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  1. Murdoch17
    Why thank you! I personally like the reddish brown one best... but it's a very close race between them all.
  2. Murdoch17
    Thank you, @577!
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    Not the best pic, but it works well enough. This is my MOW track-layer train, complete with - 2-6-0+0-6-2 Garratt - type steam locomotive - weed-killer tanker car - ballast hopper - track-laying crane - RR track on a depressed-center flat car - workman's tool car - wide vision / bay window caboose (This is my longest train built so far)
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    Thanks! It's actually white, but thank you anyway! You guys might like this new picture of my streamlined steam locos so far: From left to right: Brick Railway Systems 4-8-2 (Mountain 6847), Southern Pacific 4-8-4 (GS-6 Daylight 4460) Ohio Pacific 4-8-2 (Mountain 6093) LegoLand Railway 4-6-4 (Hudson 8929) All these locos (but the Ohio one) have been built in real life.
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    Thanks, but I'm a purist: If LEGO printed it, it stays on, as I'd rather not intentionally damage parts! Thank anyway though @supertruper1988.
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    Please NOTE: There never was a Ohio Pacific railroad in the real world, but in my fictional universe, it never made it to the California coast, just to Denver, Colorado at it's western-most terminal with New York City being it's eastern-most point. As such, this locomotive is entirely fictional, with the paint scheme for the coaches inspired the real-world Missouri Pacific. This model was inspired by user @brickblues and his 4-6-2 Mallard-styled steam locomotive. My version of the engine is a 4-8-2, which means it has four leading, eight driving, and two trailing wheels, making it a Mountain type locomotive. The engine is streamlined with a blue shell around the boiler with tan and white stripes in places. The tender is supposed to say "Ohio Pacific" in printed 1 x 1 tiles, while the cab is supposed to say 6093 (also in printed tiles). The cab of the loco should features this print for the firebox door that is lacking in the LDD file. The baggage car features opening double doors for the baggage end and single doors for the passenger end. The three coach cars are identical with two opening doors at either end. The observation car features a open-air rear platform for looking at the passing scenery. This train is on the to-build list (which is getting longer all the time!) in real bricks. As usual, comments, questions, complaints, and suggestions are always welcome!
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    Thank you @deraven! I'm aiming for an earlier era's style in LEGO, as if these were sets from the Adventurers time-frame, with a little Pharaoh's Quest and Monster Fighters stuff thrown in for good measure as seen below: Adventurers (good guys) figures from left to right: -Madame Blue This dog is the unofficial mascot for the Adventurers team. -Captain Karloff Owner and operator of the "Eastern Star" tramp steam ship, this captain has an eye for spotting the historical value in something that looks worthless. He always has a bag of cool items he's collected on beaches, sea-side markets, and ports around the globe on his person or nearby on his ship. -Jake Raines This young lad is a American student of Dr. Chalres Kilroy's and expert at 5 spoken languages and 3 more written. Also has a knack for defeating ancient booby traps and disarming modern explosives. -Johnny Thunder Australian adventurer extraordinaire and friend to all those in need. Thunder first met Sam Sinister in 1917 when Sinister was in a field hospital for his hand amputation and Johnny was recovering from slight case of shell shock. They have been against each other ever since then. -Dr. Charles Kilroy Eccentric and slightly absent-minded English professor of history, archaeology, ancient languages, and about five other things including medicine. Kilroy is known as "Lightning" to his friends, as he enlightens the team and serves as a quick thinking friend in almost every way. -Miss Pippin Reed This former lead reporter for Adventurer Times was reporting on a Dr. Kilroy's 1920 discovery of a copy of the Book of the Dead when she met Johnny Thunder at a dig site near Cairo, Egypt. They have all been good friends ever since. Also, Ms. Reed happens to be an better aviator than Johnny, a fact which she takes great pride in. She also operates the Island Hopper seaplane on most expeditions. -Mac McCloud Mac may be slightly clumsy, but is a genius when it comes to things of a mechanical nature. He keeps things working for the Adventurers team, such as lowering the steam pressure in the old and worn boilers on the tramp steamer "Eastern Star" and knocking loose engine parts back into place on the sea plane "Island Hopper". -Major Quentin Steele Former British Army officer (and Sinister's former commander, whom Sinister still hates today) This Monster Fighter lost his eye in 1912 due to a fight with a certain Werewolf, whom he later tracked down and defeated. He has signed on to Johnny Thunder's team as of 1925.
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    Thank you, I think I'm the first to do that with the kayaks. Thanks! The shotguns are supposed to be like the machine guns you'd find on WWI biplanes... I just used what looked the best to me. Thank you for your kind words, and I'm glad someone got that little joke!
