Carefree_Dude

Anyone have any ways to put lights on? Im sure ill find a way eventually, but im feelin lazy

The hole drilling looks easiest...

I love my super chief I have it converted to power functions

Recently a bricklink seller parted out a 10025 and it had both grey and bley parts. I recently built 3 10025, and they cost me ababout 150 each not including stickers buying stuff from bricklink. The dark grey plates are almost $15 each. I've seen a bley one, and bley looks better imo

Hey now, I said the ship was modified.... gotta admit its pretty impressive now...

QAR VS Brickbeard's Bounty oh, brickbeard may have felt "ship envy"... you know, thinking his vessel isn't big enough... after the imperial flagship arrived, so he kinda upgraded a little.

anyone notice how on the back of the box the figurehead has a different head than what comes in the set? The box has an angry skeleton, where as the set comes with a regular skeleton.

its beautiful. but why did you use an "m" motor instead of a PF train motor though? you would have had space for a driver!

eh, the smallest of those mini sharks get too big (around 6"). I got this particular kind called cigar sharks, and they are currently around a foot long. exodons would be great though. either that, or get those glofish things so you can see all the colors in the water, and it could be colorful like a lego city.

Lets just say it involved a couple toy story trains, plenty of lego, a couple weeks, and a lot of rum.

your engine will have more pulling power if you swap out the rubber bands on the motor wheels for thicker O rings... so far i've managed to pull 30 cars with just one PF motor this route.

If you're gonna add real water and a pump, you might as well get it set up so you have live fish living in the water. if you had the water flow into a seperate tank that heated/filtered it, and pumped it back up, you could have a good environment for live fish. (big fish nerd here... has hundereds of gallons of water in my living room)

here is my take on the train. Its a little different now (front is black, few cosmetic changes), but thats pretty much the jist of it. I wanted to do the same thing as you, but I got a little carried away. I also made the three cars much longer, and more to the standard of regular lego sets. I've just been lazy about pictures.

replace the plates at the base of the train with red, so you have a red line going all the way around the bottom above the wheels. I built a black emerald night with this, and it looks amazing.

One of the clear stickers with the white train logo from the passenger train set would be a good replacement. There's also black train logos with red stickers in older sets, but those are very hard to come by now. A black one sounds like it could work, but i think the Red is better. Of course, my black emerald night (with red trim) looks awesome.

That actually looks really really good. I think I want one now... The only thing I don't like is the lego city sticker on the front.

I asked about buying straight track. I got this

I don't like the technic beams. They really distract from the overal MOC.

You get herded like cattle on airplanes anymore no matter what price you pay. Shoot, at least cattle don't have to be groped or have nude photos taken of them. then again, the cattle are already naked.... Oh, you can buy straights directly from TLC, but they charge over $2 per piece making it cheaper to just buy the curve/straight pack and throw away the curves.

No commercial sense? Why wouldn't it make sense to sell a product that people want? If you mean it's because people wouldn't buy curved/flex track, it wouldn't matter if lego just simply didn't make so much of it. Such as, make a ton of straight track, and maybe half as much of the other stuff.

At least the 8 pack straight and the flexitrack isn't as bad as the 8 straight and 8 curved. With a few plates, you can make the flex track work as straight track.

packing together flex and curved rails is pointless. In that picture, it shows 32x flex rails boxed, and 8x curved rails boxed. 32 flex rails can make 8 curved rails; as in, its the equivilant of 8 curved rails. There are 8 straight rails in the background The current pack has 8 straight and 8 curved. My conclusion? That picture is showing that flex rails can be used as curved, and is really a flex/straight rail pack.

anyone else see 8 pieces of straight track in that photo?

Im trying to get a bunch of emerald night coaches. I hope to eventually get 10. I currently only have 5; one first class, two second class, two third class. Here are my questions: 1) Should first class be at the beginning or the end of the train? At first you'd think beginning, but that is the noisiest and smokiest part. 2) First class is obviously the luxurious car. But what about the other two? I saw one person had the idea of packing second class full of wooden benches. What would third class be though? 3) Finally, how do I end this train? It doesn't look right with the end coach opening into nothing. Would a caboose of sorts be appropriate? Would it follow the same colors as the other coaches? While looking up Flying dutchman photos, i saw what looked to be the equivilant of the santa fe observation car. 4)this kinda goes back to question one: If the train should end with an observation car, does this pretty much show that first class should be at the end, and connected to the observation car? 5 Lastly, I always thought it looked weird that there was an opening in the coaches directly to the engine tender. Is this normal, or should there be a "Lead" car?

supposidly, there may be a straight track pack as well. Both the AAA battery box and the PF train motor are released individually next year too.