Murdoch17

Thanks for tagging me! I love what you've done with the locations, it really brings backs a lot of fun memories. Thanks for keeping the spirit of LEGO Universe alive!

Red is currently very difficult to build right now, as the inverse slope parts are very rare in one set only. And I took out all the below decks furniture and replaced it with the cannons. Sorry I wasn't clear!

(I don't feel there is a need for a topic for this one, at least until it is built in real life.) Just got done remaking the Pirates of Barracuda Bay set in 100% build-able bluecoat colors in LDD. Missing only a few parts not in the program, and some that were left off to the side. (not visible in this cleaned-up view) Sadly, for the life of me I could not get the old firing cannons to fit where the galley and sleeping quarters were, so I made my own custom ones that did. The ship boasts eight cannons, and is now called the "Liberty", because as far as I know, the bluecoats are inspired by the real world French. This ship won't be done for a while, as the ship's sails are an unknown factor since the guy I would have gotten them from got kicked off Bricklink by LEGO along with the rest of the customizers. Trying to figure out where and how to get blue and white striped sails of the same size as set 21332! Any thoughts?

He was a user on Bricklink who made custom fabric ship sails, capes, togas, etc, before Lego took Bricklink over and shut him and many other customizers down. He has now got his own website, which you can post requests to, but it's not done yet. The website says it will be done by February 2020... but since we are in April now, I'm kinda worried I won't be able to order my sails at all...

Rethought my approach to the ship, and IF I do ever end up building this one, this is how I would do it: Change all yellow parts to white, where possible. Change white captain's room window glass to pearl gold Replace sails with custom green and white ones from Capemadness, or make them out of bricks / Technic parts. Remove interior bulkheads / island decor from the ship to be replaced with already-purchased stationary cannons. Change all originally white parts not already mentioned to green. Change remaining red parts to another color, as yet undecided. (most likely black, as it will be the gun port doors that will be changed) Add two Ninjago pirate flags to the mast and rear of ship, along with tiles spelling out the ships' name, which is now "the Corrupted". Any questions / thoughts?

This strange, pixelated-looking ship has sailed the digital seas and plundered many a helpless Minecraft village. Life was good for it's three man crew, but a chance encounter with a User Exit Portal (think like TRON) sent the pirate ship Inferno into the real world, albeit still in it's 8-bit form. Now, stuck in an unfamiliar world with strange logic, (Round surfaces? What is this deviltry!?!) the crew of the Inferno with it's Captain will have to navigate a way back to their computer paradise from the modern Pacific Ocean using 18th-century techniques. You may have noticed that some parts are missing decorations, including the cubed skeleton heads at the rear of the ship and the black pirate emblems on the sails. Also missing is the four dark bluish gray connectors between the masts and ship base. (two pieces per mast) I have removed the flick-fire missile / cannons as designed in set 21152, as I detest those parts. Let's just say the cannon's are just too small to see at this scale. The ship breaks into three parts for storage, and comes with a plank for walking people into a watery grave that slides left and right. (It is located in the middle section.) The ship also breaks up for use on the skull island part I did not use from the original set, as the ship can look like it's wrecked there. Does this sound familiar? It should, as the Pirates of Barracuda Bay (set 21332) uses the same principle about one year later! If you don't believe me, check out this Brickset link to the set, under more images. It will show you the alternate way to display the set. This is the Captain of the ship, One-Eyed Willy. He also does doctoring and is good at it. (most of the time) This is the first mate / cook, a mister Barbarossa. (this is from before the Black Pearl caught his eye and he deserts Willy to join a certain Captain Sparrows' crew.) ...and then we have the gunner / navigator, Long John Silver. (His navigating is what get's Willy trapped in a cave where the some children find the Inferno 200 years later. As for Mr. Silver, he slips away before the battle starts in a rowboat to the shore.) NOTE: the last three pictures (the figure ones) are taken from Bricklink! Any questions or comments? I plan on building this very soon, as I can't afford the big pirate set coming out April 1st, so this will have to do...

I plan on recoloring the red parts to green for my own pirate captain, and removing all the non-combat elated items (plus that unneeded island version wall seen in the above post) to be replaced with cannons I already have. I also will be adding custom green and white sails... as soon as I can figure out how to order them from CapeMadness now that Bricklink shut him down.

