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  1. Jeroen Ottens
    A gearbox in the front... This is getting more interesting with the hour
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    Ahh, those pillars will indeed help a lot. I was mistakenly under the impression you didn't want to have any connection to the roof. Those 5x11 panels add a suprisingly amount of stiffness in my experience as well (or maybe I should have paid more attention during my lessons of static engineering ).
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    It is not often that we see familycars here, but it looks like you have all the ingredients to make it a top notch creation. I'll be following this thread with interest! I do wonder whether a 3 high chassis will be stiff enough though. Or are you planning to further reinforce the central column? Is the engine transversally mounted?
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    That is a very interesting concept. I'm curious what your V2 will look like
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    Oh wow, this is such a good looking model Everything looks like it belongs there. And a nice addition of the gearbox. I like the front opening grille and the fact that you can open the cabin. Maybe the roof can use a bit more curve to it to let it flow towards the dumpster. How is the HoG reachable when the garbage dumpster is on? Your kids are going to love this one
  6. Jeroen Ottens
    This is an interesting colour combo. As for the paneling I would recommend to rotate some panels in more than one direction to prevent a too squarish look (unless of course you aim for a 80's square design). That steeringlock looks quite decent
  7. Jeroen Ottens
    Wow you certainly have not lost any ambition during your absence here From experience I can say that this is a monster to build... Not too many pin with pinjoiners though
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    Great model. For the outriggers you can maybe shorten the toplinkage to 3L. That way the you can make the outrigger lock itself to make it much stronger. Most linkage driven outriggers from Lego have this kind of locking geometry , so you can have a look at some of them for inspiration maybe.
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    Interesting start for sure. Any idea what the size of the sprocketwheels will be?
  10. Jeroen Ottens
    Gorgeous
  11. Jeroen Ottens
    Wow, it is an absolute beauty It was good fun to watch the designprocess. You can be proud of you achievement
  12. Jeroen Ottens
    If I understand your setup right you use a driving ring with two gears for each function. So it is easier to switch forward and backward, right? So that gives 8 gears running for each function of which only 1 is used for the function itself (plus of course some gears to power the clutchgears and the function) With a classic 4 speed gearbox you would need to power the two axles in the gearbox and that's it, right? But this would go at the expense of easy switching back and forth. And you can't use all functions simultaneously (but that is not a big deal for you). So it depends on the playability... Either you have an option that has very easy controls, or you have something that struggles (a bit?) with one function. I personally would try to minimze losses in the idlegears or gear down the lifting function. A geared down idlegear setup would help to minimize losses, but you also say the functions are running at a correct speed already. So only if you have for all functions a geardown after the gearbox you can try to lower the speed of the idlegears without loosing speed in the functions. My 2cts It is a wonderful looking truck
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    Shaping up very nice. Interested to see what you will do with the bodywork...
  14. Jeroen Ottens
    Very interesting model to watch a WIP thread from.
  15. Jeroen Ottens
    Welcome to EB! I take it you have a gearbox inside the deep tillage tool to switch the functions. I really like the fact that you made the raising & lowering electrically operated. Do you have any issue with gears slipping at that connection, or is the structure rigid enough to prevent that?
  16. Jeroen Ottens
    Amazing model! One question: Are the yellow diagonal elements adding stiffness to the structure, or are they purely decorational?
  17. Jeroen Ottens
    Very nice, clean model. But that photography , that is just amazing. Fantastic
  18. Jeroen Ottens
    Oh wow This is looking really cool. You're a master at this scale (as is @steph77), please keep your interest up
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    Great little build for a weekend. Charming
  20. Jeroen Ottens
    Nice and clean design so far. It will be quite cramped inside with so many functions. I wonder how many functions you had in your first post-dark-age version
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    Thanks. It is good to see you back here. I started to miss your comments the last few months. Any plans for a new documented build from you? Thanks for thinking along. This will be a choice between colour and simplicity of design. I always try to get a function with a minimum amount of parts, so at this moment I would still prefer to use the LBG connector, but maybe I can figure out a cornerconnection in black that still has a minimum part usage (although it will be difficult to beat a single connector ) What exactly are you curious about?
  22. Jeroen Ottens
    To each their preferences I have added a few (system)parts in 8450 because I figured they were pretty rare. But in general the other requirements were the ones that dominated the choices we made. But I'd not be surprised if Grohl intentionally used black 19L flexaxles in the heavy lift helicopter. Nor that the introduction of the #3 connector in red in 42070 is done to alleviate the scarcity of that element as well.
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    That is good to hear. But if you look at the 2017 lineup it is a bit of a mixed bag: The 42070 is adding a new colour instead of extending the medium azure palette The 42069 is expanding the purple palette, but TBH of all palettes that need extension purple is not even in my top 10 The 42068 is not expanding the red palette at all (unless they have a hidden smooth toggle joint or a #3 connector in there ) For the rest of the 2017 line up dark blue is expanded the most I think and a few white elements were added (togglejoint, 2L beam with axlehole (but that actually is not in a Technicset)) and the 9L orange beam returned Which also points to another problem. Not only do need a good selection of parts be available, but also they should be used over the years regularly. Red connector #3, yellow curved panel 3x11, white axle-axle connector. These were all available at some point, but went out of use for a couple of years and now they are getting rare and expensive... With more colours available the risk that certain parts in certain colours become rare is increasing... I don't think so. Their primary aim is kids, not collectors. It really is just economics. Technic is a relatively small section for LEGO (I think), so costs of introducing new parts/colours are relatively high. Look for example at the colourvariations you get in SW sets (which have a much higher salesvolume). There the new coloured parts are purely introduced for aesthetic reasons (maybe even enforced by Disney).
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    It is on purpose. Introducing an existing part in a new colour is more expensive than using an existing part in an existing colour. Furthermore the number of different parts in a model is also minimized, so this adds to the limited selection of parts in a new colour. When I worked at TLG roughly half of the design time was used to make the model, the other half of the time was used to get all these 'secondary' requirements in place.
  25. Jeroen Ottens
    I'd say that is a pretty complete list (and even in order of priority if you would ask me). The only ones I would add is angled connector #1 and the axle-axle connector (#1 with axle holes only). And the half-width liftarms
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