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At the moment i use Bricklink Studio. But going to switch to a different tool i plan. Yeah the struggle with the bricks happened, due to the fact, that the car tries to build up relatively early before all brick layers where settled. you can't just add a brick layer from aside, as it's often possible with liftarms. there is one example, where i integrate a 2x8 technic plate. as resting point for the m-motors. that happens relatively early in the build. but the whole steering mechanism was missing at this point. the steering builds up(upwards) relatively fast connecting to the sidewall. so what to build first? when building up the sidewall the counter part in front of you has to be build up too and the view on the steering axles is blocked - very suspicious. ...Amazing that you are interested in those details. What tool are you using? can you commend on a tool that works also on linux? best wishes

Hi @gyenesvi , you do have a point. ...that's a good idea. Ill update the post later. Ha, I just learned that I even already follow you on rebrickable. :)

Hi Michael, i like how you have integrated the servo into the front suspension. very compact.

As i'm celebrating my 27th birthday repeatedly since a few years. In that calculation i stopped building with lego at the age of five. that was somehow in 7th class maybe? ;) Just kidding i'm slightly younger than you and my last Technic set is the 8244 (Convertible car/helicopter from 1996). I don't know why i bought that set. Maybe that multi functioning thing triggered me. My nephew started playing with lego in 2005. He had some City Sets and of course a lot of Star Wars. I was impressed how detailed lego had become. Then he started coding and lost interest on the brick. My niece played with Lego Friends. She abandoned it a few years ago. Maybe her school mates bullied her. kids can be monsters. What's so cool about lego is, that every person uses it different. If you search rebrickable for "Porsche 911" you get hundreds of Mocs. And every set looks unique. It's amazing. Kids use it in so many ways. They play coop or for themselves. I can understand that people like to mind dive using lego - even at older ages. Lego is super versatile. BTW: As a kid i dreamed of proper lego buildings. Now i'm overwhelmed how huge these things had become.

Thanks @Gray Gear , yes the development of the arm took it's time. And it looks pretty neat. If something looks clean and simple you can tell it is well developed. If using some strong rubber band to fix the camera it works pretty well. The problem lays in the rubber itself. it dries out. And It definitely is fun to build. But the time i put into this project is immense. Even creating the build instruction took me four days. Routing all the plates, so that the instruction works, is ten times more complicated compared to liftarm builds. Because bricks stack on top each other. so adding a detail on a deeper layer has to be planned very well. Otherwise your instruction becomes spaghetti. @Milan appreciate your friendly words and thanks for changing the title. Namaste.

i like the level of abstraction. The after burner section of the fans is just awesome and looks very clean. Respect!

Hi @Yperio_Bricks I felt a little bit strange while writing the lines above. Good to know that i'm not alone with a huge pause. And i asked myself, what could be the reasons to pause on building. But if you take a look into the Technic sets produced between 1998 and 2004 you get the feeling that the developereds at lego get plagued by a) the technical transition (from brick to liftarm) and b) some kind of boringness. Wasn't that the time when lego nearly went bankrupt? Best wishes and thanks for the friendly welcome.

Hi Jurss, thank you for your comment. no problem i can use more proper titles in the future. And i'm sorry if i broke written or unwritten collective law. But @Jurss ,can you please explain: What do you mean with tik tok? I don't want to get you wrong. Best wishes

Hi, i'm Marco from Hamburg, Germany. Nice to be here in this creative and awesome community. In the 1990 i built a lot using lego. After a huge pause of just about 20 years, one single set, showing the capability of bricks, brought me back to the cult: Green Geckos "Fast RC Motorcycle" amazed me that much, it literally forced me to start brick building again. I had no idea how much Lego and especially Technic has changed during the past decades. As you can imagine if you quit with lego in the late 90s using Technic bricks. And reintroduce yourself to Liftarms and all this tiny solutions to connect axles and pins we have nowadays, it feels like a culture shock. I know i sound like ya grandpa, using his first smartphone. But that is how it feels at least to me. ;) I wish us all the best. stay healthy and safe. Marco Oh by the way: Me started a thread in the Technic area. Where you can find the newest creation of mine (a camera dolly based on 8880). You can get the instruction and Studio file for free on bricklink. Cheers.

Hey, there is this new creation i finished a few weeks ago. You can get the instruction and studio file for free. The build is split into the chassis and a camera turret. The chassis is based on 8880 - yes the legendary. The camera arm is based on a set i really like: the 8839 supply ship. I just want to say hello with this build. have fun. Link to Camera Dolly Chassis: (link missing at the moment) Link to Camera Dolly Turret: (link missing at the moment) About the Camera Dolly The chassis is a completely new development from the parts of the 8880 Super Car. The idea was to connect the two axles of the front and rear wheels with a frame that is as lightweight and stiff as possible. The motors for drive and control and the camera arm are integrated in the frame. So nothing special. Maybe worth mentioning is that the XL motor drives the differential of the rear wheels via a cascade of gears. To keep weight down and friction in the drivetrain low, the front wheels are not driven. The large XL motor is integrated into the frame. This has moved the gear racks for the steering to the outside. Because the original 8880 Super Car has Ackerman steering, the dolly car has Anti-Ackerman steering. This means that the outer wheels steer more than the inner wheels. The advantage of this is that the dolly car automatically slows down in very tight curves due to the increased friction. More exciting is the camera arm. This is built from the parts of the 8839 Supply Ship. The arm can rotate on the turntable. The idea here is to get the camera arm into the desired position before starting to shoot. To do this, the arm should be folded up or supported with the hand during rotation. The folding of the camera arm upwards or forwards is done by a multi-jointed construction. This means that when the arm is pulled down at the rear end to fold the arm up, the front part is pushed up. This special design reduces the load on the gears compared to direct control of the arm. To stabilize the camera, there is a camera gimbal at the end of the arm, connected via a Technic Brick and a rubber band. This gimbal can rotate freely in space and keep the camera in a certain orientation independent of the position of the chassis in space. Please have a look at my short video... If you want to build your own camera arm from your very own parts, you can get some inspiration from the assembly instructions of my arm. This will definitely save you a lot of time and you won't lose a big gear like I did. Cheers