Second attempt, Magnum and trailers.

[aqaz]

Here are some pictures of my Magnum AE500 6x4 and the trailers I have built so far....

There are a lot more pictures here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=aqaz

Comments or questions are welcome.

[Balrog]

Wow. The truck and trailers look very nice and detailes. I also like your custom stickers. They give a good touch of realism. I bet with a little distance and focal blur you couldn't tell if it is real or not.

[Doc_Brown]

Amazing! I too love your stickers, well done on these awesome models. :thumbup:

So detailed, I'm guessing you see this truck everyday perhaps?

[Tech-nick]

One word: Beatiful.

Would you open up the tehcnical features?

BTW. Your brickshelf folder is not buplic, therefore not able to be seen.

[aqaz]

Thankyou for the kind words....

Brickshelf has to wait to be moderated I'm afraid.... Plenty more pictures there, close up and underneath.

Doc-Brown: I had an AE450 6x2 in the mid 90's, but it was blue, (pic to compare in the brickshelf folder) same body though. However, this is totally made up.

Tech-nick: What details do you want? Will this cover it?

Dimensions, in studs,

Unit:

Length: 49

Width: 18 (lower bodywork 19)

Height: 27

Box:

Length: 96

Width: 18

Height: 30

Flat:

Length: 104

Width: 18

Height: 10 floor, 15 headboard

Full independent suspension on everything, since leaf springs are not an option, I made it up as I went along.... The drive axles are train units in the chassis and a spring from a grey shocker mounted on a vertical axle at each corner of the diff frames. You would not believe how many rebuilds to come up with something that handled the correct scale loading. (5.79 Kg), Main drive if PF XL, steering is PF Servo. Control is with a IR speed control. The kingpins are inside the front wheels so that I could build the wheel arches to scale, the steering is Ackerman.

The only thing not to scale (Given that one must round up or down to the nearest whole stud) is the distance between the second and third axles, it was simply not possible to get it right.

[Tech-nick]

Yes that covers it.

Waiting to see rest of the images.

That must have taken hundreds of hours to desing and build. Wish I had time too.. (and skill + bricks)

Edited May 16, 2013 by Tech-nick

[Lakop]

Hi,

I love the truck. i'm working on a similar one right now but mine will be more of a technic truck as I don't have the correct non technic bricks as yet. Watching the F1 the other day I would love to make an F1 truck and trailer. I look forward to seeing more pics in your folder.

H

[Someonenamedjon]

I'm guessing you got the stickers from the company maybe.....

[timslegos]

The truck looks wonderful, especially in white! What did you make the sides of the trailer with? I would love to see a video too.

tim

[aqaz]

Again, thank you for the nice words...

Brickshelf is now open, I have put a couple of pictures of the AE450 6x2 that I had in the mid 90's up to compare.

Tim: the trailer sides are part: 3754 brick 1x6x5. I bought them at Bricklink, 45 each side, they cost about $0.30 each.

Jon: Yes, I got the stickers from the company, after I invented it. It is; Zhong Guo Long Feng, Me and my wife, I am a dragon she is a phoenix.... The words say: China Dragon and Phoenix. Making that logo took days to get what we wanted, I used 'FotoMix' to make it.... I made all the stickers, it was the only way to get exactly the right size to fit the tiles. I made them up and printed them onto laser copier sticker film (from e-bay), the ones on white bricks were printed on clear film, the others on white film, the Renault diamond on silver film. Notice the correct instrument panel from a Magnum, the number plate with our names on and this years reg on a 1995 model. The high cospicuity foil for the box sides and back and the front wings of the unit was made by cutting 4 mm strips from an A4 sheet of foil. (Putting this on took hours, it was by far the most difficult part of the whole build.... I am, after all, a shaky pensioner.) But one has to abide by EU ruling ECE 104.

