Breakdown

Little short on 1 X ??? plates (all sizes because . . . yellowing) so I'm looking at this partially assembled new plane and thinking . . . . . Looks like part of plane from plane graveyard so . . . I have another couple retro plane projects in the works right now.

I believe that your door has blue transparent glass. You could go with airplane windows, and either elect for the third spits in the windows with the transparent blue glass or just use two and go pillars on either side. If it was me, I would have the train inspired by the 7760 and put a two stud gap between two 2 X 2 windows and then have a 1 X 2 jumper tile come out the middle directly on top of the direction switch for the train and mount the little stack on that. I like this project. I would also encourage one of those train gates in the front of the train to replace the caution stripe brick on the original.

If you've ever owned one of these, they are pretty much incapable of being anything but . . . . a summer car. The doors freeze both open and shut, the thing sits too low (currently more than a 1/2" lower than in the pic above and tends to plow through snow. WIthout snows on the back ends have no weight and tend to fly out on ice. And the door handles (which look extremely cool snap like twigs in the cold). Back in 2012 or 2013 one of my best friends did a photoshoot with (for) me for my birthday of my favourite two cars. He does wedding photography, I picked the locations (apparently wedding photographers are not car photographers) and we both snapped photos (except while on the one-lane bridge in front of the falls because I'm not a jerk, and stayed in the car to move it if other traffic came). I've since changed the rear two wheels from 225/55R17's to 245/40R18 and the fronts from 225/55R17 to 245/45R17. Most of the rest of the pics are here: http://www.colinyardley.ca/Portraits/AJAM/n-VKV29/ 1995 Grand Prix SE and it's been my summer car since 2006. IIRC there's about 311,000km on the body and about half that on the powertrain which is out of a 1996 . . . . as is the computer.

Sometime in the next two weeks. I'll be out to the garage with a new battery in hand to awake the beast. Pretty much since her 20th birthday in Novembuary 'lil Amy, easily the slowest and the most loved of the fleet has been waiting for fairer weather. Plans for this year include re-installing the original hood with longer hood louvers. We'll have to cut into the original hood that doesn't have any louvers. If time permits new fenders (they're in the garage/basement) just need painted.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121592603667?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Figured it was a good deal, best price I've seen on two complete or near complete bogies, magnets and wheels is $9.99, plus I got a bunch of crap along with it for free is how I see it.

The price of train wheels is literally going to bankrupt me, these things are of the crappiest quality, the wheels themselves look like garbage and they are expensive as hell. I just bought a lot of crap on E-bay because it included 4 wheel sets. I really wish that lego wouldn't lynch us on these. Price of adding a car to your train in Canadian dollars (this is just for the wheels no bogie plate, no magnet couplers): $2.22 X 4 (Axels - not currently available): $8.88 $1.55 X 4 (Bearing element): $6.20 $0.28 X 8 (wheels): $2.24 ================================== $17.32 For these prices its tempting just to tear into a new train and have all sorts of leftover parts (which is probably the intention).

You have 100 billion pieces of round track because every train (Creator trains not included) come with either a circle or oval of track. Out of the gate straights are useless. You have two trains on the same combined track, you'll have some spares. You have 6 trains and you'll have way the heck too many round pieces, and sadly no where close to enough straights. At least the stations come with a couple of straights, otherwise you actually may not be able to implement them into your setup!!!

I also added rolling stock to mine. Was too cheap to go the 28 stud baseplate route though.

I'm probably one of the rare ones that tends to do all of the above. I do love having the compete sets, exactly as prescribed. I do make a lot of my own junk that's 100% unique. I also like taking lego sets and modding them. I'm going to be trying to add doors to my 60051 train. I'm trying to add end-car windows to my 7745 train. A whole bunch of activities like these, things that make sets nicer overall but keep the spirit of the original sets. One thing that I really like the look of is the curved smooth arches over the ends of my 7715 train. That kind of stuff. Some times the pieces aren't available during the era that the set was made, other times I think that I just know better than the people making the sets.

Bricklink stuffs arrived today (all one order from one vendor) kinda (completely) forgot the glass for the doors, working on obtaining that now. Doesn't look it, but . . . it's an expensive lot there.

