Milan

Thats great! Hope you will get a lots of supporters! Welcome!

Welcome. You should always try to push yourself and try to create something new. Sets are awesome, but you may have even more satisfaction and joy with something you build yourself!

Welcome to EB! Its great to have a son that you can share the hobby with!

Thanks! That was my initial idea, to combine regular and snot technique. I will try wing plates or sloped bricks, but only at the very end if I had any time left. Real LTC has 5 steering modes, and my initial thought was to use 3 servos to replicate that, and use system of levers on the controller, but at the end i realized it would be overly complicated to use, so I have opted for 4 steering modes, which are use most common: Only front wheels, all wheels, only back wheels and crab. I sure hope that too! Axles and wheels are my favorite groups for now because of the robustness! Thanks!

What scale the new carrier will be? Unless you make it much smaller, your boom issues wont be solved. Also, arguably, pneumatics are not good aproach for a boom this size. You need something that wont be able to compress under the weight. What you can do without adding more counterweight, is to move boom and actuator more to the back, relative to the turntable, until it is balanced.

Thanks all for your inputs! Will try to change sticker with wing plates. Since that whole back section is removable panels, I guess those black slots are levers or something similar to release them. Got it, i will try the alternative approach. Yes, they are allowed, as they were in the last two contests. Thanks! :)

Thanks for all the comments, guys! :) Update. Since this crane is specific also by its engine location at the back, it has unique back section and part of the engine cover. After 3 days and after 7 rebuilds, back section- engine cover is done! Routine was literally work -> engine cover ->sleep -> repeat. Cover is 100% SNOT, very sturdy and uses very large DBG plates as a base. It is sloped both from bottom, sides and at the radiator. This sections covers only back of the engine. Top section is still to be finished. I am not sure yet about curved stickers, for now I will keep them, later I may experiment with 3x2 and 4x2 wing plates to achieve similar curve, but studs would be visible then. Sorry for bad picture. It looks much better in real: Comparison with the real back section, Next is connection between chassis and outrigger boxes. I am still fine tuning the chassis, it goes slow as i have to plan 10 next steps to be attached onto it, most delicate is the pneumatic suspension system and turntable ring. Already at 4th rebuilt, but it has to be super strong to be able to hold lifted crane. Update in two days. Hope it will be done on time.

Andrea, some part of the look of the giant boom might be from the distortion of the image, maybe the camera was to close to the boom, and the superstructure is far behind. In either way, the boom does look too big, but in reality it might be a bit better. With the boom so massive you are going to need some serious turntable. What reduction did you use from M motor to the turntable and did you try if it works? Nice progress, although in the end you might have to (hopefully not) give up of one section in order to reduce weight of the boom.

Welcome. Have fun!

Nice models you got there! Welcome!

Efferman is a great builder, and working with him can only be good! Welcome!

If you feel you are using too much time and parts on the outriggers, make them dead simple, but effective. Use just the beams that can slide in and out of the outrigger box. When you want to deploy them, just attach manually some piece(s) that would represent lifting cylinder. That way,you can concentrate on the crane, and then later if you have more time, you can upgrade them.

My entry for TC8 is a rather unique and rare Liebherr mobile crane, the LTC 1045 - 3.1. The Liebherr LTC 1045-3.1 is a three axle crane with a maximum capacity of 45 tonnes. The telescopic boom can reach 36m and the fly jib can be configured up to 13m long. A feature of the crane is the single dual-purpose cab which is used in both travelling and crane modes. It was presented at Bauma at 2013. This model is deigned in 1:13 scale, and will be around 85 cm long when finished, and maybe 2m high with all the sections extended and flyjibs mounted. One of the cool features in this model is single cab, something similar to LYNX concept crane. During the driving, cab is pushed forward and act like a carrier cab, and while it is in operating mode, it goes back to traditional position, or even better, can be lifted up to 8 meters in the air, and be tilted. LEGO model: Lego model should have around 15 functions, most of them remotely controlled, few manually via switch and one or two by hand. Carrier will have: fully realistic live axles 6x6x6 drive on all wheels steering on all wheels lockable diffs on all wheels pneumatic suspension + mechanical shocks adjustable suspension (crane can kneel, or point nose up, or lower itself to be lower, or heighten itself for off road drive) onboard compressor for the suspension turntable wheel bearings 4 steering modes. Front toolbox-big section underneath the cab is removable, so the crane can have even smaller turning circle. Also, wheels and tires are custom built to almost perfectly fit real-life crane tires. Crane section will have: aforementioned telescopic cabin which can: telescope luff tilt cool turntable with roll bearings interesting brick-built actuator, maybe completely oval 4 section boom (one main and 3 telescopic) + 2 section flyjib. For now, i have a lots of stuff designed on my comp, with few proven concepts built in bricks. Hope to have time to finish it. Chassis is almost done. It is constructed in double (2 studs wide) beams and has 3 layers of beams and 6 layers of plates. Plan is that chassis wont bend when outriggers lifts the crane off the ground. We will see... Picture of 1:1 model on paper. MInifig is there for scale comparison, and brick-built man is built in 1:13 scale, and therefore, he fits the scale of the crane. Mentioned removable toolbox (section with steps, just before outrigger box) This section is 95% made in SNOT and to be easily removable, for the crane to have even smaller turning circle. I has openable doors for timber plates and chains. Next update will follow in a day or two. I hope to complete the back engine cover, 100% SNOT, and very curvy. Sorry for bad cell phone pictures.

It is not so great to hear that. I have cracked lots of old white wheels, but they are really old (20 years), but on the other hand, I dont keep much stuff built for a long time. Hope Lego will keep the quality high(er).

Welcome! Yeah, it is pretty addictive!

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Welcome! Have fun :)

Miguev, you are right, it would give smaller turning radious, BUT, since this is a trailer, not a truck (or mobile crane), it has to be like this, as he does not want to have center of the rotation in the middle (or worse, at the back) of the trailer.

Post a screen, please.

Unfortunately, according to the rules on official site, this entry might be already invalid, as it is posted here, on your site and in your BS and flickr. It may be good to check out with the rebrick if it is okay, just to be sure. Also, it may be that other 3(?) entries are also invalid, since they were presented here on EB.

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It looks futuristic, but I would make it a bit more radical.

Dont worry, just follow main site rules and it will be ok! Welcome!

It looks like it rotates very well, too.

Sure, i did not mean to be offensive, neither. As I said, very nice work, on very nice base model.