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The two round, Trans-Clear headlights are the 4150 "Tile, Round 2 x 2". If you zoom in on the photograph, you can see the part number (upside down). I looked at the underside of one that I had in my parts box, and the tiles have that X-shape in the center.

Wow, these are really nice! Looking forward to seeing your Brickshelf folder (after its made public) and the video on your YouTube channel. I have the three sets you used, so I'll probably attempt to make the Heavy Transport soon. Thanks for sharing! + +

Here's an unnerving of a "traction test" being done by "dcrews95": What is a good title for this video? Please post your suggestions below. Here are a few to get started: "How to burn out your Lego Technic Differential" "How to trash your $120 set" "How to short-out your Power Functions equipment"

"Twentysixcubies" (a woman from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) just posted a YouTube video of Maarten Steurbaut's Lego Rubik's Cube. Now enjoying its 30th anniversary, the Rubik's Cube is a popular toy (but not as popular as Lego). She shows how it functions, but this website shows how to make it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OPSpJ165Lc Of course, no cool contraption would be possible without Lego TECHNIC pieces! Even if you don't have MLCAD on your computer, the pictures on Steurbaut's website and the video may be good enough to make one.

Lego Monster's 1935 Duesenberg Phaeton model is a great example of Model Team-style building. On his Flickr photostream, Ed Diment posted 14 pictures and said that "This is a Lego model of a 1935 Duesenberg Phaeton. I built it for an event in Leicester (UK) later this year, but rushed the build forward in order to get it in this month's Lugnuts challenge."

On his Flickr photostream, Jeroen Ottens posted 6 images of his Lego Technic F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft. It looks something like Grohl would make! He wrote: "This model is made from LEGO Technic. It has the following features: - Electric controlled - Canopy - Cannon - Swing wings - Landing gear - Landing gear bay doors - Steering of front wheel - 2 Engines - Pneumatic compressor - Pneumatically controlled - Brakes (main fuselage+wings) - Arrester hook - Flaps (front & aft on main wings) - Glove vanes - Air Intake Control System doors - Main landing gear lock - Manual controlled - Vertical flaps - Differentially controlled stabilators - Air fuel intake nozzle - Ejection seats"

Here is some wanton destruction by dLostBrick (yoraish) on :

"Philo" (Phillippe Hurbain) recently posted his LEGO 3D Scanner on his Philohome website. As reported today on The Brothers Brick, gombort wrote, "Did you know you can make a 3D laser scanner out of LEGO bricks and a few custom parts? Did you know you can then use your LEGO model to scan LEGO parts and turn them into 3D CAD LDraw parts to make virtual LEGO models out of? "Phillipe Hurbaine (philo) is well known for his clever software, hardware, LEGOware and general LEGO-mechanical skill but I have to say his latest work just takes the cake. And as if making a 3D scanner wasn’t enough he has actually used it to model some LDraw parts." The shows a "Laser scan of a LEGO part using DAVID laser scanner": Philo wrote on his website, "FROM OBJECT TO LDRAW" "Here is a very quick overview of the long and winding road going from physical LEGO parts to its LDraw model. "Choose the part to model. Geometrical shapes are not interesting to build through 3D scan, the models created this way contain a lot of triangles so this process is best for organic shapes, as you can see in gallery above. "The laser line on the object must be clearly visible by the camera. The part must be lightly colored and without patterns. Otherwise you need to "paint" it in white color. I generally use a chalk spray paint, but white tempera with a drop of detergent works too. You'll then need to carefully clean the object after scanning with a fine brush! "In a darkened room, calibrate your camera (see details in DAVID manual), install the object on the scanner and start scanning. You will need to perform scans from various directions, to make sure you completely cover the object. Some areas not covered by scan may be acceptable provided the object is smooth there, the reconstruction process will fill the holes. Make sure there is enough overlap between scans to ease object reconstructions later. Save all the partial 3D views for later processing."

Ming Thein posted his Lego Technic Ferrari 250 GTO model on MOCPages: There are no instructions, but perhaps you could "reverse engineer" the model by looking at the numerous pictures.

Zver/ Zver7002 just posted this of his "Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano with power functions and active steering. Suspension with shock absorbes. Led front and rear ligths." His Brickshelf gallery has 15 pictures. It appears that the lines of the original Lego 8145 set have been retained.

Rogvibest7 (Rogvi Langgaard) posted 47 pictures of his Lego Technic Super Car on Picasa:

Fewer parts --> Less handling cost --> Lower set prices --> Customers more likely to buy set

Here's an older creation that many folks might have missed. From the "Transformers" film, here's a fast-forward conversion of the evil "Decepticon" named "Barricade": On , Gyuta97/ Gyuta K. posted his Transformer named "Barricade", a morphing police car. "It is a transformable barricade referred to the hasbro version toy. But hands transforms I desinged are added to my lego version. Whole transform process is here." See more on his Flickr photostream, MOCPages, and Brickshelf pages.

