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Really good design. Excellent way to fit in all the contrasting colours!

Nice scene. Really beautiful composition!

Very original. Good effort!

Excellent! Very interresting way you did the barricades!

Hi, Here are some photos of my Wild West layout. First some close-ups as seen from a minifigs point of view, for the right atmosphere... Now, some group pictures for presenting some of the individual MOCs; -Some stickers are missing here; White buildings are the General Store. The big brown building the Saloon, and the almost invisible small black building Wing Lu´s Laundry. The goldmine; The huge 8-wide train. Circling the diorama endlessly. It uses two PF motors in the luggage waggon after the tender of the loco, in order to pull and push the very heavy load! Now some overview photos to get an idea of the size and composition of the layout. The whole layout meassures 12x3 baseplates. Add to that the railroad... All of the above photos are form a small exposition close to Bilbao in April 2014, but most of the stuff was already exposed in Madrid in November 2013. The following photos are from that exposition, where my MOC´s formed part of a huge 13x3 + 13x2 baseplates Wild West Diorama, made by 3 persons from HispaLUG. -So what you have not seen in the above photos are NOT my MOCs! The 13x2 "Desert" area; Gold mine, Canyon with trestle bridge Indian camp. Group of buffalos. Indian raid on a settler convoy. DeLorean time machine (almost) hidden; The Indian raid was set up by my 11 year old daughter. Scary what goes on in the mind of a very peaceful little girl! ;-) The very impressive canyon; Canyon and trestle-bridge NOT made by me... The "Frontier town" area of the diorama; The other train is a motorized version of the Lone Ranger set. Hope you liked it! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I assure you that it is only an optical effect because of the angle of the photo. It is unfortunate that it appears so, but the wheels are perfectly straight. BTW: The axle does in fact go all the way through both wheels!

Very clever design! -And beautiful colour. (Must have been difficult!) Especially the front arcs are pure genious! If you will allow me a (hopefully) constructive critisism; I would mention the handrails at the doors; The light gray modified 1x1 tile with clip looks too big. Maybe there are some other parts which can hold the hand rails more... "discreetly"? -I would even resort to hold the 4L bar with only 1 clip, if nothing dark blue exist. 1x1 modified brick with clip. 1x1 modified plate with clip. (I know that 1x1 plates in dark blue exist in great numbers!)

Yeah, I love that kind of cutaways in the popular science type of magazines! That´s exactly where I want to go! For the diaphrams; Yeah, I have seen this solution on minifig-trains. Its very nice, but here I wanted to use what I had already in stock. There are 100´s of compromizes in this model... I wonder what is the width of the Legoland miniland scale trains? Hehe... I was thinking about doing a section of straight track for it. I think the presentation would benefit hugely. BUT... The cost in pieces is prohibitive. I might try it though, once I dismantle my Wild West MegaMOC... An engine is NOT in the books. (I wish though...) But I can imagine doing a single sleeper-car to go with it. BUT.. If I was to do an engine; Which one to do? The German BR 18.4 has been done lots of times. A french one maybe? No, I dont have a single piece of dark green. Oh well...

Thanks guys, for the comments! The wheels are indeed 6x6 radar discs. "Inverted" and then with a 4x4 plate and 4x4 disc inside, pointing the other way round. I spend a long time studying photos, in order to get the look and feel of the real waggon. It might not swoosh well (weighs a ton) -but it is still a Seriously Huge Investment in Pieces! In this case I think detailing a big model like this is actually a lot easier. -BUT you have to make MORE of it...

Hi all, I present you my latest MOC, a 16-wide model of the dining car WR-4250 from CIWL, currently registered at ÖBB (Austrian National Railways); It was built in France in 1919, according to spanish building plans. A totol of 8 identical waggons were built. These photos show the waggon from the "Kitchen" side. Here are some photos of the real thing, in 3 different liveries; Blue (Actual livery, and the one I pretend to do here); http://www.brickshel...CIWL1/4250b.jpg The lilla/purple; http://www.brickshel...8_000-9_mz1.jpg In famous Orient Express livery (Not my waggon, but the sister Nº 4252); http://www.brickshel...b8d171e7740.jpg When you watch the waggon from the "Aisle" side, this is what you see; As mentioned, this spanish version of the coach is slightly shorter than other "normal" dining cars. This one seats 36 persons. My youngest daughter (9yo) helped me do the 36 identical chairs... And the kitchen itself; Here´s a photo of th inside of the real thing, for your comparison; http://www.brickshel...terieur-wr1.jpg -And yes; My MOC has a dark blue carpet in the restaurant too! (Not appreciable in these photos) The MOC can be classified as a SHIP, with 128 studs long and 16 studs wide. A web-page dedicated to the restauration of this waggon; http://www.stoomcent...blog.php?cat=15 CIWL in Wikipedia, which uses this very waggon as an example; http://en.wikipedia....des_Wagons-Lits My gallery in Brickshelf, once it has been moderated; http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=542587 One last farewell photo;

Fantastic! Totally epic!!! Love it!

