WOW amazing!

One hundred votes in less than 3 days...

Many thanks to all those who gave support and made this possible!

Very impressive entry! Really like the smooth looks and the colors used (including a 1/2 bush blue at the wheel cover?).

Nice to see how you were able to balance the number of parts (as low as possible) versus the functions and details. Must be possible for TLG to produce this model in their targeting price range for a limited edition. Got my vote!

Ps. Now it's my turn..... Instructions please.... :-))))

Love the looks of this entry, you've got my vote as well :-)

Thank you guys!

Very impressive entry! Really like the smooth looks and the colors used (including a 1/2 bush blue at the wheel cover?).

Tried to do it the closest to the official designers style, the best I can imagine.

Ps. Now it's my turn..... Instructions please.... :-))))

Not my area! I'll let it for TLG to do...

This is Brilliant, you have my vote.

Fantastic entry! I love the spare tire mounts and the blue color. The clear panels are really great as well. IMHO, this entry really reflects the ideas LEGO had with the context. Nicely done.

In this TechnicBRICKS article ( http://www.technicbricks.com/2012/12/some-additional-dunechaser-stuff.html ), Conchas (Fernando Correia) posted "Some Additional Dunechase Stuff" -- paint-speckled tires to simulate mud on the Unimog tires and 9398's tires and details of the winch mechanism and headlights:

I like the idea of having the everlasting look of the wheels splashed with mud.

Edited December 22, 201212 yr by Gene

Indeed I was to come here to post the latest developments about the Dunechaser, as I do not pretend to force anybody to listen "my own radio".

But as usual David arrived first and made a resume for an heads-up.

Nevertheless here it goes the full story!

In the sequence of my first entry for the LEGO Technic 2012 competition, I had plan to do also an Offroad Quadbike. Although the time is vanishing and each day this turns more and more unlikely to become real.

Similar to what was proposed for the Dunechaser tires, one of the ideas I had for the Quadbike was also an exclusive set of specially decorated tires and wheels. For the Quadbike I thought about tires speckled with mud, as it was supposed to run offroad and to use the 9398 4x4 Crawler original balloon tires.

I made several tests until I get the desired effect and color. It was first tested with the Unimog tires as they were also that I've chosen for the Dunechaser.

From the photos below you can get an idea of what was my intent and the results I've achieved.

Since the Dakar Rally was diverted into new paths, countries and terrain conditions, these could somehow also fit into the original Dunechaser. Although I still prefer to see it with Unimog tires.

Yeah, I know the tires in use and those in the spares tray, are not the same... didn't have the time to go around this.!...

What do you think? Would you prefer the sand and dust dirty version, or the mud speckled ones? The balloon or the straight tires?

Additional photos added to the Dunchaser set of photos, at my flickr account.

My initial idea included also some sort of vehicle and color schema, where I'd use special orange... chrome wheels (see below), for which I asked the help of a good friend, to arrange some. This was another idea that got behind, because the time available is always too short...

Please notice the tires shown above, are custom Hobby RC tires (by

Ansmann), and thus not intended for the present competition.

Meanwhile I take also the opportunity to show a couple of new renders I did, after the Dunechaser public presentation last week.

One with some of the hood panels removed, so one can see the winch behind these. You might remember the Dunechaser features a winch function, where the winch is not attached to the front chassis, but well hidden behind the front grill (open in the render below). As you can notice, the winch module itself is quite identical to the motorized winch on the 8110 U400 Unimog.

This and the next renders show also the latest modification I did to the headlights, hopefully a consensual improvement detail.

I've changed the 1x1 round plate that mimics the direction blinkers, by a light bulb (58176). They should look a lot better behind the proposed trans-clear panels, because the trans-orange "lamp" gets bigger and more visible.

Highlighted you can see also the large trans-clear panels proposed, here used as covers for the headlights.

If you have not yet voted for the Dunechaser, what are you waiting for?

Please support if you liked the ideas and design proposed.

The time is expiring!

Love the look of those mudspattered tires :) But what about the fenders - shouldn't they be dirty as well?

By the way, your 9398 MOC is definitely one of the best efforts so far - most of the entries seem to be quite lame colour variations on the 9398, or simple mashups of the 8297 body and the 9398 chassis.

P.S.: your website is down?

But what about the fenders - shouldn't they be dirty as well?

Indeed! Also the doors - a bit everywhere in the model

P.S.: your website is down?

No! Although occasionally I get such question.

The blog is hosted by blogger (only the images are external), thus I see little chance to have it down.

Love this model, although 9398's wheelbase seems too small for it maybe if it wins I'll buy it and make a better chassis... unless the 2013 flagship is expensive and amazing

Love this model, although 9398's wheelbase seems too small for it

I agree (to some extent)! Too small for this and for almost everything we could think to build on top of this...

unless the 2013 flagship is expensive and amazing

I bet it will!

Conchas' Dunechaser has been added to Rebrickable. The Parts List is displayed there, and there is a Lego Digital Designer (LDD) .lxf file Building Instruction too. To the question "Are the Very Light Bluish Gray parts intentional?", he replied "Yes the parts you are looking for should be LBG. However please notice that I've used in this model blue panels which most was never produced by TLG so far. My original intention was also do have the gray panels in DBG (as in the displayed render), however in the LDD file I've them also in LBG as they all actually exist from TLG. Enjoy! Best, Fernando." A person who already owns a 9398 set has 74.7% of the parts needed to build the Dunechaser (per this Rebrickable webpage), and there is a list of which parts you are missing.

Edited January 27, 201312 yr by DLuders

Hope to see Dunechaser in action, and also Highway Inforcer. As I know crazy1993 shared his ldd file, so everyone can assmeble it.

...I know crazy1993 shared his ldd file [for his Highway Enforcer], so everyone can assmeble it.

Yes, see the first post in this Eurobricks topic for a link to Crazy_1993's Highway Enforcer LDD .lxf file.

Edited January 27, 201312 yr by DLuders

Hope to see Dunechaser in action, and also Highway Inforcer. As I know crazy1993 shared his ldd file, so everyone can assmeble it.

Yeah! I'll be releasing some more goodies, as I get the time for that... :)

Thanks!

And congratulations for your achievement!!

The Boss was not my preffered, but a very good one indeed! After the Dunechaser... I prferred the horontos Quadbike.

But will buy the Boss for sure!

Yeah! I'll be releasing some more goodies, as I get the time for that... :)

Thanks!

And congratulations for your achievement!!

The Boss was not my preffered, but a very good one indeed! After the Dunechaser... I prferred the horontos Quadbike.

But will buy the Boss for sure!

Thank you.

I have a feeling that you dont have to buy it;)