Thanks everybody, it means a lot to me! The first post has updated town building pictures and text in several places as of right now. It's kind of a mess right now, but this is my current Western layout (so far). On the table closest to the camera we have Rapid River (Native American) Village, with three tepees and a private railroad siding where Doc Brown hides the time train from prying eyes when he's not working on it. The next table over (it's the depressed height one) features Boulder Cliff Canyon, with the expansive double-track Raindance Ridge Railroad Trestle spanning it's narrowest point. (Down below in the river is the Proud Mary steamboat, navigating the strong currents around the bridge piers) The next two tables are full height, and feature the town of Legoredo, which comes complete with train station, barber shop, post office, saloon, blacksmith's, bank, general store, and the sheriff's office. Fort Legoredo is also nearby, (which is where the town got it's name) as is the Skull Mountain silver mine that provides about half of the jobs for the townsfolk. Hopefully soon I can get the money together to get the RR locomotive shed ordered (seen below) for the folding table that arrives on Saturday. (It goes closer to the camera, near where the time train is sitting) This railway engine shed was inspired by @lightningtiger and one of his smaller sheds from a (long) while ago. He designed the basic Technic frame on his own smaller shed in 2018, and I ran with it to create this massive wooden western-style steam locomotive shed. I have expanded the walls out two studs to allow the time train to enter the shed with its pistons... before doing this it just wouldn't fit in very the tight space. The shed is 4 1/4 tracks long with a total of 68 studs from back wall to entrance to the building. The building also features a cow skull on the front between the locomotive stalls, just to give it that Wild West flair. Most likely, the engines stored inside will be on a rotating basis which ones get used and which ones get put aside, as I do have four of them now, with the rotary snowplow train in the works, making five engines total. (if you include the time train.) The rear of the shed features a personnel door for workers. Up on the roof, you may have noticed those round black things: they are the vents for smoke and soot from steam engines to exit the building. The roof of the shed is not removable, but it can fold open a bit on clips on either side. Any thoughts?

Sent in private message. thank you.

i'm not very good a Technic, and am having a tough time trying to integrate a working blade powered by wheels based on your picture into the build. If I send you the file @dr_spock, can you sort it out?

Thanks @Pdaitabird! Here is another update on it: My brother is learning how to render in Stud.io, so he asked me for a couple challenges to test his skills. This time he took my 1890's Barretts railroad station (modeled after set 71044, Disney train and station) and rendered it. This is the final form of the station, with the regular-size door to the freight storage room replaced with a mailbox. I also moved the station onto base-plates with the five track pieces permanently attached to the platform side. The missing parts *should* be ordered next week or sooner.

Thanks! The latter one (the robot) is built in real life, but I still have to get the pictures taken of it. My brother is learning how to render in Stud.io, so he asked me for a couple challenges to test his skills... here we see the Nexus Force's Ice Station Destiny in it's complete form, hopefully done April 2020 as rendered by him (LDD file by me, of course!

Sadly, no. However, it can be motorized separate from the wheels, like as in this scene by @dr_spock, who is where I got the inspiration for the plow blade from.

It looks good to me @SteamSewnEmpire!

