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I love this! the chipper is great. my only suggestion is that i would make the yellow box even like 1 plate taller since most trucks with boxes have boxes larger than the cab, might even be cool to make the box 7-wide and use jumpers to make it hang out 1/2 stud on each side. just a thought, it's definitely very cool as-is!

thanks all! yeah the wife is happy to just chill, although she did help me build some SW mini ships :)

hey all, thought i'd share my latest build...our LEGO room! so about a year ago I built a lego play area in our basement, which looked something like this... It wasn't much, but it was a start. it was a mostly color sorted system, but still like half of the bins were type sorted. I think it's a good method for kids or casual building, since sorting is a lot easier/faster and at the time it was 100x better than digging through a huge bin...but I soon realized type sorting was the only way to go. Since we were still getting settled into a new house and had an extra bedroom that wasn't getting used, I decided to annex it in the name of Lego. Here's the workbench part of the room and the view you see when walking in. I'm using a 10mm lens so this room looks bigger than it is, it's roughly an 11x11 room. we had an empty room to play with and after a year of pondering what we'd do with it, we decided a LEGO room would be the best use :) The workspaces are for my daughter and I, and the yellow chair is for my wife so she can hang out with us. All the storage bins are IKEA Trofast and I custom build the work bench on a frame of 2x4s and plywood with large trofast bins on each side. I was a bit worried the 7ft span in the middle would be too much but since one end is supported on the wall directly to the studs and the top is pretty solid, it is actually really sturdy. Here's a bottom view of the work bench, I added some 3/4 melamine panels to the back of the bins to stop the bins from going too far back and for adding some extra support for the workbench. Since I hate painting 2x4's I decided to face the front edge using some cut up grey baseplates i had that were partially damaged. I just cut them on a table saw and epoxied them on. I used bricks between them so assure they would be properly spaced and i'm sure someday we'll decorate them, but even as grey plates it looks good. Close up view of the front edge surface... Next up was lighting. The room has crappy lighting so I replaced the fan/light combo with a large ikea light and was going to hang ikea work lamps above the work bench, but then I realized it would obstruct the wall and be generally annoying. so I decided to wire up some LED strips I had left over from another project. These are warm white 3-chip LED flexible strips from superbrightled.com that i just adhered to some aluminum L channel. Then I cut more baseplate strips and epoxied them on to the L channel and then covered the entire L channel face with 2x yellow plates (only the already damaged baseplates were kraggled). The lights are 12V LEDs and draw about 1.2amp, so I used an old 3amp 12V converter I had laying around in my pile of converters then wired them to a toggle switch that mounted to this LEGO case. Here you can see the view underneath, I had to cut up some of the edging strips so the light could stay flush which was a PITA. Had I planned to do the LEDs before installing the bin frames I could have done that a bit cleaner. Using some left over L channel, a few screws and some 3M double sided tape I made this little 2x shelf for some of our favorite minifigs (i may need to make this longer :) My little corner, the Simpsons house and the modular are in for repairs... The space man decal was in the plan from the beginning, hence the red wall. here's the first two layers on, the extra squares are for registration. Here's the final decal. I made the illustration myself and used to sell these on etsy in a single color, but even though it was original artwork, the LEGO lawyers still objected to it so it's no longer for sale. :( Some of the small bin labels, it's so nice having a vinyl cutter. Here's a detail of the labels I made, I used this funny shape at the top to help me position the decals easily using the plastic supports in the bin's lip for alignment, it worked out great. Some of the small bin labels. I was a bit concerned about my choices for organization, I agonized over it for a long time, but it worked out pretty well. I have a few changes I'm going to make and I may do another small trofast set in the closet to handle some oddball groups like nacelles, and vertical wing/stabilizers. The one big mistake I made was forgetting about modified plates larger than 1x2. Not sure where those are going yet, for now they're in a loose bin in the closet. Here's the opposite wall which is mostly just straight bricks/plates/tiles. The trick with this side was that I only had room for 6 large bin frames and the small bin frames didn't exactly fit on top of that, so I modified one small bin frame so it was only 2 bins wide then used the cut off scraps to fill the gaps. Then I just covered the tops with some black melamine to make the top nice and usable. Here you can see the modified small bin frame. I also added a backer piece of melamine to keep the bins or bricks from falling back. The bins in this pic still have their old labels on from our first sort which was mixed sort with color/type. You can see how I made spacers from the cut off pieces of the shortened frame to fill the gaps between them. Some of the brick bins are a bit crowded, I may sort some out, or stack em to save space. I had a few PAB cups of some colors I stashed in the closet to keep the bin more manageable, for now they are ok. if they get too full I may go thru them and retire some of the scratched up bricks. My wife's contribution to the room, this awesome embroidery of the girl robot minifig... The closet is a pretty good size too and has some room for bins as well, definitely going to pick some up next time I'm at ikea... The big re-sort was pretty brutal, but seemed to go a lot faster than the previous sort, no doubt because a lot of types had been separated out... sorting the types from previously sorted-by-color piles as pretty soothing to the old OCD though... anwyay, that's it, hope you've enjoyed the pics!

