supertruper1988

Instead of telling us to go look somewhere else, perhaps post the guide here as well?

What is CCBS?

If you render it with the floor color unchecked, It will have a transparent surrounding so you can place it over any color you like.

Im not sure where you are getting $60 from. Its on amazon for less than $25 Also this is not a very hard model to recreate. Maybe open up LDD or Studio and have a crack at creating it for yourself!

It sounds a little backwards but I would suggest rendering it with the transparent floor option and then using a free program like GIMP to place it over a background color if that is what you need.

You need a more encapsulating build. Under any stress or pulling this thing will go BOOM. This is an interesting problem. Maybe I will look into it some if I have some time this week.

You can find instructions for this model here: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-13044/supertruper1988/missile-boat/#comments

This is likely something that will need to be done in a page layout software like indesign.

This is great thank you @Philo I have used these same methods to do the handrails on my locomotives!

Glad you like it!!

Really cool building! Love all the details.

Looks great!! Love all the little details for such a strange prototype.

We have some new and exciting things out today! Up first is a new decal set for our EMD GP38 kit. Next we are launching an EMD GP9 kit with Southern Pacific or Grand Trunk decals available. Then we have some decal sets for our free trailer instructions.

It looks like he has a 2-8-4 wheel config, which is sone with a single rotation point.

There are a few quirks to it but I have found that it works really well.

How wide is your engine? anything that isnt that LEGO motor will need a side detail of some kind that will push you over the normal 6 studs and at that point, you may as well use the LEGO motor and build a custom side detail. Just my 2 cents anyways.

Have you tried LPub3D instead? It is being actively developed unlike LPub 4.

Any reason to not use the LEGO Train motor?

I was able to get some of the downloads that were hosted there by using archive.com's "wayback machine" https://web.archive.org/web/20150713060417/http://railbricks.com:80/instructions

@anothergol it seems that you are just mad that Stud.io isnt LDD. They are different and while it has quirks, Stud.io is newer and so much better than LDD will ever be unless LEGO dumps a bunch into development. The renderer, part availability check, and instruction maker are all VAST improvements over LDD. LDD was the most user friendly until Stud.io came along.

What does it matter if every one does it once? I dont see why this is such a sticking point. The Studio instruction maker works pretty well and yeah it could be better but we are light years past the old days of MLCad and LPub. That was a STEEEEEP learning curve. It only serves to bring people to our hobby and being so negative about it isnt helpful. Yeah its SUPER annoying that the developers over at BrickLink see to not make wise decisions and it hurts the UI or its not super smooth but its so easy compared to what was that I am happy it even exists.

I really disagree here. I love making instructions and do it for fun. It helps me build the item once I have the brick and its a great way to build without having to have all the bricks. Plus by growing the amount of people that are in the market for and making instructions, we grow the LEGO hobby overall. Your gripes with the instruction makers are valid but at the same time, with trillions of possible connections between 100 bricks, there is no way to automate it and everyone has their own instructions style. Complaining only brings the hobby in a negative light. I would be happy to do a screen share to show how fast instruction generation can be with a little practice.

Here is a little preview of our up coming GP9 model! These will be available starting October 31st!

These are cool! @Cale would love these! What scale are they at and are they all scaled together?

I actually have not used the instruction PDF or PNG export feature in studio. I have long used LPub3D to generate the actual pages of the instructions I create. I tried the Studio layout tool and it has some strange things that I didnt like so I went right back to LPub3D. I stopped using blueprint all together after Studio 1.0 came out and I could make the step and export to LDraw without any issues. Another tip to make the instructions look clear is to make sure you are using a sufficiently high resolution. With BluePrint, I would make an 8.5x11 page be 2550x3300 pixels so that the export of images would give me 300 DPI which is the minimum needed for clear prints. I continue to do that for all of my images and I use InDesign to put them together into a book form. All the instructions on the previous page are 150dpi which is what is required for Retina screens and the web standard is 72dpi which is terrible IMO. Let me know if I can offer any more advice!