Future Projects
Note: to stay up-to-date with the progress on my models, be sure to check my Facebook page and my monthly video workshop reports.
Currently building:
- M1A2 Abrams tank – 90% complete
- Triggo urban vehicle – 70% complete
- A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft – 60% complete
- Jeep Willys SAS – 50% complete
- Lamborghini Aventador – 45% complete
- King Tiger XL tank – 35% complete
- ORP Orzeł submarine – 30% complete
- TOG II tank/boat – 20% complete
- M4A2 Sherman tank, “Twaby Ark” variant – 15% complete
- T-34 XL – 10% complete
- MBT-70/KPz 70 tank – 10% complete
- K-Wagen tank – 5% complete
In the queue:
- 1969 Corvette Stingray car
- 1970 Dodge Challenger car
- 2015 Dodge Challenger police car
- Airport Crash Tender
- Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 car
- Aliens Dropship
- B2 aircraft
- BMW i8 car
- Bucket Wheel Excavator
- Caterpillar 953 Tracked Loader
- Caterpillar 7495 Electric Rope Shovel
- Caterpillar D6K2 Dozer
- Dodge Viper car
- Doosan CX Concept Excavator
- ELC AMX tank
- F-117A Nighthawk
- F-22 Raptor aircraft
- Ferrari 360 Spider car
- Ferrari 599 GTO car
- Ferrari LaFerrari car
- Grizzly Combat Engineering Vehicle
- IS-7 tank
- Jeep Wrangler Snowcat car
- Kalinin K7 aircraft
- Kamov Ka-50 Hokum aircraft
- Kenworth K100 truck
- KITT car
- KV-1 tank
- Lamborghini Countach car
- Lamborghini Reventon car
- Lead Sled car
- Liebherr LTM1250 mobile crane
- Liebherr R924 excavator with Leonard Boom
- M2 Bradley APC
- M6 Heavy Tank
- M35 Wrecker truck
- M41 Walker Bulldog tank
- Mad Max Bigfoot car
- MAN SX truck
- Matilda Mk2 tank
- MAZ 7310 truck
- Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
- Mi-24 Hind aircraft
- P-38 Lightning aircraft
- P-51 Mustang aircraft
- Peterbilt Wrecker truck
- RAH-66 Comanche aircraft
- Ratte tank
- Rocket 2 trike
- Steiger Panther tractor
- StuG III tank destroyer
- SU-47 Berkut aircraft
- T18 Boarhound car
- Uboot type VIIc submarine
- V-22 Osprey aircraft
- Vermeer T1255Commander 3 trencher
- Versatile 450 tractor
- Warhammer Stormblade tank
@Motor
Yes.
is the mercedes benz going to be red.
@Knud Ahrnell Albrechtsen
It won’t take some extra time, it will take tens of hours to be done properly. I make a lot of photos, I describe how everything works, add your own creativity to it and you should be fine. I’m not the LEGO company, I don’t have time for instructions.
@Sariel
Hi again Sariel
Yes it probably will take some extra time when you disassemble, but i think it may be the easiest way to document. And you could possibly make a little money selling these instruction-pictures.
you can see an example of it here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=276743
His piece has arround 2800 pieces and i am currently assembling this.
I have bought two custom instructions the past couple of month. And i am willing to get more as they are typically more interesting to build than most sets from Lego.
Kind Regards
Knud
@Knud Ahrnell Albrechtsen
I tried this, but it actually takes quite long and helps very little. When models have 3000 pieces or more, taking photos of disassembly is really, really tricky.
Hi
I have just seen some of your projects and they are really cool.
i especially like your robotic arm
Regarding the questions about creating photos of you creations as instructions.
You say that you dismantle them for reuse. How about taking photos as you dismantle ?
This can be used to reverse ingeneer your models ? and it will only take a bit longer for you to dismantle 🙂
Kind Regards
Knud
@jürgen
In the future. 2013, probably.
when you will make a solaris urbino
you should build something like a John deer tractor with a arm and a bucket in the front.
@Sariel
not many people do, it’s not beautiful, it’s.. unique. Kinda 🙂
you haven’t toyed with any exact ideas about the car, have you?
@Shurtugl
Perhaps you should see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmR-Y4fp404
@Sariel
I understand why you say that. Same shape, same function. But then, why doing so much tanks, or Trial Trucks ? I disagree. It won’t be the exact same product.
I think a crawler like this one would be more complicated than the BV206 you made, having more wheels, with (christie?) semi-axle suspensions (you use them well on your tanks) and to respect the real one, only one motor in the front tracked part. Look at the center join, different from hagglund too.
Sorry to insist about that, but i really like the truck and it always has been a challenge to me to make a working one. I never finish it. Still have torque or structure problems… I will be honoured if you accept the challenge too. Making lego one as close as possible from the real one.. as long as it is only legos. oh! and the real one is amphibious (but if you make it, then famous maya world’s end would be delayed)
Now i feel like a 10 year old children, giving his teacher a math exercice, only because i find it “the hardest one on earth” (if you see what i mean)
@Mike
No, sorry, I don’t like it.
