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    Maybe it's the ball joint connections between the trucks and the driving wheels? Try using the connections as seen in the Emerald Night, as there is probably a good reason they didn't use them in that set. (which you are now finding out!)
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    Thank you! I actually don't... the only dark gray trains I own are this one and my Austerity 2-10-0. Everything else is every other shade of the rainbow. I actually think I use too much reddish brown for trains, and tan for buildings. I think I have four brown trains, and eight tan train / town buildings. UPDATE: See first post for the new companion topics section about items that go with the freight train!
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    It is the early 1930's. The dark days of late 1929 has worsened into a economic depression of truly epic proportions. Worse, the drought starting in summer 1930 (lasting until above average rains stopped it in 1941) caused the dreaded Dust Bowl and the mass migration of (most) of an entire generation of farmers and their families westward. This time frame also led to the rise of hobos, wandering, jobless people trying to use the one mass transportation still running across the dusty, windswept nation: The freight trains. The backstory on this train is as such: The engine, number 6519, runs daily from Lawrence, Kansas yard to where it finally services the Rust-eze factory in Moberly, Missouri. The line branches off and curves to the left in Columbia Missouri, while the main goes straight on to St. Louis. The rest of the regular freight is worked at the Columbia yard, expect for the acid tanker and the two marked generic boxcars. That tanker goes to the factory too, as it's a chemical component for Rust-eze. Rumor has it that the Rust-eze plant will be moving closer to St. Louis, or even shutting down soon, maybe by early 1934. The engine used to be a heavy-hauler out on the main, but has been relegated to branch line work, as it's 1898-vintage pistons are wearing a bit thin and she is overdue for a overhaul. Unfortunately, with the current depression, she has been reassigned to light branch work with a limit on her speed. Hopefully, they will scrape up the money to get her in the shop soon. This early 1900's-era engine model was first designed as a 2-8-2 Mikado before having the front pony truck removed and a 4 wheel bogie from set 10194 (Emerald Night) added instead, turning it into a 4-8-0 Mastodon - type. The rear pony truck was removed as well, with the 79111-style boiler shortened and cab re-arranged. Then, as of late September of this year, I completely rebuilt her from the wheels up to use the Disney engine boiler you see here. The running gear was originally a Scotnick invention from his 9F, but now comes from my MOD of the Constitution Train Chase set. So, basically, the only thing original left is the tender. Together, these several different engines from four different eras and five separate builders come together to create this one steam engine, which I have numbered 6519. The coal tender was inspired by Anthony Sava's Pacific 4-6-2 model's oil tender with the letters "BRS" added in the middle of the tender using printed 1 x 1 tiles. I was inspired by this photo by JB Lego to build this boxcar as seen here. They are made to haul pallets of cargo, specifically Rust-eze chrome restorer in 55-gallon drum containers for commercial packaging at this facility into smaller containers. Inspired by the green tractor trailer from CITY set 4204 (The Mine), this bathtub gondola is carrying boulders from the mine destined for the gold refinery where they will be opened up and the metal extracted to make coins and ingots. This drop side flat car was first part of set 2126 (Train Cars), but it didn't really have a purpose. It was hauling uprooted evergreen trees in the set, but that didn't look very good, so I changed it to generic freight. (My layout's resident hobo and his trusty guitar usually catch a ride on this piece of rolling stock.) The hobo is trying to get home to his family, which lives in Glenncoe, Missouri. Sadly, he picked the wrong train, as this only get's him halfway there. He's going to have to ride the blind of a steam engine tender on a passenger run to get home. (that's the area between the first car and tender, it's very dangerous because you're balancing on the coupler!) This dangerous liquid tanker was modeled after a real tanker car you can walk through in the Museum of Transportation's collection in St. Louis, Missouri. The real deal hauled hydrochloric acid for Monsanto starting in 1940 up into the late 1960's. I'm backdating the car ten years to fit into my mid-'30's freight train. I have adapted this UK inspired model of a brake van by Fireglo450 (see it here) to once again be a more American-inspired caboose. The caboose has no interior, and the red marker light can go on either end of the model to represent the end of whatever train it is being hauled behind. Here you can find other topics of interest mentioned in the text, or that are similar enough to be placed alongside time frame-wise I have this passenger train, that goes along with the freight train in this time period. (No, the hobo does not ride this one home.) and this branch-line station that is from the same late-1890's era, and on the main line from the San Francisco to New York (via St. Louis, of course!) Here we see the (100% fictional) Moberly, Missouri, Ruste-eze Factory. It seems to have made it to better times, with this picture taking place in the early 1950's. Any thoughts, comments, or complaints?