​Tech-Nick: It took 3 months to build these three, at least a week was taken up in converting all the dimensions to studs, I worked on 138.4 mm actual = 1 stud, the big measurements trailer length etc 1 m = 7.2 studs. the hard part was having to round up or down to the nearest stud, then having to rebuild loads when a 1 stud discrepancy met. The most obvious would be where the lower bodywork worked out at 19 wide, but the cab is 18 wide, fortunately, the cab is 'old' technic so even numbers work well, the chasis and lower bodywork are 'new' so odd numbers work here. It was quite difficult to join them together.

[Doc_Brown]

​Tech-Nick: It took 3 months to build these three, at least a week was taken up in converting all the dimensions to studs, I worked on 138.4 mm actual = 1 stud, the big measurements trailer length etc 1 m = 7.2 studs. the hard part was having to round up or down to the nearest stud, then having to rebuild loads when a 1 stud discrepancy met. The most obvious would be where the lower bodywork worked out at 19 wide, but the cab is 18 wide, fortunately, the cab is 'old' technic so even numbers work well, the chasis and lower bodywork are 'new' so odd numbers work here. It was quite difficult to join them together.

The chassis I'm making involves both new and old technic, a challenge to combine, but fun trying! I'm hoping to study some of your pics to help my problems.

Just remembered Jeremy Clarkson "tested" a Magnum on Topgear. haha

[grohl]

Great looking models.

[aqaz]

If anyone wants close up photos of particular 'solutions' I came up with i.e. suspension with the wheels off....

Feel free to ask.

(Forgive my assuming anyone would want these, the nice comments have gone to my head. Also, I needed a tenth post so I can make a profile.)

[Doc_Brown]

I sure wouldn't mind more pics, of the truck wheels off and suspension, if you don't mind. Cheers

[rocklego]

Are those four colors of hoses behind the cabin Lego-made parts or custom parts ?

[Boxerlego]

Nice work on the cab over and trailers. Everything looks incredible. The details are spot on.

[aqaz]

Doc_Brown: Your word is my command... I have taken some close ups, wheels off etc, and uploaded them at brickshelf (Is there a batch upload facility there? It is quite tedious one at a time.)

​I expect you will have to wait till the folder is moderated. Oh yes, nearly forgot, the folder is called: 'Closer'.

rocklego: No, nothing to do with Lego, I made them.... Also the windscreen and mirror glasses. I included close up pictures in the new folder at brickshelf: http://www.brickshel...lery.cgi?m=aqaz

Red, blue and yellow are air lines, black is electric this one is a tighter spiral.....

grohl, Boxerlego: Thank you for your kind words.

(By the way, that term: 'cab over' is not required in the rest of the world, only in your country.)

Edited May 17, 2013 by aqaz

[Doc_Brown]

Thank you very much, but the "closer" folder is not public. :)

[aqaz]

Doc_Brown: All posts to brickshelf have to be moderated before they are public apparently.... As for when, your guess is as good as mine! To be fair, they were pretty quick last time.

[Alasdair Ryan]

Welcome to Eurobricks,nice truck and trailers.

You have managed to capture the details from the real lift truck and trailers very well.

[drdesignz]

Great job!

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Very well done!

The truck tractor is gorgeous! :wub: .

If I had a so huge and beautiful truck when I was a child I would have gone mad!

The refrigerated trailer is my favorite!

[Luke_likes_Lego]

Great rig, great trailers

[aqaz]

Once again, thank you all so much for the kind comments..... I have been looking at all your MOC's, so your comments mean so much more coming from such a knowledgeable and skilled bunch....

I have a question about MOCpages: Where should I post it to reach the correct people in the Lego community? (I know here is not the place)

My question is this: Does anyone have contact with the moderator?

I have been trying to make an account but am not receiving confirmation e-mails or replies to reports of not receiving e-mails..... Maybe something to do with gmail.

Any help at all will be very much appreciated.

[paul_delahaye]

Yeah, this is cool. Nice model