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| Hi all. (URL) This is a little 4 wide monster truck I made a while ago. I made a cad model of it at the time, and recently pulled my finget out and made up some instructions and a hi quality render. The render took almost 15 hours on my old steam (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| (...) Hey, Great model! I like the size, it is really minifig scale. I like the suspension, usually on a model this size someone wouldn't have any suspension. Erik Bush (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Erik. I couldn't iamgine making a monster truck at any scale without suspension, but it did present an interesting challenge at this scale. I originally made this for my 5yo son to play with. Playable features like this are a must for (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| Allister, This was a fun build! I had to tweak things a bit to get it to work with my collection, but it is still true to your awesome design. I love the blend of technic and standard pieces. Good work and thanks for the instructions. --Jack AFOL, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Thanks Jack. It's nice to hear that I'm not just throwing these thing out into the void and that someone is actually building them. I'm glad you enjoyed the build. Allister ps. I uploaded a new render this morning. My first attempt at adding (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| "Jack Hawk" <jack_lego_maniac@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20040216173125....hoo.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I saw this model on BrickShelf over the weekend and showed it to my son (he is 9). He immediately asked if we could build one. My (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) That's really cool. I'm glad this model passed the kid test. It is fun driving it over the lego pile and seeing the suspension working. I thought after I built it that it would look good in black, maybe with a red or yellow car base - good (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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| "Allister McLaren" <Allister.McLaren@Alcan.com> wrote in message news:Ht9M0I.p58@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) lego pile (...) would look (...) A colored chassis is a good idea - maybe we'll switch it out. We did go with a chrome (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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