8837 REMAKE of the Pneumatic Excavator

There's a remake contest at HispaLUG, the challenge is to rebuild in actual stile a LEGO set released before the year 2000 and of course my entry is a technic set, concretely the 8837 Pneumatic Excavator.

This is the original:

And this is my remake, keeping the pneumatic functions, and the double function of the HOG, for steering and for upper excavator body rotation, like all 90's technic set rebuild the main challenge is to "translate" the proportions of technic bricks (6:5) to liftarm (1:1) another detail you will notice is the colour change, from red to orange in order to give an actual look to the model.

The result is a not very elaborated but very playable excavator ( it took me less than tree hours to build)

SFRIP's Mobile Crane and Crane Truck

It's not usual to see that kind of technic creations that mix full of functions technic core, relatively small scale and a Lego "system" exterior, this is because it's not easy to build with that construction requirements.

SFRIP has done it with honours with this two models seen in the past Catbrick 2012 

The images are self-explaining but note the large amount of functions, the scale and the aesthetics that this models have:

Mobile crane

Crane truck

There's some more images at SFRIP's photostream on Flickr and other several interesting creations.

Lego GBC interesting and easy building instructions

Lego vulcan gun Minigun

Tractors, trucks and equipment from Poland

I recently found in Thietmaier's photostream a superb collec

tion of agriculture machines and trucks, viewing these creations it's not easy to figure that the creator has 16 years old!!

Just take a look:

Visit all the sets of the Thietmaier's photostream  to watch closely his magnificent creations.

Extensive review of the LEGO Technic 9398 4x4 Crawler

After the new Lego Power functions elements review Sariel show how these elements work in (for the moment) the unique set where they come, the LEGO Technic 9398 4x4 Crawler.

In this review we will find the box art, time-lapse build, model functionalities, crawling abilities comparative, how it work with other wheels, and a wild engineer hamster...