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  1. Murdoch17
    Well, one of my railroads (my main one actually) is called Brick Railway Systems. I made the railroad up way back in the early 2000's as part of my LEGO layout that I tied into a creative writing project in elementary school. It was originally called Brick Railway, (minus the "systems" part), and ran in a circular fashion around the town of Legoblock (that layout was named that at the time), to and from the Brick Gas facility. (which stored and refined raw fuel for the Octan Corp, from what I remember) Anyway, as the years went by, I refined the story and moved the setting from some unnamed fictional land to the USA, more specifically around my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri while the layout moved to the fictional suburb of Ironwood in 2009 or so. I try to keep all my trains color-coded to their engines, with some exceptions, and have multiple competing companies thrown into the mix of trains just to keep thing visually interesting, such as the Lego-Land Railway, the Frisco, and the Southern Pacific. I have three stations really, and I rotate them on a regular basis for shows: Fort Legoredo (for the Wild Western stuff), Barretts Station (a real world location that's been heavily fictionalized for my purposes as a rural backwoods station) and Ironwood's Grand Central Depot (my 1920's art-deco style masterpiece of a terminal with a four sided clock-tower)
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    your in-the-brick figures look great! Can't wait to see where all your story-lines meetup!
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    This strange-looking crawler vehicle has been added to the first post, and is a heavily modified Classic Space version of 2018 Star Wars set 75217 (Imperial Conveyex Transport). This model would be after the modular fortress walls, as sort of a stretch goal for 2019. Even then, I'm not sure on whether I really want to build it in real bricks or not.... it may be too far-fetched for even my tastes!
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    Thank you again @pagicence! I've just finished recoloring it to Classic Space colors and doubled the length. (It doesn't look very pretty, but it's not supposed to be fancy.)
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    (Just found out the opening mouth wasn't gonna work, so I scrapped it and am keeping my original head on the robot.) This is just a picture of my Classic Space fleet so far, complete with the attack-cruiser, two fighter-craft, Benny's house, his '70's style car and the giant robot. The fortress walls that are seen in the first post should be here around Christmas or so. (if I stick to my LEGO-buying schedule.) Any thoughts?
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    Can someone please re-create set 75217, Imperial Conveyex Transport from the Star Wars theme? (figures are not needed, only the two main vehicle sections) I would do it myself, but the treads are look like a nightmare and I know from prior experience they don't play nice with the other bricks. (read: they don't connect to anything at all in any, way, shape, or form) I know it really doesn't matter to the builder, but I'm thinking about doubling it's length, turning it blue and white (with trans-yellow parts!) for my Classic Space base as a high-security munitions / unstable energy source / high-stakes prisoner sort-of transfer vehicle. It's gonna be an all around jack-of-all-trades "impenetrable" vehicle, like the Mammoth Car from the 60's Speed Racer cartoon. Can somebody please help me out?
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    Thank you @Ninja_Bait & @x105Black, I appreciate the feedback and compliments! As for the eyes, I like the trans-yellow. It just looks better to me, and I tried a bunch of colors in LDD at first. I've decided that while I'm fixing the weak ankles, I'm also going to re-add back in the opening mouth to the model along with fixing a few other minor issues. The head was scrapped and revised many times since the mouth was removed, so adding it back in was a challenge, but it was doable. This was at the cost of the smoothness of the current curved face. What do you guys think of it in LDD before it get added on to the real model? I only need to order about 8 new bricks to change the head, which, when added with the other ankle and such parts amounts to about 12 new bricks total.
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    @x105Black here is the giant robot! There are two more pictures in the first post as well. I ordered the wrong ankle joints by my mistake (I messed up), so it can stand, but it is unstable and will fall over at the slightest breeze or table shift. Thus, most of the picture have if laying down or have my hand hidden from view. Enjoy!
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    Yes, I agree, and I can't wait to show it to the world! I'll be sure to tag you in the post when i do finish it in-the-brick. All but the last Brick-Link order has arrived today for my Classic Space-styled Iron Giant. The fifth and final (plus the largest by far) order should be here by Wednesday the 1st of August at the earliest according to the USPS website, as the tracking says it was shipped today.... though I highly doubt it will be here that fast! If it does get here that fast, keep an eye out for an new post in this thread about the robot by later this week.
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    Benny's home has gotten a little bit bigger.... ..see first post for more details!
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    I just love how the commander is just sitting there in shock while all heck is breaking loose around him.... the last frame is like "well, I guess I'd better cancel that victory speech". It's like how hopeless and lost, yet duty-bound and dignified I imagine Captain Smith of the Titanic must've felt in the final moments of his life.... and no, I'm not writing off our alien commander just yet!
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    Slight bump: main post reformatted, pictures replaced with new ones and text updated. Enjoy!
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    I've finally ordered the parts from Brick-Link to make this robot in real-world bricks, and here he is giving his seal of approval with a thumbs up!
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    Found the last few parts without making another Brick-Link order (green trash can and coffee bar will have to wait for another day) and took the pictures needed to remake the first post. Please take a look up there if you don't mind, and if you have any questions, suggestions, or complaints please don't hesitate to comment!
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    @*thomas* I leave as many studs exposed for play-ability reasons, and I am not a fan of tiling everything over smooth. That said, a carpet in the middle of the floor could be done, and a trash car can - and will - be added. The reason the station's platform is two studs or so away from the track is because of my steam locos pistons get hung up on them, and if placed near a curved segment the engine's wide-swinging front will "catch" on the edge of the platform. (thus, i keep all platforms two tracks from the outer edge of a curve, though with inner edges it doesn't really matter how close you get.)
