Building the 8070, Technic Super Car

ChanMcL

Hi there everyone

Just wondering is the 8070 hard to build?

Had a quick glance at the instructions online, it looks complicated.

Looked on some videos on Youtube with the power function, it looks amazing and building my next week.

And what else you need to look for when building it?

My first large technic set!

peterlinddk

I don't think it is that hard to build - but it is a very interessting build, in that you have to follow the instructions for a long time, before realising what it is that you are building. There are a lot of nice features in the mechanics of the car, and I really liked building it (it took me three afternoons, but I am also not that fast a builder).

My dad had built his model a few months before, and he warned me about some of the stranger new elements - you have to be carefull to look at all the different cogwheels and pins, and make sure that you don't mix them up. I recommend using a very large table, and laying all the components in small groups, so you group black beams in one place, red beams in another, axles in a third and so on.

Oh - and you don't need to attach the stickers at all, if you dont like them - the car looks almost as great in plain red!

paul_merton

Just build it! :) Trial and error is the best way to learn with Lego.

ChanMcL

@peterlinddk Probably best to sort them out into small individual containers first!

Do you think a normal size computer table is good enough?

LegoFanTexas

paul_merton said:

Just build it! :) Trial and error is the best way to learn with Lego.

Lego, yes... Technic, not so much... :)

It is quite possible to make an early error, that if not caught, requires taking the whole thing back apart on some models.

Some of the bigger Technic sets require absolute precision to make work, one wrong gear, one wrong hole, and the whole thing just doesn't work.

paul_merton

LegoFanTexas said:

It is quite possible to make an early error, that if not caught, requires taking the whole thing back apart on some models.

Hasn't everyone made a mistake like that at some point? That's the kind of mistake that really makes you learn not to do it again :)

LegoFanTexas

^ :) I have not, but I've watched my wife do it...

I'm a bit OCD, so I tend not to make those kinds of mistakes... But then I'm also a slow builder, doing it all bit by bit, very carefully...

Eric

That's why I love Technic. Got to be precise, otherwise, catastrophe. :D

pricey73

@LegoFanTexas

Some of the bigger Technic sets require absolute precision to make work, one wrong gear, one wrong hole, and the whole thing just doesn't work.



sounds like a marriage:p

ChanMcL

Just completed my!

Well, not completed, I got 2 extra 32526, not sure where I have missed it or something. But oh well. haha

Crowkillers

ChanMcL said:

Just completed my!

Well, not completed, I got 2 extra 32526, not sure where I have missed it or something. But oh well. haha

Those 2 are for the Hot Rod B-Model...

ChanMcL

@Crowkillers ahh right! thanks.

cavegod

put all the parts in a big pile and build!

ChanMcL

haha

I was struggling to find the parts at the start! They should really number the bags.

ChanMcL

I have made some modification on the Supercar with some LED headlights, it makes it looks nicer than the white studs.

I'm thinking about adding rear Red lights too, just need to get some Red LEDs.

Legoboy

^ Nice. Get those stickers on though!!!

ChanMcL

^I don't like the stickers :o

htran

Supercar and others...

cloaked7

^ @htran Nice photo. What is the one in the center with the yellow stripes?

htran

It's a remote control car called "Little Devil"

augen

I bought this recently as it was 40% off on Amazon. I have never built Technics before and so far, I've managed to make a mistake twice and had to start again from scratch. The one thing that I've realised with Technics is that it's really hard to backtrack to where you've made a mistake.

Hasn't put me off though, just more determined to finish it!

ChanMcL

Somehow, I manage to make my steering so hard...

Cant figure out what caused it