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    I built this 103-stud long 1920's Adventurers tramp steam ship from two Adventurers sets: I used the boat from set 5975 (T-Rex Transport) and modified slightly to resemble set 5976 (River Expedition). The ship features a lifeboat, steering wheel, and a smoke-stack plus I have the bridge with removable roof for the top deck of the ship, and captain's quarters for the lower floor. I also have signs on the front of the ship spelling out the name of the vessel: the Eastern Star. Built in 1915 for the Octan Petroleum Corporation as an ocean going tramp steam ship (made for hauling huge pumping gear out to remote oil fields in the Middle-East), the Eastern Star ran aground off the coast of southern Italy in mid-1916 while heading to England. Captain Karloff (who now owns the ship after buying the wrecked hulk), with help from mechanical genius Mac McCloud, rebuilt the vessel to be sea worthy once more. This ship has been an great help in getting huge treasures, such as the lost golden dragon of Marco Polo, back to western civilization and into museums where they belong. The ladders hanging on the side of the lower deck lead the way to the ship's bridge on the upper level. The life boat is also back here, just in case of emergencies! Here you can see inside the ship's bridge (upper deck) and captain's quarters. (lower level) Some of the recent cargo of the Eastern Star includes: - a gyro-copter (set 70913 MOD) - silver ingots and coins - silver and gold nuggets - Dynamite (the accompanying plunger is in the Captain's Quarters / map room) - Ancient spears - the Maltese Falcon - the Burma Chicken (long-lost cousin to the Falcon) - two halves of a long-lost pirate's treasure map - Money - large rough-cut ruby - poison bottles - antidote bottles Here is a closer look at the gyro-copter model which was heavily modified from set 70913 (Scarecrow Fearful Face-off) from the LEGO Batman Movie line. I added the classic two seat Adventurers cockpit piece which is usually used on land vehicles, plus a new set of vintage 2003 landing skids. This model also comes with red and green navigation lights and two independent propeller blades. The gyro-copter is usually used in tandem with the Eastern Star steamship, scouting ahead for signs of villainy and danger and reporting back to the Eastern Star and / or home base at the supply depot. The copter is nicknamed the Lightning Rod, for it was Charles "Lightning" Kilroy who designed it. When not in use, the copter is stored on the cargo deck of the tramp steamer. As usual, comments, questions, suggestions, and complaints are always welcome!
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    Fly farther and higher than ever before with the Adventurers and their Pontoon bi-plane! This vintage style airplane features two re-purposed kayaks for floats, and dual shotguns for forward-facing protection from the forces of Lord Sam Sinister, while the rear of the vehicle has a gunner's seat with rotating machine-gun turret. (Just be sure to not shoot off the tail of the plane while flying!) In reality, this model was heavily inspired by 2018 set 31076 (Daredevil Stunt Plane) with a gunner seat from set 7186 (Fighter Plane Attack) from 2009. The pontoon floats from kayaks were my own idea, and I think are used in a new and unique way. This model comes with rotating prop, seats for the pilot and gunner and swiveling machine gun turret. As usual, comments, questions, suggestions, and complaints are always welcome!
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    not anymore.. sorry.
  12. Murdoch17
    Yes, thanks!
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    Can someone make and upload set 31076 (Daredevil Stunt plane)? I am having trouble with with wings' angles, and I kinda need to change the colors to something a it more Sinister (), and need to know what parts should be changed...
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    Thanks! The building has been updated as of now, and four more cyber-punk vehicles are on their way to me as I type!
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    The reason I use the cars I have (24 or 28 studs, with one 34 studs depressed center flatcar) is because of the boxes I store them in, as seen below. These modified copy paper boxes are the best storage solution I have, and work well... except for the 70-stud Bipolar, which will be taken apart into chunks to fit into one of the boxes. (and if that doesn't work, I don't know what I'll do.) Anyway., having an entire train of such extreme length as suggested will cause immense problems, as I saw when I last tried it way back when in 2012 with my Anthony Sava-inspired cars. (They were around 30 studs long and 8 wide, and were eventually turned into my 6-wide and 24-long reddish brown streamlined train, and were a pain in the neck!) Besides, having a train that wraps around half you layout looks kinda ridiculous, almost like a dog chasing it's tail Sorry for the long winded response, but in short: I'll just stick to my short cars for the foreseeable future.
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    This model was built a while ago in real bricks with a black section on the top of the yellow stripe, as seen in the first post. I have since revised the model to have more yellow with a modified roof... I just need to buy the remaining bricks in real life. Updated real world model pictures coming as soon as possible.
