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Keep up the good work Efferman!

Very good break down Allanp. I didnt like the color vomit at first but then I realized these are toys and 1.) it makes the models "pop" or stand out. 2.) It better illustrates how the thing is actually assembled 3.) They are toys and the colors are fun. 4.) It adds to the challenge of controlling the color of your model. Sometimes you'll redesign a whole section just so the blue pin/axle pieces dont show through. In other cases, having 4 blue pins poke through along the top of a windshield just looks cool! I agree that the model should be accurate, with lots of features but low complexity, and form and function seamlessly integrated. Lastly it should offer 1 new element, or color, or something to put the cherry on top. Attacking the market from all angles, beauty, functionality, accuracy, necessity..

I think i've seen a mechanism where a worm gear travels along the axle, engaging with a second gear who's drive is reversed. So there is a delay when the worm gear is shuttling. But it gives you that switching behavior. Worm gear: Ratchet:

Triangles resist sheering force. If you want to quickly demonstrate the importance of resisting sheer. 1.) Get a shoe box 2.) Hold the lid on top and grab both ends 3.) Twice the ends, notice the box stays a box and is fairly rigid. 4.) Take the lid off the box 5.) Hold the ends and twist again 6.) Notice the box just rips to shreds. When you have a rectangle in your vertical support, it's like the open top of the shoe box. When you put a diagonal from corner to corner, and are left with triangles, it's like the shoe box with the top.

When you design these parts, are they usable in LDD or any other LEGO cad by any chance?

I had an idea today, a beam that has holes on alternating axes. I could use one of these in my current moc for making tight corners. I think i'd need a 9L though. * *Also i'm kind of a purist, but this thread seems like a lot of fun.

Class 3 lever

So cool! Can you give it more torque?

I had tons of the old stuff and thought it was great, until i got TONS of the new stuff. Crowkillers responded to me on on youtube once and said something like: "Yea, the new stuff is kind of hard, and it helps to have a lot of it. But i would never go back to the old stuff" I completely agree. The new stuff is amazing. At least in terms of strength. I'm afraid to use my old stuff because i'm sure it will break :(

How does the real one lift it? Probably a winch

It might if you're working on a Cuusoo project.

Lipko, your stance completely defies my logic. You blew my my mind, like your Audi. Aren't you worried that someone would see your half built model and THEN realize then niche market, stay up all night, and beat you to the finished model while you were sleeping? How better to hide the niche market than to hide the WIP? Another question. Honestly folks, have you ever seen someone's WIP and thought: "that's awesome i'm going to build one." and then beat them to a finished model?

Filthy!

It's beautiful. I have an opinion about the roof, the top of the doors, and the lower front corner for example. For my own building I call this technique the "pile of bricks" or POB. POB for me is when you stack ~4 or more technic beams to fill an area. To me this is sort of against the spirit of technic, even though it's extremely LEGO like. Those spaces are flat, heavy, and costly and can't have features added to them with out disassembly. I think it would be more appropriate to use a few or less lego pieces in these areas.

Boss.

I plan to share MOCs but not WIP. When the MOC is finished, you can put your name on that particular combination of features that you claim to be finished. If someone nearly copies, you but makes a small modification, then that is their MOC. The problem with sharing WIP is that you haven't defined your own MOC yet. If someone comes along, copies, and then makes their own MOC, there's a chance you end up in a very similar place, or worse, that they beat you there. I steal so many building techniques from LEGO sets and other MOCers that there's no way I could protect the entire design. After-all, LEGO is really to credit for creating the pieces that make all of our models. When monitization is involved, things are more touchy. But LEGO owns us! Share, because if you dont, there will be no new ideas for us to inspire us! My question is, when do you determine that a MOC is finished?

Very cool. Is this considered to be a legal building technique? You could use the piece that's sort of: a stud, a hole, and a stud. 3 long stud with the hole in the middle for this spacing. https://www.flickr.com/photos/124695117@N08/14007096407/in/photostream/

Thanks for showing us this set. It reminded me of the model in my avatar: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=80485

But why? Is this part highly available?

Seems almost like it was make for that!

Any attempt to pull the red axle out is made impossible by using two thin 2L lift arms. They are hard to separate even in the most ideal conditions. It essentially doubles the holding power since each arm is meant to have the same grip on the axle. It's the same as using two half bushes instead of one full bush.

The xl's are already easy to remove. someone should make an easy-remove servo mod. But yea, I'd build mine without the motors unless I made this mod. the servo is hard to remove as it is.

Zing! I think an official Lego separator on both sides would take care of that. Also, some of these LDD models look impossible to assemble also, as noted. I really like the turntable one as a gift idea. I would love one!

Why didn't you take off the ratchet on the winch? That looks brutal when it's trying to lengthen.

Very cool. Good job.