Anyway, some photo spam before bedtime... This is to me the most awaited set of 2013!



Good night AFOLs!

anyone interested in mini technic sets?

I kinda like them..mini technic..cute

Reading all these feedback on MK II, makes me wanna grab one also...
Must resist....resist

Yes, 42004 for the front bucket to mod 8043
Probably non relevant to what you have in mind 

After about 6 to 7 hours I think, I only left the boom and last booklet. It is HUGE! Much bigger than the 8258 I build last time. But slightly easier since got numbered bags where-else 8258 has no numbered bags. 

To continue tomorrow morning. 

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They do have more interesting parts n mechanisms n pneumatics 

I actually haven't own a set with pneumatics, hope to get one soon 
First, I need to catch up with a few more backlog of previous years sets b4 buying new sets, it's a never ending journey! 

I have an offer for 42000, not sure want to take or not 

Let me check the building instructions for supercars.
I know some have gearbox (with reverse), pneumatic as suspension, ... maybe can learn something new


edit: for pneumatics, 8110 is the current set. Frankly, at this moment, pneumatics has more disadvantages compared to Linear Actuator.

Advantage of pneumatic:
- more "realistic"
- good for far out places, where gears/axles are not suitable.
- compact for far our places, as no need beams to hold the gears/axles.

Disadvantage:
- shorter cylinder rod extension
- less powerful than LA
- air compressible, not hydraulic.
- no accuracy.
- slow response when activated, need to build up the pressure. Then suddenly fully extended (no accuracy).
- air leaking if left for long time.

etc. That's all I recall so far.

42000 is on my list too. Review says it's almost similar in design to the real thing, but downside is the wheels are not big enough.

I thought only the MOCs have advanced gearboxes with reverse n other features? Most notably from crowkillers' creations

8110 doesn't appeal to me, I think the scale is a bit too big
fig got stolen?

For those terrible condition's packets, i would only settle for half price. Not full price.

For that terrible kiasu fella that picit the packet, may he be cursed forever to fail, getting mr Gold 

For TRU mgt that is reading this, no more letting ur customers picit lar..unless u r willing to let sell those at half price. 

Some photos I took just now

MK2 crane. It is wayyyyy bigger than I had anticipated.
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Haunted house. Very nice with glow in the dark figures!
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I've been doing this over the long weekend.
Done a V6 engine mod onto my 9398 rockcrawler.
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By using 3 universal axle joint to transfer the rotation power from the front motor, to a gear on the chassis. The gear from the V6 engine can then be detached when the chassis is flipped up.
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Comments are welcomed

BTW, just finish my mobile crane MKII this holiday... my first set that unable to complete in 1 day...
let me share some pictures that i take this morning (haven't apply stickers yet)


personally, i'm prefer the hook to be in one piece of metal, just like those old sets but i don't think it's possible with this size...
and there are "sound of doom" or sound like somethings gonna broken when raise or lower the crane part to maximum point...

took me 2 days to complete (about 13-15 hours) even i'm follow the instruction, only open the packages that's require instead of open all at once... (normally i will open all at once and search through all the parts and this is my first set to use this method and i found it not bad actually... reduce the chances of wrong parts)

probably take me longer time if i apply stickers as well...

first thing that surprise me when i open the box - the wheel... it's really bigger than I had anticipated although there is picture show 1:1 of wheel size but it really surprise me when i take it out from the box

and it not only 10 rubber wheels in MKII i'm sure it can be seen in my pictures

lone ranger for now

cos i wanna do this

just finnish 42006 few days ago.. already beh tahan.. just bought 42009