supertruper1988

Looks great! Love the slanted piston detail. Great Job capturing it here.

So much this. @SteamSewnEmpire when was the last time you designed a model that ran on track in the brick? I can "design" a model in a day, will it run on track and hold together when handling? Probably not. @Jeffinslaw is correct there are hundreds of hours into instructions alone, then you add order and dealing with BrickLink sellers, counting parts, sorting parts, etc it adds up FAST. Just look at other custom kits available from places like BrickMania and Armor Brick or heck even Brick Model Railroader. Those prices range from $0.50 to upwards of $1.00 per part and they sell reasonably well. @Daedalus304 put it into perfect words. This is a custom, short run, piece of art. The price comparison to LEGO is not even close they wont produce a set unless they think they can sell tens if not hundreds of thousands of them. (yes I know there are exclusives for events but thats not the point here) They can take the couple hundred man hours of design, testing, instructions, redesign and spread that cost out over a LOT of sets. @coaster is not making hundreds let alone thousands of these kits so he needs to recover the cost of his time for these. Yes its expensive but the idea that it could be designed "overnight" is a total fantasy.

There is honestly enough flex in the trailing or leading trucks normally that you will not need to worry about the half plate difference. If it is affecting the design, you would either need to mount the pilot and trailing trucks differently or use a size that is smaller but a whole integer number of plates from the driver size. like MS instead of S for the pilot wheels. Also the plate sizes mentioned above are the diameter. The center of the wheel is 1/2 plate different from its neighbor. If you have to have whole plate mounting height differences for your design, then you will need to use sizes that are multiples of 2 away. I hope that makes sense.

Here is a size chart I put together: Most North American modelers seem to use 8 studs 10 feet which converts to 1 plate is 6" you can then do a little math and get the size. For reference, LEGO makes the S and L sizes. Big Ben Brick makes S, M, L, XL, and XXL. The other sizes in between were conceptualized and developed by @Shupp The XLL size was suggested by Matt Csenge and Developed by Scott Hoffmeyer.

looks great!

Wow these are awesome! Love old model team stuff!

Im dying hahahahha

This is awesome! can any of the other hull pieces be used in con junction to make it longer? I am imagining a luxury yacht

I think I liked your previous version better. CP Royal Hudson 3 by Shrike Arghast, on Flickr

Just going on the width (8 studs here) you are like 5-6 plates too tall

Looks pretty good! What scale are you working in? it looks quite tall.

I can understand what you are saying but I am asking where the line is drawn? The wheels from BBB were brought into the LEGO system (at least the L sized driver) for the emerald night. The track options that are available match the look and feel of LEGO track but replacing all that will a more "scale" option would start to go out side of LEGO to me. I wasnt attacking here just asking, how far is too far? What is stopping us from just going to this? https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/44734/

This sounds cool, but at what point is it not LEGO? I would love smaller flanges but there a particular appeal to running on LEGO track that keeps it in the hobby for me. This proposed solution is more along the lines of scale model railroading which isnt bad just not really in the realm of LEGO, you know?

I dont have them out yet but soon.

Lets remember them together shall we? Or how about this? Sure is quality here

@Jim can this be fixed?

There is plenty you can buy on BTD for $25. We have lots of instructions at or under that price.

I never said I dont use studio. I have been slowly transitioning to LDCad. It has some quirks but as a lifetime CAD user its pretty simple once you get the hang of it. MecaBricks has come a long way from its inception and I highly recommend watching the tutorial videos.

Having read this and looking at everyone's complaints I would like to throw in my rant. I doubt the studio developers build LEGO at all. I also doubt they have ever designed a function program. things like file handling, UI scaling, basic navigation in menus do not work. Some examples: You cannot tab between fields in most places Fields are not adhered to a character type, for instance, I can type a rotation value in the page editor but if I hit "D" on the keyboard to go to the next page, it places a D in the rotation field, causing an error Part files, are not able to be imported directly into studio. Locked ZIP as file type? that is incredibly dumb and a major security flaw. This is just a short list, never mind, relying on the user base to be the QA/QC team.

The group function in LDD is unique the studio sub models way of doing things is the "better" but not the same. Its a carry over from the LDraw format.

A quick google search should yield some results. I would try "custom LEGO train instructions"

If I recall correctly this is from @charlesp1138

It depends on who you ask but in my mind a "decal" is specifically when it is printed on something other than paper with a sticky backing.

You will want to use @SylvainLS 's tool to conver to ldraw first. then import to studio. )

I use only printed vinyl decals from @legoman666 aka Okbrickworks much easier than water slide and no risk of them flaking off.