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    @MrMeme260 It means to take over the thread someone else starts, and give it a new direction, or purpose. Such as, Let's say, I have my Adventurers Evil train tropic, and someone came on and asked if they could plug their brand new LEGO Idea for *Insert pop culture item here* TV show. Then everyone else starts talking about said item, and not about what the stated direction of the thread is (The Adventurers train). This new person has, in effect, derailed the topic to their idea of a new topic. Generally, this is frowned up on Eurobricks with a few exceptions, and also, LEGO Ideas promotions are a specific no-no. Since we are covering the rules of the road, (if the @Eurobricks moderating team want to jump in be my guest!) Other assorted things to avoid are: - dredging up very old (like older than page 2 or 3 is my rule) topics you did not create unless there is a VERY good reason to dredge then up: such as when a digital build becomes real, for example. I do that frequently with my LDD projects... but I'm trying to get better at that. This is called bumping. - asking for instructions. I used to do it, we've all done it a some point, but not everybody gives away (like the person writing this post and others) or has stores selling instructions of their models / custom parts.(like @SavaTheAggie or @zephyr1934) -The already stated thread hijacking. Anybody else want to help me out here, that's all I can think of? @JopieK is the moderator of this forum section.
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    my layout is... kind of a mess right now. It still stands and is (mostly) complete, but there is no way to get a good picture of a train on it at this time. Sorry @rday1982! Yep. That's one way to describe it, @Ragana9289, although not so much armored. More of a treasure train. Thank you @Roadmonkeytj! I try to always evoke the official LEGO spirit when writing, so-to-speak: like "Is this how they would have done it in Orient Expedition or maybe even early Ninjago?" or "How many themes can I tie together before I reach a Bionicle G1-level mess that I can no longer keep track of story-wise?" It's that last thought there, that dancing on the edge between boringly thin and too much canon, that sometimes give's me great struggle, or gives me great ideas right before I drift off to sleep! (No joke, sometimes my best ideas, like to use Clutch Powers and his resultant backstory, come from waking up in the middle of the night!)
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    I don't have the LDD file posted anywhere right now, but you can find the official, non-MOC sections of it (2018 Hogwarts Castle {75954}, the Whomping Willow {75953}, and the Clock Tower{75948}) in the official sets in LDD topic. As for my Hogwarts stone Bridge section and Bell Tower MOCs, I'd like to at least get the bell tower MOC built in real bricks before releasing the LDD file. Plus, the digital-so-far Bell Tower model has changed in multiple ways since last uploading the pictures, and there are quite a few prints missing. So it's not quite the same anymore to as what you're seeing. I hope this answers your question!
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    I think the long-lost "cast your vote please" set will have the least votes! In all seriousness, I never liked the Market.... not very fitting with the some of the set's "town" theme. I voted for: Toy shop v2 (The original doesn't hold up as well to this one!) Train (can't have one without the other!) Train Station (ditto to what I said before!) Fire Station (crucial to putting out real Christmas tree fires caused by overloaded old-time electric plugs!) Cottage (where said fires are bound to happen!) Post Office (got to send out those letters to Santa for gifts and relatives for invitations to X-mas dinner somehow!) Bakery (after a long day of arguing with the in-laws over who was supposed to bring the cake for after dinner, and then loosing the house in a freak Christmas tree fire, your realize what Christmas was all about: standing in front of a bakery at 6AM Christmas morning, waiting for them to open for free day-old bagels because your newly homeless and flat broke.* What is the name of that feeling? I bet it's somewhere between panic and dread. Merry Christmas!) *This is because all the cash you saved up went up in smoke because LEGO hasn't made a Winter Village Bank to deposit it in yet. @JintaiZ, I'm tagging you cause i just finished editing this post in your topic. Thought you might get a kick out the comments at the end-ish.
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    Check out all the new snapshots in the first post, which has been completely rewritten! (I'm tagging @Pdaitabird in this post because I've finally taken pictures of my five plank wagons from earlier this year that were based on his design. I'm also going to tag @ScotNick, because his 9F steamer from way back in 2014 inspired the 2-10-0 Austerity loco seen in the photo here.)