This rotary plow-fronted train is ready to keep the other trains running in the worst winter weather using good old-fashioned steam power! 100% fictional history of the steam engine type (and the whole train, really): In late-1929, Thomas Carter was Chief Mechanical Engineer for Brick Railway Systems (BRS), and on vacation to visit family in New Zealand. He was about to get on the train in Christchurch, when he was passed by a new NZR "G" class 4-6-2+2-6-4 Garratt steam engine. Remembering how he was having problems getting the next "big thing" built back in America, and that he was having a steam power crunch when it came to rotary snow plow duty up in the Rocky Mountains, he contacted the engine's manufacturer, Beyer, Peacock and Company, and talked about a possible contract in America using the New Zealand "G"class as a starting point. Once he got home to BRS company HQ in St. Louis, Missouri, he got the upper management's final okay, and began final design on the new "DC" class of Garratts. (DC standing for Double Consolidation, as it is really just two Consolidation 2-8-0 type loco wheel-set's back-to-back with one boiler.) All in all, six of these (assigned numbers 4834 - 4840 by the railroad) were made as a trial run in 1930, but the Great Depression worsened in 1931-33 so no more were ever ordered. (originally, 10 locos more were planned for general freight service but were never built, which would have brought the grand total up to 16 engines.) Six engines were permanently paired off of with a dual snow plow team: two DC engines on each plow, with each engine team working the two track main line, one team per track, one way, until they met at the halfway point of Continental Divide (also known as the town of Summit Point), which was a vital steam-era crew exchange and refueling point near a inter-state highway. The third team of two engines and it's plow (The one marked YO seen above) was used as replacement engine for the two crews already mentioned, and were only used if another rotary crew was down for regular maintenance or due to an accident. After diesels came on the scene to replace the steamers (plows and engines alike) in the mid-to-late 1950's, the only two steam engines left of the DC type in North America were pushing the spare steam rotary plow YO. One of these locomotives (no. 4840) was found to have a severely rusted water tank and front engine frame, and was thus kept for spare parts to keep the other loco (no. 4839) running. This severely impacted the surviving engine's ability to push the rotary plow hard enough to make it through the dense banks of Colorado snow. After a few unsuccessful modification attempts to keep the 34-year old engine going, it was decided to send the entire train (plow, engine, and caboose used for the train) to a railroad museum in Missouri. They would also be sent with all the remaining parts from engine 4840 as it might be prudent to re-steam the engine in the future. So, in 1963, the YO and 4839 were sent to National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, where it still sits today. (The following part of the story is actually true!) This steam powered rotary snowplow was inspired by the real-world Denver and Rio Grande's narrow gauge plow "OY", as now seen on the Cumbres and Toltec RR in New Mexico / Colorado. I've decided to name my plow "YO" in tribute to my inspiration, using a 2010 Toy Story printed part for the "YO" designation. Oh, and yes, the front "blade" does spin around, but is not motorized. This model has been updated since the last time I uploaded this, with a better plow shroud because the old one would fall off when I looked at it funny. This one is not upside down on the bottom half like the old one, but it is MUCH more sturdy. (I was inspired by @dr_spock's rotary snowplow to build my own plow. Take a look at his Flickr as he's got a bunch of cool designs there!) The rear of the plow features the coal tender with a ladder from the water tank-top down to the magnetic coupler. (Before anyone says anything about Garratt loco's not being ever sold into the North American market, I'll say this is not from our reality, this is my own railroad mirror-world and does not follow our history as closely as it could. I mean, I've got steam loco's running into the 1970's on main lines hauling premier passenger trains for goodness sake!) This engine was originally inspired by two SRW locomotive works products. (Both were Garratt models made by @SavaTheAggie and formerly available on Bricklink until LEGO sadly removed his instructions) I reworked the model from Sava's 4-6-2+2-6-4 to a 2-8-0+0-8-2. I also added the forward water tank and aft coal bunker from his 2-4-0+0-4-2 Garratt, a custom boiler designed by me and medium Big Ben Bricks drivers to make it from a fast passenger loco into a slow freight hauler. (or in this case, a snow plow pusher!) The engine is flexible to a degree more than this, but not by much. It goes though R40 curves and switches just fine, though. A simple caboose, for the protecting the rear of the snow plow train. I used a pair interesting windscreen parts for the cupola windows. Inspired partially by 2001 My Own Train set 10014, (Caboose) but in blue. NOTES: Finally finished 10/7/2020!

This is it: as of this week I have my own place of residence (no longer living with parents), and finally have the room to have my own layout again. I'm thinking of a wild west-type setup for my tables, with a drop table-section 4 feet x 2 feet for the Eads bridge, (sort of off center), bracketed by one normal height 6 x 3 foot table at one end, and at the other, three normal height tables of the same size. (I already have all this except for one of the 6 x 3 foot tables.) As for the topside of the tables, the only two models really missing from this equation is the turntable, (which is still not built), and the second station. (under construction, and not shown on the map) Any other models potentially needed for this layout will come at a later date. Also, the tan table cloth are being worked on, as I only have two, and need four. See the spoiler tag for the large picture of the layout plan. (It didn't compress well to the smaller size with the writing.)

Does anyone know when the next season of Ninjago will start?

Work In Progress Update: I've found 1,497 parts out of 2,024 bricks for the Disney / Barretts station project I started last week. These ones shown are all the ones left to order. (I found the previous 1,497 bricks in my own supply or from the last tan Barretts station.) These remaining 527 bricks will be ordered most likely in early April or late March when funds become available.

He looks like he should be named Tim @Pdaitabird. Why you ask? The colors of the engine remind me of Tim the Enchanter's robes from the film which you are referencing, and he does indeed make smoke and fire just like the character from the Monty Python film.

@Carefree_Dude, they do that with the bag when the engine is not being used (I.E. not the actual event day), or is on the road traveling on a flatbed truck. I've seen it pass through St. Louis, Missouri on the highway a couple years back... too bad I didn't get a picture!

Revamped the first post, edited the heck out of the model to make it way cheaper, and got rid of the expensive train canopy... the model is about as complete as I can get without building in real bricks. Any thoughts?

Most of these builds are slight set MODs, from a period of time when I was getting still getting used to posting on Eurobricks and before. And yes, @Toa_of_Shadow, that is the LU rocket the LEGO group gave away at launch. I was lucky enough to get the astronaut on Founder's Day, and later, in the final days, the rocket via BrickLink.

This looks really awesome, I love the look of the unusual boiler at the front end, especially without those smoke lifters! (I also never knew that a 9F ever went without those devices, so I learned something today.) Are you planning on building it in real life?

Thank you for letting me upload the coach MOD! See here for the LDD file, @Fingolfin: bricksafe link for western train cars

@Fingolfin I would have to ask the creator of the original model first before uploading the modified LDD file, as it's his work that inspired it... don't want to step on anyone's toes. Is that okay if I upload the LDD file for the model as shown @Pdaitabird?