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Re: 18 wheeler truck
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Thu, 24 Dec 1998 01:41:11 GMT
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James Mathis wrote:
> I have also seen them used to make a Automated Transaction Money
> (ATM?) machine for someone's MOC LEGO bank. The two quarter-disks were
one >above the other separated in height by about two bricks. One q-d
was the >counter top, the other formed the roof. Very nice. I believe
the color was >red.
Was that in a corner, or were the bricks diagonally mounted?
> I have not been used to building much with studs showing 'sideways' on
> a LEGO model. I'm with you on doing so: For my Yellow Dutch Train • Engine
> uses sideways mounted town car roofs with sunroof for train doors. I'm
> getting used to it.
I saw that. It looks nice, and is a great way to make the doors if you
lack the prefabricated ones.
> If you are not against filling the inside of the trailer with bricks,
> perhaps a 1 by x plate could span the width of the trailer? Wouldn't • need so
> many 1x1 plates? I used this tactic for the white Swiss Rail dual arrow
> symbol on my red Swiss train engine. The added plastic in using 6 stud
wide >bricks to make the symbol appear on both sides also added a great
deal of mass >to the model. This helped the traction for the 9v motor.
Good idea, but it would ruin the tunnel-like appearance of the interior
of the trailer. The way it is now, I could almost fit my 2148 with its
trailer inside the arrow design trailer.
> Oooh, the 5571. I put that set together this past Sunday. What a
> beautiful (large) set. I seldom leave built very many LEGO designed
models, >but this truck sits prominently in the living room next to the
Model Team
> Ferrari.
I think its an amazing model too. I wanted to motorize it, but the gears
I used to gear it down slipped. The motors provided enough power with
the gears, but the truck decided to fall apart instead of move. I then
ripped the motors out and decided that there were so many excellent
pieces in the model that I would use the pieces instead of putting the
truck back together again.
> Concerning the fifth wheel: Did you basicly scale-down the 5571's
> fifth wheel? Just curious what you did. (sorry I haven't looked at the
> LDRAW file)
Pretty much. It uses two 2 x 1 curve bricks for the front edge of the
fifth wheel and two Slope 33 3 x 1 bricks placed sideways for the
tapering sides of the fifth wheel. There is a technic 2 x 1 beam in the
middle. The trailer has a short axle that goes through the whole in the
beam. The fifth wheel tips up and down like a real one as well.
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
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WWW: http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/
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| (...) I believe they were in a corner. <snipped the train doors> <snipped the full-width concept> (...) I certainly understand wanting to keep the interior of a box-trailer free from interior obstruction. I would take the same attitude. That's a big (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Bram Lambrecht also writes: (...) To very good use you put them. At the LEGO Imagination Celebration Truck Tour show in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, I saw eight of them assembled into two wheels (4 quarter-disk bricks each wheel) for a rolling (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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