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    Main post updated as of just now: I added updated real world pictures of everything, including the newly built Sphinx car and completely updated steam loco, now called Hazel Crusader 514. (as in HC-514, the print on the tile on the side of the cab.) Took me quite a while to figure out a good name for the engine, as their isn't many good names that describe brown that start with "H"!
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    Heavily inspired by Eurobricks user @f2iso100 model of Hogwarts' bell towers (as seen halfway down on page six of this topic here.), I have devised my own model, with some revisions to make it more visible amongst all the tan. I made the stone shutters for the actual bell area wooden, and reduced the height of the towers by a good three bricks, as it currently looms over the official sets by a good floor-and-a-half. It's currently at 10 bricks or so above the second tallest model, which is the Clock Tower set from 2019. However, if this years Astronomy Tower were in LDD, it would probably equal in height the Bell Towers, give or take a couple bricks. Unfortunately, I don't have that set in digital format, but I will have it come my birthday in early November. The Bell Towers though will probably be gotten in early 2021. The bottom floor features the house points tally counter across from the Tri-Wizard Cup. Looks like Gryffindor and Slytherin are tied for the house cup! The second floor features the Room of Requirement in it's room of hidden things configuration, with the chalkboard from the Dumbledore's Army room, the possibly still broken Vanishing Cabinet, and a few sealed crates. Above that, on the third floor is the Divination classroom. This includes a crystal ball and pink teapot with 2 teacups. Continuing climbing up to floor four, we have the two belfries with the dual "iron" bells that swing side to side. No, they don't actually make any noise. The Astronomy Tower LEGO set from this year is missing from this picture, as I haven't recreated it yet. (or received it yet either!) This picture is just to show the height difference between all the pieces of castle, MOC or set. Any thoughts?
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    Inspired by this recent @hachiroku build here. I have completed this new early 1950's car for Benny, who seems pretty happy with it. The first post has more pictures of it, (including one with the removable roof taken off), so please check it out!
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    You are probably looking for them in the "regular" LDD section. Click on the furthest item to the right upon startup of LDD (LDD Extended) and you will find all the parts LDD has to offer there. You just have to color them yourself, as it (and LDD regular, for that matter) are not accurate on colors at startup. It's handy to have Bricklink open at the same time as building, to cross reference the pieces you are unsure about color-wise. For me, it's almost gotten to the point I can name them off the top of my head with most regular bricks, unless it's an obscure part / color or the part / color is really brand new. Best of luck to you on your LDD journey, @Hbot!
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    Thank you @Curbthetide! Here is a little (or a lot) something more to add to the lore of my builds! This ship, originally planned to be called the "Fist of Overbuild", and intended to be the first of four nearly-identical ships (one for each Lego Universe faction and painted into each of the alignment's colors) as the "Protector" class of massive space ships. These four planned ships, were later scaled back to two, and then only the completed one was launched that fateful day. The original name (the "Fist of Overbuild") was changed to the "Bright Hope" when the project was scaled back to two ships, with the other going from the "Dark Eye" (of the stealthy Paradox clan) to the 95%-completed "Silent One", a name suggested by former ninja Vanda Darkflame herself. Sadly, it was not to be, as on December 31st 2011, the Maelstrom launched it's final, all-out attack from hidden strong holds and blew past every free world-piece on their way to Nexus Tower. This bastion of freedom, contacted the Shard of Imagination, and as it turned out, a way of out the darkness.In desperation, the mini-fig forces pulled back into the tower, swarming the landing pads for the ships. As only one was complete, it became apparent there would not be enough room for all: panic soon set in as staying behind would mean certain death. Doc Overbuild proposed a novel solution to the problem, using digitizing technology adapted from his research into Mardoff the Orange Techno-Wizard's "download" ability. (Not quite like the MATRIX, but more like TRON) Anyway, Overbuild and Mardoff hurriedly got process going, with many of the regular civilian figures taking there places in line while the military and special contractors got the ship ready for flight. The Maelstrom was simultaneously trying to breach the tower, but could not penetrate the defenses nor find a weak spot.... yet.On the 1st of January, 2012, at 12.01 AM, the Bright Hope took off carrying the spark of imagination it it's hold. The tower, now without it's major power source, was holding out (barely) due to the rear-cover action of the four foundering faction leaders. At 2:00 AM, all