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[Auroralampinen]

Well sorry for not updating this i was run out of ideas for the truck so i have taked few days of and i had started creating consepts axles for somekind of 4x4 car 

[Auroralampinen]

Well i have started to thinking and planning this months progress 

Firstly finnish the fixed instructions for the dump truck 

Secondly i will buy a ton of bush planes and skid steer polybags for pieces

Thirdly start thinking new mocs and ideas 

So hopefully everything goes as planned but as always i maybe will do a few detours if i get a cool idea on my head and start planning that but stay tuned:) 

[Auroralampinen]

  

New project:) 

[Auroralampinen]

More progress plus 3+R gearbox with in-line 6 engine :) 

[jorgeopesi]

What a gear madness very cool.

[Auroralampinen]

Little bit more work on the engine room and i reworked little bit of the gearbox:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Little bit work on the pneumatics:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Well i have to start thinking something heavy for the excavator superstructures counterbalance because the boom is heavy and the superstructure leans slightly forward maybe i have to start lead mining operation to fix this slight issue but this has been fun my first excavator wich actually works and is not as fragile as museum artifact:) 

[Auroralampinen]

And after over 10 hours of pain and struggles and going to hell and back;) i finally got the reworked 3+R gearbox working and reworked superstructure now i need sleep and rest so tomorrow this will continue:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Well i looked the real model boom movement to mine and wow its pretty close now so my hard work and going to hell and back;) has payed of:) 

[bruh]

Wow! I’m surprised you got such movement out of the boom. Great job! Is everything (other than steering) pneumatic?

[Auroralampinen]

Well now the pneumatics are done:) 

2 hours ago, bruh said:

Wow! I’m surprised you got such movement out of the boom. Great job! Is everything (other than steering) pneumatic?

Well the superstructure turning and outriggers are crank operated:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Cabin sculpting has begun:) 

And i have now tryed to counterbalance the superstructure because the boom is heavy so i added few beams to undercarriage support it but its not as smooth as i wanted it to be but its a miracle that this superstructure even turns because my previous attempts were kind of bad they normaly would not budge and there was huge amount of cracking luckily this model doesn't suffer from that eventough its not smooth 

Ps and my last night building nightshift and yesterdays gearbox rework mayhem has hurted my fingertips so now its even more pain to assemble this:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Well i got the gearbox switch now in place and here is all the poses what my boom desing can do compare to real life counterpart i think its pretty close:) 

Real life

 

My boom

Please note this is my first experience operating 2 piece boom because lego has never made 2 piece boom wich is sad to think lego technic is almost 47 years old and they had never maded 2 piece boom excavator or the rough terrain crane size massive wheel excavator

Well now i can start to think color of this model and i can start building the bodypanels its a relief the mechanical stuff is now sorted and they work great:) 

[Auroralampinen]

And since life isin't easy i decided to celebrate that by noticing the gearbox had 2 gears with same speed so back to drawingboard and after crueling hours of ripping the gearbox apart was the fun part creating new gearbox on same housing and after another crueling hour of pain and struggles and going to hell and back finally the gearbox works as it should hopefully i dont have to anymore desing new gearboxes to this model:) 

 

[R0Sch]

Nice work on the excavator! How many gears does the gearbox have and is there a purpose to it other than spinning the fake engine at different speeds when pushing the model around?
Might I suggest you use one of these for organizing (at least the small parts like pins and gears):

[Auroralampinen]

3 minutes ago, R0Sch said:

Nice work on the excavator! How many gears does the gearbox have and is there a purpose to it other than spinning the fake engine at different speeds when pushing the model around?
Might I suggest you use one of these for organizing (at least the small parts like pins and gears):
 

Well the real life counterpart has 3+R so i like to keep this realistic:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Work on rear:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Little bit work on side:) 

The bodywork silhouette looks so good:) 

[Auroralampinen]

And while this is small model its no mean light since i have build this really dence like a brick so this model weights about 1.30kg and its kind of suprising how weighty this is when you pick up this:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Well here are 2 bush planes for pieces as i sayed in the january project calender:) 

[Auroralampinen]

Well after 4 hours of pain and struggles and going to hell and back the pneumatics are finalized:) 

[Auroralampinen]

And i found the trans red bionicle tooth piece now the rear lights look really good:) 

[Auroralampinen]

work on the hood:) and yes i finally bought a laptop no more needing looking phone screen when i build something like for example a branded car

[Auroralampinen]

started new project and in case you are wondering this differential desing is my own design i created this when i was 16 or 17 years old i used this differential on some tractor build:)