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    MODS, sorry for the continual old post bumping, i'm just cleaning up my backlog. Added revised pictures of the locomotive to the thread, although I have by this point taken a wheel set off the engine to make into a 4-6-2, not a 4-8-2. Alas, I need to take the pictures again, and update the thread. It should only take another year or two...
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    update / BUMP: I have managed to use the leftover white / trans-clear windows from my conversion of Benny's space-ship shop to make the old Barretts railroad depot a little more colorful. I am also going to add a coffee machine to the upper floor for the employees and a stuck-out clock to the tower roof so the passengers at platform level can see it easier at some point in the relative near future. Here you can see the coffee machine and clock for the tower roof as they stand ready to be ordered as soon as funds allow. (Until then, keep your eyes peeled for more updates!)
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    I threw in a Indiana Jones crystal skull to get me over the store's minimum purchase limit as the third part. My order total was 2.50, plus a penalty of a single (1) dollar because I was less than the store's average lot limit, and about 2.70 shipping and handling, so around 6.15 (US currency) all said and done. I usually stick to the lower 48 states of the USA, as S&H from Alaska & Hawaii is $$$ and so is international customs. (Though I have done orders to other countries, though only custom digital instructions) it realluy depends on what country you live in @Bartosz ! A bit of advice: Every Brick-Link store is different, and every transactions is different, even if you have come back to the same store before. Prices can also fluctuate wildly or stay reasonable, depending on what it is and how "hot" it is.... if it's rare, ok, but if it comes out in a new set it's value will drop. Just ask the formerly $200 (each) Maersk blue helmet, which is now worth only $2.00, so keep your eyes peeled for new releases of old or updated parts! Any other questions?
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    "so close, yet so far!" The train's revised observation car is missing two trans-clear macaroni bricks that I thought I had extra of, but I actually don't. Thus I had to place another Brick-Link order late last week for those final two parts while the rest of the train's upgrade parts arrived that very same day... so the entire five car train + steam loco sits waiting at 98% complete for the very last two parts, which should be here by this time next week. In essence this sentence just about sums it up: ..and I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for you two meddling pieces!
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    I'll also vote the one on the left, as it just stands out better.
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    This picture is just to reinforce the notion that this LEGO robot is truly colossal in size compared to a mini-figure, as shown next to the bot's left foot.The 1-inch (or so) astronaut figure barely comes up to his angle joint, so it gives you a bit of scale. I'm thinking of calling the robot by some sort of name (Astro-Bot, maybe?) , but unfortunately the ones that comes to mind first, Iron Man and the Man of Steel, are already taken! (Credit is due to my brother for giving me the file for this radio antenna yesterday.) I have modified it to fit on top of Benny's house instead of the sorry-looking small radar dish that is on the real world model now. (I just need to get it built in real life now, as another thing added to the to-do list!) Here you can see the whole base assembled in one place.
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    Sorry for the big bump, but I'm planning on adding a brick of height to all the passenger cars to make them match the rest of my rolling stock. This means I'll need to order two more trans-clear macaroni bricks and many taller trans-clear panels, among other things. Until I upload the updated pictures, enjoy this "1950's vintage" photograph of my loco on the Eads bridge: It must have been a really bad day when this photographer took this picture, as the fog blankets this photo like strait-jacket. The 4-10-4 steam engine number 7957 is with east-bound version of the "Spirit of the West" passenger train bound for Chicago from Los Angeles with just-concluded stopover in St. Louis' Union Station, among a few other places further out west. Here we see the train on the 1874-vintage Eads bridge, heading out of St. Louis city, which means the photographer is standing on the four lane, no-shoulder, 1951 Veterans Bridge (Known as the MLK memorial bridge nowadays) which is a very dangerous position to be in in such foggy conditions to be sure! (In reality, the two real-world bridges are visible from each other in good weather, but not in fog this dense. Also, the warning about the lanes was true at that time in the 50's, and has been fixed a bit by now by removing one lane.)
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    Behold, Benny the 1980-something space guy's home and car, in all their Classic Space glory. The house folds open, and the car's roof comes off, both to access the very detailed inside sections. Please see the first post for more details on how this has now been worked into the base wall's structure.
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    I personally think it's fine the way it is with the boxy aesthetic. Unless it's made by another alien race, (think like Klingons from Star Trek, or Shadows from Babylon 5, or the official UFO theme by LEGO) I think all human ship should look pretty similar. Not 100% exactly the same, the similar, like branches off the same tree trunk.... just like what you've got now!
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    The Universe is in chaos. Evil armies run amok, while sky-pirates prey on the biggest of space-freighters. Shadowy organizations with unknown motives leave inter-planetary space police and some stellar governments in chains of corruption and crime, while those who fight back are swept aside. Meanwhile, the astronauts of Classic Space are keeping as little contact as possible with the outside Universe beyond their little pocket dimension of time stuck some-when between 1978 to 1987. But this position is becoming impossible, with constant intrusion into their space by others and with the time-pocket becoming increasingly unstable. So, in the interest of seeking new allies and finding peace in the advanced modern world, a delegation of astronauts where given four years and several ships to do just that. The years is 2018, and what you are about to hear is called THE VOYAGER FILES... (In reality, this is just a picture of my Classic Space fleet so far.... there is more to come soon, though. I also thought up the above TV-style intro as if it were a 1990's sc-fi show, sorta like Star Trek, Babylon 5, etc...) This car and robot dog have been already ordered and on there way, and are to be built in early August. This big guy is to be ordered / built later this year. (I hope around early November) The house (as shown in the first real-world picture) gets trans-yellow windows and other miscellaneous stuff at the same time the car get a built in early August. Consider it an much-needed upgrade, which can be seen more of here. Well, what do you think?
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