drdesignz

I'm glad to see you've been so successful on Cuusoo. I remember when you posted this project. I was one of the first supporters. It looks like you're well on your way now to reaching the 10,000 vote goal. Congratulations!

Great job; impressive functionality!

That's awesome, I like the hot rod in the background too!

I've seen a few ridiculously huge Lego cranes, like this one, so I think minifig scale might be possible with the appropriate truss design with cable (string) support.

I see people are still receiving them, so hopefully I'll still get one too. I spent a few thousand dollars last year, so I like to think I qualify.

I'm still hoping this piece will be made, the one missing from the empty space here:

Perfect, thanks! I was just looking for that seller recently! Awesome, thanks! Welcome to Cuusoo! Be sure to check out the rest of the site. There are many more great projects to vote for.

Thanks for the vote! I wanted to put in suicide doors, but the geometry with the curved bricks wouldn't allow it. Making the truck a couple studs longer in this area didn't look quite right, so I couldn't figure out a good way to pull it off and went with regular doors. Thanks! I would have liked to use more chrome. But since this is a Cuusoo project I figured it would be better if I only used official Lego pieces. One of these days I will order a pile of those fancy third party chrome pieces though. Thanks! Thanks! Except that is supposed to be a fuel tank :P I suppose it could also be a nitrous bottle though, if you consider the fuel tank is under the bed :)

Thanks! The Munster Koach looks like it would be a challenging Lego project...

This is my second Cuusoo project. The first one is also a hot rod, which you can see here. That one is a large scale classic American hot rod. My latest design here is a much smaller pickup truck, which I think will appeal to a wider market. My goal was to come up with something that hasn't been done yet and would fit well in the Creator theme. There are, and have been, many vehicles, but no Creator hot rods (to the best of my knowledge). You can see a full description on the Cuusoo website and a detailed gallery of pictures on my flickr page.

I got very lucky recently and found this truck for sale at a good price, and bought it: More pictures here.

More pictures here: www.flickr.com/photos/drdesignz/sets/72157632674607670/

Model Team is my favorite classic theme. There are plenty of current models that are fantastic too. Creator is the closest theme to Model Team, like Highway Pickup (7347). There are also exclusive, large scale sets that are not part of a theme. Volkswagen T1 Camper Van (10220) and Shuttle Expedition (10231), for example, are very nice. You could also do what I've been doing recently, and buy the old Model Team sets. You can still find them online for sale. Not exactly cheap usually, but occasionally you can get very lucky on eBay. I did, in the last couple weeks. I'll post pictures shortly.

I came out of the dark ages about a year and a half ago. I have bought a ridiculous amount since then and keep track of my collection with the help of a couple websites. I only bought a dozen Technic sets, but they're mostly the biggest available (including Mindstorms), at an approximate total of $1,850 (USD). Star Wars is my favorite and I own 88 sets worth about $4,950. I have 27 Creator sets, including modular buildings and a train, totalling $1,750. I bought 13 generic brick sets for $425 and 37 miscellaneous sets for $1,075. That's just over ten grand in the last year and a half, so about $6,500 per year on average. But this doesn't include the individual pieces bought from Bricklink. I probably have another $500 there. It's somewhat of a problem, really. I'm addicted, I admit. I don't even have time to build everything I buy. I'll probably end up on that television show "Collection Intervention" within a few years...

Great review, thanks. I'm really looking forward to being able to get this model in the US.

Amazing as always! Your work never ceases to impress me. One of these days I'd like to build a huge American style truck, inspired by you and Bosman.

A lot of my favorites are already listed here. I think Bricksonwheels wasn't mentioned yet, unless I missed it. Legohaulic has some amazing creations also. More Model Team type stuff. edit: I just notice how old this topic is...

I got my complete set of the Shell Ferrari models a couple days ago, with the display case:

Woah, fantastic work! I'm heading over to Cuusoo now to support it.

No, the real life trucks have a shallow bed with storage underneath, just as you described. This is a highly modified custom truck of my own design.

Thank you! Yes, the original model also had one. You can see pictures here. It's quite a nice, detailed model.

Looks good One of these days I'd like to build a bike too.

I wouldn't say "simply"... I rebuilt it from scratch. The front end is mostly the same, but some of that was also changed. The rest of the truck is very different. New chassis, interior, engine, etc.

I haven't been able to think of a good design yet for the Technic Challenge, so I bought a 10220 VW T1 Camper Van model recently to rebuild it as a truck that I've been thinking about for a few months now. It's not too exciting, but it was a fun build. I spent the last few nights putting it together.

I've thought about building one before. But I wouldn't know how to make it work without a gyroscope. If you can do that with 100% Lego I'd be very impressed. Do you have a working prototype? A proof of concept of some sort?