingly, we did have that vehicle sold here back in the day, unlike in the US, but I'm too young to remember seeing any, except for one I spotted in a junkyard a few years back.

Oh yeah, I remember reading about that CC850 when it came out too! I'll have to refresh my memory on the details. Koenigsegg is great at doing crazy engineering projects, and I'd imagine that's one of their main selling points, as opposed to other boutique supercar manufacturers Is there anywhere I can find information on how that MOC version of it works? There doesn't seem to be much information on Rebrickable, and I can't find anything about it elsewhere online.

Yeah, I had portal reduction in custom hubs, but it was still too much power! This is the topic, if you're interested:

I've managed to repeatedly break U-joints in a ball joint, but that was in a stupidly overpowered design with four PF XL motors hard-coupled, running off an unrestricted 11.1+V battery, without nearly enough gear reduction beforehand. (Fortunately, metal U-joints are available, but unfortunately, my problems moved downstream. Knob wheels and 3L axles aren't as strong as you'd think!) Not exactly a typical situation, though!

Yeah, I'd have to assume that those Yamaha parts will be used in the next 1:8--I've been playing around with them recently, and they definitely have a lot of potential that wasn't really used in the Yamaha. Are there actually any cars with both stick shifts and paddle shifters? I've never heard of any. You might (rarely) get a system where you can sequentially bump up and down gears with either a lever or paddles (without a clutch pedal), but I'm not aware of any systems that had both a traditional joystick/clutch pedal manual alongside paddle shifters.

Huh, very interesting axle design!

Looking good! Quite a unique model Here's a couple options: 1. Use the train controller to keep them on. This would require you to use that controller for the other thing on that receiver as well, which might not be convenient 2. Mount a motor inside the body that flips a PF switch. That way, you can use the remote to flip the switch, and then leave it there. That would require a fair bit of complexity and weight, though

On the topic of making skinny axles with planetary hubs, here's an option I just thought of: It has rather poor ground clearance, and isn't quite as strong as a proper ball joint connection, but it seems to work fairly nicely

I'd say it's not necessarily important--it could be, but it's entirely possible that it really doesn't matter what orientation it is, and they just wanted to get more of the new part out there

Nice job! I especially like that elliptical one

That is very nice! Good all-around, but that lifting arm is definitely the highlight!

In Technic sets, yes, but these non-Technic sets here all have it in yellow: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3673&in=S&colorID=3&ov=Y