GeoffreyTheSeahorse

That is some intense legoing! I am also a Radio Control car enthusiast. If you want some help in that department I can help. I saw your other picture with the American red rig. Those are fun in scale models! I like big rigs too.Out of curiosity, what Birmingham are you in? US or UK.

Minirotty

Birmingham UK.

The RC is all Lego Equipment, still frustrated as I've struggled with finding powerfull enough AA batteries and niw i have them I can't charge them!

Alkoline I have and both my chargers are for NiMH and Li-ion which I didn't understand wont charge the Alkoline batteries I have.

Struggle has been to get 1.5V 2500+ mAh AA's.

Minirotty

One of my mates Wozza spent day at mine today, he bought me a present too lol

Caddyshack

I would get some lipo's made up to fit within the housing if I was you.

Minirotty

Not a clue what that is mate?

Caddyshack

Lipo and Lifepo are different battery tech. Far more volaiile, explosive and energy dense. They produce much more power than AA.

This page has 3.2v and 1.2v...you would need half the amount of AA with the 3.2v to avoid over volting it (although I expect you could run a bit more than the 1.5v that the system uses a multiple of.


https://www.batteriesplus.co.uk/acat...SABEgLLOPD_BwE

Also see the NIMH rechargeable ones.

If you can fit a lipo in the hole you would have all the voltage and tiny battery. Things like Radio controlled helicopters run on LIPO power.

A Tesla electric car runs on something like Lifepo.


The ones in this link are half the size of AA and twice the power so you would get 4 X AA voltage within the space of 1 AA battery

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Product...SABEgI1r_D_BwE

Caddyshack

OR rip the guts out of the controllers and make up your own box to hold the batteries and just fit any battery you like (such as lipo or lifepo4 or Nimh stick pack) as long as the voltage ends up the same...you could even glue together the lego to make the box to hold it all in.....think of it more like modding a car where you want a 5.0 V8 in the hole where a 1.2 would have been, it is just a matter of re-fabricating what you need to get the job jobbed.

Minirotty

Does sound like a plan but I’ve given up on it for now lol

Feels like a whole since I’ve done some bricking but I’ve managed to get a set I’ve been wanting for a while from China! Haha love my Chinese sets.

The bad ass 8 wherler that was on Top Gear some time back.

Full 8 wheel drive and also 8 wheels steer, drive as the real ones does!

All directions, crabs diagonaly, front and rear opposite lock etc

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

cool set! The boxes came in handy then!

Minirotty

Yeh mate they’re great for storage and sorting etc

This is one complicated build!

gcfcos

Wow that looks like some work to get that built that’s gonna be awesome mate. I get shitty at some of my daughters small sets we get out the shop lol

RichieST

iTrader: (2)

That's cool, was it from aliexpress?

visa_broke

I noticed on aliexpress quite a few of the lepin stuff that I was watching has been removed lately, I keep looking at the millenium falcon ucs as of late and the amount of people selling it has dropped quite a bit.

Minirotty

Yeh get all of my non Lego from Ali.

I wouldn’t pay much attenntion to listings disapearing, sellers chane and remove stuff so much on there, easiest way to buy is jusy search for what you want specially and loads will pop up.

On the photo’s I’m uploading the piece between my fingers is 7 long and I had to remove it from centre of build as didn’t pay 100% and got it wrong, al tuck me a couple of hours to strip and rebuild again lol

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

nightmare. you never notice the fuck ups until its hard work to fix either!!

Minirotty

Yeh iits all good tho

Proper chilled build, no rush...

Minirotty

Chassis sections connected...

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

That looks very impressive Kev.

Minirotty

Thanks Glenn, it is very very complex this one.

Bit more progress.

Minirotty

Well after a bit of a nightmare its finished.

I got 90% through and checked the steering locks and rear axle travel had become stuck, couldn’t for life of me see why.

Had to strip it down and found my mistake, forgot to push a couple of axle pins in.

But all done now and its an awesome machine.

8x8 & Crab steering on all axles, loads of torque.

Looks good on my big rig trailer too.

Minirotty

Minirotty

Mods have started already... roof rack added ready for when I get a spare wheel/s and arials added too.

Minirotty

Minirotty

Can’t help myself, been messing still, roof rack, areils and fittied big light bar across top of front too.

