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Hi Oerieth, That is really a great achievment to put all the functions into the small chassis and keep it good looking! Yes, unfortunately all the snow is gone now! No more real-life tests till much later this year. Alternatively try the Stubai Glacier. Regarding your chassis, in my opinion you will have difficulties in snow. Why? First the ground clearance is very low with the small wheels. With the four motors and the battery-pack it is quite heavy, distributing the weight to two single treads will still make it sink into softer snow. Second to increase grip you need to add something to the treads. They will slip too easily without any additional blades (or sort of them). On my chassis I am using double treads (2 on each side) with half liftarms (7L) spaced two treads apart. This gives it a better grip. However it is still sinking into soft snow and you need "perfect" conditions, some 2 cm of fresh snow on top of a more compact layer of old snow, to be able to drive properly I am over the third winter now and finally my chassis is sturdy enough that I can turn without difficulties and pull the tiller properly. I noticed however that keeping the bricks for about 15 minutes in the cold (-5°C) and especially the treads, is increasing the difficulties to properly run them, i.e. they start to become somehow "brittle".

That was also my impression. LEGO bricks and parquet or laminate flooring have a very low friction . If you add those rubber thingies with the two axle holes as the paws, it might stick to the gorund better. Nevertheless a very good looking model! Nice idea with all the joints and movements it can/could do. btw. the "little dog" reminds me of:

I guess this one will drop soon once the Maersk Train is available from April 1st. Unless there is a visible difference in the part respectivley the mould. I guess sometimes LEGO cleans out a storage everybody has already forgotten that it exists and some people get hold of the items. Last season in LL Germany they had tons of old-gray 6 x 12 wings and old-gray 6 x 8 plates all of a sudden. I found in the collection of my brother some parts that were initially unique to a certain Star Wars set, but ended up as a "bonus" in the then "Creator" buckets. fW

Don't you think it is just a combination of 32013 and 41677?

Nice! I do have the Norten motorcycle also using 4 of those. Thanks for your opinons!

To quote Blackbird "1977- The Year it all Started" all the technic bricks came into being in 1977. However in the pre-historc 1976 (from a Technic point of view) a few models had a brick that is now called 3700b: I could not find an explanation on Blakbird's site so does anybody of you have an idea why there is kind of a "slot" to the hole? Was it supposed to be kind of a test-mould to figure out what would be the best way to support the holes in the technic bricks? Thanks

Hello, I agree with the guys posting before. It is a great, action packed diorama. One thing though, you've got sand as the equivalent of snow. The guys and equipment would leave tracks in the snow. I do not know if the sandis too fine to do it but I would leave some footprints of the minifigs and AT-ATs there. My thoughts! Keep on building! fW

Does this help you over at good old Peeron

When I saw the picture, I could only think of quite successful a german kids-book series, Die drei Fragezeichen:-) Original US version: The three investigators...

Interesting machine! However I could not find any real life pictures of it. Brickbuilt seems preatty much feasible. Sizewise around 60-80 studs long The only concern I would have is the "V" shaped support made of the 75° slope bricks. It would need to support around 2 kilos of Lego. ...but he shall not forget the ladder to the top cabin! fW

What has that to do with the above mention brick apart from referring to a patent?!? It would be more interesting to see the patent that LEGO filed for this items: Part 4758 Light & Sound, Flashing Lights Brick (4771) and Light & Sound, Police Siren (4774) The year of release says 1986 which makes 2011, the year of filing the TI patent very close to the 25 years period for the protections. Basically eveybody who makes an USB stick now (nearly) violates this patent. In my opinion this is trolling and just a rip-off of a prior-art, I hope that TI will not be granted this non-invention as this has been around already.

Wow, efferman, 109% is a good achievement! Looks like the "climbing ability" is just limited by the traction :-) What do you use as torque tube?

What do you mean? Adding another "o"... Sorry, had to do this , delete if inappropriate

It is listed now at the German LEGO on-line shop! @ 119,99 EUR with 1237 pieces ...saying coming soon on April 1st! Interestingly it says "not available for your county" for the US and Canada... May be at a later release date?

Hm, having this one hanging freely will move the claw once it grabs tight. Driving both axles will not let it swing free. Having not Idea at the moment except pneumatics doing the best job for this. There are a few samples of LEGO machinery as B-models that use claws, but they all, at least thosespo I know of, sport a worm gear driven at the claw itself (manually)

Do you want the rotation of the 87408 beam to be controlled somehow, i.e. move it to a certain angle and stop there? Do you mind telling us what "it" should do, I mean what is the function in real life/rel machinery that you want to achieve?

Great piece of work Sariel! Amazing how you filled up the chassis with motors! May be I wasn't looking at the pics close enough, but do you run both XL-Motors from the same IR-Port? Or do you have two receivers that are actually on the same "channel". I thought that the IR receivers will not pass that much current that they power two XL under (heavy?) load. So may be running one XL on one port provides (theoretically) more power? I love the light bar! the unsynchronised flashing is a real eye-candy! How many 8265 did loose their mini-LAs there? Super model and nice chrome shine!

A few more angles from ftbt's flickrstream. Unfortunately no other Technic pics. fW

oha! don't want to come across this in real life :-) ...just saw my nick as domainname in the movie's end...

ALternatively you can also have a look at Philo' Hompage. Which gives you quite an academical insight into the Power Function component. Starting from the innards to the torque and rpm figures under different operational conditions. fW btw: @ Anio: sorry for my ignorance but what ist the S******r?

Thansk! After looking closer and magnifying all the pictures it became clear

What I find interesting is the tubing for the pneumatic functions in the front! In the pic with the battery box you can see a joint of the blue flexible hose to the grey rigid hose. I do not remember having this seen before on a model. Interesting way to do it and even ore interesting why there is a need to do it in this way. fW

and ORANGE color?!! Lego had a look at the vote on TechnicBricks? Great! Thanks a lot for the pictures! Looks like a very well designed model that packs a number of functions. Althoguh I cannot figure out waht they mean with the pictograms on "Foto32" on the right hand side. I like the slanted positioning of the pneumatic switch on the snow-plough! fW

Well, here you are: Method 1: - Look up the set inverntory, like for the 8069 - go to the bottom of the page where it says : "Links Related to this Inventory:" - click on "Show Part Color Codes" - It will give you the inventory of the 8069 again but with the URL extended by a "&viewCodes=Y" - Now below each part description you see the LEGO code - Done! Method 2: - Look up the part you look for e.g. Catalog:Parts:Technic,Liftarm:32524 - just below the pic, there is "View Small images" click on it to get this - Now scroll down and you get a list "Parts Color Codes" - Done Bricklink - Always good for surprises

I fear that I might not be able to squeeze this construction into my next MOC. I guess the Large Hadron Collider started with a drawing like this...