If once you decide on building an FWD car, what about a Volvo 480 turbo? I think it’s a nice looking car.
@Shurtugl
Thanks, but it doesn’t seem much different from my BV-206. It would be almost like building the same thing.
Hi Sariel !
I’ve seen your BV-206, which work great. I prefer an other tracked allroad truck : the Vityaz DT-30. How about making one ? I know trial rules “no tracks” so you won’t use it in, but i think such a design will be awesome in outside tests.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your work, it’s impressive and give lego’s fans good motivation.
PS: sorry my english, us french people, we do not learn foreign languages as well as we need to.
COOL IDEAS
cool. im definetly gonna buy your book
@jimmy3
No. I’ve made a few for my book, though.
by any chance do you plans for a lego pneumatic engine?
@Sariel
Great to hear, Im sure they’ll be great.
@Cody
Yes, I have. I will be trying to build some of the modern planes.
Have you ever thought of making an Aircraft? Such as a spitfire or Zero With working landing gear and such, or do you just do land vehicles?
@mili
Maybe.
do u have plans to make a FWD car?
@Mike
I’m not going to do that, but yes, upside-down portal axles are possible. Some buses use them.
@Sariel
do you think it’s possible to design an upside-down portal axle that takes less space than a floating axle?
@Mike
No, it’s going to be exactly the same size but with loads of improvements, starting with body color.
@Sariel
Wow. I didn’t think they’re that much bigger than 8448’s wheels.
The floating suspension is going to be an interesting feature with the low ground clearance, I hope you won’t have to switch to a pendular design while building.
I’m also curious how you’re goiong to motorize the turret, I’ll try to think of ideas and see if I’m right when the model will be ready.
So all in all it’s not gonna be bigger than the first model, right?
@Mike
Nope. The Unimog wheels are too big and suspension is too tall.
APC 🙂 oh yes. I loved the first take. Are you going to use the Unimog wheels and suspension (type)?
@qwertyuiop
I don’t have such plans at the moment. The problem is, there is no way to build a “simple” LSD with LEGO, I have tested some designs myself and they were many times larger than regular differential. With LEGO, you are much better off simply removing differentials completely because it won’t do as much damage as in real cars. On another hand, I’m currently building a vehicle with differential locks.
Do you think that in the future, you will make an offroad vehicle with Limited-Slip-Differentials? I have seen a design at Sheepo’s website for a linear clutch between the two axles of a differential, and I have also tested this design with several different gear ratios between PF XL motor and differential, and with different gear ratios between differential and clutch, and I have found that the design works quite well with a 5:1 gear ratio between motor and differential and 1:1 ratio between the differential and clutch. It allows enough slip between axles to not affect the performance whilst turning, but still keeps the vehicle moving with one wheel in the air.
I’m only asking because all throughout your video about the 9838 outdoors with the 8878 battery I was thinking that a simple LSD mechanism for all the differentials would have greatly increased its performance in an offroad situation.
@qwertyuiop
I’m practically not touching it because I’m so busy with my book.
That Caterpillar seems to have taken a fair bit of time to build. Have you been pressed for time lately or is it just incredibly complicated? Either way, can’t wait to see how many amazing functions end up in it.
@mili
Currently not. I have no inclination for the big size.
hello sariel, do u have plans to make bigger Liebherr LTM such as the 1500 and 11200?
Hey sariel!
I just want to give you an building idea 😉 or a inspiration.
Have you ever heard from the Porsche 918 Spyder study?
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&cp=12&gs_id=6p&xhr=t&q=porsche+918+spyder&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1920&bih=908&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=mSnNT4jZGYrItAan_4y6Bg
Maybe, you don’t like it, but it would be awesome, if you like it and buid it in future time, not morning, not next month, but some days 😀
best regards – Alpha
@Sariel
yes I saw that there is no connection. I wonder how well the four motors will drive the car. And for how long 🙂 (batteries)
@Mike
FWD is pretty much necessary in this case, to distribute the power of four motors efficiently. Yes, it would be possible to run various motors at varying voltage with NXT, although I imagine it would not be easy to calculate a formula for it. In any case, front and rear axle of my Zonda are driven independently, with no mechanical connection in between, so this is a simpler way of substituting a central diff 🙂
@Sariel
Building a supercar is one thing. Tuning it with extra FWD is.. something wicked 🙂
Theoretically, if you were using nxt stuff (can you vou control non-nxt motors with that?) would it be possible to write a program that sends different voltage (rpm) to front & rear motors when turning, in proportion with the steering angle? thus substituting for a central diff.
@Nick
I have no such plans at the moment, but I plan to build a regular firetruck.
I a huge fan and I love your work! But do you think you could make an airport firetruck like the Oshkosh Striker? I think that they offer a number of interesting features that would make a fun Lego project.
@Mike
Zonda is RWD originally. It’s going to be black & red.
I didn’t know the Zonda was 4wd :O
this is going to be an interesting supercar with all the RC units.
For the color scheme: maybe black with orange parts? 🙂
@Sariel
Sounds good, IMHO i prefer PF 😉
@Matt
Thanks. It will be purely PF, although possibly with a little bonus.
