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  1. Murdoch17
    This looks like a great start to a awesome fleet, with the classic-style exo-suit being a brilliant idea (I also love the tiny building). Great work @toastergrl and I can't wait to see how this turns out in the long run!
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    I had to ask a Target employee (St. Louis, MO) to go to the back, employees only-area of the store to get a castle for me... that's how I got mine. Since LEGO is selling them, it should be fair game.
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    This is my fleet of vehicles for Unikitty and friends. Story line for this theme so far: The surviving denizens of the fall of Cloud Cuckoo Land are living in a enclosed space castle ship floating in the asteroid field that used to be their former home planet. They are also sending out space ships to search for a new home and the long-lost "Crown of the Clouds", a powerful relic from an time long past that will supposedly help guide them to a new era of prosperity and safety. Unikitty sends her brother Prince Puppycorn to obverse these efforts from the Sunshine V, a medium-size space cruiser. He succeeds in finding the Crown, but as he is not the destined user (Unikitty is), he cannot wear it without dire consequences. So as he speeds back to the castle, he is intercepted by space pirates trying to get the Crown for their own evil purposes. Luckily, Puppycorn stashes the crown in an escape pod and sets the hyper-space coordinates for a place he can trust just before he is captured. Master Frown (Unikitty's former friend-enemy from times past) sees this happen from his own ship, (as he hadn't been home when Lord Business attacked on that black day, so he didn't know what happened to them and had been left behind.) Anyway, Master Frown hides from the pirates and carries back to Unikitty the message that Puppycorn, his ships, and the Crown have been captured. Unikity blasts the castle off into space, and into battle with the pirates with the rest of her fleet at her side. Even the citizens man the guns of the castle itself, beating the pirates and saving Puppycorn who tells Unikitty where the crown was headed via hyper-space. Meanwhile, Benny the 1980-something space guy opens a crashed space pod near his moon base and pulls out a shiny gold crown... This is a modified version of the 2009 version of the Tantive IV. (set 10198) I renamed the cruiser the Sunshine V and changed the auxiliary colors to teal and medium azure, with a splash of shades of two kinds of pink in several places. The eleven engines now have trans-pink exhaust to match the fighter ships. The main body's roof still comes off, as does the cargo area's top section, but the escape pods are sealed tight. (Changes in the design of the pods were needed due to prices of the necessary parts in white.) Also, Puppycorn or Unikitty can sit at the desk, but only while the roof is removed. The two pilots get the ship where it needs to go. They can stay in the seats with the canopy closed, but only just barely. These are two slightly modified set 70830 (Sweet Mayhem's Systar Starship!) space fighters. They have a different mini-doll pilot in each, but I forgot to take a picture of those figures. The two ships are identical, in that each has a prison for potential detainees on one side and a area for survival equipment (usually dual blasters) / a space for hair when the helmet is worn on the other. The space castle of the Unikingdom floats in a bubble of air on a rocky chunk, surrounded by the smashed remains of Cloud Cuckoo Land. (in actuality, it is a modified set 70838, Queen Watevra's ‘So-Not-Evil' Space Palace) It is a rocket in of itself, and carries on it at-least four smaller fighters of two distinct sizes. If all else fails, the top spire and the fusion reactor (which is placed on the top of the castle in a shielded enclosure) ejects off the castle to begin a countdown to become a black hole emitter, while the castle denizens get away on the smaller ships / other transports. This will (theoretically) destroy all bad guy ship in the vicinity while leaving the good ships safe from harm outside the event horizon. The lowest floor has the security desk, making sure every one is who they say they are and going where they need to be. This floor also has the snack bar and mailbox nearby. The second floor is Unikitty's throne room, with balconies off to the left and right side. The fusion reactor is under this protective dome. That's all I got so far... what do you guy's think?
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    (slight) Bump: Changed the loco, added real world pictures, and am working on getting the (new) steam loco built as I type. What do you guys think of it now?
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    I finally was able to put together a group shot of all* my Classic Space models built so far in the real world, all assembled in one place. This includes the following, plus around 25 mini-figures that are not shown: - giant robot - security jeeps (x2) - Benny's car - Conveyex transporter front unit - Conveyex transporter rear unit - Conveyex transporter middle sections (x2) - space fighters (x2) - space cruiser - modular wall straight sections (x12) - modular wall corner sections (x4) - modular wall gate section - ground control building (*Two of the TLM2 Space Squad gray-scale "rover" vehicles got left out of the frame by accident.)
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    Murdoch17 replied to pagicence's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi

    Does the train work in real life around corners and etc.? I was thinking of building it if possible in classic blue and gray, with some minor parts changes (of course) it make it work out!
  7. Murdoch17
    BUMP Everything (minus the semi-truck, which has yet to be ordered due to lack of funds) has been built in real life and been added to the first post!
