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Hi folks, Looks like it is a plentiful weekend for new MOCs! I have a preview of a new creation online, yet another All Terrain Crane, but with some new twists to keep things interesting. Still, is it possible to have too many cranes? The model is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.loc.uk) !!
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Hi Jennifer! First off let me say - I've heard about you, but this is the first time I've ever seen one of your creations. Technic isn't the apple of my eye; I'm not crazy about the pure mechanics with no aesthetics. But I love model team and (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Nope! Especially when they are of such high quality :). Steve (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi Shiri, Thanks for the reply! The problem with the corrugated tubes was finding a way of attaching them to traditional bricks in a seamless way. Usually an axle joiner and pin or similar is required, which works great in the normal technic style (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That's a lot like saying is there such a thing as too many Lego bricks? Of course not!:) My first reaction to your pho was, quite honestly, "what's with the reference photo here?"...until I read the note on the site saying that was your model. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:GsEI5n.2nD@lugnet.com... (...) Crane, (...) possible (...) website, (...) but (...) Excellent. As usual :-) lawrence (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Let me add my etc. etc. etc. to the chorus of wows. :-) I think what struck me was that you have to look fairly close to tell it's not a model at thumbnail illustration sizes. Even when you go to the Demag site and line up their 3/4 cab (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thanks! I'd love to say it was entirely deliberate but the photos were really a semi-intentional accident. They were taken in my sister's driveway where the grey chuckies seem to scale well into large boulders, the bushes look uncanilly like (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Interesting... when I look at it all I can see is a pile of bricks :-) I think when you've been doing a model for a long time this perception is inevitable. The photo was indeed intended to be roughly congruent with the one on the Demag (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) You make it sound so ordinary but nothing is ordinary when it comes to your MOC's - especially not this time as it turned out! And to answer your qestion, yes, but it's not possible to have too many Jennifer cranes :) Someday I'll also build a (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Definitely a great weekend for MOCs (that reminds me, I'd better get to work myself, and get some of my items posted for Lugnet's viewing pleasure) The design is awesome (though I'm not really a technic fan), and I definitely look forward to (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Wow, I think I actually understood that. <grin> Is that the pin that actually has a stud-like top? I remember a piece like that from the big airplane I had (a black and yellow one, I'm sure you guys know the numbers by heart just like I can (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Thanks Tobbe! (...) It did get quite tricky right enough, but I have to say that using some of the newer types of technic pieces really helped here. I really think these pieces have great possibilities in terms of getting very strong mechanisms into (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Try fitting an standard size RC servo, or better yet, try to get five into a medium sized model. That's what I've been doing the whole day... Flexi is a life-saver though... I think I need to tinker more with the new pieces. (...) Sith (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, your not looking hard enough!! :) (URL) silver piece that makes up part of the hydraulic plumbing is the light sabre handle! Sharp eyed Steve (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'm not doing anything like that on my current project's cab, but I'm 95% certain that I'm gonna break the habit of a life time and modify a part. What I'm thinking of doing is splicing two windscreens together from the Racing truck to form a (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) subject, didn't you Jennifer???? And then you go and post a link to pictures of another Clark Classic, as if to just thumb your nose at us??!!?? Have you no shame???!!!??? But I think we're all glad you did 8?) That's really nice. Can't wait (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hm... I saw the chromes piece but I did not know it was a light sabre handle :) I always thought a light sabre was red or green shining stick :) /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Now I understand why you needed the grey minifig hands! I also like the barcode truck wheels. They are a favorite of mine, being so realistic loking. The model looks very nice, as usual. It was probably very interesting to build it. I'm looking (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I KNEW! you we're going to say that! :) Steve (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi Jennifer, Great model! It's really similar to the real DEMAG crane! Also nice to see a company edition of a LEGO-crane. Baldwinns is not an unknown lifting operator. Are you going to build their LTM11000 as well??? ;-) Dennis (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Am I that predictable or are the force with you? I need to get my hands om some non-Technic sets one of these days... /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) You are correct. I have found some wonderful pieces in my daughter's LEGO kits that work well in some of my robotics creations. Never limit yourself to only technic kits. If you do you will severly limit your ability to add the fine detail (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) A real treat to the model-team and technic heads alike. As others, I cannot wait to read the write-up on your website. In all the pictures posted, one question is nagging me - what are the pieces that you are using for the mirror "arm" (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Uhhh...hhh....... As usual with your models, I thought the first shot was the actual crane, until I clicked on it to see the close-up details. And it's radio-controlled too???? Yikes. Excellent work, as always... --Bill. (I added (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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(...) NO! Never! (...) one has certainly exceeded your previous works. (...) I'm really looking forward to seeing the inner details of your crane. I know we're all going to ooh and ahh over your intricate and clever mechanical mechanisms, especially (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well spotted! It's a hack :-) The doors have had a triangle cut out of them as they were so close to being perfect it would have been a shame not to use them, and the mirror brackets are flex tubes bent to 90 degrees. They are attached to a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I wouldn't hold my breath :-) Not owning a car, one of my design criteria is that models have to fit into a plastic carrier bag for transporting on the train, so three axles is about as far as it can go with cranes :-) I had to take the crane (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Impressive! Like so many others, I just wanted to jump in and say outstanding work. Ashley Glennon (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrdofi4zn9o.fsf....uio.no... (...) Well spotted! I thought things were maybe getting a bit much when I started to worry about the colour of the minifig hands being used as fake (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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"Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GsEzyM.280@lugnet.com... (...) Not quite, although they are similar, and you can use that part in this situation, it just isn't very strong. This is the one here: (URL) Hmm... I wouldn't go as (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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