Also made a strong platform for all the remote controls like Indod with the big trucks controls.

Minirotty

11,000+ pieces of plastic brick therapy!!

gcfcos

That’s incredible mate

RichieST

iTrader: (2)

That's bloody brilliant Kev!

Minirotty

Thanks lads, I’ve been contacted on Facebook by someone who’s doung a Lego exhibition at NEC next May and asked me if I’ll display my lorry there, quite chuffed so going to attend.

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Wow how good will that be Kev to show of your truck.

Does the 8 wheeler have full suspension too??.

Minirotty

Yes mate watch this video

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Cool vid.

Minirotty

Some more fettling done and spare wheel now mounted on the roof.


[IMG]https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/passionford.com-vbulletin/2000x1515/80-be753e09_d713_472c_aa44_cbfc0673d5a2_33e6b29904d2b d1f108b93109dd2489e3c4c48db.jpeg

Minirotty

So I thought I’d cracked it, the Trucks power issues lol

I bought some bargain cheap Lego for its power functions, bargain cheap Lego doesn’t come up very often!

I added two more receivers so that I could dedicated a power supply to wach motor as the receivers only take power from one power box before going pop lol

Then I added two more battery boxes in the main cab and then tried it, drove great and lots of torque.

Then tonight tried with trailer, pulled it with ease! For 1 minute lol

Then the gearing have up, the gears just sounded crunchy and stopped moving, quick look shows all the XL motors have koved and gearing moved so it didn’t like thentorque.

I redesign the gearing to the driven wheels, see how I get on lol

Minirotty

Lorry spec’s


Cabin...

10x8WD
4 x XL Motors
5 x Receivers
5 x L Battery Box
2 x Switch Extensions
2 x Short Extensions
30 x AA Batteries
1 x Servo
3 x M Motors
Twin Pneumatic Pump (aito stop/start)
6 x 6 Front coil overs
4 x 4 Rear Pneumatic Suspension
2 x Pneumatic Lift Cab
1 x Pneumatic 5th wheel
4 x LED Head Lights
3 x Single remotes
1 x Double remote
1 x Spare Wheel

Trailer

16 Wheel Steering
2 x Servo
Power (USB Charge Box)
Fifth Wheel Chain Driven Batter Trigger
1 x Switch Extension
2 x Short Extensions
2 x Pneumatic Tail Lifts
2 x Pneumatic Lift Stands
2 x M Motors for remote pneumatic functions
1 x Receiver
1 x Spare Wheel

Over 8000 Pieces
Many Custom Chrome Pieces

bassboy

Cant believe you built the 6 wheeler so quick! I cant seem to find the time to build at the moment Im sure I will get back into it soon! Need to finish my camper van...

Im currently not trying to spend any money on anything I dont 'need'...need to save those pennies!

Keep up the good work...still cant believe the sheer size of the lorry!

Minirotty

Thanks mate, I built it over a couple of weeks I still build as a therapy tool.

Take my time, tend to build when Im in managable pain as it helps keep my mind healthy.

I am obssessed tho atm with the lorry lol trying to make the drive train useable and reliable, tonight made more mods to the gearing issues I highlighted and again worked well untill the next weakness was found, going around in circles atm reminds me of a real life build lol

I found the gears were spinning on the aplines under load. Solved that and then tonight the weakness has gone to the pins, so after a lot of head scratching I think I mat turn to CRAGLE lol

jason_nike

Finally got around to finishing this Ferrari to go with my other models.

georgie1

iTrader: (6)

kev i got one off these for xmas

need info please on how you did roof rack and what needed as like what you done plus the spare wheel please m8

Minirotty

Very nice collection man! Im constantly tempted to buy the green one too!

Just made it from my spare mate and my own design from parts, haven’t got any instructions for it?

Minirotty

Most rexent build I’ve done is this Hill Climbing Lorry!

In these pics I’ve modified from standard a few ways but ones you can see are the tyres, the ones it came with are same as Lego ones on my big truck, I found some off road r:c knes which fitted the lego whels which suited the look better.

Also I changed all the gearing as other people who’ve built it had issues with soeed ans power, so I changed all gear ratio’s to suit model better and have no issues.

I have done more mods since these pics and lots more to come, I’ll update again once Imm happy with it.