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    BUMP: The first post has been updated with new dark red train cars and the re-colored steam engine. Let's see how the Red Demon had progressed over the last two years to it's current version: original version - (late 2017) remake number one - revised boiler with new tender lining and boiler top - (mid-2018) remake number two - complete recolor to dark red / light bluish gray with black wheels and third new boiler top - (early 2019) - CURRENT As for how I'd gotten here to the idea of dark red: Since the last parts draft at the my local LUG meeting last month, I'd been been gathering more dark red parts from BrickLink to finish this five-car passenger train in real life. The 40 or so 2 x 2 curved slopes I'm using from the parts draft really helped to boost me to the final total of 70 I needed to complete the boiler, along with the two 4x3 wedge bricks on top of the boiler (many more are unused in a bin from the picking session), plus several 1x1 bricks with a single side stud and around 30 or so extra 1x4 plates. Well, what do you think of it? Does it look better this way?
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    bump: The model you see here (minus most of the two boxcars, as they are already built except for the Rust-eze logo part) has just had it's part's ordered from Brick-Link, and will be built soon. Keep an eye out for the real world pictures, which will be coming in a week or three! But until then, the first post has been updated with new-for-2019 LDD screenshots.
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    slight BUMP: the real world model picture's of the Proud Mary have just been uploaded to the first post. Please see that post for more details on this 1870's-era steamboat!
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    The base now has two rotating small anti-vehicle turrets on the roof for protection,and a large shield generator building is in the plans for the future, as you can see over on the left hand side with the five huge semi-circular ridges on top. The roof of that section comes off, revealing the nerve center of the base itself. I'm also adding a different radar dish to the base just above the reactor building, using four of this part in black for the actual dish. I have also run out of room for displaying the base in my current table-less (and thus no-layout) space. (That's why I haven't uploaded pictures of the robot, updated space ships, or revised moon base in the real world yet. Hopefully though, I can get to a point soon where that will be fixed and new pictures will be taken.)
  12. Murdoch17
    Awesome work! Looks very nice, and really accurate to the real deal as seen below! (not my picture, gotten from Facebook for reference purposes... it's a very old picture from maybe the 1960's) I might just copy this design to build my own version, as one of the only two surviving B&O 1880's 4-8-0 camel-backs is in my local St. Louis Museum of Transportation, currently being cosmetically restored. Would you mind if I copied, modified it to have a four axle lead truck and gave you credit for the original design?
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    Glad you like it @Pdaitabird! Here's a bit of an upgrade, just before she gets built in real bricks: I added a second funnel, revised the placement of said funnels to the front of the ship, and removed the roof off most of the second deck. Oh, and I added three whistles to the top of the pilot's cab like those in set 21317. (Steamboat Willie) Also, a custom civil war-era US flag is going to fly off the flag pole at the other end of the ship when built in real life. This same flag type will fly over my enlarged Fort Legoredo... whenever that gets built!
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    This eight-wide Classic Space model was based upon the awesome Incredibile instructions made by @hachiroku originally for use with Mister Incredible from the LEGO Incredible's video game. I have reconfigured the car for use with Benny the 1980-something space guy, and added trans-yellow windows, a blue + light gray paint scheme, with additional black / yellow bumblebee stripes for good measure. The car also now has two side mirrors, red wheels, and a license plate in the back instead of the original jet booster exhaust outlet. The central 4 x 2 slope (just below the rear window) is supposed to have this Classic Space logo print. The 6 x 6 roof panel on top of the car comes off, revealing the detailed inside. One mini-figure (Benny) can sit at the controls of the car. (NOTE: It still remains to be seen if this newer car will be built to replace the 1950's-style one currently in use by me for Benny, but if it does become a reality, it will be more in tune with the 1980's tastes Benny has than the current car. Only time will tell!)
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    Thank you @Roadmonkeytj! No other projects from St Louis are in mind right now except for maybe the big rotary snowplow from the Museum of Transport someday. Here is how I attach the Eads bridge to the layout these days (via a old picture from early last year): This is how the Eads bridge is placed on my usual layout setup, via a custom section of dropped-height table with 3D-printed ends to secure it to the regular-height tables*. With the layout ( and / or more specifically, this table section) currently in storage due to my relatively recent move, I was unable to recreate this photo with my recently revised - and widened to double track - Eads bridge. The new double track parts go over the black 3D-printed parts, and then the track will descend a small, lightly sloped (two brick tall) ramp to regular table height when installed. (*The four 3D-printed parts came from a family member who made them for me along with the wooden underside of the drop-table.) Any other questions?
