Lipko

In my opinion, this over-/under-specification conversation discussiom is the result of the contest theme. While these "recreate" contests produce awesome models, they are too swampy, as the source material is too diverse, so too specific and too generic at the same time. More diverse than generic themes, which were my personal favorites as there were many entries, many voters and not more debates than other themes.

Are there any CADA evets/meetups/exhibitions.in Europe?

Oh, than all is ok. I'm not following contests closely recently.

Having participaded ín some contests since the first one, the only real problem I see with community voting is letting recently joined members to vote. It's easier to join and vote than to support a project on Ideas. There was a contest whith dozens of one post users voting on the same entry. I guess because of a good Facebook campaign.

Very nicely expressed.

Interesting discussion on the price and size. I am a middle class guy (I don't know the definitions, maybe upper class since I have about twice salary as the median salary), I could "easily" afford to buy this money-wise. The reason I cannot afford being a collector (which I am not interested in at all) is space. I cannot afford to have a separate air conditioned room or basement or shed. This is where I stand a bit surprised: seeing some of you guys have a dedicated room bigger than my bedroom. I could do it if I told my misses that "we cannot have another kid because I need that room for my toys". So to sum it up: my opinion is the opposite to most of you: the set it not appealing as it's way too big. Not shelf compatible as the Titanic or the Saturn V.

How about a more descriptive index topic name instead of "[complete name of the subforum again] Index"?

The Arocs felt flimsy and felxible, the build was not "elegant", it was a bit boring to assemble. Special functions/unusual machines are okay to me too, as long as they look pretty

Thank you for the tips, I found a company in Hungary, I'll contact them and see how it goes. https://forwartsticker.com/about-us/

Can their colors 100% cover the parts? Though it still has the problem that it's hard to match the colors. I don't have a laser/white ink printer so experimenting would be expensive. But thanks for the tip, it's definitely worth to look into!

Probably already said and I'm a Techncic person, but: I love color vomit. I don't mind blue pins (in general: I don't mind when pins/color coded elements doesn't match the body color). I love few/single part per step instructions. Sorting parts is just a waste of time (I only separate wheels and Technic panels from the rest, or sometimes by sort out a specific color ). Looks > durability > playability > functions. I don't care about authentic/perfect suspension geometry (kind of a sub-point of the above). I don't like gaps filled with whatever cr*p fits there, gaps are okay. The Arocs was not a good model. I don't like remote controlled models at all. I like recurring stock sets, I don't mind the 200th car or truck. I only like models that look "good" in real life, I don't care about awkward but mechanically "interesting" models. Pistenbully is the most boring machine to model. The characteristic features of a car is more important than perfect proportions. I don't care if you crossfade the blueprint with the Lego model and it looks perfect if otherwise I don't instantly recognize the model. Don't model something if it doesn't look good in Lego (the new Corvette fopr example due to the lack of sligh curves)

Hi all! Do you know a complany that ships to Europe and prints custom stickers? My main problem with making custom stickers all my own is the color. But some help with the design would also be awesome (like managing the precutting geometry, or providing templates for specific parts, etc). Maybe my request is stupid, because making stickers in such a low volume is not profitable. Custom printing is also an option. Anyway, how do you people make your own stickers?

I guess he scored zero because according to him, the boom setup of Lego doesn't match any real setups of the LR13000.

technics me

That's the current trend. Very long clickbait titles with a very clickbait splash screen (or whatever it's called) with even more clickbaity annotations. The title was pretty humble according to the current trend. The video was okay, I was a bit disappointed that I wasn't mentioned as the etalon of the verybestest Technix designers and that I could do 2x better models for half the money than TLG, but whatever

Having more gearbox stuff would be nice, though the new realistic direction still means enormous gearboxes. So for smaller scale models (say 1:10) you still would be using the "old" unrealistic complicated system.

Yeay, I guess you are right. The macaroni parts seemingly filled the space, perspective fooled me.

At the botton next to the four macaroni pieces.

I might be hallucinating but I see new parts (for me) in that chassis photo too. 4L liftarm? That elongated ball pin as the footrest? (sorry if it was mentioned already)

I think there is a selectable 24t gear too. Sorry, my English fails

Is that real? All our transmission dreams came true?

Thanks! I think it's official (the people sending the emails are Lego employees), but I'm still waiting for the "more information" email... I also recieved the gift. The execution of the communication part of the project is not that professional so far...

Call me a madman but I like models and real machinery that look good. Usually cars look good, so I'm okay with car models. Especially since parts are evolving thus models (or at least some features) are evolving too. As for profit vs quality: Technic line is just a small portion of the lineup.

My google skills are pretty poor, sorry. Does 9L flip-flop beam exist?