transmission from the tower was lost and the Nexus Force leaders and accompanying staying figures presumed dead. Bob, the captain of the Bright Hope, was now the leader of the Nexus Force as so deputized by the four leaders before lift-off. The ship continued to the gap in space-time, where several probes had crossed through to an alternate reality known for having the planet Earth in it, (otherwise known as our home-planet!) but known to them as the Blue Planet. As the ship passed between the two Universe's, the maelstrom attacked the rear of the ship, destroying it's Faster Than Light drive. (FTL) before the rip closed, locking the Maelstrom out of the Blue Planet's Universe for good. (or at least, as far as we know) FTL drive destroyed beyond repair, the ship careened through space, off course and loosing fuel. The pilots and crew drew up a map of systems they were near and of which ones were known by the probes to harbor life. The results were bleak. The only one that looked good was the ice planet DY-17, distantly orbiting the Earth's "North Star" Polaris A as the last planet in the star system. It was a wise choice.As it turned out, the probes missed that the fuel deposits on the planet were massive, enough to actual turn a profit, and that geothermal energy was very plentiful. This was enough that the leading council thought it best to stay put on the planet to keep watch for any sign of Maelstrom from the nearby rip, which is visible through even small telescopes. Mardoff got all the citizen's de-digitized with minimal headaches, and the base of Ice Station Destiny was born. As for the Bright Hope, the ship was too heavy for the ice floes to land, so it stayed in orbit to watch for trouble. The imagination spark was moved down to the surface, into a secure bunker deep below where few knew of it's location. Also, metals were mined to grow the fleet of ships, with another, smaller, capital ship being built, and many new enclosed fighters being built to accommodate the colder environment, with the open canopy ones being stationed on the Bright Hope up in space to this day. The rear of the ship with the five engines. As you can probably tell, this is a recolor / MOD of set 70839 - The Rexcelsior! from The LEGO MOVIE 2: The Second Part. Right side open, featuring the power room (Largest room, left side) and launching bay for fighters (above, right). lower middle is the war room, while the lower far right is a break room for pilots with what should be a dart board. Left side open, featuring the power room (Largest room, right side), guest ship quarters (middle open section) and the two remaining open sections - their reasons for being are classified. The bridge of the Bright Hope. Yes, I know some parts are missing, they are gone because of one of two reasons: A) LDD glitched out and wouldn't let me place them due to collision box errors. B) LDD didn't have them in the first place (with regards to the 4 x 4 with curve cutouts for the "thumb" area.) Couple this model with my still-together space station build, and I have quite a fleet of micro-space objects. What do you guys think?
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    Thank you!
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    No problem @rday1982, be sure to post pictures when you get it done! Looks like Sam Sinister is at it again! This time he's stolen an entire statue, and not just any old one at that: a Sphinx! (not THE Sphinx, of course, that would never fit on his train car and would be a bit missed by the locals... not to mention any snooping Archaeologists!) This specific Sphinx is thought to be one of the few dedicated to Pharaoh Amset-Ra in the classical style of his father, the old Pharaoh Hotep, before his radical reorganization of the Egyptian philosophy of Sphinx building to more resemble Jackals, in tribute to Anubis rather that to the reigning Pharaoh. Those statue's were also inscribed with magic hieroglyphics that powered them to move after a certain number of Haley's Comet passing-through to charge them with some sort of celestial energy. The last one of those pass-though's was in 1911, creating enough energy to bring the Mummy / statue army to life... albeit 8 years later, as seen / fought in the infamous Mummy Uprising of 1919. Thankfully, however, these older Hotep-style Sphinx were not inscribed with these magic hieroglyphics, so they are safe to observe.... or in Sam Sinister's case, "borrow without permission". All they can do is curse you to an eternity of bad puns, as the now-mad Baron Von Barron found out. The Sphinx can separate easily from the railroad car. The statue's head was inspired the one in set 5978. (Sphinx secret surprise) Also, The first post has been updated!
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    Added pictures of Bob's new sleek 1960's sports car to the first post. Here we see a comparison picture between Bob's 1960's sports car (on right) and Benny's classy 1950's automobile. (on left) I also did a bit of housekeeping on the main post as well, deleting older micro-scale models that no longer exist, and taking out screenshots of models that won't be built... like the ones of the post directly above.* (That specific model got turned into a classic space freighter, LL-202.) *The post's above pictures are lost, because I replaced them with Classic Space versions, and never replaced them.. oh well, too late now!