@ Pet-Lego: I don't think that lubricant would have caused your flex cable to snap; it was probably kinked and had a weak spot. You can get replacement 16L and 20L Technic Flex Cables available from Bricklink:

@ Zblj: Do you think that your Hypertruck would work with some (doubled-up) 59521 "Lime Wheel Hard Plastic Spoked Giant Thin (160mm D. x 28mm) " wheels? If you use four pairs of these wheels, they may get a better grip on mud, and go EVEN faster than the rare green wheels you're using....

@ crtlego: I looked at the 3 BIG pictures Brickshelf gallery to see the details. What kind of body are you going to build on this 8WD frame? If you have not decided, perhaps these Mascus vehicles would be good to consider:

Malay AFOL Cheng Fei recently posted his Lego Technic Dakar Rally Truck on BRICKS MAL (the Malaysian Online LEGO Community). He wrote that it has these "Features: 4 wheel drives with independent suspensions on all axles. It is powered by: 1 PF Battery box 1 PF IR Receiver 2 PF XL Motors (Driving) 1 PF M Motor (Steering) Where is the video? I'm still looking for idea for the video shoot." He explains the history of the annual event: "Some descriptions on Dakar Rally. Quoted from Wikipedia. The Dakar Series (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as "The Paris-Dakar" or "Paris to Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania in 2008, the 2009 Dakar Rally was run in South America (Argentina and Chile), the first time the race took place outside of Europe and Africa. It has stayed in South America from 2009 to Present (2011) The race is open to amateur and professional entries. Amateurs typically make up about eighty percent of the participants. Despite its name it is an off-road endurance race, called a rally-raid rather than a conventional rally — the terrain the competitors traverse is much tougher and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than the modified on-road vehicles used in rallies. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks and erg among others. The distances of each stage covered vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres (500–560 mi) per day. Truck class —T4 and T5 The Truck class, also known as "Camions" or "Lorries", is made up of vehicles weighing more than 3,500 kg. They are divided into two groups, T4 and T5. T4 class trucks participate in the competition, while T5 trucks travel from bivouac to bivouac to support the competition vehicles. T4 trucks may provide assistance during the special stages but must be homologated vehicles. The T4.1 class covers production trucks, and the T4.2 class covers modified trucks. T5 vehicles do not have to be homologated. The T4 class has been composed of vehicles manufactured by Tatra, LIAZ, Kamaz, Hino, MAN, DAF, Mercedes-Benz, Unimog, Renault Kerax, SCANIA, IVECO, and GINAF. In the 1980s, a strong rivalry between DAF and Mercedes-Benz led to vehicles which had twin engines and more than 1000 hp (750 kW). Later Tatra, and Kamaz took the race up. After 2000, renewed competition started in the truck class between DAF, Tatra, Mercedes-Benz and Kamaz." He has several other excellent MOCs posted on his BRICKS MAL webpage. See videos of these on his YouTube channel. Perhaps a video of the Dakar Rally Truck will be added there soon....

@ nielsvdv: Are you going to add this new 8x8 to your (other) Tatra T815 "Loprais" trial truck posted on BrickTruckTrial.com ?

On YouTube, Niels VDV (niels125521) posted three YouTube videos of his Lego Technic Tatra T815 trial truck. The shows its impressive climbing ability (using standard Lego tires and wheels). The shows its suspension travel over various obstacles. It is "a lego tatra t815 with halfaxles, 8x8 drive and 4x8 steering. uses 2 xl's for driving and 1m for steering. Brickshelf photos: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=451447 " contains 17 BIG pictures. The T815 model weighs 2.48 kilograms. The third (15 second) YouTube video shows it rolling over a log: .

Turn back the clock 60 years, when life was a lot simpler.... On MOCPages, Vibor Cavor recently posted his fleet of three 1950 Buick Roadmaster VOL-1 "Public Service Vehicles". He wrote, "Buick Roadmaster, the fifties model is just about one of the most beautiful vintage cars (google it up) so I decided to make one; ah sorry three of them. In fact I have decided to make more of them but not just now. For now enjoy in the view of volume one - the public service versions. I have even bothered to design the symbols that represent their service. As for the Fire Brigade insignia, yes I took the center part from LEGO's fire men sign ;))." The Buick Roadmaster was "top of the line". The MOCs above capture the look of the era, but the real "Roadmasters" had four "portholes" on the sides of each fender, not just three. If one wanted a less-expensive model, one could order a 1950 Buick Super 2-door Riviera Hardtop instead. From Henry Shepard on MOCPages:

