Posted September 30, 2024Sep 30 Well after 6 years of living in dark ages of my life i found joy again to build my own models after the g500 i founded joy to build mocs but in my dark ages i almost sold every set and piece so now that i have finally out of dark ages and after the amazing g500 set i decided to start again creating my own creations so i went to my local shop today to buy a "few" sets to start again now i have 3 g500 3 skidders 3 volvo fmx 3 harvesting machines 2 peugeots and 2 jeskos with over 25000 pcs to start new era of my mocs(and before you ask yes i did buy the entire stock of these sets in my local supermarkets sorry kids;) .) here is picture of all sets sorry the third g500 is missing because i opened that before https://pin.it/1kdtZGpaJ
September 30, 2024Sep 30 Author https://pin.it/4QW30RZSs and finally i have opened all the bags to the "sorting" boxes wow this tooked ages to open million bags now i have 6 boxes full of pieces and this looks like candy store now and soon i will start building something i have few ideas on my head now
October 1, 2024Oct 1 Ok cool! Glad you are “back from the dead”! Are you going to just use the sets for parts, or keep one (or two or three!) built? Can’t wait to see the creations!
October 1, 2024Oct 1 Author https://pin.it/1DduwKuT2 well my moc building spree has begun now i have builded compact semi truck axle with diff locks on both axles and lever on the back to switch on both of the diff locks
October 1, 2024Oct 1 Author 7 hours ago, Auroralampinen said: https://pin.it/1DduwKuT2 well my moc building spree has begun now i have builded compact semi truck axle with diff locks on both axles and lever on the back to switch on both of the diff locks Well now i have got the pneumatic outriggers working and other pneumatic stuff this beast is powered with 3 pneumatic pumps like in the old 8455 so far this is going smoothly:)
October 1, 2024Oct 1 Nice! Can't wait to see the finished product! One thing though, if you upload your pictures to bricksafe, you can display the picture, not just a link, which makes viewing much easier. BTW, the bottom view of that truck looks really good! Which set had the pneumatics?
October 2, 2024Oct 2 Author https://pin.it/2UhIkQtj1 day 2 so far progress it is going smoothly still missing the cab front axle amd other stuff:)
October 2, 2024Oct 2 Author https://pin.it/3abzEGmCA well now i have got the back of the cab design perfect and added yellow lever for the pneumatic pumps so now the pneumatic system works and the lever to pump also works this is getting closer and closer to finnishing line today i builded 12 hours almost straight but with few coffee breaks now i will take rest and continue tomorrow im really happy how this is going now and also this is my biggest semi truck and i have reinforced this a lot so this is builded like a real truck;)
October 3, 2024Oct 3 Author well i finally got how to use bricksafe:) 18 minutes ago, Auroralampinen said: well i finally got how to use bricksafe:) And i must admid this dark grey color and white stripe would would work perfectly in a mustang build;) and while that yellow lever can be a little eye sore but this is designed for play and not like shelf queen with bare functions so im happy with the yellow lever:) Edited October 3, 2024Oct 3 by Auroralampinen Added more details
October 3, 2024Oct 3 Author Well here is my testing of functions now this has front axle finaly and also cab starts to get its shape:)
October 3, 2024Oct 3 Author 4 hours ago, Auroralampinen said: Well here is my testing of functions now this has front axle finaly and also cab starts to get its shape:) And yes this weights about 3kg
October 3, 2024Oct 3 Author well now this model has the rare v10 engine i decided to ditch the v12 because its too common so i keeped my original plans wich had the v10 engine:) and yes it is starting to get absurdly big and difficult to build in the table here is can for size comparison i love the shaping of this truck it flows so nicely:)
October 4, 2024Oct 4 Author well i grabbed few more sets for the semi truck build now i have over 33000 pieces to work with:)
October 4, 2024Oct 4 Author Well if you ever wondered what could be the most ridiculous hood hinge in lego world well here is my answer the basics are done and geometry and movement are done but still this mechanisms needs a few adjustments;)
October 5, 2024Oct 5 Author well now the front is heavily reinforced so now this is again builded like a brick and now this weights about 3.5kg And while the wheel base is far apart each other i have reinforced this chassis so much that this isint bending on middle while the chassis is little bit empty and hollow i have reinforced this much better than the lego 1:10 scale ferraris hollow chassis this truck isint bending at all even if hold this in the front while on air this wont bend att all so this has no issues with the durability i always try my best to make the chassis a rock solid and the outriggers do hold the truck so if you remove the front wheels they dont break and chassis is not bending so im really happy with the chassis now:)
October 5, 2024Oct 5 Author well now the hood is taking shape this has been the hardest part of this build i was never great desinger of front area so they usually look really rough so in this model i still have to figure out how i cover top of the headlights
October 5, 2024Oct 5 Author But i have noticed a weird thing with the recent lego pieces when i build like for example a linkage mechanism the pins have dust from those beams especially from light bluish grey beams i dont know what materials lego now uses in their pieces now but it seems the material has gotten softer because my old beams newer did this and never did from one day of using them so this is weird and odd
October 5, 2024Oct 5 This is why lego exists! Excellent... Just get a pile of bricks and make something up. The sheer joy of problem solving and creating something. Utterly perfect!! Please don't put it on a display shelf... make a V2 and a V3, never be satisfied, its the journey of invention and problem solving that is the reason for lego! Wonderful!! The best thread in months!!!
October 5, 2024Oct 5 Author 45 minutes ago, TeamThrifty said: This is why lego exists! Excellent... Just get a pile of bricks and make something up. The sheer joy of problem solving and creating something. Utterly perfect!! Please don't put it on a display shelf... make a V2 and a V3, never be satisfied, its the journey of invention and problem solving that is the reason for lego! Wonderful!! The best thread in months!!! Thanks for the comment:) i remember before my dark ages i got 42070 in christmas present in 2017 and i builded a lot of cool stuff from that and the 42055 pieces so i like to create always something from the ground up:)
October 5, 2024Oct 5 Author well now im happy with the front and the hood. This looks so good and the building is going so smoothly:)
October 6, 2024Oct 6 Author today i tooked day of from this build and now i started thinking the superstructure pneumatics so basically the system works like this pump->superstructure valves and truck valves wich controls the superstructure rotation and the outriggers and in the superstructure first valve from turntable is pressure release valve to prevent the tubes coming of if you over pressure because its a pain to fix the system and then the pressure release valve connects to the superstructure valves via the other connector so you can switch betveen superstructure functions and pressure releasing so now this system is pretty much fail safe:) 6 minutes ago, Auroralampinen said: today i tooked day of from this build and now i started thinking the superstructure pneumatics so basically the system works like this pump->superstructure valves and truck valves wich controls the superstructure rotation and the outriggers and in the superstructure first valve from turntable is pressure release valve to prevent the tubes coming of if you over pressure because its a pain to fix the system and then the pressure release valve connects to the superstructure valves via the other connector so you can switch betveen superstructure functions and pressure releasing so now this system is pretty much fail safe:) And im desiningin that pressure release valve like this that there is a button and its always connected to superstructure but in emergency you can press the button to release the pressure from the system:)
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