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Where to Start Now, you're asking what does an 18 inch-long monster truck model have to do with Grand Opera? Plenty. In the opera Lohengrin, the story calls for a swan, a "magic swan" - remember, this is opera. For the Seattle Opera's production the director wanted to have a swan able to interact with the tenor. So the request for an animatronic swan was made. With most of the projects I do I have to become a temporary expert. By that I mean I need to learn what I need to know to build the thing, how to phrase the questions I have, and figure out of whom to ask them. I decided to start with an existing radio control model four-wheel drive truck, it has plenty of driving power, the steering linkage already exists, and with the suspension it has, it could carry a fair amount of weight.