simonwillems

I voted for Batbrick because I really like the atmosphere surrounding his little scene! Great clock, and a rare dog. I second the assumption of unscientificness concerning this poll. Statistically *yoda* has the highest chances of winning for he has entried three times.... Anyway... There's no Technic in this competition... I should have made an entry! No time unfortunately :-(

True. Besides, Paypal recently came with the possibility to link your paypal address to your bank-account. That way no credit card is needed, just a bank-account. I tried it and it works perfectly well! Go and link those bricks bank-account! :-)

Hello and welcome to Eurobricks! It's always a good thing to see a piratefan join the forums, have a good time here and good luck in the contest. :-)

I basically copied the steering mechanism from set 8082, this page of the instruction manual shows it. The only difference I made is placing the motor on top instead of underneath the steering axle. The rubber band prevents the motor from jamming in case you forget to let go of the handle on the remote control. Actually the micromotor predates NXT by many years, it was found in set 8082 (mentioned above) and some city sets like set 6484 and set 6483. Quite a useful (although not very powerful) motor good enough for steering. When you use powerfunctions for steering be sure to use some rubberbands or clutch gears!

I have a title!! Thanks, thanks, thanks!! I have been waiting for this to happen eversince the 8th of december 2006! I'm so happy! :'-)

Thanks for commenting! The motor destroyed one of these gears: it bended the notch so that the gear is not to be used again, off to the dustbin with it I'm afraid. That was the old version, the newer version looks like this: , and has some reinforcements to prevent it from bending. That one is currently used and it works well. I tried the clutch you are suggesting, but the motor just spun the clutch instead of moving the car, so that did not work. Maybe I'll try something with lots of rubber bands next.... Thanks for the input, I'll keep trying! I tried lots of different disguises for the receiver, but the whole thing (at least the transparant part with the rounded top) needs to be visible for the remote control. Otherwise the signal is not coming through and the car stops moving. In my tank I put a car roof over it, visible in this picture, but the roof had to be opened completely for the remote control to function properly. In closed position it only worked if the remote was precisely behind the machine, that is not the pleasure of controlling something remotely: I want to sit in a chair and steer my vehicle across the entire room without having to get up and aim.... ;-) The colours: well, I wasn't born anywhere near the fifties, but I'm sure the combination yellow/tan was a hit back then :-P

Who might that be? .... Oh wait, I see... :-P

Thanks! It is *counts the studs...* from front-fender to backdoors 33 studs long. :-)

Dear community, A few weeks ago I showed you my powerfunctioned tank as a first experiment with the new powerfunctions. After making something with tracks I decided to make a vehicle with wheels and steering. Because of the space the batterybox and receiver consume in any model I made a truck. The truck is not based on any kind of excisting truck, I just wanted to build something in the rounded fifties style and found inspiration in pictures in an issue of Old Car Trader (magazine for selling and buying classic cars). I never used the colour combination yellow/blue/grey/tan before and I am not so sure whether I like it or not, but its growing on me. I used the small powerfunctions motor for powering the wheels, and a micromotor for powering the steering. The truck is kind of heavy, so the steering works a bit slow and you can hear the little motor trying hard to accomplish its task... Also the powerfunctions motor is so strong that it ripped apart one of my gears when the truck got stuck behind a corner once :'-( . I had not put in a device to stop the motor from obstructing. So it needs some work, but it drives relatively well. Here are a few pictures: The front, showing some chrome elements, the side, the door really opens to reveal a cramped up seat and small steering wheel, The backside showing the cargo and the upside-down-mounted receiver. The complete Brickshelf Gallery What do you think? comments are very welcome! :-)

Some time ago I sort of complained about the fact that there was not much Technic represented in the Eurobricks community (this was the topic, if someone is interested). I am glad to see someone took that complaint serious and started reviewing technic sets on large scale to show us how fascinating the theme really is! This review is once again an excellent one, I really enjoyed reading it. I must buy this set sometime soon because I always liked the three-way pneumatic system it came with and the overall look of the machine. For many years it seemed out of reach, much to expensive and hard to come by as a kid. Now as an adult there are many ways to acquire this wonderful set. Keep on reviewing! *y*

Well, If that's all... Hey wait, would you believe it? I just opened a random drawer in my sorting system containing just those 104 extremely rare parts in exactly the right colour.... :-| X-D Wishful thinking on! :-)

I think I would also go for the second option, maybe with some changes as to the aerodynamics like Holodoc suggested. But I like it without changes as well. Do you plan to add something to the centered motor? When your carriages are six wide and the motor isn't even four I fear it may look a bit odd.... This is still the ultimate monorail, such a shame the real thing crashed a few years ago, killing all those people. Someday, when I have enough curved slopes I'll recreate it.

