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  1. Jeroen Ottens
    Great model, I was fooled the first time, I really thought the frontwheels where steered as well I miss the black stripe along the side, but it is still WIP, so I keep my hopes up I'm looking forward for new updates. And good luck with the propellors, that'll be a hell of a function to implement.
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    Beautiful model Great lines, both the bonnet and the mudguards.
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    That is looking really compact so far. You managed to cram in a lot of functions in such a small space. This could turn out to be one of the rare occasions that even the 3x5 curved panel is too big to be used. That 2 stud thickness of the panel is going to hurt I imagine. I'm really looking forward to progress on this one...
  4. Jeroen Ottens
    Interesting concept +1 for the LA's as screws Looking forward to the audio
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    So good...
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    The blue stripe looks better than the red one, I agree on that I must admit that the stacked beam bonnet is starting to grow on me The yellow airintakes are a bit blocky, but for the scale I suspect that only a dedicated piece would be better So: good progress!
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    This is such a great thread to follow. Your perseverance is an example for me. This thread is like looking at a masterpiece painting. You already know what the total picture is, but every day another small detail is brought to your attention. It makes you admire the model even more so. So thanks for sharing this.
  8. Jeroen Ottens
    Lego supercar features: Manual, no PF Steering (HoG + working steering wheel), bonuspoints for Ackermann, kingpin inclination, minimal scrub radius, caster, etc. Suspension on all wheels Doors & bonnets can open, bonuspoints for convertable roof and odd moving doors like gullwing, scissor, etc. Smooth flowing lines that define the body Not based on actual model, bonuspoints if it doesn't resemble any real car Working gearbox, 5+R, bonuspoints for innovative gearshift mechanisms Surprise feature
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    Hmm, I doubt this will work in real life... The attachmentpoints of the A-frames are not braced vertically. In fact they are just held in place by the friction of the 3L axles, that will most likely start to slip. The gear rack is not braced and can move towards the differential (which can be easily remedied by adding a vertical beam in between the differential and the gear rack) The pivot point of the CV joint is one stud inward from the steering pivot point. That will limit the angles considerable. Which does solve the final issue of the balljoints connected to the gear rack hitting the differential when moved sideways. My estimate is that the angle you can give the wheels by hand pushing through the play between the parts is larger than the angle you can achieve by turning the steering wheel.
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    Wow that is a lot of angles... It looks very sleek and with the number of functions you included it must be jam packed inside. Very interesting V12 motor, I'll have a look at the LDD to see how you did that it looks really scaled right. With all the little red pieces it does look a bit like a Transformer robot. I am not sold on it immediately. Of course the body work is closed like you aimed for, but this jumble of pieces does distract from the overall flow as well (look at Nathaniel's Predator for the opposite side of the spectrum). Still, a very, very beautiful model
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    I like the curves of the frontside that you made with the ribbed hoses and flexaxles I also like the closed surface you made on the rearside But I don't like them combined in one model. The two styles clash in my opinion. I think I would have preferred a flexaxle rear or a panelled front (although that will be very difficult to make with these curves). Ideally you don't even mix ribbed hoses and flexaxles, but that is me being really puristic. So a lot of potential here, this is certainly a great MOC , but in my book it is not a superb MOC (yet)
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    Wonderful review, but I am still not sold on the set. If we get more sets with the bright green I might be tempted to get it, but until then it is too few parts in bright green (too few different types, not the number of pieces) to be able to use that colour effectively in making MOC's.
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    No the springs are the correct type. The completely yellow hard spring type. Otherwise the model will probably have a raised rear (the rear springs need to be compressed halfway for the model to be horizontal). I do not have the extra hard springs, so I can't say for sure that these will not work, but I can say that the hard ones do work just nice.
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    Before we start a run on the rare parts, I want to let you know that I am in discussion with Legolijntje to try to minimize the number of rare parts needed for this model. Some are unavoidable (like the 4 red #3 connectors, the red 7L axles and the 2 black 19L flexaxles (allthough less pretty solutions are possible for these)), but the number of these and these needed for the model will be reduced.
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    Hi Paul, Only friction is holding the parts together.. If you drop the model from half a meter to the floor that wil happen . But the standard pushing by hand does not result in loose parts. Jeroen Trans-light blue is indeed the right colour. The 7L thin lift arm can be replaced by a thick liftarm (apparently another LDD mismatch with reality). Other rare parts that I am aware of: 4x #3 connector in red 2x 7L axle in red 2x 19L flexaxle in black The white friction pins long with bush can mostly be replaced by LBG grey ones, most of them are 90% hidden anyway.
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    Hmm, that sounds enticing Today I received my Sbricks, unfortunately I am already dismanteling the Alfa for my next MOC . And I don't have PF extension wires so I can't even hook 'em up yet
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    Minimalistic design
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    I like the racing stripes, but otherwise I am not too fond of the stacked beam approach. Hiding that beautiful chassis under loads of beams is a criminal offence you know I wonder how it would look with a flexaxle only body
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    Incredible. At the time I worked at Lego (in 1999) I tried to convince my fellow designers that there was an AFOL community out there that was doing really interesting stuff (and spending considerable amounts of money). One of the things I wanted to show them was this model. I had seen it somewhere on the net, but unfortunately at the time I couldn't find it again. And now, more than 16 years later it just pops up . And it is still as impressive as I thought it was. They wouldn't take my word it and I think it took a couple of more years before TLG started to acknowledge their AFOL fan base.
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    Hispabrick magazine covered this in two articles (Hispabrick no 13 & 14 if I am not mistaken)
  21. Jeroen Ottens
    Don't let the morons get you down, keep up the good work you're doing
  22. Jeroen Ottens
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  23. Jeroen Ottens
    It is regular green. I didn't check all part-color combinations in LDD for IRL existence, I assumed if LDD had the part in that colour, it would exist in that colour as well. In this case that can be easily remedied by replacing the green 5L liftarm by 2 green 5L thin liftarms. This is one of the 5% changes in the buildinginstructions :)
  24. Jeroen Ottens
    First impression: clean & crisp design, inventive part usage (those propellor pieces !), very nice colourscheme. Of course the innovative vertical gearbox shown earlier. The 42039 was mentioned in the first post of this thread and the similarities extend to the looks as well in my opinion. It is a rather square car, with straight sides and almost straight front & rear looks. Nate tried to make a visual striking supercar and he certainly achieved that, but I am not sold immediately, I think I like curves a bit too much... It is a model that Lego could have made.
  25. Jeroen Ottens
    That is an, erm... Interesting vehicle. Proportionwise it is totally over the top, it is so wiiiide :) But I find the electronic diff a really interesting concept. Does it also work proportionally with the steering angle? Or is it just 3 settings ( left right straight)
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