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You know what ISC? I'll just build both and make instructions for both! End of "Tiling for wall"-discussion. Make sure to repeat the part with the roofs loud that all can hear it. Sandy might give you a hug Building on.

Great. That was my main concern. Sounds fine, but I would wait a little with the building until we know how to build the roofs and have agreed on the other standards as well. (Or someone will chose for us ) I didn't do it for the smooth sides, but for the gaps between them. The use of tiles has 4 advantages in my point of view: - The shapes of tiles (1x1,1x2,2x2) look more like the stones or boulders used in medieval castle walls. They were rarely long and narrow like 1x6 bricks or longer. - The gaps between tiles are larger than between bricks and plates, highlighting the details. - You don't have to interlock the tiles like you do for bricks, again making it more realistic. Here are some pictures for reference (walls are decorated with the old way of reinforcing along the foundation). - It is easier to build the parts I'm planning on the inside, as there are tubes to connect to for many heights. I agree. If we have to build roofs after a simple standard, the absence of colors will be dreary. On the other hand. If we were allowed to build black roofs as we wish, then it might look very well all in black. ... and I don't have many gray bricks. The wall is a proposal. Again. I'm all for a standard, but the proposal did not, to my knowledge, break the latest compilation of standards in these threads. I have some plans for a great roof and floor, but it will be a waste of time to build if they are found too fancy. In conclusion. I would like to know the level of detail we should aim for: - Basic: Use basic building techniques and bricks that are common. - Normal: Basic building as we see in City sets with furniture and other parts that may be built creatively (ie. it is allowed to make a door with more than a single door piece) - Detailed: Use any technique to aim for the highest level of detail and realism. I am fine with Basic or Normal. They take considerably less building time, and there might be more people who can replicate the creations.

Putting it all together, I have deduced the following to be the standard for 16 stud wide outer sections: Is this correct?

5580 was quite long for its height: making that proportion true to the original. Is it a cute shrunken 5580 you have there. It is almost as if you have washed the original model too warm! It should be possible to make an engine for it as well to complete the model, and my only question is about the fuel tanks with steps. Are there no 1x2 slope bricks in gray in the current palette?

The set is quite big, and the box matches LEGO's policy of matching the sizes of boxes with the models (except for some Factory sets), but the pieces only fill out half of the space inside. Thanks. The first post has been updated. Thanks Johan. As you can see in the first post, I do not own this set, so no parting out or enjoying ownership here. With this being my 13. or so, review on EB, I would rather be told what could be improved than go through the academy. I realize now that I don't have any pics or videos where the lights are properly seen! I had a crash that erased all videos from Saturday, and the one with all 3 mills running was among those. The only video of mine with working LEDs is this one around 0:08. You can see the projectors flashing right before I open the hood. They light up, but it is also clear that they don't provide much light in daylight. I would claim the LEDs are about as powerful as the old 9V lamps, while consuming considerably less power. For a still picture comparison. Old 9V lamps vs. new Power Function LEDs (click to enlarge):

Not an idiot, but a victim to a formatting error. A paragraph was missing and had been replaced by a duplicate of another It should be clear as mud now.

