Kostq

Just saw this. Re-did it in Stuido - let me know if there are errors. https://bricksafe.com/files/kostq/wip/421404-Fire Truck-RFC.io It'll possibly be on the next Technic magazine. https://bricksafe.com/files/kostq/wip/421404-Fire Truck-RFC3.io - green parts I'm unsure of LEGO SET 421404-1 - Fire Truck edit2 - I can't seem to get the axles in the cabin right - see the RFC3 file. 4L axles don't come in many colors, the cabin seems to widen at the back though.

I'm surprised this set is not a polybag one to be honest... Maybe the backhoe as a second feature tiers it up. I mean compared to my first 42031 set this seems cheaper somehow IMHO. Also - using the BRONCO tires or however the bigger than these rubbers are - it actually looks better too. The fenders have clearance.

Summer wave has the more expensive sets that require/d?/ more features to sell. All sub 50-60$ set threads taper off after somebody builds it virtually and/or makes a nice alt-build out of it. About 2-3 pages thread-wise max. Also - is anyone citing any budget Technic set /from the last 10yrs/ as the greatest ever? Mini Claas Xerion received some praise and I think the most alt-builds-per-TECHNIC-set on RB, but besides that - any other sets? The most discussed topics here Set-wise are around more complex and hard to reverse-engineer-early sets or promising sets that are full of flaws visually or mechanically. Stuff like 42108 that was bad compared to 42009 yet sold A LOT. RB had a lot of alt-builds for it. 42110's gearbox, 42099's terrible off-road-ness and such all get the treatment. And we feel good "fixing" them and Lego continues to release them "almost baked" so we get an equilibrium. 2025 Supra will be just that - we'll be the only ones that care/fix the headlights and discuss them in 7-page forum threads. The Corvette will get the same treatment. I think every year has some novel mechanism that soon gets easily forgotten too. Examples include - The Fireplane's propeller activation, the Ornithopter/it's a technic-heavy set/, the Osprey's drivetrain seem to pop out for me. From the new lineup only the plane has some "novelty"... EDIT - 2024 had 28 sets, no wonder I feel I can't keep up with anything...

Pepperidge farmer remembers. Set 8260 seems like a distant cousin...

The first B model out of this will be a helicopter for sure...

Welcome to the era of C-models as A models. Lol

The headlights look like they are from the new Supra. What a mess. The 42093 corvette if you take out the headlights had the front silhouette/proportions for supra conversion too.

Paypal or Stripe/they do the bank card processing/. PP has fees - a fixed one + %one. For small MOCs sometimes you get about 30-40% eaten by RB+PP alone. RB doesn't allow you to post a premium moc priced below 1 Euro. PP fee is about 30-40c depending on the region + the %. Word. It'd be sad to see less new mocs from you though. Also I agree that scattershotting small MOCs against a polished big one is an uphill battle both time- and effort-wise. Had to try though. My 42106 paid for itself at least half an year later while there were only 4 competing MOCs at RB at that time. RB has a gaping impression hole for the non-b-c-models. They are kinda hard to stumble on if you don't have any external marketing for them. Besides the Workbench posts - you get one email bump when the parts% threshold is reached, one "NEW MOC" if somebody follows you and the "NEW MOC" panel on the frontpage with the latest 8 MOCs. Picking the right time to maximize the frontpage exposure is tricky to say the least. Apparently I cannot cite from two different pages so I'll just agree with @EricTrax's whole comment. The joy gets sucked out in all the digital-related production before release. ==================================== Some of my background as a MOCcer: tl;dr - I'm not an engineer and it shows. I'm improvising on the fly or arriving "late to the party" MOC-wise - and it shows. The sales show this too. It's what it is. I build less than 10 new sets a year too. As any other competitive field - the rewards go to the more experienced/creative/better marketing/harder working/better equipped people and for me - it's fair. Below is some argumentation about things that I don't agree with earlier in the discussion. Side-rant: As the years go by - there's a big "non-moc" effort inflation too on RB. I still remember before i joined that in 2017-2018 7.5eur for an LXF file was a fair game. PDFs were exotic, not-required and mainly photo-based and MOCs were sold based on LDD renders +- customer photos. LDD kinda generated instructions but kinda didn't sometimes. In terms of a sale conversion nowdays - you have to put a lot more extra content before a sale is made - Photos/videos/IG/TT/YT/WorkBench posts to get the traction needed. Just to be clear - for me a CLEAR AND SIMPLE PDF IS A MUST and really non-negotiable nowdays, I won't buy an LXF/IO alone. it's what it is at the end of the day. Now let's go back to work. Cheers.

