Carsten Svendsen

That flip flop L-beam though

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I still think that this is such a cool build! Way to go man

A video would be a lot easier, to see what you're up against. It should be able to rotate easily, I've build this model a couple of times in the past as well, and I don't remember this problem that you're having

I had a dream once of building a roller coaster too, but I could never figure out how to make the most important thing - the train. The wheel base was simply too difficult at the time to achieve. Your design seems to be lacking as well, I'm sure you can improve on it somehow to not lose out on so much speed. And in this day and age, we have so many micro-pieces available, that I would be surprised if there isn't a solution hiding somewhere.

This is correct. Both 24T ends should be on the same side of the model

It was very cool to see this contest through! I wish I could've participated

That axle has been a wish of mine for DECADES! It's everything you need to make a proper working PTO on tractors and other equipment. Now we don't have to line up all kinds of weird geometry, and can actually make it like it's meant to be

The problem wont be the blades, the problem will be the motors. You'll have to go with RC motors or something, and also, the amount of stress applied to the rotors of a helikopter is insane, especially if it's made of plastic. I would suggest not to spend too much money up front to get it working, but definitely go and build a cool model!

Oh, that's so clever! I still am not entirely sure how it works, but I think I got it. Very cool! I'm impressed with the amount of functions you've managed to incorporate here

Cool, But I would also like to see the thrust reversers That's one of the things that really impressed me as well!

Why would you want to paint it, when there are already so incredibly many colors available? Painting is like blasphemy honestly, you wouldn't even be able to use the pieces again later.

No, I have taken it completely to bits and all the parts have been sorted into their respective containers. It just took up too much space for a failed model. More experienced brain, or lots of useful references to steal ideas from ? But you're right, I do have a lot of experience, it seems to me also that your part selection was, maybe not super limited, but limited to some extent, causing you to build in a certain way. LEGO's designers aren't just one brain about building a kit after all. But yeah, it'll still be a few more years before I'm reunited with my LEGO. It's currently sitting in storage in New Zealand, and I'm in France for the foreseeable future, and then god knows where after that.

I agree that it would be fun to see it taking off, but with age comes wisdom; it's not going to happen as LEGO is just too flexible and heavy, and bulky as well. I actually like the colors, it's a nice change of pace from all monotone colored builds. For things I would've done differently, for the rudder, I would've put the actuator inside the plane instead of the outside. This is actually where I basically gave up as well, it was next to near impossible to find a good solution and I sacrificed other functions for it. However, you did manage a lot of functions, tons in fact, I am very impressed. But I definitely would have tried to keep everything contained to the fuselage, and have no sticky out bits. I don't know why I decided on pneumatics for my landing gear system, because having it all timed mechanically just seems like a way better solution. I couldn't fit the actuators in the plane, but you've used gears and worm drives. Obviously, why didn't I think of that? I simply gave up as there were constantly battles to overcome, and it was also a pain to take apart to modify anything on the interior. If I were to redo the plane, I would certainly make sure to have detachable sections, maybe the entire top from the bottom, like a baguette cut in half. Also, I had some very strict measurements to keep, I couldn't go any more than 2 studs thick on the wings, which is why I had carbon fiber rods. This obviously limited the functions I could put in there, but at the time, I also didn't know shit about planes lol, I just build it from the pictures. And everything was black, I used black everything as I didn't really have any grey pieces at the time, it was the early 2010's after all, so trying to see how things were connected and troubleshoot was an absolute nightmare as well. I might try it again, but from looking at your model, I'm so happy that at least I inspired someone else to be creative and go the many extra miles I didn't. Bob Hoover also inspired me, like he did you, he had many great designs too. I've been off building for quite some years now, traveling is not doable with your LEGO collection, but one day I'll most certainly revisit my old projects again

This is exactly what I was trying to achieve about 15 years ago with my Antonov An-140. I am so happy to see that someone else managed to live out my dream, well my idea was bigger, I wanted to cover it in heatshrink wrap and actually make it fly, so I had some issues with rigidity due to trying to keep the proportions. But I totally could have build what you did if I had actually gone through with it. I'm very impressed, there are so many functions I didn't even know was necessary on an airplane too, especially the wings. Though there are some areas where I think it could need more work, honestly, it's not even worth mentioning given the scale and complexity. I know it has been hard to build, great job man! Well, maybe, the color scheme if you could call it that, isn't exactly in my taste, but on the other hand, it makes it sooooo much easier to see how it all has been built and functions. So really, that's not a minus at all. And LEGO is supposed to be fun, what's more fun than a random mish mash of colors?