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Well I picked up this set for a decent discount around the Christmas period and I can't say I'm very impressed with it in person... A lot of talk about the front but there's a lot elsewhere that looks half done as well. The interior is shocking with half the bottom sides of the seats missing and gears chomping through the passenger seat as well. The rear spoiler looks terrible with the mix of LBO/LBG/BLACK and the surrounding parts of the clamshell look unfinished too. Some really interesting and random colours used as well... like the and in the rear clamshell. Why?? Especially when the blue one exists in LBO as well... Anyways... Can't do much about the interior without a lot of internal re-design, and I frankly can't be bothered playing around with the front. But here's my quick ideas at improving the rear... The wing and all pieces under it have been converted to black. Then the paneling around the large frame has been changed to fill it in more. On the plus side the spoiler mechanism works quite nicely and I love the doors. The gearbox was quite refreshing and interesting as well. But overall this will most likely go in the parts bin for MOC's.

This looks amazing! IMO you make some of the best alternate models in the game. Your write ups are always a pleasure to read as well, and I appreciate the effort put into them. By chance I happened to see the 110 version of this car (dual cab version) whilst on the road yesterday. Same exact colour spec as well! I was looking at it whilst stuck at a red light and I’m blown away by how well you’ve managed to capture all the details and look of it. That curved slope section that runs through the side is spot on. Chassis and functions looks super interesting and well done as well 👍🏻

Isn’t that just a normal RC toy? As far as I can see that’s not ‘Lego’ (bricks/whatever you want to call it) at all. https://www.doubleeagle-group.com/double-e-toys/juventus-fc-radio-control-bus-e638

Never seen that piece before, great to know! I’m sure it’ll come in handy

Hmm I think I’ll have to wait till I see it out of real bricks to make a final judgement. But so far I would say that some is looking better and some is looking worse. Model really suffers from not having all those LBO panels available in red. Commendable effort to find work arounds but I’m not sure that red was the right choice here. Some of those missing pieces will come in the Ducati, but still won’t help with the rear mudguard panel areas.

I think this looks pretty shocking, headlights especially. Although I’m glad (surprised) they at least chose the black axles to join those trans clear panels together instead of the red ones.

Although I think this set and the Ferrari look a whole lot better than the previous Mercedes and especially the McLaren, I don’t think I’ll be getting this or the Ferrari as I don’t support either team… But super happy to see all the new recolored parts in dark blue. I’ve especially been wanting #71708 for a current MOC in dark blue, so that’s cool to see. The #17 & #18 panels in yellow is well overdue and a nice surprise as well!

No they will be connected by 2 x 18651 pin with 2l axles. Which would replace the current 2 x 43093 axle pins. Making it 3 pieces instead of 1, not 5.

Looks like I lot of similarities in building techniques to the Jesko I’m currently building. I think it looks nice though, all these new panels/pieces since the old orange one came out definitely makes a huge difference. I like the yellow a lot, hopefully get to see a larger yellow 1:10 or 1:8 scale car in the future.

If we wanted it to be free, couldn’t I have just submitted it for free on my own account? Don’t see how rebrickable is against free MOCs in this scenario. I just see it as rebrickable being against giving out work/designs that are not originally your own (Whether free or paid).

Maybe it’s partly because they struggle to match the colour of those parts? It’s safer to use black ones than repeat what happened with the Sian. The lime ones are still not the same shade and it’s been how many years? I know the problem isn’t limited to lime either, I have red ones that don’t match. Still doesn’t explain why they’ll randomally do it for a botanical set though, but just thought I’d throw that out there.

Well @astyanax managed to reverse build my 4500+ piece Huayra from some photos and a short YouTube video, so it is far from impossible. That said, someone else tried to do the exact same thing for mouldking and they screwed it all up. So you have to be an exceptional builder to be able to do it.

I only see #3. Doesn’t look like there’s a #4 on the other side. It’s different because of the kickstand

So after pushing this model at a wide variety of places (skate parks, mountain bike tracks, various hiking spots and even the beach) I finally dismantled the model to use the buwizz components for something else. The only bad thing after everything would be the rather exposed diffs (difficult to cover without compromising ground clearance) Blades of grass or the like would get tangled up there more than I would've liked, or a stick would some times jam it. Most of the times this would cause the buwizz unit to shut down and it's game over until you can plug it back into power. After pulling everything apart there is surprisingly very little damage to any of the parts. The only exception being the lower tow balls at the front hubs are quite worn (I'm guessing due to the tighter fit with the way the lower section is angled up a stud) Overall though this model was a great experience and I had a lot of fun/learnt a lot from it. Thanks again for sharing!

The seat details are incredible! (Maybe not so much the front leg room) But this is a great looking model! You’ve blended the system elements and the technic ones together very well.