To ressurect the topic further: The COVID boost and hype-train is gone in RB. For small Technic B-model MOCs making any sales in last two years for Premium instructions is a joke and a hassle. Competing with 20+ free alternates even if you have "quality" - people will just skip anything that's premium. The comments on my 42148 C model mini version of 42065 were almost hostile - "it doesn't have any functions, why are you charging money at all???" There's some magical feature-per-dollar stat that I'm unaware of, apparently. I've made about 4 sales each on my 2024 designs that legit took me two days of physical design/3d build/shoot/make YT video/self-promote. I can't say they are masterpieces either compared to the stuff other people have put out and FOR FREE. At some point I start to get why people just publish the 3d files and abandon them there - time-wise and sanity wise - it's more efficient. So far I've done 4.5 years on-and-off moc-ing and releasing mocs - including borrowing ideas from both TLG and fellow MOCers. All were credited in some way or form. Financially for that period - I've managed to earn one whole monthly salary from MOCs. 1/54th of the money I earned IRL outside of Lego related stuff. For the big MOCs - I find the people releasing them for free to be astonishingly generous. About the paid instructions and big MOCs argument - time is money. You can't reverse engineer those in a quick manner from the promo photos. I've tried reverse engineering the 42098 Scania to create one from 42112 - it was cheaper time-wise to just buy the instructions and see all the guts. 3 days versus several minutes is just miles apart... Studio had some good patches feature-wise but surely not better overall. The older versions caused me to have 50+ versions of save files for all of my mocs as you didn't know when it'll crash and which changes WERE saved. Having a workaround versioning system saved me from trowing away my pc at times. According to my sales - the good months are January, February, May and October/November. Outside of those - the best days for sales are the weekend ones. Marketing wise - RB designer plan did give me 10% more exposure in 2020 and about one sale more. I don't recall seeing my mocs on their IG profile at all. If you're just starting out - stick to the free plan. And the topic of pricing is not developed in this discussion too - some countries have taxes, PayPal/stripe take their cut and RB takes their cut too. RB had some ways to take their cut if they redirect you to your site too. But you still owe money to the payment processors... So getting anything to trickle down to you - you feed A LOT of people in the process and it makes the instructions more expensive by default. TL;dr - paid instructions for small MOCs aren't viable for earning money, paid ones for big MOCs is ok by me.

The completed model in stud io file is below. https://bricksafe.com/files/kostq/wip/30710-2025-polybag-technic.io Spent some time building it before seeing the thread - I was off only on the 5x3 L alternating beam. 48 out of 52 were visible/logical. The alternating beams are still new to me.

Just watched the Furiosa Mad Max movie - Dementus' truck looks like it took inspiration out of this set. More photos and renders here. If the thread is too old or the wrong one - sorry for the Necromancy...

So if I read correctly - this whole contraption does what a home fan does - swivel/swing/turn left to right and back? Any mechanical reason for the diff to be there? Or the Orange friciton pin? Haven't had a coffee yet, my brain hurts looking at this thing.

The video for 42164 Truck Dolly is out - a very utilitarian MOC, does the job.

And the video is out. My Technic journey started with the 42046 Getaway racer and the combo builds of pullbacks always made me happy afterwards. A small comment + rating + boasting section ensues: 42010-42011 - haven't owned them yet, the dragster seems a bit shoddy, but quite playable. But why 1 pullback only? 42026-42027 - owned both, sold them, combo was good. I was missing the spare parts and the screw gear - the spoiler was a bit WTF but cool. 42033-42034 - One of the very cool combo builds - the Pickup seems pretty close to the MJ series that came out later. But WAY faster. 42046+42047 - Maybe the best combo model for me personally. Both a hybrid between the OG sets and an entity on its own. 42058+42059 - The bike was pretty mediocre, but the combo set was like 42026+42027's cousin - the rake, the 6 wheeler truck that's heavy and fast. 42072+42073 - The crash feature launching two bits in the same time has been quite a spectacle. I like the engineering of the model but hate the looks. It's crude and rough and kinda cute in that sense. 1 moc can be seen above. 42090+42091 - so far 2 MOCs - the OG model is a bit wonky, but very cool in person 42118+42119 - So far 2 ideas, both in early work if I don't scrap them. 42134+42135 - no ideas for a MOC and no combo build 42149+42150 - see above 42166+42169 - some ideas based on branding, not owning the sets yet... In the meantime I've got like 6 ideas for MOCs and little energy to act on any one of them. 42084 is awaiting the little train treatment, based on my 42147 train. Parts are wildly different tho, we'll see what comes out.

- Fresh out of the oven, pre-3D model - my take on the 42072-42073 combo model. It's got more pullbacks than the combo of 42010-42011 and less functions than the OG 42072-42073 combo...