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I recently checked out the build process for Lego City's 2025 yellow bulldozer and being someone who greatly appreciates using any and all types of elements to achieve stunning results, I was very happy with what I saw. Studded Technic used liberally, and not just for structure, but also for function - leveraging both of its advantages. Axles, half axles, pins and connectors present in multitudes. Seamlessly mixed with both System parts and studless Technic - the latter understandably chosen for situations where full range of mobility is preferable (old studded Technic models often had their moving parts get stuck). The final model both looks great and has genuine functions not in any way inferior to smaller Technic sets from some years ago. So basically what you end up with is basically a wholesale Modelteamization of Lego System, and I'm here for every bit of it. But the free-for-all approach of System model designers has had the unintended consequence of Technic losing quite a bit of its identity over the years. If System models can use all of System parts, ball joints, studded Technic and studless Technic, then how to keep the line distinct? Lego's answer was simply to restrict themselves to the studless Technic building system for everything - since after all, there are no models like that outside of Technic (well, unless you count Racers), so it's easy to say that's how to define Technic. But while mechanically sound, the studless Technic system initially left the models looking skeletal and frankly unappealing compared to what can be built with System. Sure, some studded Technic looked skeletal too (in fact the larger the scale, the more they did), but in the earliest years of Technic that actually wasn't always that big a problem, just due to the sheer amount of plates and even bricks that were used. Right before the transition to fully studded, Lego have found ways to greatly improve the look of their Technic models. Studless needed a whole new solution though, and that solution ended up being the panels. Still, it seems like while the gifts of Technic have seen wide and frankly ubiquitous use, the line itself seems to be trying to distance itself as far as possible from the rest of Lego and there seems to be a strong insistence on only using studless Technic elements in the sets. Competitors who hire MOCers don't seem to restrict themselves like that and use System pieces liberally where appropriate - then again those competitors don't have to worry about differentiating their product lines, since the categories of their offerings are much narrower. What do you think? -
There have been a number of topics dedicated to the studless vs. studded discussion, but I'm more interested in uniting the two paradigms. I really like the new possibilities that studless building gives me, but I also like the look of studded models. The combination is wonderful, as builder like e.g. like 2LegoOrNot2Lego, Erik Leppen, M_Longer and others show. So I'm interested in learning techniques on how to combine the two. In particular, how do you deal with the odd vs. even number of studs along the width of your model? Parts like are useful, but I guess there's many more possibilities. Can you share some? Illustrated examples are welcomed -
Hello, here is a new MOC - a Forklift. It is an alternate build of the 8460 - Pneumatic Crane Truck / Mobile Crane. It is kept in the typical studful technic building style, like the 8460 - crane. Its features are: Fork moving up and down Tilting of the fork (pneumatic) I'm very new here, please ask me questions and give me suggestions how to improve my posts, thank you! Here is a video: And some more photos: Even more photos! Instructions! Thank you for reading! I hope you like it. -
Here's my Peterbilt MOC with a Formula 1. There's about 800 parts in the truck, lenght 0,5m, weight 1kg. No steering hence I had no part for that, however it is easy to modify when I get some more parts. The engine is CAT Turbo Diesel. I took some ideas from set 5580 but other than that it's all my own desing. The Formula has steering and a pull back motor. It's a big rig! Thanks for watching.