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    Left a good job in the city Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day And I never lost one minute of sleepin' Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been Big wheel keep on turnin' Proud Mary keep on burnin' Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river First off: I saw a similar steamboat on LEGO Ideas several years ago and just finally got around to recreating it from the pictures provided. (the project sadly never made it past several hundred votes, it my memory is correct.) I modified it heavily into the version you see here with my own tweaks and twists in the design installed, such as I added a second funnel, revised the placement of said funnels to the front of the ship, and removed the roof off most of the second deck. Oh, and I added three whistles to the top of the pilot's cab like those in set 21317. (Steamboat Willie). Also, my version does NOT have a swing-open right side like the original Ideas model that was my inspiration... thus you cannot get at the inside, and why would you want to? Their is nothing inside at all anyway on my version, save for the blue deck chairs on the top level. The name of the ship is the Proud Mary, after the Creedence Clearwater Revival song of the same name (as quoted above), as I figured it would be appropriate. This model will go with the rest of my Western models, on my Wild West layout. The captain of the Proud Mary is Thaddeus Sweeney, better known as "Old Man Sweet-tooth", for his habit of chewing saltwater taffy when the going gets tough and and giving candy out to the little children whenever he lands at small towns and native american villages such as Lone Tree, Nebraska, or Fort Legoredo, Colorado. He usually plies his brand-new-for-1872 stern-wheel steamboat up and down the Rapid River, with the Missouri River in Iowa at one end, and the the mighty cliff face of Showdown Canyon Springs at the other end in the middle of Colorado. Thaddeus is the only one he trusts to handle his ship, as he says the Rapid River is too treacherous for many newer pilots, as the wrecks that litter the shoreline prove. However, even Captain Sweeney admits from time to time that age is catching up to him, and he has been looking for a suitable first mate for the Proud Mary for some time.
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    BUMP: A long-held dream of mind has been completed: My LEGO Eads bridge MOC is now properly double tracked, just like the real deal. See the first post for more details!
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    slight update / bump: Here is your water tower (modified, of course!) in-the-brick @Pdaitabird! Also, this is a quick update to the western town, which now has stickers made for the all the building's signs printed by my father on his label-maker. (there it even a new post office as well!)
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    Pictures have been updated, and a new car added.
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    Thanks @Perijove for your awesome MOC! Your inspirational Shay has finally been built by me... but not for me. My father wanted a shay for his 2001-era My Own Train blue log cars, and thus I built him the loco you see here. (sorry if I hijacked the thread!)
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    Sorry for the late reply @Pdaitabird! I hand power all my trains (motors and such are too expensive!), though you can always add a 9v motor to the passenger train under one of the coaches, or add in one of my PF powered boxcars (that I haven't built yet) to the freight train. Also, while I have your attention, I was inspired by your water tower MOC to re-purpose the model for my Wild Western town / railroad. The tower top rotates a full 360 degrees with the water pipe, allowing the engineer to pull up, get his loco full of (imaginary) water, shove the pipe away, and move on. I plan on building the model next time I order from BrickLink. This bridge design was originally downloaded by me (I don't remember the name of the original designer who created the bridge) from the LEGO Factory / Design By ME page in 2010-ish and was never built in real life due to questions about it's strength. I came across it again while looking at my MOCpage account's older files and made it into the version seen above using newer parts and a longer frame quite a while ago. More recently, I revised the deck where the track goes to be able to take the RC track up and be able to put down 9V down more easily. (We run 9V trains at shows in Gateway LUG.) In short, the track is now more easily removable to become 9V, 12V, or even a road bridge. This model will be built at a much later date than the water tower.
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    Saw this on the AFOLs of Facebook group from a store giveaway fellow AFOL Danny Larabee had received from what I think was the Lego store. (he didn't say which store he had gotten it from) He had kindly scanned the official instructions, then I recreated it into an LDD file format. first page second page My LDD recreation, which can be found here at Bricksafe if anyone wants it. Some parts are a little rare right now, though, such as that 3 x 3 dish in teal that only comes in one other set. (the TLM2 movie maker set to be accurate) Still, this should go nicely with the sort-of micro-scale Queen Watevra's ‘So-Not-Evil' Space Palace and teeny-tiny scale Rexcelsior sets. (70838 and 70839, respectively)
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    Major real world update to the first post! Well, it's taken me several years (maybe five, I lost count?) but I've finally got my Wild Western town put together as the last (major*) piece of the puzzle for my Wild Western layout. I've just added the buildings all to the first post, so go take a look! *Granted, I still need to make the army Fort and railroad truss bridge, but I'm so close!
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    This model is a Work In Progress, as it is missing three parts. Once these three parts are added, the model will be done. I've uploaded the inside and rear pictures, plus the time machine photos, though, so you can see the rest of the setup in the first post. (The car pictures will be uploaded in due time.)
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    Major BUMP: The building session for the western town will be soon, as I am just waiting on one more order to (hopefully) arrive tomorrow. Also, the Mad Scientist building was missing three important structural parts, so I've ordered the $20 Blacksmith's shop along with the replacement parts to finish that maybe next week. This all means that the six Western buildings will finally be done very soon after waiting 2+ years to build them, and the Mad Science model will be done almost a year after it's design was started! This blacksmith's store was heavily inspired by 2011 Ninjago set 2508. (Blacksmith Shop) I revised the colors scheme, removed the rotating rear wall, and added a holder for a future sign that will read "Blacksmith" via a custom sticker. I will be using this figure for the shop keeper, minus the cowl and with a different head. Also, the Blacksmith's shop has been added to the first post!
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