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    (MODS: I just thought it would be easier to see the car in a forum where it would be more in-tune with it's origins... I.E. a town-based car. If you need to move it, go ahead,I just thought it would fit here best.) Inspired by this recent @hachiroku build here, I have completed this new early 1950's car for Benny, who seems pretty happy with it. It will go nicely with my very '50's retro-looking Astrotrain (see it here in Train Tech), of which the final parts for have arrived... but that won't be built until late December. (It's a Christmas present from my family, so I have to wait.) The rear has a license plate, the classic space logo, and two coverings partially obscuring the rear wheels. The roof is held on by four studs, and is as such removable. The two doors open, but the obligatory space seat is missing, because any more height and Benny would not fit inside. As a courtesy to the driver instead, I have included a light bluish gray upholstery for the back of the seat. This is a comparison picture between Bob's 1960's sports car and Benny's classy 1950's automobile (More of which you can see in my Classic Space topic, and in my Nexus Force thread, both of which are in the sci-fi forum) Well, what do you think?
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    NOTE on the first post: Unfortunately, if you've been following this thread, you will note the Gatling gun car has been returned to the train. This is because the armored car I wanted to build it too tall to have on the train... no matter which way I make it, the car is not going to fit into the cardboard box. This is also the reason the engine got reduced in wheels by one pair from a 4-8-2 to a 4-6-2, as it was four studs too long to fit in it's assigned sleeve. On the positive side, at least this frees us enough space to have the proper guards van added in instead of the second armored car! First post updated 9/5/2020. Here you go, ldd file as requested for both engines in one file. (actual file is available on Bricksafe, this links to the page it's on, as i can't link directly to it.) Thanks @ColletArrow! I'm sorry to say the engine had to be reduced in size a bit. (see the blurb above my response to you and @rday1982 about it's conversion from a 4-8-2 to a 4-6-2 and the darn box dimensions!)
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    @jaegerroughton, This link here to bricksafe is the only place where my files are now stored. However, most of those are newer files, as the older ones (2008 - 2017) were only available on mocpages... and i don't remember what I uploaded to that site, as I had over 1,500 separate pages on MOCpages. Is there a specific file of a model you want that I can search for on my hard drive for you and then upload to Bricksafe? I can only do one at a time.... Thanks @Pdaitabird!
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    Slight bump (and with apologies to @rday1982, as I am planning on scraping the A3 in favor of this newer loco) This engine is numbered 514 (as a tribute to the HC514 part seen in the Adventurers sets), and the the tender should say LNER, (London North-Eastern Railway) as that's who originally designed and built the Z1 class locomotive. This 4-8-2 type engine is named Auburn Flyer and is not actually owned by the railroad company, but it is maintained and crewed by the railroad's employees when called upon by Lord Sinister to be moved from his private siding. (That's why it has the non-LNER-standard gold, black, and brown paint scheme that matches his coaches: it's Sam's personal color scheme for his railway stock - it's owned by Lord Sam Sinister himself. He even had this locomotive designed just for him.) In reality, this engine wheel (4-8-2) type never existed in Britain except for two locos on the 15-inch Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, built in 1927. The type seen above was proposed, though, as a unnamed design in 1939 and again in 1946 by the LNER, but was never named nor built. (at least, according to Wikipedia, and I can't find any further info on these two unnamed types) My fictional Z1 take on the wheel arrangement is inspired by the 2-10-0 Austerity class of WWII (boiler wise) with a tender donated by the A3 which originally pulled Sam Sinister's train. (this reminds me, the engine portion of that locomotive will be sacrificed to make this newer engine possible.) The Emerald Night (set 10194) donated the front and rear bogies to this engine, along with my original 7 wide matching MOC tender from 2014 which is still used on this newer engine. The cab, with opening firebox and gauge details. When this engine is bought, the WWI-style gun car will be bought as well. Sadly I can't make two of them fit in the storage box anymore due to lack of room, so only one will have to do!
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    The only parts that i can think of that would be a pain on the to get if you parted out on 60052 would be the wheels / train base-plates. The wheels are going for quite a $2.84 (each) here in the USA if you wanted to buy all 10 outright. The one wheel sub-type (part 2878c02) I looked at, no-one is selling these in quantity in Canada at the moment. So, I would suggest either getting the 60198, or spending the $300 and getting the 60052. (60052 is actually quite a good train set, and looks more North American than anything else, unless you count the Maersk train loco... so it fit's your neighborhood). ALSO: I would suggest looking at @zephyr1934's instructions to turn the engine into a powered / un-powered Conrail unit(s) if you want to make it more realistic. The color scheme can easily be changed too, if you don't like that.
