Technic Challenge Entry: Moon Buggy Crane

[Saberwing40k]

It's finally ready, my tremendous entry into the challenge! This beast took more than 2 months of work in LDD to finish.

It features many functions and new part colors, some of which are detailed below:

Functions:

Crane with turtable rotation, 2 pneumatic joints, an extending section, and a winch.

An additional remote controlled winch at the front.

Full six wheel drive, and steer.

An auto compressor, and 2 airtanks

Outriggers

Opening doors, and back section.

All functions except for the doors are remote controlled.

New colors:

New parts in teal

New transparent panels

Lots of black gears

Lots of rare black parts

Titanium metallic tread sprockets

2 additional L motors and three additional servos.

Now, a bit on the design: When I first was planning on making this thing, I was kind of limited by the boxiness of the 9398 chassis, so I devised an extension of it. However, this extension looked terrible, at least for any real world six by six, so I chose to make it a lunar rover of sorts. The crane came next, and is based of of one I made in real life, for a different project. Operating said crane are two servo autovalves.

The outriggers are probably the most complex aspect, as both stages are deployed by a single M motor, going through a very complex gear system. More pictures of the mechanism will be posted later, probably after the competition ends, same thing with the files.

Front View

Bottom view (the most interesting one. ) This view also clearly shows how the 9398 chassis is intergrated into the rest of the vehicle.

Top view.

Alternate aerial view.

The crane and outriggers deployed, showing the crane's intergrated winch.

Side view.

Gallery of big photos, one moderated: Link

Vote for it here: Link

Please vote!, and thanks for looking.

[rm8]

You are crazy man:) it is HUGE!!!

+ my vote!

Edited December 13, 2012 by rm8

[olaf9198]

Lol. It just looks like it isn't built on the 9398. Nice done. But i think it is a bit to big but hope it isn't. Finaly some good enteries

[hrontos]

When you said, that you would like to build 6 wheel moonrover, I expected anything but this is far beyond my expectations.

This is really moonstruck (I hope this nice word really means what my dictionary states - I like how it combines moon and truck and the crazyness of this huge model).

You got my vote for this creation and your "out of the box" thinking.

This beast took more than 2 months of work in LDD to finish.

As I know the LDD a bit, I can imagine what a work was that.

Edited December 13, 2012 by hrontos

[legomuppet9]

This is huge.... but I have a feeling that this either doesn't abide with the rules or will be way too expensive to win.... good model though

[Conchas]

This is impressive! And love all those trans-something panels.

My feeling is that this touches exactly what the TLG team wanted to avoid when they made the rules.

They wanted us to do something on top of the chassis, thus avoiding the most sensitive and laborious part of the model, which will also requires more tests.

building in front of the chassis and adding extra wheels, circumvents the rules but doesn't avoid the essential problem.

Guess you found your own way to challenge the rules...

Unfortunately we are not thos who decide on this game...

[Edwin Korstanje]

Very great design and good thinking out off the box , but unfortunaly it's not by the TLG rules

[Gene]

I believe this is the largest technic model with the largest parts count in the competition!

[Balrog]

Wow, this is huge. I am not sure if I would be willing to buy it, but I'd love to see it as a real model.

I humbly offer myself to provide some processing power for some renders :D

[hrontos]

I humbly offer myself to provide some processing power for some renders :D

If you would like to use rendered images, I can also help. With minimum level of detail (=LDD) it should not take that long to render even this big model with many transparent parts.