That like electing to use a match when you have access to a flame-thrower. Also - it wouldn't be lego at all then, might as well be Megabloks or kitchen utensils.

To each their own. I'm of the 50% that would rather have two or three lego sets that have been lightly used over one that is brand new. I'm the same way with cars. I own four, the newest car I've ever owned had 93,000km on it, they all have to have piles of options. Some of my co-workers see me riding around in a different car and seem to have no grasp on reality that the one brand average sedan that they own is more expensive than I paid for the quartet together I understand the appeal . . . believe me its just not my way of doing things. Trains are pretty wicked and addictive!!

Selling (and I can only assume that this stuff works): I'm in Kitchener, Ontario Canada, would welcome pickup transactions A) One 12V regulator (7864 - no accesories), please note this is Austrailian, or at least I believe that's where I acquired it. I have absolutely no way to test this. If anyone knows of cheap converter options I could consider them. Will consider selling a circle of 12V track but only with the regulator. B) One 9V regulator (that thing with the big yellow dial) I have no track to test this with should all be there, no A/C Power cord, no track power cord. C) One 9V motor (tested by attaching motor directly to 9V battery box), thing runs like a scared cat. D) Lights and light diffuser, plus lego 9V wire w/ yellow leads this 100% works. Make an offer for any of these!! Would consider Paypal cash or other train components, rolling stock, late 80's city sets/partial sets, etc..

If there was one single thing that my nephew's Panda would have you know it's that he has a bowtie. If there's one thing that I would have you know it's that even in the face of spectacular failure, people will assume that you are successful if you have the right bowtie on. If there's another thing that I would have you know its that the only way that I ever want to learn with lego it's by messing around with the actual pieces and sometimes failing to accomplish something when you thought it through well in your head. I don't like plotting on paper. You touch the pieces find out what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you discover nothing yet learn something that can be applied to a completely different build. They say in hockey and in golf that you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take in sport and in life. I'll choose to mock and poke fun at the guy or girl who argues that this is impossible yet hasn't tried to make it happen, not the person who took a chance and didn't get the desired result. Your creation looks cool, and I'm not at all saying that out of charity.

Just my two cents. Unless a forum is actually going to hell in a handbasket and clearly isn't being moderated, it's probably over the top to have threads entitled: "Is this what Eurobricks has come down to . . . " If I'm the new guy (and I'm relatively fresh here still), it creates the impression that this forum's best days are already well behind it. All internet communities, are going to lose key contributors due to situations, life getting in the way. Even health or death. And if you've been around the forum for a while the key isn't forgetting those people or their contributions to the community, but you do need new blood coming in and keeping the forum afloat. I think that threads like this serve to humiliate the operators and discourage people from contributing.

Please vote for my lego ideas project. It's TBA right now but I have the whole thing plotted out in my head really good, and c'mon it's me: Breakdown. I'm like a brother to most of you by now!!

I was just messin' around, I liked the file idea a lot. I made a stack, but not of the reds that I worked on. I made a stack of the white modified garage door pcs and did this one-by-one. The gears in my brain started working a little when people suggested hobby files. Took me a while to find square ones, but anyhow . . . I stacked the tile inbetween pairs of 2 X 1 modified bricks (they were effectively "ruined" by this proceedure, I displayed a good white one as an example, I didn't ruin the four white pieces, they were already horribly yellowed. You'll notice the spraying on the filing on the outer edges of the now off-white pieces. I used a very low-grit sand-paper to clean them up after the fact.

I'm giving this my lowest rating ever . . . 7 thumbs up. Seriously this is brilliant!! And disturbingly real looking. Favourite parts are the lamp and vacuum cleaner.

