Renault FT-17 Instructions

[Tommy Styrvoky]

A couple years ago I built a Renault FT-17 for the Model Team contest. During the contest I created my first Ldraw model, this model was rather flawed, as lots of parts were misaligned, and lots of duplicate parts were present. I had received lots of feedback from people asking if a LDD or PDF format instructions were available, as it is becoming one of my most popular videos. At the time I had little experience with Lpub, so I didn't know where to begin with the PDF instructions. Earlier this month I received others having more interest in obtaining PDF instructions. So I began the process of fixing the model, there were lots of flaws with misalignments, duplicate parts, and even areas that hadn't been updated to represent the final version of the model. Since I am at college I began to work on the model, and convert it into further logical steps to rebuild the model. This process involved disassembling the model and ordering the steps backwards. I then decided to import the model into Blender and create a short animation to showcase all of the functions. This animation allows me to show all of the detailed internals with better lighting than I could in real life, though to render this 39 second animation it took around 60 hours. If only OpenCL rendering worked on my Mac... I also decided to make a proper trench for the Renault... in 4K, another 2 hour rendering process.

I thoroughly enjoyed building this model in real life, now everyone as the instructions to have one for themselves.

Enjoy, Tommy Styrvoky

Rebrickable page

Lego Renault FT-17 by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Renault FT-17 by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Renault FT-17 Test Render by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Lego Renault FT-17 Test Render by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

FT-17 internals render by Tommy Styrvoky, on Flickr

Edited April 15, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky

[legolijntje]

Very nice!

A couple of tips regarding your LPub layout:

• It would be better if you make the parts images in the parts lists smaller and keep the assembly image at a 1:1 scale instead of the other way (like you have now).
  
• It would also fit better (I think) if you rotate the page 90 degrees. The model is long and not high, so a page format that is longer than it is high would fit better.
  

Don't take it the wrong way, I really appreciate the (free!) instructions. Just some tips

[Erik Leppen]

Great to see instructions for this lovely model, many thanks for creating them! Lots of detail goes into the model, I like how compact everything is, and all the angles it has.

I didn't know you could resize individual steps, that's good to know.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

Very nice!

A couple of tips regarding your LPub layout:

• It would be better if you make the parts images in the parts lists smaller and keep the assembly image at a 1:1 scale instead of the other way (like you have now).
  
• It would also fit better (I think) if you rotate the page 90 degrees. The model is long and not high, so a page format that is longer than it is high would fit better.
  

Don't take it the wrong way, I really appreciate the (free!) instructions. Just some tips

Thanks, I'm still very inexperienced with lpub, I knew there was a way to change the size of parts, but I didn't know how. I think in my next model I want to experiment with using submodels more often, and having callouts. I had issues trying to install Lsynth to mlcad, as I couldn't find the mlcad.ini in the proper directory I tried reinstalling Mlcad, but had no luck.

Edited April 15, 2016 by Tommy Styrvoky

[Alasdair Ryan]

If you download mlcad from the Ldraw website,it comes with "LSynth" ready to go.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

Rebrickable page is up http://www.rebrickable.com/mocs/TommyStyrvoky/renault-ft-17