crazy_1993
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Are you totally sure about this? I REALLY WANT ONE but I don't want to get my hopes up! The improvements are absolutely spectacular, the colour scheme is PERFECT and all those chrome parts are amazing! The wheels actually transcend infinity on the awesome scale!! I'm sure all the real Technic veterans will be ordering many of these just for the rare/exclusive parts! Also the winch has been kept so it has more functionality than the original crawler. Has an extra PF motor has been added for the winch like the original boss or a clever gear shift system? I don't really regret coming second now because that is just awesome, you and TLG really knew what they were doing in the development phase! -
1x2s would need to be used then like on the original version. The 1x6 tiles were used to house the PF lights so an alternate solution would need to be developed for PF lights.
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The lights are made from many parts, mostly 1x1 red/blue transparent roof tiles and red/blue transparent 1x6 flat plates on top. These pieces may be difficult to obtain however, I do not even know if 1x6 transparent plates exist so the 1x2 ones may have to be used.
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No, I need Technic!
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My new desk ornament
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LOL, thanks for mentioning me, Egor! Still looking forward to the reveal of the final model. When I designed my entry for the competition, I had no Lego except my old pneumatic excavator which I cannot take apart because many of the parts have started developing fractures and breaking, so it would damage it too much. My parents made me sell off the rest of my Lego when I was 16 as I was supposedly 'too old for it' and I agreed with them at the time, but I have been wanting my Lego back ever since. Also considering I am now studying physics at university, buying enough bricks to build the Enforcer for real would have been dangerously expensive! The competition entry was my first ever major technic MOC so I was thrilled to come second in the competition. When I was younger, I must admit, I spent much of my time building from the instructions, not because I couldn't build myself but because I find following Lego instructions SOOOO satisfying! My only other MOC was a 6 x 6 monster truck with pneumatic suspension made from my pneumatic JCB and some other stuff when I was 14 and got I my model making badge in the boy scouts from it. This christmas, I got a Lego Ningago bike as a joke present and I have already remodelled it into a snowmobile with steering skis. I do wonder why I never did more MOCing. I hope that I will be able to enter more of the these competitions in the future.
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Do you have any idea when the final version will be presented? Is it still March 22nd as mentioned by TLC ages ago? I can't wait to see the final model, I hope there are some cool surprises!
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Ok, that's brilliant, thanks.
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I have noticed that some of the parts on rebrickable seem to be the wrong colour. There are no lime panels or red panels because all the panels in the design are either black, light grey or white. If you want to check the true colours, just download the LDD files here.
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That is quite simply amazing, thanks! A few things to note: -The rare flex tube listed is not required, it was just used to represent the rope for the winch which I could not place properly in LDD. -Secondly, it may be possible to reduce the part count below 2500 by using a rechargeable battery box so that the bodywork hinge does not need to be included, like in the Enforcer Recharged. This is brilliant, I really hope someone out there will manage to build this. Obviously there is a lot of room for personal enhancements, improvements or simplification. Custom chassis designs could possibly also be used. If anyone does make a working real version with improved features, they are free to submit it to CUUSOO as the main hindrance that my model has is that it is not real. One day, I hope I obtain the parts to make this for real. Also, the L and Servo motors are not included in the part list because they were actually replicated with combinations of other parts (which will be in the part list) because those motors are not on LDD.
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I'm wondering whether it would be worth building a new chassis because my chassis is not on the same level as those from other MOCs such as the Land Rover. The problem is is that with LDD alone, I cannot create complex features such as gearboxes and verify that they will work. I was wondering whether a suspension design such as the one on the unimog or even the supercar would be better.
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Yeah I know, it's just cos I'm at university right now, I guess I shouldn't be spending all my money on Technic sets, but one day... one day I aspire to have an entire warehouse of the stuff in my garden!!!
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I REALLY, REALLY hope so!! I just worry that despite TLC's blog, the competition instructions here imply that the only prize awarded is the production of the winning model which is a total contradiction. Unfortunately I guess that this is a more credible source than the blog. :(
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That's impressive, there is a part list in an LDD file here for the old 9398 version if you wish to check...
