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Hello everyone, Last week, enjoying a 9 day off from work due to national holiday i decided to create something small with loads of wheels. A friend of mine joined my epic quest(!) to build my vehicle. Idea started making something, literally *something* like some sort of a military personnel carrier but took a spontaneous course and turned out to be this; As topic title gives a hint, we don't know what kind of a vehicle it turned out to be. I'll leave that up to your imagination :) I'll avoid posting all the pictures here and cause picture clutter, here you can find other pictures of it on my Flickr photostream; http://www.flickr.com/photos/orcunablak Spread to around 5 days, it took around 23 hours to plan and put that together and another 7 hours for the filming and digital processing. Even though it has 3 minifigures in the cabin it's bigger than minifig scale. It is driven by an XL motor and steered by an M motor. Steering was problematic for me to plan since i consider myself to still be an amateur about this and have never tried some steering like that before so i had to turn back to "the" method for me that helped me out on my other mocs. A design i found here some time ago, credit goes to him; (Thanks if you are here reading this) http://lego-tech.16mb.com/lego-technics/steering-system It performs quite well inside my house on the floor and the dining table, lol! Has trouble on the carpet, picking up every single hair, bird feather and such rolling around the 24t gear. Outside, as seen at the end of this post performs 6/10 in my opinion considering it's lenght, built, tire size and lack of suspension factors. It can't get past a pea sized rock directly, starts skidding on dry leaves or patch of sand/soil, again as shown in the video. It mainly contains pieces from 3221 "Lego" truck as you can get the hint of it from the stickers on the sides, no else special parts. Video is not perfect, we just kinda got tired i guess or simply not enough experienced in making one. In the end, we enjoyed the long time we spent making it, feeling like 10 years old kids playing with Lego's on the carpet :) It didn't fail my expectations and now is -prettifying- my shelf for a while. I hope it was somewhat an amusing post as it's my first MOC to talk/post about and hope you like the video! All the best. /O

I listed the sets i own to give an idea of what kind of parts i have. I don't display them on my shelves anymore. So yeah i use the parts of those sets. I have 2 sets of wheels, One is the 56x26 baloon tyres from 9392, the second is 56x28 tyres from 8041. I find the baloon tyres to be very weak to carry the weight of PF elements compared to the second set of tires. So i usually build my moc "prototypes" on those. Can you describe me of this a bit further, or give me a visual example? thanks all

Thanks for the positive feed-back everyone! Sorry for the links not working, instead i am listing screencaps of what links contained; Technic sets that i have; Specific pieces i bought; Basicly, i have around 1250 technic theme pieces and double more of system pieces (not that it helps a lot). Due to low quantity of pieces and various rather expensive pieces that come out of bigger/biggest sets i try to make my models small to mid scales. Biggest moc i've made was a bit smaller that the race truck, and it failed. So i'm trying to keep them smaller, which brings the bigger problem of durability of the creation and seating the battery box that i have :( Sadly, i don't have specialized front hubs. I am aware of his recent moc and loving it. Just, most of the essential pieces he's using with it i don't have. I might buy specialized pieces but i'm still trying to find a solution before a possible purchase. Thank you all for your friendly and constructive attitude.

Hey everybody, Before i start, i apologize if there'd been a topic opened and discussed about this but since i am not great with forum usage and i can't seem to find a search option within the forum structure i felt like i had to create a new topic. I've been following this forum since i got out of my "dark ages" a year ago, started with technic 9391 tracked crane set. Buying almost any LEGO set whenever i find them cheap to increase my collection. Long story short, I am looking forward to understand the method to give a vehicle all wheel drive capacity with one XL motor for drive while managing to apply sterring with an M motor. I've been doing some researches but can't seem to find a simple solution (preferably some sort of instructional source) for this. Every other solution i've seen either is too complicated or contains part i don't have. Sadly, i can't shop online from LEGO and ordering from European seller through BL gets to be rather expensive due to international shipping. To give anyone who'd help me out on this an idea of my inventory, here's links for the sets and seperate parts i have; http://rebrickable.c...rid&src=myparts http://rebrickable.c...s?fmt=html&sl=2 If i didn't give enough info, let me know. Thanks !