Whenever I feel like I 'need' something I go on Bricklink and purchase it.... I recognise your problem SirNadroj: browsing a shop leaves you with the most unintended things in your shopping cart, after placing an order I often remember the pieces I really needed in the first place but did not buy. :'-( Living in Europe I am benefitting from the current low Dollar-Euro exchange rate, making it possible to mutliply every amount by 0,65 especially when buying from a seller in England or the US.

Welcome I Scream Clone! Eurobricks is the place to be to discuss all your Lego talk and it's an excellent excuse to buy lots and lots of Lego! Enjoy your time here, I'm sure you will. :-)

I remember getting my very first pirateset in 1990, one year after the Pirates hit the stores. It was this one: For many, many years this was the only cannon I had (two clips broke of, but the barrel was still capable of lying on the undercarriage just fine). Only recently my cannon population has growed, I am reaching 40 (cannons) pretty soon. Sweet memories.... *wub*

Well..., the smallest one in this picture would be the model ;-) : Thanks!

Very nice layout! With all the buildings left on the baseplates they came with (instead of building them on the sides of the roadplates) you made your layout very spacious looking. You seem to have quite a lot of those rounded trees, they look good displayed this way, however I'm not so sure about those two palmtrees in conjunction with them. I wish I had the same amount of room to build my own layout on... *y*

After reading the title of this topic I thought for a moment you started your own Telsell business.... Wondering what the connection with Lego could have been I read the title again and noticed the extra 'e' in between tel and sell.... X-D Now to the ship: This ship is perfect in every way, it takes some real skills building something from a non-legomodel like that miniature ship used with all it's complex curves and lines. Marvelous! *y* *y*

Thank you, your solution looks great and if it works just as good as it looks I must certainly give it a try! Great wikipedia animation as well: As soon as I get back to my Lego (I live in Amsterdam, my Lego is in a different part of Holland with my parents) I will start experimenting some more.

Nice idea, I've always liked maps! I added myself, just check out tiny Holland (if any of you Americans can find it... ;-) )

Yesterday I bought set 6599 Shark Attack, MISB, for a total of 16,49 euros including shipping from the US of A. I love the current exchange rate just as much as Sinner loves his Green Grocer (imagine my love.... :-D) This set completes the Divers series, I now officially own all Divers sets ever released by Lego!

Well, let's see: I open the topic to which the poll is attached, move my mouse-arrow to one of the white dots in front of the desired choice, click on it just enough to make the white dot go all black, then I move my mouse to where it says 'vote' and click that button... Oh wait, it's not the actual process but the intention... X-D 8-| I'll definetely go for the creation I like best, sometimes with consideration for the age of the builder and the process or building phase he (or she of course, though few women enter contests: go girls!) is in at that moment. So a bit of both worlds really, always letting the creation prevail however.

Thanks guys, glad you like it. All these kind words really mean a lot to me! :-$ Thanks! Yes, I think that might be the right word. I called it 'cockpit' before but your suggestion seems more suitable :-D Thanks for commenting on my engine, nice to read some words from the train expert here on Eurobricks. As to the pistons: I couldn't get it quite the way I wanted and spend hours trying and experimenting with the various possible driving-rods. The model I modelled my locomotive on had a very complicated system of pistons, levers and hinges which was not at all possible to make that way, so I tried some configurations of my own. I encountered various problems with the rods sliding out of the pistons at certain times and decided to go for the construction with which the train rolled the best. But I still think it needs some work.... I took some this picture of the work in process before I received the correct wheels, it shows the complexity of the real modeltrain's side. You'll also notice the lack of the sidepanel up front, playing with this train as an eight year old caused the glue to dissolve.... :'-( :-)

That seems to me like a short circuited motor... Have you tried powering anything else with the batterypack? That way you can see whether the motor is to blame or the batterypack. We had a discussion about the receivers in this topic but that had little to do with the motors themselves. I would call Lego if I were you. Good luck!

Let me start the discussion by saying how nice this index looks! It must be a lot of work keeping up with everything that's getting posted around this forum. I like the Index logo you made to show people their MOC pictures are being preserved for future generations. Keep up the good work! *y*