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    I really like this ship and have since I first saw it, I just had to wait for the instructions for set 75293 (Resistance IT-S Transport from Star Wars) to come out to make sure it could be built in real bricks with the changes I had in mind. (which were quite a lot!) I'm so glad I chose to do it in LDD first before just buying random bricks, as it required SO many modifications to the design (including an actual windscreen and extended cargo bay!) and changing other colors, that I would have been completely lost just swapping parts out at random. But now, here it is, finally, in real bricks: LL-202 Interstellar Frigate. The eight engines are attached in a completely different way to the set design, as 2 x 4 bricks with three Technic holes going straight down don't exist in LDD. This new design was the only suitable way to get them to work on the ship in a very tight space. Also, I added double raised fins to the rear of the ship, for that extra retro '80's space flair. The cargo bay is quite spacious for troops or freight as it has been elongated by four studs from the set's original length. (You can see it is loaded with five yellow space-crates above) The roof of the cargo bay comes off, while the landing ramps fold up / down for loading or unloading of cargo / security personnel. The front of the ship has a space seat for a single pilot with two large laser forward-facing cannons. The pilot's cabin also features actual controls and a real front windscreen. (unlike the stickers and tiles in the original set!) The cockpit roof folds away, just as it did in the original set, which you can partially see here. Also, as a side note, check out this topic here in Train Tech for what will become my Classic Space Astrotrain which will service the base from the first page. You can see this exclusive rendered view of the train from that topic in the pic directly above! (Kudos to my great brother for rendering that model in Stud.io for me!)
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    One word is all i can manage while I pick my jaw off the floor: awesome!
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    No problem @jxu! I love your avatar, by the way: Junkbot and it's sequel - Junkbot: undercover were where I spent many a afternoon in the early-2000's. (and he has a un-printed figure in the new Haunted house Adventurers-throwback / Fairgrounds set... check out the disassembled robot in the attic!) Back on topic: yeah, it does seem like rebrickable does push the premium end of things... but if they didn't, they might not even be around. You just never know what's going on behind the scenes! (not that I would know for sure, I don't work for them and don't have any "special access" or anything of that nature. I just use the site as stated in my previous post.) Yeah, LUGnet was 100% before my time... and while Peeron (another ancient site) has instruction scans for older sets Brickset doesn't even have (1960's anyone?), it's loading times and page limits are totally frustrating. Another note: Have you though about joining a LUG (LEGO user Group), basically a Lego club for Adults with a Lego interest? It's pretty rewarding, and fun too! (Although shows are a big no-no right now, as you can guess!)
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    I would agree that Rebrickable is the among the best choices for posting files (I personally just use them for compiling LDD files into lists to order things from Bricklink). I use their also-owned-by-them site Bricksafe for actual LDD files for the public to download as it's easier for me to post pictures to Flickr and LDD files to Bricksafe which are then posted together here on Eurobricks. But it's whatever is easiest for you, @jxu! EDIT: more thinking, Here is what I have found over the years (links to each site in the name of the site): Flickr - generally for photos and videos and has a great community, though on the slight decline due to Instagram and Facebook. (same could be said of Eurobricks' community, sadly.) Bricksafe / Rebrickable - twin sites owned by the same guy: the first is generally for files / pictures only, the second is a full fledged site with premium features, forum, and parts library Brickshelf - the dinosaur from 1997 in the room (and after the fall of MOCpages, is the presumed next head on the chopping block.) Not trying to jinx it, but let's be realistic... it's on borrowed time. (don't shoot the messenger!) Try to avoid. Eurobricks - you are on it! Great community, fun games, neat contests, awesome members. But, as said before, it's on slow decline, like most older sites, even Brickset. Brickset - the no 3 site after Bricklink itself and Lego .com - great site with news, set tracker (VERY, VERY helpful!), and tips and tricks articles, plus tips on Amazon deals in your country... well, most of them. New Elementary - this blog chronlicles the parts and pieces of Lego we all use, including new ones, old ones, and sometimes rare ones. Check it out for some cool tip[s and contest that will blow your mind! Bricklink - They don't call it "crack-link" for nothing. You can buy as much as your wallet will allow, but the'res always so much more pretty stuff in the next store! *sigh* Lego .com - official online store and website, usually goes down when new stuff is released and everyone is super angry. Also has Bricks and Pieces for ordering new parts in bulk, which may be restricted due to COVID depending on your country. See this licensed forum topic for more info on that feature. If anyone has anymore, please add them below, I was just trying to get the big ones out of the way!
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