Set: 4999 City, Vestas Power Plant Price:$10 - $2000, depending on how lucky you are! Year: 2008 Pieces: 795 I finally got my hands on a set, which I had the honor of building, reviewing and borrow for a while. The box The box is massive! But the wind mill even more so Instructions Two A4 booklets in the usual LEGO quality. Minifigs You get 3 minifigs and a dog, the Vestas logos are stickers. Van One might expect a generic vehicle, but the Vestas van is surprisingly detailed with a nice front and a back full of tools. There is only room for a single minifig, though. House The house is like all the good old classics: small, but furnished and with other details to add playability: mailbox, kitchen with oven, sink and drawers and a nice terrace. The LEDs light up when the mill runs. Take a look at how the chairs are made! Hill Green BURPs and a cute bench among the green makes for a fine hill that hides the battery box. Tower Being made out of the huge airplane parts, one could suspect the tower to be a bit lacking in the details department, but it works perfectly in the city set. The cables are all PF-adapters, so you can use an old 9V transformer to power the creation. The level of details in this set is incredible. There even is a small door behind the tower. Turbine Inside the turbine there is a motor and some gears. A clutch gear prevents you from driving the motor using the wings. The wings are connected to the tower at an odd angle. The stickers on the tower take some time to apply, and LEGO didn't hold back on the details here either. Overall Conclusion For a collectible promo set, this one has blown me away. The built has a minimum of repetitions and is varied with everything from a vehicle to Technic. The high level of details makes it a great display model for home and office, but the current price is a tough one to swallow if you only know Vestas employees through Ebay. The turbine is not completely silent, but drives for many hours on a single charge of batteries and the lights are perfect using only little power and giving lots of light in the dark. Make sure to do everything in your might to make LEGO release this set for the public next year. It is by far one of the best City sets from 2008. Built: 10/10. Varied with almost no repetitions. Price: ??/10. It is a huge set and could support a price in line with the police HQ. Playability: 10/10. Motor, Light, the turbine turns, there's a lot of interior and even the car has tons of playability! Parts: 7/10. There are some unique parts (long adapter cables and green BURPs), but the rest of them are relatively ordinary. Final score: 9/10. Brickshelf Gallery Edit: Added parts count thanks to KimT

Very funny cagri It is a shame that it doesn't flicker when changing the polarity like the old 9V lights before the ones used in trains. The LEDs are, however, quite good light sources compared to the old lights and consume much less energy! I have just added 3 of these sets to a PF-powered creation where I can adjust the voltage, and the LEDs light up pretty well even on the lowest PF-voltage (1 of 7). Unfortunately it doesn't flicker even there (the lower power outputs are made by flickering the power really quickly from the RC-unit). I am planning on getting 11 of these sets for the LEDs alone. Quite an expense, but to get more Vestas power plants or 4WDs will be even crazier! Thanks for the overview. I'm sure it answers a lot of questions about these new components.

After some day I can now conclude that there might be some interest in knowing how to do it, but little interest in actually having a dynamic signature, so I have added a download-and use tutorial, but I will not go on and make a server where people can get their own. I will continue on using it though... until I find something even better.

I have some good ideas for it, but I'm afraid they will fit much better into a Wild West theme than Castle. If it is going to take up the MISC-slot, I would prefer an inn for visitors. I don't have any great ideas for an inn, but I'm sure somebody else has.

The undertaker was just a joke, but I will see what I can do Flowers and plush lining on!

Since we already have a blacksmith (nearly), I will go for the carpenter. I would have tried the pole turner or fletcher, but realizing that I don't know what they are, I asked myself: WWJD?

I will have the uni-server account for at least 3 years, but everything will be moved (with appropriate redirections) once I get the time to set up my own server. The .zip contains the instructions for off-line usage, the on-line instructions are in php to save space... and learn the language > Guss Glad you liked it. You can always just hang the model in strings and let them fly > LegoKing The model took a couple of weeks, but building the instructions took a month! I built the ship using the instructions for an event at it took me 7 hours. It is quite a model and it takes a lot of time to complete the last steps. I can recommend doing it slowly and spread the build over the evenings of a full week! I sure hope he did something similar.

That was what I feared. The blacksmith was not crossed out, so I assumed it was to be built for this project. And we are just supposed to build? What about the guidelines for the building? If we all build shops like the one proposed in the main thread, there will not be space enough for the roofs. And are the walls supposed to take up 4x16 of our 16x16 plates? I'll be watching the main thread for the answers as well, but right now there are quite a lot of them unanswered.

There are a lot of good ideas spread around in this thread. When the standard has been completed, can we please have them posted in the first post for clarity? That is: - How should the wall be made (how high, wide, height of pins and an example) - What kind of building should we make: tents, houses, open markets or castles? - What color should the ground be in: Green, DkBley or scattered colors in a stone-decorated style. (just show and example for inspiration) - How cool is ISC for starting this up on a scale from 1 to 5 in rational numbers? - etc. I know it has been said that we can just modify our contributions as the standards change, but I would like to avoid this kind of issues as I'm a sloooow builder.

