PROTOTYP.
Next...
As the F40 gets wrapped up (stickers soon) I had a moment of fiddling around with some ideas for The Next Build. This is the first of a series of essential sub-build tests.
I wanted to try a more suspension-ish design than the plates and beams build defined by the F40's tight road-car chassis. Obviously the subject-matter here will have to be something with room to hang this kind of rigging ... Think F1 or Prototype :)
Geometry with the brake disc is a little wide for placing the wheel/tire within a 16-wide body, but should fit pretty well with the disc removed. The new-ish 1x1 round plates with bar on the side are critical to allow the suspension arms to angle in from four-wide at the chassis to three-wide at the hub.
The assembly is surprisingly solid, though somewhat dependent on how snug the friction fit is for that lower bar-clip and bar-holder. Comes together well enough to keep going with this direction, anyway.
Definitely inspired by SirManperson's stellar clips-n-bars work:
Next...
As the F40 gets wrapped up (stickers soon) I had a moment of fiddling around with some ideas for The Next Build. This is the first of a series of essential sub-build tests.
I wanted to try a more suspension-ish design than the plates and beams build defined by the F40's tight road-car chassis. Obviously the subject-matter here will have to be something with room to hang this kind of rigging ... Think F1 or Prototype :)
Geometry with the brake disc is a little wide for placing the wheel/tire within a 16-wide body, but should fit pretty well with the disc removed. The new-ish 1x1 round plates with bar on the side are critical to allow the suspension arms to angle in from four-wide at the chassis to three-wide at the hub.
The assembly is surprisingly solid, though somewhat dependent on how snug the friction fit is for that lower bar-clip and bar-holder. Comes together well enough to keep going with this direction, anyway.
Definitely inspired by SirManperson's stellar clips-n-bars work: