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Exactly!!! Very nice cesbrick! This could become a new LEGO line-up.

They are doable I think. But it is a peculiar color? Dark red?!

There is a special option at Eurobricks: .

Nice comparison Sariel! Thanks for that. Lot of people will appreciate it. I think you method is scientific enough for a toy :)

At this point it (blue render) one supports Windows, but they promised an OS X version (it is Java, but Java is not that platform independent as the advocates try us to believe ;)). I also have a Mac but with parallels.

Very impressive indeed! I also like your color combinations very much!

Looks nice Therize! Tip: take a look in the LDD forum. They have a nice rendering tool in there (see my signature for the result).

@jonwil, but those our by our fellow EB-er Zephyr. Sometimes LEGO does not have what the community wants. Sometimes LEGO then realises that it is indeed a good idea and produces it themselves. We have seen that before of course (BBB-wheels, different animals, etc).

The instructions are here. There are on other sites too b.t.w. @PastVPresent: glad to hear that you did enjoy the 2015 LIT set too!!

Check in the LDD forum how to render them! Works great and easy with bluerender software.

Unfortunately if one opens them, they don't appear to contain real size sets haha ;) that would have been something. B.t.w. I think the 2013 and 2014 sets are great. 2012 is also not too bad, but what about the current one?! I would be disappointed after paying quite a large sum for the Inside Tour. They ask crazy amounts on bricklink for the 2015 one b.t.w. (I have seen prices of around € 5000).

Today I finished my bricklinked LEGO inside tour 2013 Villy or Willy Thomsen Truck. I already bricklinked and built the truck two years ago but could not finish it since I did not have enough information to make the stickers and also lacked the time needed to finish the job. Unfortunately Victor Christensen had a bad cold today so could not make it and was replaced by a friendly other Danish driver Mario Olsen, with supposedly Italian roots ;) Since I am in the process of selling our house I could not make a large display for it at this time (more space for that in the next house), but had a working traffic light setup from another project standing there so put the truck in there. I choose to use white backing for the stickers instead of the original version from LEGO that uses transparant vinyl. Main advantage is a better colouring (thee match the bricks almost perfectly). Another disadvantage of transparant vinyl is that one can see small bubbles when covering LEGO with such (in LEGO terms) huge stickers. By using soapy water I was able to apply the stickers quite well. When the water and soap have evaporated the stickers are tight as they should be. And an image from the back of the trailer. Hope you like the images and this nice set. Since I could not find the minifigs I could also not make it into a real review, maybe some day in 2016 in our new house :) To finish off, this shows you that the trucks fits in an average LEGO city although the driver will need to be skilled to make the turns! Trivia: an original set was sold on bricklink for $ 2,954.75 but I think it costed me only around 100 bucks. Probably the most expensive part are the wheel rims in red and of course the figures. Note: the story of the truck and it's driver can be found in the instructions that were published by LEGO as PDF file. I can't seem to find them at the LEGO site anymore though. I think it is a Mercedes but LEGO does not mention it and it doesn't carry the 3-pointed star of Mercedes-Benz (or did they photoshop it away for license reasons?!)

I totally agree, although I also use it for other purposes that would be difficult in BlueRender, but stickers will be much better if one would do it directly on the 3D model of course (even steam with particle sprays). iceleftd: paint.net is totally a different class of tool, it is a nice basic tool for basic stuff but not very suitable for serious projects. One could use GIMP (open source photoshop idea) too of course.

Well if you use photoshop: this is the principle ( ).

This is how it works:

Sorry to disappoint you but I just used Photoshop to edit the rendered result: I added filters on the 'sticker' layers. Depending on what effect one wants. @SmokieSmoke: I guess it is indeed the horizon! Use Gimp / Photoshop to compensate.

Well don't be too hasty I would think. Need to update our stock of transparent stickers anyway so will have the transparant roll in the machine in a few days.

I would go for the LEGO LiPo. It is VERY reliable, believe me I have had students torture it and that didn't stop it!

Well... here is a better version... much better (I rendered it at higher resolution 2560x1800 or something).

@bublible, the roads are too 'icey' though and the bricks need to reflect a bit less (apart from the transparant problems). A lot of these things are only minor issues I think. I tried to render in pov-ray first, but it takes ages and also has issues.

@msx80: Your tool works great. Look at my signature for proof ;) Here is another proof: I used Photoshop CC to make the smoke effect.

Andy D kindly asked this project to be front-paged and to be honest: it will change the whole LEGO experience. B.t.w. I think that even if it would not be successful we might be able to pull it of as a community. I would want to experiment with it at least! Making the receiving antenna's is probably the hardest part since they need to be small enough to fit in small bricks and reliable too to receive enough energy from the master spool. I see a lot of potential.

There is a fabulous solution for lighting your LEGO sets / town / MOC's whatever on Kickstarter right now: iBrix ​The lights fit in a typical 1x1 (4070) light brick and use induction! So no wires in your LEGO but a spool under the baseplate (e.g.). Check the kickstarter here and be sure to back this nice project. Forum topic: iBrix Lego wireless lights

Or you could use a whiteboard marker. That trick works well on both LEGO and Whiteboards ;)

I have a major problem installing LDD on Windows 7. It keeps saying: "dgbhelp.dll is either not deigned of run on Windows or it contains an error." Reinstalling LDD did not solve it. I have it working under Windows 8 on my laptop but I wanted to make a pov-ray render and that is so slow on my laptop (virtual machine, it's a Mac and the scene is quite large). Any ideas?