Great! You are right that the vehicles takes the corners better (more pretty) with the string-system... Thanks for the mention!

Wow. Excellent details and ideas!

It certainly is! ;-)

Thanks to everybody for your nice comments! Thanks for your always very enthusiastic comments! So, you noticed the vending machines?! I am surprised! There are so many details and small builds. The vending machine is a rather complicated build, yet meassures only 2 x 2,8 studs on the floor! The loco was presented alone here; http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=82714 Oh, you too have a great eyesight! hehe... True, I finally found a use for the crash-test dummy. Good excuse for being yellow! About the guy with long hair and sideburns; I think that you might just have caught Wolverine on his daytime job; It doenst pay big bucks being a superhero, you know... -And I needed the flesh-tone heads were I could get them... LOL Sorry. Unfortunatly I dont have any good photos of the MOC. The ones shown here are the best I´ve got. (-which is really sad!) No video either, as far as I know...

Hi everybody, I present you all a "1980´ish european industrial diorama". I work professionally with industrial automatization, and through the years I´ve been inside all kinds of plants and factories. And I´m always impressed by the installations and logisitcs needed to make a big factory work. Normally I like to build my models to scale, but there is just NO WAY I could do that with this model; What I show here in a couple of meters, would probably need more than 500 meters of manufacturing lines in real life. An overview from the street-side; -And as sseen from a minifigs stand point; The old boiler-house which now also holds the reception and storrage, and has a connection to the rail way and a portal crane. The rails continue past, and all the way into the main factory building. All the photos above shows the diorama as initially seen by spectators. What appears as a nice and clean build holds a surprise, once the spectators goes around the stand, to see the diorama from the other side; -A complete interior decoration, with numerous details and scenes embedded in it! Here some ratehr general photos, to show the density and size of the detailing; You can compare the interior of my model with a video from a real-life Citroën factory. This factory is in Portugal, although my diorama is not supposed to resemble this (or any other specific plant) at all. I´ve also reproduced administrative and "other" workplaces, as shown on the next photos. Notice the use of "cut-out" walls, to allow visual access to these areas; Technical specifications of the diorama; Building time: May to November 2013 Measurements: 3x11 base plates Vehicles: 20 2CV´s in different states of termination 10 different cars, trucks, buses 2 rail-vehicles Minifigs: 50. In multi-ethnic flesh-tones. (No “yellows”) The layout has been showed at the HispaLUG Expo in Madrid, and is currently at display in Bilbao, as part of the exhibition “Toys for all life”. (“Juguetes de toda la vida”). Last photo; Happy New Year to everybody!

The type of car was a very easy guess! ;-) Excellently done anyway. Always interresting to read about this new system of yours!

It is absolutly superb!

Excellent use of some vintage-pieces. And also NPU with some more modern pieces. Lovely!

Veeery nice! I especially like the toally random movements of the cars. Does the mecanism change turn-direction during functioning, or is it always turning the same way¿?

They are all very nice. BUT: The "Smokestacks Coffeshop" is absolutly EXCELLENT! ;-)

Nice. I especially like the glassed entrance in the back!

That bus looks excellent running along! -It looks quite good taking the corner too. Well done!

Nice! Maybe you are on to something here... The VW Beetle is definatly a car I would like to do a "perfect" reproduction of. I´ve seen many nice ones, but none that "clicks".

I´m not an expert, but I´d forget about Ebay, and go with a wanted-list in Bricklink; i.e. a list of the 20 most common City-minifigs (remember to mark them for both new AND used), and then compare what seller has most of the parts you need. Even if some sellers dont have exactly the figs you have added to your list, chances are that the sellers who have the most items from the wanted-list, will also have other suitable minifigs. -And this method might work even better adding just torsos and legs separatly (instead of whole minifigs), although it would be a little more work doing that... (You would need to buy; Torosos complete assembly, legs complete assembly, heads, headwear)