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I'm not sure what people expected at this piece count, I expected exactly this and hence I'm not surprised or disappointed. Actually I think the part usage is not too bad, and the overall shapes are nice, and I knew that everything would be just posable instead of controlled mechanisms, so that's okay-ish too, maybe the rear arm/bucket/outriggers feel somewhat cheap. I think that bucket could have been made posable at least.

This looks nice too, and mechanically dense :) Is this a new panel color though? If yes, I bet this will be used in something bigger this year.

I think think this looks cool for the size, something for a change, and has interesting mechanics. Wonder how smooth those cam parts let the propeller spin though, they do have some friction..

The truth is that it is quite a bit easier to build nice looking things at smaller scales with system pieces, because often (at least roughly) the right curves exist and they can be joined together to form good looking surfaces without gaps. With technic parts it is much harder, because the parts are not optimized for surfaces, but rather mechanical stuff, and even if there are no big gaps, often there are lots of discontinuities where parts meet. For example the hood of this car (not counting the lights), or the doors, do not have gaps, but they are not a continuous surface either. Btw, I can see why they introduced the 5L version of the small curved panel: it is much easier to mount it fixed than the 3L version with two extenders on the sides, as that would have only 1 pin/axle hole in the middle, while the 5L version has 3. That's a good move for making the panel system better.

Good to have a better view of the new suspension parts! So it seems they are a single piece for the two sides. To me they look only 7 long (plus two on the front for the new towball arm that extends them), seen on the top view above (rear). The rear ones seem to be mounted one stud further out than the front ones, and also I think they are 1 stud shorter overall because the front one has 1 extra stud for the steering. I wonder what rims they are using, it must be something deeper on the front, needs space for the steering / wheel hub. On the other hand, I think the new steering links are 8 long, as they start one stud further out than the suspension arms.

Hmm, when rotated in 3d, it does not look as terrible as on the images :D But I agree with many others that this one is far from their best. For me, it's all the gaps that kill it. Never liked these fender parts as they are hard to integrate with the rest of the body, and this shows very well what I mean. It's like the whole car is cut in 3 pieces. The hod is also cluttered, especially the lights, yet another recolor quota that could have been spent better, and I agree that the tail lights could have just been brick built. At least on the technical side, the front engine together with the steering seems like something of a challenge, so let's see. But for an orange, parts pack, it's nice :)

Wow, beautiful models, amazing bodywork, good mix of system and technic! This is why we have high expectations for official modes, because we know it is possible.. :D

I've just seen this galloping reindeer kinetic sculpture, something like this? I guess you have better chances looking at not so technic MOCs.. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-202835/JKBrickworks/40499-galloping-reindeer-base-2024/#details

This is beautiful, when I first saw it on FB I immediately knew it's your work :) I also like your choice of models.

I think something holds the panels on the sides, near the end of the curved wheel arch panels. It looks like a 1x1 plate, probably with a clip or bar or something.

I don't find them interesting as cars either, but as part packs / recolors for panels they are pretty good. Though true that if at the same scale, mechanically more interesting models were produced that would be even better, because that would enforce dense builds requiring more new structural parts / connectors that facilitate it, not just panels.

Can you please, after inserting an image, press enter (maybe twice), so that the next line of text starts under the image and not next to it, so it is actually easy to follow what is there to read? All of your threads have text all over the place when images are inserted, and hard to read. Thanks!

The concept would be interesting, I could have used such a part in a recent build.. But this might be a problem, because if they'd make it 1mm shorter to make it usable with axle pins as you say (or pins with towballs), then when inserted into a regular pin, it might be too loose, because those pins hold bars best in the middle (right at the distance when those axle-pins stop the bar), so then it could become just a bit short to reach the middle firmly.

Great that you found the button, but can you make it consistent with all the other official set threads, something like "42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1". We don't need words like "technic" and "set" in the title, we know that it's a technic set..

Sure that is not trivial to differentiate, but I actually liked that that set had both recolored (though not sure if those existed previously). In any case, they could recolor at least one of them (probably the pin variant is needed more often). That could be a reason, though I'd still prefer a slighly different shade than a compleyely different color. But they are probably going to use it outside of botanical sets, so I don't think that was the argument..

Wanted to ask the same, same format as other threads: set number, set name

That bugs me too, especially connectors, for example the pin-pinhole and the axle-pinhole parts are often not recolored to new colors, even though they are used a lot. They just keep replacing them with black/grey.

I got more hung up on advanced technology..

Or maybe there's a bar inside the pin that connects the two sides.

That's a cool looking truck, I love the old-school vibes :) I have never seen that RC unit used, let alone in action, would be great to have a video!

Not sure how the gearbox got mixed up with the MGU-H here, even the marketing material mentions them clearly separately. I agree with @Stereo that the MGU-H is probably just going to be a gear or fan that spins with the motor or with the wheels (if it's not geared to the motor but to the exhaust system).

Nice compact model, and that front drivetrain is interesting too, I did not think it could work.. Does it fit with regular rims as well?

I have been discussing this with @Aurorasaurus during the design of this motor, and I find this one of the best possibilities for using the A2212 motor so far. With a 2700 kv motor at 12V you get 900 RPM, which is a good range for a heavier offroad model meant for climbing instead of being fast, and probably has plenty of torque. Obtaining the critical part, the planetary reduction, and marrying it with the motor itself is fairly simple. Also, I think the housing itself can be further improved by having the front part also custom printed with better mounting points, more pinholes, more like on a PU XL motor. Then the two halves could be joined together with screws instead of relying on clips, like some other designs presented in this thread before. I wonder about the difference between an 1000kv and a 2700kv 2212 motor, besides the speed. I guess the size is the same, so is it like the 1000kv has that much more torque, or is it that it consumers that much less power? I guess the slower speed has to be compensated somewhere, right?

Thanks, that's a good summary of all the replacements! As for the steering, I guess in the same amount of space, a servo could also be fitted.

I was thinking whether the suspension arms are one big piece or built from 3 parts (two identical sides plus a central short liftarm with towball socket). I really hope that it's the latter. But what do you mean by diagonals? The two sides of the suspension arm assembly? Do you think that the suspension arm is 3L together with the towball socket, or that it has 3 holes besides the towball socket? I hope it's shorter because one with 3 holes would be too similar to the existing one with 4 holes. Also, it seems that the side parts of the suspension arms are 7L, have one pinhole at the chassis end and two holes at the outer end, one of them being an axle hole. Then the central towball cosket adds two more studs, so the whole suspension arm assembly is about 9L. So the steering links may just he the existing 9L ones, but they do seem a bit more like axles, so they may be some new moulds without stop in the end. That would be really good. The new 2L liftarm part with the towball (probably has an axle hole in the far end, and is mounted onto a 2x3 curved liftarm) is used in a pushrod style suspension I guess, with regular 6L links.