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    From 1919 to 1962, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (known as the Milwaukee Road) had these five General Electric-made behemoths pulling trains under the wires from Chicago to Seattle. They were called the Bipolar's for each of the locomotive's 12 motors had only two field poles, mounted directly to the locomotive frame beside the axle. The motor armature was mounted directly on the axle, providing an entirely gear-less design. These locos were so powerful they could out-pull modern steam locos, and what used to take two steamers took just one bipolar. However, after a disastrous 1953 rebuilding by the railroad's company shops (who had no clue how to work on a electric loco) the engines were prone to failures and even fire. And so, in 1962, four of them were scrapped with the lone survivor, numbered E-2, towed to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis Missouri, where it has sat silent even since, as seen above. The slightly stylized LEGO version of the locomotive was inspired by a 1999 version of the Bipolar electric locomotive built by user legosteveb and by a digital-only design by @Sunder. With this updated, more curvy model, the classic orange and red scheme was impossible, and so as the yellow and red of the previous model type. Thus I was forced to invert the red and yellow to the fictional scheme seen. (The black number boards in front and rear should say "E2" in printed 1 x 1 tiles.0 The loco frame is split in three sections as per the original engine. The front and rear section can pivot slightly to make the engine go around curves. Since the last uploading of this model, the wheels have been re-arranged into two groups of seven (they are joined near the end of the frame, with the exact middle section floating freely between the two ends) and the body of the engine has been extended for a total magnet-to-magnet length of 70 studs. The model should perform well on R40 curves / switches, as this picture attests to it's flexibility.... though until it's built in real life, it will remain untested. The newer model is only 1 plate higher than the previous version, with the same length and width. As you can see, it's my longest single locomotive yet designed with 14 axles total. (I'm not 100% sure my articulation attempts in all the boogies and the frame were enough to work on standard LEGO track, but I guess I'll just have to see when it's built in real bricks latter this year!) The passenger train, and the rear car in particular, were inspired by the Milwaukee Road's Olympian Hiawatha service from Tacoma, Washington to with the rearmost car being a Beaver Tail observation car, which were out of service by 1961. (you can read more about these odd-looking cars here on this Wikipedia page.) Actually, I'm not sure the Beaver-tails were ever used all the way to the West Coast on the Olympian, but since it's LEGO, who really cares! That's all I have done for now, and as usual, questions, complaints, comments and suggestions are always welcome! (real life pictures coming to this topic as soon as possible, but the LDD file for the whole train is available here at Bricksafe)
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    Do you have an ldd file for your MODs @koalayummies? I was planning on modding it to black instead of sand blue...
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    Just passing time with LDD and I somehow created a Blacktron III shadow speeder. (I think it was inspired by the Snow and Sand Speeder sets, such as 75204) The wings on the rear were exchanged for more menacing Batman ones, and the colors of the fold-opening windscreens changed to trans-yellow. The ship is 100% build-able, and would feature a printed 2 x 2 curved slope with the "B" from this online store called Brick Builder's Pro The rear of the ship features the engines and invisibility device cooling fins. Both canopies open up to place figures inside. The needed figures would be the Rench alien figure's suit from SP3, with the new Nexo Knights heads from this year's energy Vampire baddies and the helmet from Series 10 Paintball player CMF. Any thoughts on this idea?
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    I finally revised the front end and added a opening roof. More pictures are in the first post!
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    BUMP: Most of this is already built in real life (as you may know), but the square reactor power room (on the left with the satellite up-link array) is yet to be built. It features a removable roof with radiation proof center walls, within which lies the actual reactor.
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    Thanks! I hope you like the newly-modified version seen below. I just got finished changing the color scheme of the Amtrak train from white to light bluish gray as it matches the actual real-world "Phase I" (the "bloody nose GG-1 electric loco) and "Phase III" (the Amfleet tubular passenger train) paint schemes more closely. The passenger cars have also been modified into a cheaper-to-build format with regards to the roof and base slopes.
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    MAJOR Bump / Update : I am going to remodel my GG1 electric loco into a "bloody nose" or "Platinum Mist" Amtrak paint scheme from the late-1970's, as seen here with accompanying Amfleet passenger cars. I don't think anyone has ever even attempted doing this paint scheme in LEGO before, so I guess I am the first to do so. The engine is going to be numbered 926, which matches up with a real loco preserved in this paint scheme in Syracuse, New York. I'm even building some Amtrak passenger cars to go with this GG-1, and will put AMTRAK on the middle of the loco in printed 1 x 1 tiles along with the number 926 at both ends on each side. Here are my WIP Amfleet cars... they need some refining, but it works for now. Any thoughts?
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    Looks nice! I was thinking about doing a version of the shark in black for a certain Sinister fellow's submarine (without the legs, of course) ... you may have just got me even more interested in that with your fantastic MOD!
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    Thanks, that was my inspiration! Thank you, I try to help other by adding LDD files, so that others may build trains that I may never build in real bricks myself. It also keeps a handy record of my style as it progresses over the years! speaking of LDD files, the one for this Atlantic and it's passenger train has been added here at Bricksafe.
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