Paul B Technic

Wow, that is a really nice set up :)

I don't see any problems with this :)

MOC: LEGO Technic Seaplane I would like to share my latest MOC, this is a LEGO Technic Seaplane. I have been researching this for a couple of weeks and over the previous week I have had a chance to build this over a few sessions. Overall I would have spent around 16 hours on the building process and many hours prior to this researching and designing this MOC. My LEGO Technic Seaplane MOC features: - Front mounted 4 cylinder engine which is connected to the front propeller. This can be seen in action in the video below. - Moving rudder. This is controlled via side to side movement on the control stick. - Moving elevators. These are controlled via front to back movement on the control stick. - Adjustable flaps. These are independently controlled for left and right via two levers inside the cabin. - Dual purpose skips, with wheels for "on ground" landings. This is the largest MOC I have built, both size wise and the time commitment for the design and build process. I am really happy with how well this has worked out and it sits well in my LEGO Technic plane collection. Photos and a video of this in use can be found here: http://paulstechnic....c-seaplane.html

Don't do it....

Very well done :)

Thanks, I am glad that I have been able to do something original :)

I have a couple of times in the past where a part does not exist that I needed.

Thanks for that :) My airfield will be portable so it being off road will fit in with that well.

Yep, all I seem to do is sorting....

A few months ago I designed and built an off road aerial bucket truck MOC, this has been a main feature in my LEGO Technic display and at two expos this year. With my recent change in direction towards aircraft related LEGO Technic, I have now modified this MOC (Modding a MOC?) and I would like to share it. I call this MOC “LEGO Technic Airport Service Support Truck” This LEGO Technic Airport Service Support Truck features: - Hand of god steering - Front mounted winch - Fuel tank with fuel hose - Under body tool storage - Rear tray with frame for carrying parts - Service ladder which is stored under the rear tray - Aircraft jack (stored in the rear tray area) I spent about 8 hours over the past week modifying this, removing the aerial bucket and building the new rear sections plus the aircraft jack, tools and spare parts. http://paulstechnic.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/moc-lego-technic-airport-service.html

