Starting in March 2020, I began a large stream project to model a comprehensive, highly-detailed Caterpillar 434E backhoe. Please watch the first stream (first 3 minutes of abridged version at least) for an overview.
It's a straight-forward project of building a complex model over an extended period of time. The spin on the project is that I want your help to accomplish it! If I build some parts and you build some parts, we will finish this thing much quicker. Plus the contribution format will include reviews, the potential of having your piece(s) assimilated into the final model. Not to mention large quantities of XP are at stake 🤑
NOTE: This is an involved project reserved for Citizen members.
The general idea is that I kickoff stages of the project via live stream, which is typically once per month. For the time in between streams, you choose a piece of the backhoe and apply what you learned from the stream to that piece. For example, the first stream covered initial block out. So between stream 1 and stream 2, your job is to pick a piece and block it out.
This is the repeating protocol for each Assignment Period (between-streams):
I will reply to this thread after each stream with a [big] assignment post denoted by a 📣 emoji in the title. There I will clarify instructions about each Assignment Period.
We will centralize our collaborative communication between the streams and this thread. Ask any and all questions pertaining to the Backhoe project here.
Here's another video with great close-ups, also from the cab interior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDCxQmZoPSU
For instance:
which also has a cover:
And then 
duerer there are shots like this:
Amazing video spikeyxxx! I vastly underestimated video reference through this project. Realizing way too late how much golden reference was buried in the annals of Youtube
The remainder of this past week I worked to get the interior blocked out in order to make a smooth transition for everyone into the interior. Alas I didn't quite finish the blockout which was needed to write up clear instructions. It'll be the first thing I do on Monday.
Ok I made a small comprehensive guide that will hopefully help understand our new workflow.
(speechless..............awestruck..................amazed...................appreciative..........................bewildered..................hungry)
I almost don't want to type after that masterpiece Omar, that is an amazing quality walk-through AND presentation my horned, pink wheeled, chicken headed, cat-tailed friend.
...............................................But duty calls (and I got no more kids in diapers so...........)
dostovel and 
ketre @theluthier rryzen7 the battery box is rubbing on the soles of the operator's brand new pair of Red Wing Shoes in the cab. As it punches through the floor board.
At first this was a welcomed addition since he could wipe the mud off his soles while operator-ing, but he keeps tripping over it during entry and exit and almost broke a hip. So he asked me to request a design revision over in engineering.
I can't say which is the culprit but one of them needs to give.
Master of Loose Ends is on the lookout from here on out.
I should have run away and joined a 3D online hobbyist team where I demanded perfection from others full-time :)
But alas, it is only a part time gig. And my phone has gps so running away isn’t really a thing anymore.
Normal's alert. Faces are looking the other way. Never be afraid of looking head on.
Yes, there were crashing all over the place with other parts, now they are not.
But I didn't move them in X like you said, just in Y.
Come one you can rewire those two little itsy bitsy cables, just be careful please, the battery is plugged in.