Thanks. I will take the blacksmith now that undertaker isn't on the list. Thanks. I will take the blacksmith now that undertaker isn't on the list. Edit That said, I like the blacksmith because I have a couple of ideas for it. I should be able to build others instead if we have someone who is burning for that building (or already has built it). 2, 9, 10, 13, 17, 18, 22, 24 are all interesting, although some would require a trip to wikipedia. The pole turner, for instance, isn't a strip club apparently...

And another person joins my personal hall of fame for those who have succeeded in building my Executor using the not-so-easy to follow instructions. Everything seems easy... until you get to the last part where it's all put together. I have seen 3-4 others who have done it, and many have asked for help for the last parts, where I can only help by saying: have a helper and patience. Nice find - he sure looks like a UCS collector. And Guss. This one is for you. Search for "Klodsfest 2007" to see it next to all other SW creations (including the death star).

... and I finally got to see the final figurehead. The head is much better than the prototypes I came up with! And it is nice to see the whole hull. The transitions, as you have discussed earlier, are obscured by the whole flow of the sides, so I think you made the right decision by going for strength. Keep it up Cap.

I like a challenge, so I will help taking those parts that others might not want... and build something awesome on those 16x16s Count the Model Team truck builder in

There is something strange about the rear wheels of the mini tractor - they are of the normal Model Team variety, but on other pictures, they appear to have a ring of bolts like these:

The trans green is the only highlight for me - it is pretty unique! I can't see how this set can lift itself above poor. This is an official LEGO set - not a clone from China! - It has no functionality apart from non-blocked wheels. It doesn't even have doors! - It is out of scale (as illustrated with the climbing fig) - The color scheme is off. - it is heavily <insert that tiresome argument>, and was part of the reason for the largest crisis for LEGO yet! - It doesn't even look good with the odd angles of the cab. 1/5. A total miss, in deep contrast to the nice reviews you do WhiteFang.

I like the idea of track-in-a-pack, while the designs of the pocket racers seem recycled. Most interesting will be the new RC-cars, especially regarding their speed and how much load their bases can carry around. The seem quite sparse with only a few bricks on top, which could indicate high speed. You could also merge a racer with one of the mini-dozers (Town and Technic) :skull:

A lot of Eurobrickers have a lot of awesome MOCs, MODs, reviews and even comics, and the signature offers a great way to promote your own contributions to the community. Unfortunately you can only have a limited amount of pictures in your signature before some evil walrus admin comes in and whacks your sig out of orbit. But what if you want to show more than just your latest creations? There is a reasonable limit on the size of the signature: pictures take time to load and bug down the browsing experience. Animated gifs are not a solution either: They are even worse when it comes to bandwidth... and go against most forum guidelines. Here's my solution: Dynamic pictures! OK. That didn't explain much. Let me show it to you then: See the pictures in my sig? Now reload this page. Did the pictures change? (if not: reload again) Now. If you aren't too unlucky, the pictures should change, but they are not animated gifs, flash vids or the result of a hack into the forum. I have simply set up my server to serve random images! Advantages - No heavy animations. All the heavy stuff happens on the server. - The pictures take the exact same bandwidth from you as similar fixed ones of same size. - You only have to change the pictures on the server when you make something new. Disadvantages - It requires that you have access to a server. Now. Would anyone, other than me, be interested in dynamic pictures? I can make a guide (and a download site) if you think this might be worth trying out.

Having seen this train close up in person (and touched it... Matija told me to!), I must say that I'm extremely impressed by the details, and that you managed to add electrics. The golden plates look even better/more realistic than the pictures suggest! I will make a thread with the videos (with both the little yellow building and the train) when I get the time to edit them and upload them to youtube.

Taking the restricted amount of parts into consideration, it is quite nice to see you add steering to an excellently looking car. Good job there. I am not completely sure what you mean with studs popping out of wheels when using the other steering arm, because the sideways play will be the same. It is a shame the 6 wide rack went out of production, but you can also use liftarms like in modern Technic models, although that will demand more height. LEGO uses the same steering arm as you in their Creator models (like 4896), but I can't see how it is better than , which doesn't make the car move to the sides when steering without driving. I guess it looks cool, but is also lees realistic. Do you know of any other advantages? It is cool to see that people still like their models steering, and not just cheating box art like this: Do you think it's possible to make a 6 wide car steer? (using the same size of wheels of course)