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  1. supertruper1988
    Have you used pieces that actually exist in their correct colors?
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    Has anyone else continued the use of this program? Like the flow as its the in between of BluePrint and LPub. I just have some questions about how to get it to make instructions that are print sized instead of 800px x 600px.
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    Have you installed LDD and run it at least once?
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    Looks great! What tires are those?
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    Love the idea of this project! LEGO makes a Movie Making Kit that has a nice little build for a phone stand. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/NINJAGO-Movie-Making-Kit-853702 https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Batman-Movie-Maker-Set-853650 You could easily build something similar for your "tripod".
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    For me personally, I have a decent collection of parts from my childhood but I mostly build virtually. I will use my collection to prototype sections and techniques. Then I will complete the build in Lego Digital Designer, LDraw, or Stud.io. I will then use that file to create a BrickLink wanted list and use the tools on BrickLink to buy the parts at a decent price. I noticed you want to maybe build at a very large scale. It will be EXPENSIVE to build that large. An example is this Mini-Fig (1/40 ish) scale Star Wars AT-AT. It's 17.5 inches high, about 17.5 inches long and 6 inches wide. It also has 2500 parts and ordering all of those parts will run north of $250 after shipping for multiple orders. I just ordered 300 pieces to complete a MOC and its $30 before shipping from 3 different sellers. It will be about $40 all in for that one. For a very large ship I would recommend surfing craigslist/offer-up/ebay for large bulk sales that you can pickup for less than $7-9 per pound. Then figure out a away to sort them into a usable arrangement so that you can make the sub-structure from a rainbow of color but have the correct colors sorted for the hull, deck, and super-structure details. This will be very time consuming but you can get the price per part down to a reasonable amount but a couple hundred thousand parts will still run over $5k and thats before you invest time in cleaning/sorting/storing. That also is all before you can start even building. I know this all sounds discouraging but this sounds like your first MOC and a very ambitious one at that. I would hate for you to start just ordering parts en masse without some experience under your belt. That alone can cost tons of wasted money and time. I would honestly recommend that you work on a small project or 2 just to get yourself familiar with the MOC process of Design, Prototype, Re-Design, Order Parts, Build, Re-Build, Re-Order, etc..... Then once you are feeling good about how to navigate the process, dive in on this super cool monster.
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    This is a great tool @SylvainLS! Do you happen to know, is there any way to have LDD export the groups as submodels in LDraw using this xml converter?
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    I mostly agree with this but I think that R56 and R72 should be the next 2 curve geometries offered. I have a double loop and I want R56 for the outside loop to keep it tidy. Its been debated a few times but anything smaller than R104 for switches doesnt work very well. so its R40 and then R104 then R200 then R328.
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    Let me try again. I will see if I can get it on Flickr to have no compression.
  10. supertruper1988
    Here is a 4K Render done in Blue Render https://imgur.com/aGgerFa Its huge so you will need to visit it directly.
  11. supertruper1988
    That looks great! Please do a full write up when you have the interior completed!
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    Haha I am not sure I could even use the computer with out right/2-finger click. I use it all the time.
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    Have you tried using 2 finger click? It works for me on a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro
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    I would be in for a bomber for sure!
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    Love the City Pizza stickers and the pizza by the slice. So cool!
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    Thats quite ambiguous. Can you give overall dimensions to compare to the data on Wookie-pedia?
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    looks great!
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    What scale will this be built at?
  19. supertruper1988
    I build them in LDD and then use that file to upload into a bricklink wanted list.
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    If you have a full LXF I wouldnt mind giving it a crack to make instructions.
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    Oh I didnt even know that the World City Theme existed. I knew about the sets but always thought they were town sets haha. That is definitely the transition then because the newer hood piece in some of the police cars and they stopped with the pre-molded vehicle bases.
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    I am not too knowledgeable about the specifics but I just did a little looking around on Brickset.com and the town theme ended in 2004 and it seems thats when the 4-wide era started a big transition. You can see in 2005 the new mudguard was introduced which IMO is a defining part for the 6 wide era. The cars are still a mix for a while after this but the trucks are definitely 6 wide at this time. You can see that in 6472-1: Gas N' Wash Express which is definitely 4 wide trucks. Compare that to 7239-1: Fire Truck and you see the shift. These are only release 1 year apart but to me they look like totally different eras of build. Hope this is helpful, this all happened in my dark ages so I have sets up to about 2000 and then new ones starting in about 2012~2013.
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    Great build, but is that a BNSF Maersk recolor? Do you have more pic of that?
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    Not to derail this but if your build is in LDD, have you looked at BluePrint? I find it to very intuative. I have only just started down the LPub trek so I am afraid that I cant help you out here.
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    You're right it does blend so well I missed it! haha great topic!
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