It’s nice to see that you will start on the Caterpillar 740 soon, will there be any NXT in this model or will it be purely Power functions? Thanks in advance and good luck with this one 🙂
@will
Thanks, but unfortunately it wasn’t a beauty contest.
@Sariel well, i think that they were the best looking
@Ben
That’s very far from true.
@Sariel
you have to be kidding! you make the BEST trial trucks! 🙁
if u quit trial trucks i have nobody whos creations to look at …:(
@Shawn
I quit making any Trial Trucks whatsoever.
Have you thought of making a NXT Trial Truck?
@SPARTA
Yes, I will build it one day.
Have you thoght of making a Pagani Zonda?
@zeke
Then go ahead and build one.
@Sariel
but its still a cool car and it would be cool to see in lego
@zeke
Personally, I think there’s plenty of more interesting cars.
it would be cool if sariel could build a ssc ultimate aero that is one cool car
Than I would pick the red, and later make a tracked articulated tractor
@bertolli
I’m not going to make it green, that would be hardly possible with Lego. More likely red or yellow.
About that that steiger, they usually don’t have rear axle suspension and were would you get that color green?
@master2708
Thanks! 🙂 Good old 280.. love it!! Don’t forget the slight steering of the rear axle! 🙂
@master2708
Well, I think RWD will be actually the easiest solution in this case.
I must say, that solaris urbino 18 draft my attention. I am wondering if you want it to be motorized. If yes, it would be very interesting and challenging project, because it is rwd and as far as I know, the articulation is controlled by actuators so the bus won’t let’s say “break” while turning maximally on tight corners. You inspired me to build an articulated bus, but I think that instead of solaris, I will try to build e.g. Ikarus 280 which is let’s say “middle wheel drive” 😉
I see,well I look forward to seeing it.
@Minotaur
It’s half complete at best. I had no time to build recently.
Makes sense.I’m so looking forward to your Reach Stacker,is it almost completed or do you have some kinks to work out?
@Minotaur
I guess so. I wouldn’t want to model a vehicle I don’t like.
Is the list of all the creations you want to make all your favorite vehicles?
@arjan
Of course it’s going to be a PF model.
@Jonas
No, never.
Sariel, have you ever consider making a conventional tractor (i.e. a “normal” tractor with bigger wheels back)? Its actually quite challenging if you want to use real Lego wheels and at the same time keeping the proportions of the tractor accurate. The main problem is that you don’t have so much space to hide stuff.
Is your reach stacker going to be a PF model? or is it going to be manual/nxt?
Legal stuff,the big kicker. :p
@Minotaur
I can’t name anything until we have a cover design and the book is officially announced. Legal stuff, you know.
Interesting,isn’t naming a project the first thing someone does before proceeding? 🙂 Usually that is what I do.
@Minotaur
The name is not official yet, I’m afraid.
Ah,I see thanks for the link.Whats the name of your book?
@Minotaur
I can’t say yet, honestly. Maybe this will help you out: http://nostarch.com/distribution.htm
Hello Paul,I’m pretty sure you are getting a lot of harassment about this but,will your book be in stores like Barnes n Noble or in small book store’s and when will it be in store’s(in America)?
@Sariel
True.. ours too, albeit on the other side. And mostly in the form of airplanes, fighters and bombers used German craft.
@Mike
Trust me, my country had its share of the cool German technology 😉
@Sariel
Then you’re not a fan of cool German engineering (in this case). I’m sure dozens have asked you to build a Diablo or Countach for example 🙂 older ones might be even more interesting, like the P400 Miura, or the Espada.. good old supercars.
@Mike
I think there are dozens of more interesting mid-engine supercars than BMW. Any Lambo, for instance 🙂
If you want to take your experience with RWD mid-engine supercars further, maybe the BMW M1 would be a nice example. It has a relatively simple bodywork, I6 engine, nice big rear lights you could model, and open-up front lights.
@will
No.
have you ever considered an aston martin?
@Minotaur
No.
Hey,you made a good website and make great models,thank you. 🙂
B.T.W Do you work for WordPress?
@Minotaur
Thank you sir 🙂
I see,so its not as old as I thought.I was thinking it was 80’s or mid 70’s.I wish you best of luck in your pursuit for the Yamaha Virago!
@Minotaur
There are no new ones, I think, they are long out of production. I’m interested in Viragos produced between 1990 and 1995, they usually sell for between 7000 and 8000 zloties. That’s a little more than 2 months worth of average salary here.
In a general estimate,how much(using the Polish Zloty)would it cost to by one?It seems to be old and collectable so to by a new one will most defiantly be expensive,but a used one shouldn’t be to bad,right?
@Minotaur
Nope, still can’t afford it.
@Sariel
Show it off,(oops)!
@Sariel
Speaking of that bike,do you own one currently?If you did,you would probably show it of to all of your friends. 😛
@Minotaur
Nope.
Hey I have a interesting question,will you be making you dream bike the Yamaha Virago was it (I’m terrible at remembering names of vehicles) out of Lego’s?