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If I had the LEGO to do that, I would but I have nowhere near the resources to make this! That;s why I use CAD because I am not limited by what parts I own. If anyone else wants to test it, they should post the results here but I don't think anyone really has the parts to build this!
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Everyone CALM DOWN! I know exactly how to fix the problem, I just can't access LDD until I get home in 4 hours time. I can easily accommodate gearing to allow the centre differential to rotate at a much faster RPM with a lot less torque which will fix the problem. I just need to modify the gearing on both sides of the differential.
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If I did that, I would basically have a 9398 chassis with a rechargeable battery box. This would break the rules of CUUSOO. Not only that, but in the 9398 arrangement, the battery box would have to be in the centre with no way to access the charging socket on the battery box. This would mean that I would have to go back to the old hinged body, adding a few hundred extra parts. I think someone has to quantitatively test the maximum torque possible through a LEGO diff and make a video or something to entirely convince me. All of this could be solved by removing the centre diff, but that could be even more dangerous while steering.
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The motor is geared down, meaning the combined output torque of the wheels is greater than the motor torque. This output torque per wheel is the same as on the 9398 chassis. Therefore the centre diff actually has to withstand slightly less torque than the front and rear diffs as it is before the gearing down. However when you factor in that 2 wheels are being driven from each end of the diff not one, slightly more strain is on it but not massively more. The point is is that too many people assume that this model would be used to perform the first circumnavigation of the globe using a LEGO vehicle! In reality, all LEGO sets including the 9398 crawler specify that they should only be used indoors. The largest challenge the vehicle will face from the average user is probably a gravel driveway or flat grass.
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All gear reduction is done after the diff. From what I can remember of those diffs, they can take a fair bit of punishment due to the way the gears are locked in. I have never managed to break a LEGO gear in my life and I have done some ridiculous things with the gears in my childhood (I melted a motor in the process).
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Here it is, an alternate centre diff design using no bevel gears to the XL motor. I tdoes reduce gear ratios by a factor of 5/7 though, making the drivetrain more geared for speed.
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I see your point, the geometry of where the centre diff can fit and the chassi makes it hard to avoid this but I shall see what I can do. I also made sure that that bevel gear was VERY secure, but I do worry about the low area of contact of the teeth, they may break.
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Agreed, I wouldn't have gone to the effort of the redesign or even making the thing in the first place if I just wanted to 'win' by getting my model produced. It's the process of building and developing the thing that is half the fun. Probably true but there is currently no other way I know of to make PF lights flash. It would be cool if lego released a little PF logic brick to pulse signals or introduce delays. @ rm8, if you look at the motor stats table, my torque focussed gear arrangement gives the same wheel drive torque as the 9398 chassis. I was worried that more speed focussed gearing would overload the motor and cause PF overload protection to kick in. The total power output from the XL motor is actually much less than 2 L motors because the XL runs at a much lower RPM despite the torque increase.
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I am not going to lie, I think that the chances of LEGO developing this are extremely slim which is annoying because they were semi prepared to produce it at one point because they picked for the top 10 in the contest, but that was before the Boss won.
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That's great, thanks. I am also waiting a few days for my model to pass the CUUSOO admin process.
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This is exactly what I thought would happen, I was originally going to have no centre differential but I researched this and apparently with 2 wheel steering, the front wheels are on different arcs to the back wheels so leaving it out would be bad for the transmission. This is not the case with 4 wheel steering like on the 9398 chassis. Seriously, is everyone sure that removing the centre differential would not put strain too much strain on the transmission when steering? Removing it is dead easy to do so it doesn't really matter either way but it is good to get these things sorted out. Yes it is just an LDD render because I have a nowhere near good enough LEGO collection to create something of this magnitude in real life, a CAD model gives me much more freedom. Also. the Unimog model uses a centre differential which was one of my main reasons for including it. I just used the LEGO to POV Ray converter and MANY hours of running POV Ray on my laptop to do all of this.