The website referenced above did not elaborate on the 2nd-longest Lego bridge free-span -- the 29-meters-long [size="5"]Lego Gibraltar Bridge.[/size] Based on the T.Y. Lin proposal for crossing the Straits of Gibraltar (between Europe and Africa), this huge bridge is chronicled by Marco de Vries on MOCPages: "THE RECORD FACTS Longest LEGO BRIDGE: 29 METRES (1141 inch) Biggest span: 12,45 METRES (490 inch) NO steel, wood, ropes, glue etc. -- 100% LEGO!! Altitude: 4 metres (157 inch) Parts: ca. 200.000 Weight: ca. 450 kilo Hours of work: 350 h. THE PREPARATION As a member of the Dutch independent LEGO-club "de Bouwsteen" we've got the oppurtunity from LEGO Benelux to build the "GIBRALTAR LEGO BRIDGE". When we've got the green light the drawing and counting begins! With help from the TV-documentaire we made a work-drawing in scale 1 to 20 cm. In that scale the drawing is 1,5 metres wide! (59 inch) In the Brickshelf-folder you can see the drawings we made ("B-Gibraltar-bridge- sideviews") With help of the first LEGO-designs (see the Brickshelfpictures "C-first-design frame and C-first-design-traindeck") and the scaled drawing we could decide the sorts and the numbers of the LEGO parts and make the order-list of ca. 250.000 parts, with a total weight of 650 kilos! THE IDEA The Project is inspired on the documentaire 'Engineering the impossible' seen on Discovery Channel in which the engineers want to span the Gibraltar Street with an enormous bridge of 1 km (40000 inch) high and a total lenght of ca. 14 km (550000"). This should be the highest and greatest bridge ever build. The reason to use this bridge as inspiration is that this bridge has a huge span compared to the altitude, because only 3 main towers can be placed due to the enormous depth of the Gibraltar Street. With the LEGO bridge the depth isn't a problem, the altitude is. We create a similar problem: making a span as long as possible with a low altitude in proportion. The designers solved this problem to combine two classic bridge-designs: the cable-stayed bridge and the suspension bridge. The main-towers with the revolutional 'diagonals' work as a cable-stayed bridge; Between the ends of the 'diagonals' the main cable of the suspension part is attached. De LEGO bridge has in contrast to the real project two in stead of three main towers. THE SHOW When after a lot of work all the LEGO compartments were ready, the exciting Try-out day begins: Will the LEGObridge hold it's 12,45 metres long traindeck? In the "Try-out-day pictures" you will notice that after 8 hours building with 4 people the bridge works! Who would have thought that? Minimal alterations and improvements were made and the bridge is displayed on the big LEGO-event in Zwolle, the Netherlands, called LEGOWORLD. The bridge is shown on national television in three different programs and it's pictures occured in many papers. What a great project. Enjoy the pictures! -- Benny Efde (Stanley Efu) and Marco de Vries" There are 25 pictures on MOCPages and 36 on Brickshelf, where Benny Efde (Stanley Efu) wrote "Below you see pictures of the preparation, drawings, building and the try-out day of the Lego Gibraltar bridge....Comments welcome on efde@planet.nl ". Pictures of the final, in-place bridge at LEGOWORLD (Zwolle, The Netherlands) can be found on this Brickshelf folder. Did any Eurobricks AFOLs remember seeing this HUGE bridge at LEGOWORLD 2004?

Interesting MOC. My eye keeps going to the Light Bluish Grey plates covering the top of the hood (bonnet). If you have some black plates, recommend using them there so that the lines of the black car body can "flow" continuously down the length of the car. I realize that you may not have enough parts, but there is something missing from the front quarters of the car (ahead of the front shock absorbers). Do you have any curved Lego Technic Panels to help transition from the Lego Slopes (on the nose) and the front wheels? Is your "AP8 Hotrod" modelled after any particular car on the [American] National Hod Rod Association (NHRA) circuit?

Since TLG has a license for producing Lamborghini models, and they have not sold any Countach sets yet, it would be nice if they could produce a set as nice as this. Are you listening, Lego Technic Designers? Maybe they could even produce the Lamborghini Countach LP400 in ORANGE The older car STILL LOOKS COOL and is very distinctive: 1974 Lamborghini Countach LP400 – in Arancio Orange: According to Wikipedia, "The word 'countach' is an exclamation of astonishment in the local Piedmontese [northwest Italy] language — generally used by men on seeing an extremely beautiful woman."

I like the Raptor better, because it has LDD Building Instructions , is lighter and more nimble, and uses parts that are within easy reach of the average Lego Technic fan. The Hypertruck is awesome, but if it has poor endurance, it may not do as well in Truck Trials.

Lesley Hisgen (hisgen01) just posted this of "A lego technic remote control red dutch supercar. This is my second design of a large supercar. This time I used the new powerfunctions to power the car. It is able to steer, drive, open front and rear hood all by remote control. The car has adjustable double frontlights and single lights on the back. The car is equipped with full wheel suspension and sharp steering. Please leave comments."