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THIS IS THE TEST SITE OF EUROBRICKS!
THIS IS THE TEST SITE OF EUROBRICKS!

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Here it is, the product of two months work, THE JUGGERNAUT.

A ten wheeled behemoth with more than 10 opening hatches, 4 firing missles and the space to hold over 20 clone troopers. The best thing though? It's fully motorized and can roll over battle droids. What more could you possibly want? :laugh:

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All the extremities (rocket launchers, missile tower, coning tower) can all move, though they aren't motorized to do so. I didn't measure it's exact length and width but this monster is pretty darn large. There is a scale picture at the end.

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Plenty of opening flaps and hatches to show an interior that consists of a sleeping bay with four bunks and storage, a rear cockpit with pilots seat, a frontal cockpit with commanders seat, pilots seat and navigators seat, a troop bay to hold 10 troopers, launching rockets and easy access to the motor in case serious repairs are needed. :tongue: :grin:

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(It was awfully hard to focus that last shot... :sceptic:)

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Pressing down on the commander in his chair fires two missiles out the front of the Juggernaut. All will be revealed in the video at the end. :devil:

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Some lovely greebles and.... a hair :blush: whoops...

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Here's a lovely photo of your's truly holding the beast for scale. Boy is she heavy, the sheer weight of the vehicle caused serious problems as I was designing the axles :hmpf_bad:, I had to use a series of short technic rods together to hold the wheels in place so nothing snapped under the strain.

Now I couldn't just build a Juggernaut could I?

I felt I had to have something else to go with it, so I built a clone ISP (Infantry Support Platform) commonly refered to as a "Swampspeeder".

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One thing I noticed about all the official lego versions of this craft is that none of them have the wings on the sides of the engines! This was a problem I felt I definitely had to address.

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A lovely close up of the rather exposed pilot. I wouldn't want to drive one of these... The blast shield is more to protect the valuble republic technology than the poor pilot... :grin:

Now for some real action, I had to use my lesser quality camera to take these videos so apologies in advance (my normal camera can't take videos... :hmpf_bad:).

Unfortunately I've just been informed that one can't embed flickr videos on Eurobricks... but if it isn't too much trouble feel free to follow on through these links to see the beast in action.

The first link is all the guns firing and the second is the behemoth rolling away.

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Thanks for reading and watching, constructive criticism is always appreciated,

Bob

Wow, what a great tank, a real beast! I really like all functions, the interior, shaping and ... it's motorised!! And a very nice swamp speeder too, the engine looks really cool.

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Wow, what a great tank, a real beast! I really like all functions, the interior, shaping and ... it's motorised!! And a very nice swamp speeder too, the engine looks really cool.

Thanks Manx! It was a lot of fun incorporating all the functions into the build in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

This thing is amazing!!! The sheer size is fantastic. All of the open hatches make it an amazing playset, without costing any accuracy of the body! The fact that is motorized as well as having an interior is also amazing. Believe it or not, my favorite thing is actually the swamp speeder! :tongue: I love little models like that. Do you have a comparison to an official TLG version? I'm guessing about x2 larger. Do you have plans for any other large vehicles/ships, because this one is fantastic!!

That Juggernaut looks like, well, a juggernaut. Amazing work. One question, though, how do the clones see where they're going? It doesn't look like the opening in the front hatch is low enough for them to see out of. Perhaps some sort of radar screen is needed on the inside of the hatch?

She is a big beast! I'd hate to be the trooper in that crow's nest, seems ripe for attack! Love all the interior spaces and positions. Great that it opens up so much to show off the guts. The speeder is a cool little build also.

Very nice, I also made a version of Juggernaut, the part below is taken from the Anio's Moc and the part above is a modified from set 8098.

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This thing is amazing!!! The sheer size is fantastic. All of the open hatches make it an amazing playset, without costing any accuracy of the body! The fact that is motorized as well as having an interior is also amazing. Believe it or not, my favorite thing is actually the swamp speeder! :tongue: I love little models like that. Do you have a comparison to an official TLG version? I'm guessing about x2 larger. Do you have plans for any other large vehicles/ships, because this one is fantastic!!

Thanks, I really enjoyed building it! No I don't unfortunately, TLG version is in the build :tongue:. But you are right it is definitely longer and larger. At the moment, no large spaceships or vehicles because I am building an interpretation of Dol Guldur and have been for 2 years! This was just a side project :laugh:.

That Juggernaut looks like, well, a juggernaut. Amazing work. One question, though, how do the clones see where they're going? It doesn't look like the opening in the front hatch is low enough for them to see out of. Perhaps some sort of radar screen is needed on the inside of the hatch?

Thanks! The commander can see from his raised chair but the other clones have screens on the inside, unfortunately they aren't visible in the photos I took :sceptic: .

She is a big beast! I'd hate to be the trooper in that crow's nest, seems ripe for attack! Love all the interior spaces and positions. Great that it opens up so much to show off the guts. The speeder is a cool little build also.

It certainly is an open position! I tried to go for as much detail as possible without sacrificing the interior. I find MOCs so much more intriguing when they have an interior. Thank you!

Good work on the CTT! :thumbup: You've build a good overall design, with enough attention to detail.

I do however have two points I do not like that much, those are that the weels are apart too much, in the movie they look like having less space between them, in your MOC the result is a few "awkward" gabs.

Also, the proportions do not seem entirely correct; it seems to be to long for its width. It gives it a bit to much of the train look in my opinion.

These are both points regarding movie-accuracy, I hope I don't come over too rude, cause overall I think you've done a great job. Especially the swampspeeder is spot-on!

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Good work on the CTT! :thumbup: You've build a good overall design, with enough attention to detail.

I do however have two points I do not like that much, those are that the weels are apart too much, in the movie they look like having less space between them, in your MOC the result is a few "awkward" gabs.

Also, the proportions do not seem entirely correct; it seems to be to long for its width. It gives it a bit to much of the train look in my opinion.

These are both points regarding movie-accuracy, I hope I don't come over too rude, cause overall I think you've done a great job. Especially the swampspeeder is spot-on!

No, no, that's fine, much appreciated. I guess the wheels may need to be bigger for the length of the tank. It may need to be taller. You've picked up on the one thing i did deliberately though :tongue: I always remembered it being more elongated and when I searched for pictures it turned out to be taller but I was too lazy to go back and change the base! Though thank you for pointing it out. If I ever build it again I will be sure to make it taller for it width and length.

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