Black Knight
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Fx Bricks (Michael Gale) announces Fx Track system
Black Knight replied to HoMa's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Steady! We can do it! We waited for so long. Lets have some more confidence in @michaelgale, he earned a lot of that with his excellent current product line and distribution. :) -
Oh boy, I haven't followed the .NET-stuff, but it seems mono and .NET (win32 only) are deprecated in favor of .NET Core (which seems to be multi-platform). I have no clue if using this .NET Core helps -- I suspect it deprecated the GUI-elements that BlueBrick is using. But here it is anyway: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/macos
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It seems a bit excessive to install a virtual machine just to run BlueBrick: You only need a .NET-runtime (aka "Microsoft-Java") installed; which is also documented on the bluebrick homepage: On MacOS or Linux install mono, on Windows install the Microsoft .NET-Framework.
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Fx Bricks (Michael Gale) announces Fx Track system
Black Knight replied to HoMa's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Holy cow. -
@Pirate_King_1982Their brick quality is... varying. Bluebrixx does not have a factory but rather uses Chinese manufacturers to buy bricks and assemble their sets. They mostly have mediocre bricks but sometimes they are also very, very good: Blaustein Castle had several sets assembled with Gobricks bricks, their V100-8wide locomotive was of excellent bricks by some other manufacturer. I do have several BB trains and train accessories and their brick quality is not optimal, but sufficient. At least most of the time. =)
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Oh my! I already bought the waggons and the E91. You guys really need to slow down before my wife finds out I am overdrawing my housekeeping allowance. Again.
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Oh, then I am terribly sorry for mixing up your E94 and Martins! But if the new E91 is yours: That one has L-wheels, too! =) (btw. the English description in the shop is lacking the (c) Dr. Snotson description) Anyway: Great work. I would love it even more if it would use M- or S-wheels for it would look sooooo much better right next to any steamer or your E19.
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So cool, awesome job!! Will it finally do away with the L-sized wheels? I have your bricks-on-rails version of the E94 here and while it looks great on its own, it looks very weird right next to your E17, E18 and E19 (which are just the most mindbogglingly awesome "Altbau Elektrolokomotiven"-brick-models ever). Representing the 1250 mm wheels of the E94 with L-wheels looks just out of scale when put next to the 1600 mm wheels of the E17/8/9 which are represented by M-wheels.
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Bulk Material Train Unloading Facility
Black Knight replied to Terry Akuna's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Wow. This is completely insane!!! Kudos! 😮 Are you operating the motors manually or is there some kind of automation running the operation? (What would make it even more mindboggingly) -
Ooooh, very nice! Will this upgrade make it to bricks-on-rails? 😬
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Fx Bricks (Michael Gale) announces Fx Track system
Black Knight replied to HoMa's topic in LEGO Train Tech
I do not have an FX-Brick P40 switch, so I can only infer this from the Trixbrix and L-Gauge libraries in BlueBrick. And there they (Trixbrix R104 and L-Gauge P40) perfectly match. I also would totally recommend using something like BlueBrick if you develop anything that is a bit more complex. ;) -
Don't panic, the damage is done. :) It is not Thomas model, but e.g. SHI have made instructions for their 8-wide BR 05 002. Maybe there are others, too!
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10305 Lion Knights' Castle 90th anniversary set
Black Knight replied to R0Sch's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
I suppose it is quite simple: They did not extend their legal protection of the old logos. Now everyone can use them legally. If TLG would use them in a new product, they would have a lot more legal freeloaders on their logos -- which would decrease their profits. So they are better off introducing a new logo that they have legal protection on, giving TLG the ban hammer for. -
Lego Licensed Parts available from Bricks & Pieces
Black Knight replied to LegoPercyJ's topic in LEGO Licensed
It would be a blast to setup a "fake" bricklink store: Update it regularly with the contents of PaB and its prices! For safety reasons you could just not ship to anywhere, or demand a handling fee of 500 bucks. That would create a real insight into what is available. Of course this would be something different than some spreadsheet. =) -
10305 Lion Knights' Castle 90th anniversary set
Black Knight replied to R0Sch's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
This is pretty awesome! I personally dislike the Disney-style-blue-roof, but the whole thing is really oomph! -
They are now available as alternate builds on rebrickable: 10497-1-b2 - Space Transport 10497-1-b1 - Space Cruiser
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10305 Lion Knights' Castle 90th anniversary set
Black Knight replied to R0Sch's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
Just a little heads up for my fellow army builders: The Black Falcon parts are currently back in stock at PaB (Germany/Europa that is). 11:55 UTC: And the legs are gone. ...and the torso and shield is out of stock, too. -
In 6w, I personally can recommend the 1928 Rheingold sets (my personal favorit; 102581, 102580, 102579) and the DRG "Passenger car dark green" (103880) and the Henschel-Wegmann cars (103083, 103082; the locomotive not so much though). In 8w, I only have the Middle entry car 2nd class and 1st class (104523 and 104522): The design was o.k., but the bricks were meh. But I honestly am still searching for ANY decent 8w passenger car of the DRG, be it set or MOC. :/
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Lego Licensed Parts available from Bricks & Pieces
Black Knight replied to LegoPercyJ's topic in LEGO Licensed
Well, that's what I said. TLG did not give the information themselves but only through some third party. We cannot access the primary source of information which makes this a better rumor. This also means, that TLG cannot be held accountable if they do not hold their promise; which makes you wonder, if that is the reason they only did it this way. We will see. -
Lego Licensed Parts available from Bricks & Pieces
Black Knight replied to LegoPercyJ's topic in LEGO Licensed
This. Especially if TLG does not even dare to give the info themselves, but only maybe mysteriously through some 3rd party. -
Oh, well, that video: The carriage seems to not even have turnable bogies.
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10305 Lion Knights' Castle 90th anniversary set
Black Knight replied to R0Sch's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
I do prefer printed peaces. You might want to check out "Steindrucker" from Germany: He prints only on original LEGO pieces and has some fine castle stuff (including the 6074 and 6067 flag) and a huge collection of printed shields. And hell, getting a new 6074 lookalike (!) flag for €2.50 is pretty awesome. -
Yeah, Blacktron-Monorail! But a monorail for the Blacktrons to rob would be super awesome, too. TLG had the chance to do this with a Star Wars license for the Han-Solo-Film, but well...
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This looks like it's a different gauge: The tracks are spaced 5 studs instead of 4... which makes it incompatible with L-gauge.
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10305 Lion Knights' Castle 90th anniversary set
Black Knight replied to R0Sch's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
More like the mounted messenger with the order has successfully started it's journey to Inner Mongolia. From Billund. Unfortunately because of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he is taking the Silk Road route through Afghanistan.