Not exactly the same as this is mental not physical. How LEGO helped me to recover from major depression :( My Story I have suffered with depression / mental illness for many years; I am still the same person I always was but now I have a name for it, a reason for the way I have felt and some of what I have done in the past. When I talk about my depression / mental illness (and I like to call it my depression / mental illness as this means I am taking ownership of it) I refer to it as a journey, it is not an end and I don’t think I will ever be able to say I don’t have depression /mental illness as it will always be a part of me. Often it is said you can’t know how something feels until you experience it for yourself, I think with depression / mental illness everybody who experiences it travels a slightly different path and while some factors / symptoms / experiences might be common between people, some other parts of the journey can be totally different. Saying that everybody who suffers from depression / mental illness is the same and has the same experiences and needs the same treatments is like saying that all people who have cancer are the same or all people who get a cold have the same experiences, it is just not true. If other people who also suffer from depression / mental illness have trouble understanding what is happening to you what hope does the rest of society have in understanding you? Depression / mental illness is more than just being sad, it a total loss of all interests and pleasure in life, a total feeling of hopelessness and emptiness which you cannot fill. It is like trying to fight a war where the enemies’ strategy is to make you think the war is not actually happening. First some facts on depression / mental illness / mental illness in Australia: - One in five (20%) Australians aged 16-85 experience a mental illness in any year. - Almost half (45%) Australians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. When you are diagnosed with any illness it is common to think back and try to work out what went wrong and when it happened, in my case I know exactly when this was, it has only been recently that I have put this all together and that a lot of things have started to make sense. In early 2005 I was living with a woman who I was engaged to, we had purchased a house 18 months before and were planning our wedding. My contract at work was up and while I was 99% sure this would be renewed I also applied for some other jobs, just as a backup. As luck would have it I got an interview for one of these other jobs and this lead me to be offered the position. This position was paying more than my current role, was permanent and had more scope for me to progress my career. I also received a phone call to say that I was being offered my current role on another three year contract. That night we were visiting my partners parents for dinner and on the drive down we spoke about the offer and what I was going to do, this was to take the new position. My partner seemed happy enough with this decision. Over the next week as I was finishing up in my current role and preparing for the new job things changed, she was very distant and it was almost like she was half out of the relationship (Not that I saw this at the time) On the last Monday in my current role I arrived home from work only for her to tell me that things with us were over and we were breaking up. I was shocked. In the space of a week: - I had split up with my partner of three years. - Moved out (back with my parents) - Put the house on the market - Left my job of over three years - Started a new job I was very lucky that my new work colleges were very understanding after I explained what had happened. Given I was now single I threw myself in to my new job. Those first few months were quite hard, cleaning up the house to sell it, arranging for us to split up our belongings and starting a new job. I was so busy with all of this I never really gave myself time to come to terms with the break up. This was a huge mistake. Later that year once the house had been sold and I got my half of the settlement it did become real, I saw in a dollar value what the last three years of my life had been worth, it was a sad sight. Over the next few years I went along and life seemed fairly good, under the surface I was falling apart. I had lost all my faith and trust in people and I also became quite sick, these two things combined to make me in to a not very nice person. A couple of partners came and went. The biggest issue I had was handling change, given the last time I had a big change in my life a lot of bad stuff happened at the same time, I associated the slightest change in my work, personal life or hobbies with this and I became quite upset and defensive. I just wanted everything to stay as it was. I also felt like I was losing control of a lot of my life and this made dealing with people very hard. I also lost all my confidence in myself and my ability to make decisions as the last time I made a decision I felt that it had caused the relationship to fail. This made me not want to make any decisions, even ones as simple as what to have for dinner or what I wanted to do each day. Up until early 2008 the one constant thing in my life for the previous 10 years had been my hobby of radio scanning, it was the one thing that I really enjoyed and I had met some good people because of it. I started a Yahoo group which grew in to a forum. In early 2008 I had been dating a woman but she was not at all keen on my hobby, she hated it to be honest. We spoke about moving in together but she was not keen at the time, funnily enough around this time I got in to photography and left the radio scanning hobby, then she was happy to move in with me. Within 12 months we had split up and I moved in to a unit by myself. Again I didn't let myself be sad about this and I threw myself in to work and my hobbies. With my new freedom I continued in both hobbies to some extent but this was when the problems really started. This brings me to the real start of my problems. With so much free time and money I could do whatever I want, the problem was that I didn't know what that was that I wanted to do. Late Sunday afternoons would be the worst as I would look back at the weekend and feel that no matter what I had done it was wrong and a waste of time. If I had of been out taking photos I would think they were not good enough, if I had of been listening to my radio scanners I would think that I had not heard anything interesting enough. I was trying to justify to myself if the amount of time and money I was spending on my hobbies was worth it given the enjoyment I was getting out of them, I kept coming up short. Over and over again I would change my hobbies hoping to find some level of enjoyment to justify my past choices and the problems they had caused to me and others. Eventually I got to the point where I burnt my bridges in both the photography and radio scanning hobbies and I hurt some people along the way which I am very sorry about, at the time I could not see what I was doing. The next few years I was moving between both these hobbies and I also rekindled my interest in LEGO. I was lucky enough to find some people online who shared my passion and this has been a very positive step for me. Even with this change I have still moved between the various hobbies but now I am finally starting to settle down and stick to what I want to do without worrying so much about what other people think or if the amount of time, money and effort I am putting in to something is worth the outcomes it brings. In 2012 I started to experience some issues mostly at work, the smallest problems would get blown out of proportion in my head and I saw even the smallest issues as a direct personal attack on me and who I was as a person. When what you do becomes a huge part of how you see yourself as a person and you feel you are not living up to your own or other people’s expectations then you end up questioning who you are as a person and your own self worth. I was putting a lot of time and effort in to “weather proofing” every aspect of my life, in the end I was wearing myself out and burning the candle at both ends and also in the middle, something had to give. It did. It was me. I had a couple of run-ins with people at work about the smallest things, in the end I knew something was not right and I went to the doctor who put me on some tablets, I took these for a while but I was not ready to admit to myself that I needed them so I stopped taking them. Everything went okay for a while but then I started going back to how I was. In the later part of 2013 things came to a head, I had turned in to the sort of person I never wanted to be and those around me made me see that things needed to change. I went and saw a different doctor who ran some tests and found an underlying cause which is now being treated. I am taking a number of medications and these seem to be making a difference, I am still not where I want to be in myself but I am on the right track now. 2014 is the chance for me to make the changes I feel I need to make, both to my lifestyle and my thought processes so that I can enjoy life again. I am very excited about things again which is a huge change for me and my life is now heading in the direction I want. I am making good process with my LEGO hobby, I am excited about our various Brixhibitions and helping to run these, my attitude to work has improved as has my home life and I am now setting goals and making plans which I never would have done before. Things are still not perfect and I have had a few times where I have gone back to my old ways and thought processes, the difference now is that I can recognise this happening and stop it. I hope as time goes on this happens less and less and I can become the person who I want to be, the person those closest to me deserve. Only I have the power to make this happen. In the end I really do think that by using work and my hobbies to fill the gap in my life back in 2005 and not letting myself grieve the end of that relationship at the time like I should have, I carried pain, guilt and regret for a number of years that I didn't have to. http://paulstechnic....depression.html

Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed reading them :)

This is a very interesting topic, I have actually used LEGO to help me recover from depression. I have two pages on my blog about this, feel free to check them out: http://paulstechnic.blogspot.com.au/p/about-me.html http://paulstechnic.blogspot.com.au/p/my-story-depression.html

Wow, thanks for sharing, this is simply amazing :)

Does anybody think that any of the B models could be an air plane or helicopter?

It is always good to see the first images :) Nothing really jumps out to me :(

Thanks, I have actually just sold the C model to let me go in a different direction.

Every time I look at this I like it more and more :)

I have had multiple "mini dark ages" where I have felt like this, do you think you would ever want to get back in to it in the future? I always seem to come back to it....

With my change in direction of my LEGO Technic collection (Recently trading my Unimog U400) I am planning on building a number of aircraft related MOC's, MOD's and Sets. This thread will grow over time as I post details of them :) 42006 B model MOD: Aircraft Towing Hitch With my change in direction of my LEGO Technic collection (Recently trading my Unimog U400) I have designed and built a change to LEGO Technic set 42006, this is removal of the standard rear attachment which I have replaced with an aircraft towing hitch. This has been designed to lift and carry all my LEGO Technic aircraft (42025, 9394 A model, 9394 B model). In the case of 9394 B model I had to add a couple of short beams to the side near the rear wheel to allow the pins to lock in to place. My future aircraft MOC's will all be built to use this towing system as standard. http://paulstechnic.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/42006-b-model-mod-aircraft-towing-hitch.html

That is a good start, maybe some more red panels on the body.

Happy to help you out, I really like what you do and I find your instructions to be easy to understand.

Thanks for the replies. I have too much other stuff going on at the moment to have the time to build it. I found the issue and all working how it should now :)

Yes, the wheels are totally the wrong scale to be used....

Published a mini building review of a custom C model. Also fixed my cargo plane and started on 9394 B model