:) sweet, yeah i had the same type of rolls you have on some campervans i did, but when i did the big RV, i was like, there as to be a way to do this with some technics bits. brick on!

here's a idea for you too, for the awning on my RV build i used those technic ski poles, then used the technic connectors to make the roll. turned out great. i also used small 1x1 clips above the windows for the smaller window awnings my RV had...

very nice, i like the change in windows as well, but smoked would look nicer like you had. on the drivers side right in front of the inverted slope wheel there's a 1x1 brick space (could be longer brick set perpendicular) but that would be a good place for a 1x1 headlight brick with a 1x1 tile on it like a small access panel for hook ups. also, i love the front cab steps, but not sure about the white, grey might look better. great mod!

very nice, i would worry about them getting out of sync while photographing, but still, i'll have to try it. i was actually just working on some mixel inspired steering and articulation as well. i used two joints in the back and some curved slopes to provide support and just one in the front. depending on how much fender room you have they don't offer a ton of movement, but enough to look like it's articulating while still being fairly solid.

love it! but being an aussie rig, you need a roo guard on that longnose :)

This is awesome! thanks for sharing :)

:) It's a cool stage though, maybe you could make a rock concert set for Ideas using that stage, that would be really cool. I like this idea a lot, but I bet a rock concert would get more support and have a better chance since it wouldn't come with as many minifigs.

i like the idea, but i think the stage looks too much like a rock concert. i would go with a stage that look more like an orchestral hall focusing more on the stage back wall with like classic details, or maybe do like a nod to the Hollywood Bowl, that would be cool.

oooohhhhhh i like the vw, but a few notes... 1. it's not a 69', it would be a 67' or older 2. no vw bus had a grill on the back by the engine, it looks out of place. i would just do a license plate there. 3. i would ditch the rear orange signals, busses of that vintage had smaller tail lights and were not multicolored (in the US market at least) 4. i would do the framed split window for the windshield (like the green one on the bank truck) since pre 68' busses have a split windshield. nit picking, but can't resist as i'm a bit of a VW fanatic as well.

very cool, love the audi!

thanks all, it helps when you live in a place that's often used for movies set on alien landscapes :)

nice! i'm not sure i'm buying the Phlox. don't get me wrong he's definitely a challenge. i guess i just don't see him as a smirker, it's always full big smiles from him. maybe dig into flesh colored heads for him as a way to make him stand out as non-human. oh wait i found it, use the gildaroy lockhart head, it totally looks like phlox's crazy smile... i like the starfleet uniforms a lot though. those look great! you should do a Admiral Forrest uniform too!

hey all, i normally hang out in the town forum making various 4x4 MOCs and the like, but thought i'd share some pics of some of my classic space MOCs and MODs out in wild. cheers! more pics of the exo suit here... http://imgur.com/a/mfTVR more pics of the ship here... http://imgur.com/a/EBTIb

very cool, totally brings back the memories!

Nice, would be cool if the entrance was maybe a bit more different from the pet shop, but I like the interior. Maybe try adding some bikes out front.

i would consider making the curved forward facing piece under the hood black. when i make a car or truck MOC the first thing i do is decide what the most recognizable feature of the vehicle is, then i focus on making that stand out. when i look at the Ka, the headlights and grill pop out for me. i think you're close on the headlights (although i can't quite figure out what brick that is) but i think a more prominent grill would read better as a Ka. definitely an improvement from your past attempts. cheers drew

I like these. One trick I found was using a slighter larger rim with those tires. I use this rim... http://www.bricklink...tem.asp?P=11208 and stretch those tires around it to look like... I think it looks nice and makes it more truck like, without making them huge. ...but you might have to build it in bricks since LDD won't let you stretch tires :)

nice, i like the hinge plate for the hood ornament, totally works.

thanks, yeah i think i'll definitely do some suspension stuff for next years stuff.

that's the creepiest use of those face bricks i think i've ever seen

thanks guys! thanks, i tried that's for sure. yeah, going to try and get some better biker pics next year and moto picks. there is one more pic with bicycle for the intro page, but i didn't bother posting that.

thanks yeah, i was going to do some articulating stuff for next year, thanks for the heads up on that axle, i haven't seen that.