For all DLSR's you can view your pics after you've taken them on the big screen on the back of the camera. Many or most you cannot view the pic as you are taking it without using the viewfinder. I advised a friend of mine not to buy a Canon SX520 (he was looking for it to take to hockey games for pics) for Lego . . . . for your budget, for what you want to do. I think that camera or the equivalent from other manufacturers will do the trick. It is missing features like: a good burst mode (you hold down the shutter button and get a true 10 pictures per second for action) and you don't get Wi-Fi connectivity and and some other things, but for taking Lego pics, family pics, some decent versatility on a budget, it's probably what you want. I will tell you this. Canon and others probably look at Cameras like the SX520 as a loss-leader for their brand. You buy the camera at a fantastic price point and they hope that you'll be satisfied, but wanting more features and come back to buy one of their more expensive cameras. Unless you're going to increase your budget, I would go with a "Budget Bridge camera" which would be at the bottom end of the bridge cameras, but significantly more versatile than any point and shoot cameras.

Impressions are just that . . . . impressions. My comments are those that I had as a kid and directed towards the original poster who's struggling to understand how his daughter is "playing with her bricks 'n blocks" finding it confounding to common sense. As an adult I play with my pieces and sets as you do, I find it depressing as I do enjoy making custom things, or at least did as a child. If there was a right and wrong, I'm inclined to believe that following the directions and making the same thing that hundreds of thousands of other people are building is probably the "wrong way" as I believe that the bricks' original purpose was to engineer, create and design.

Ouch!! That thing doesn't look remotely like the 7745 set. That pretty much removes my concerns about unauthenticating my train. I'm having some friends review who simply aren't familiar with how a 7745 train "should look." It would be a costly project as I'd need to acquire a good handful more red windows to complete it.

The middle car looks much better in my opinion with the red, I'm not completely sold on the wedge-shaped ones. Does anyone have a pic of the TGV train that this one is designed after, I cannot find it. I do like the idea of stickering black doors. If I do acquire a second 7745, my intentions are to change the one over to the "new design." To distinguish the two.

If there's one thing that I learned in the 1980's it's that every single set needs a helicopter. EVERY set! Airport, you need one plane and one helicopter. Police stations always have a ratio of one police car/van: one helicopter: two motorcycles. Fire station . .. that definitely needs a helicopter. Cargo centre?? If there's one thing that is integral to a cargo center or DHL delivery center it's a Helicopter. The news team seemed to only get a van & no helicopter Trains have always been deprived of helicopters or needlessly transporting helicopters.

I've acquired a lot of lego over the last three months. I'm fairly organized, but I went nuts looking for 6 X 4 X 1 tinted windscreens last night. I nearly checked all of my lego transactions to ensure that I had actually purchased them, and didn't just think that I had. They were put away, just not where I thought. If sifting through pieces proves too difficult or there's no motivation to sort, it might be that lego's just not her thing. To enjoy time with my nephew, I often sift through and sort his parts as he builds. He likes that and I'm not stealing his thunder it's good bonding time. It relieves me from the boredom of ensuring that he's doing everything right, because those little mis-steps kill you sometimes. My mom (grandma) got him the 4645 set and he's had it assembled wrong for 12 months + now. I was just playing with his lego on the weekend and was trying to work the conveyor, and it's dead, I asked him about it and it's always been dead, he was off by one technic hole and it immobilized the whole thing. I was actually going to re-engineer it for him until I got a good look at the instructions. Seriously . . . I would help her while educating her, just sort by colour if nothing else. Then finish the big set and encourage some "free play" the whole point of this stuff isn't to build by the book and then play at that age. It's build by the book, learn as you go. Then break out the pieces and make something completely unique. Also . . . at that age consider something more universal for building like City. The pieces in some of these other sets are usually extremely specific. If you look at an old school set like 7715, you can build a passenger train out of it. You can build a freight train (it's in the instructions) you can also say: "screw the train" and just build a building out of the thing. The pieces work extremely well for that. I still remember trying to build a fire station with nothing more than a fire sticker and a yellow ladder that was specific to fire stations at the time. Patience can be a problem, but it's something that she has to learn to overcome by herself, it's part of growing up and eventually becoming an adult.

I looked up broch online and many of them.are covered in moss or some type of green plant. Maybe cheat a little at the bottom and have the thing narrow by a stud every so many levels, but use flower stems to hid the transitions then close to the top get into the overlapping hinges as described by Vorkosigan, this sounds like a big challenge.