Widdi

This is one of my older builds. I built it way back in 2005. it is just the classic town house from the 1997 Lego island PC game, made up like an official set from the Mid-90s. It has an open back and an interior. The ground floor holds a small kitchen, the hallway and a living room, which is unfortunately hard to access due to the big chimney. the upper floor has a simple bedroom for the couple, which owns this small house. I've included a little bit of exterior scenery with details, everything squeezed on just a single 32x16 baseplate. This is the whole house in an aerial view. This shows the whole interior through the open rear. The couple is outside, drinking something and doesn't notice, that they forgot their Pizzas inside ;-) This is a front view of this classic beauty. Including the exterior with a small mail box, plants and furniture I've made some instructions,back in 2004 in this Folder mFg Widdi

This is one of my older CAD-Builds. It is a 8-story office tower with some Art-Deco styling elements, like the round bricks, which are in almost every floor. It doesn't have an open rear, but an extremely cramped interior, since I squeezed it on a simple 32x16 base with just 14 studs building width. The ground floor has a lounge and a small cafeteria. The upper seven floors are offices with partially different styling. The roof, looks a bit 1920-ish and has a little antenna on top. The instructions have quite small pics, because it's not modular, since I didn't know much about the modularity back in early 2006. It's intended to hold up to 15 minifigs in it's rooms. BTW: This is another one, which I would like to build in real bricks, too, but lacking the parts in their right colors and the money to buy them off BL. This is it, It's a quite small shot, due to the extreme height for just a smaller minifig-building. It's looking a bit phallic, but that's coincidence. Notice the narrowing shape when raising to the upper floors The complete instructions (61 steps) are here! PS: There are some mistakes (wrong part at step 15) in the instructions since I built this partially when very tired late at night (until 3am in two sessions). mFg Widdi

No it's not my own design, I only did some little Mods to the base model. It's actually one of the 30 model designs, which can be built from the LDD instructions to the set 10183. The car is made of the "leftovers" and goes well with it. mFg Widdi

I've built a small Classic passenger car with the Hobby Train kit plus two minifigs, to go with the nice little black steam engine of the same set. It is based on the classic blue era train kit 131, but rebuilt to Minifig scale in Hobby Train colors. I used SNOT for the steps to the entry platforms at both ends of the car. I built it in Real bricks and made some CAD instructions for it after building. The couplers are a bit offset, due to the odd lenght of 18 studs and the use of a 2x6 along with a 6x16 plate for the base. Now on to the Pics This is the black steam engine from set 10183 with a cotton steam and the car attached. This is a side view of the car. those pillars are just the black lightsaber blades stuck into a round 1x1 brick. The doors can't be opened since I wanted the scale fitting to the engine and those black boxes are for the car electrics. This is the roof from below. Its just 3 train roofs and a 1x1 plates for the interior lights. This is the interior with the 3 roof bricks taken off. It's just 3 seats. As with all of my MOCs, I've made some instructions, which can be found here! mFg Widdi

I've got a megaBloks Racecar and used the 2x1 slope tiles of MB in a few small classic city cars, while back. They're compactible, and don't destroy the looks too much, but only if I WANT piece shapes in it, that LEGO hasn't made yet. Any other of my Brickshelf MOCs are pure LEGO. The virtual and of course the real ones. Besides that I'm a complete LEGO purist. mFg Widdi

I didn't notice this thread until now. Anyway I'll show some of my favourite pictures out of my maj-account. They were taken from 2005 until present. Pictures are only resized, so original colors. This was taken in september 2005 on vacation in South tyrol, Italy at 2450m asl. This is a mountain formation called the three cimes. Sunlight in wintry forest on 27-11-2005 A steam engine refueling water at a rural narrow gauge heritage line in the erz mountains. Shot mid-december 2005 This one is from 7-3-2006. A few days after a heavy snowfall occured in my region in southern bavaria. 50cm of snow+me on skis=winter wonderland pictures Nice evening sunlight in the dolomites on 24-07-2006. Nice evening scenery in January 2007 Sunlighted forest in the southern munich region on 19-2-2007 The 291m-high olympic tower in Munich on 16-3-2007 Sunlight and some late season snow on 23-3-2007 LP supercell thunderstorm beast passing over my hometown on 15-5-2007. The backside of the beast. The whole thing rotated Huge thunderstorm front over munich Sunset on 23-06-2007. I took a five minute break to shoot this while at work A nice 1971 Ford Mustang at an vintage car meeting in munich Developing thunderstorm west of a lake in the north of munich. Went swimming there on that day. There are many more scenic and technical pictures in my maj.com gallery mFg Widdi

Got this in September 2006 along with the old 6627 car off ebay. Just 29 years after it's initial release. The pieces were in very good condition, considering the age of now 30 years. There were no missing pieces. It is a compact forklift truck with instructions for a total of 3 models and inspirations for 3 more. the two instruction plans were in good condition, but showed some wear due to their age. And they've no piece callouts, since they weren't invented in Lego sets back then. Now on to the Pictures: First this are all pieces of the set in one of my old inner boxes. Since I'm building the alternate(s) in small and medium Technic sets first I'm starting with the third model: Third model: Weird Machine-thing This is more or less some sort of elevator on wheels. It has one function. A mechanism to raise the bucket up and down. I didn't take pictures of it, since I got in trouble when building. But it's not a great alternate, either, which brings me to a verdict of 5/10 for this model Second model: Grader An open grader, which is quite huge considering the low piece Count at 210pcs. in this set. It was a fairly easy build, despite of the non existing piece callouts, which were first introduced in 1979 and on both models of the boxes in 1992. It features a very blocky steering mechanism, which works ok and a static plow. This model can be motorized with the old 4,5v motor from set 870, but the classic (90s) 9v motor can be used, too. Here's the mechanism from below, just taken after assembling this model. And this is the whole 70s beauty of a simple grader. It's rather blocky, but classic looking. It's much better than the second alternate and gets to an 7/10, due too the looks. Main Model: Forklift This is the main model. It's very compact for the age of the design. it has two functions. the first is the blocky rear wheel steering mechanism, which doesn't always work, because of it's blockyness. the second is the working fork, which is powered by a pulley wheel moving just four gears, linking to the fork's rack. The build was partly modular, since the mechanical parts are built first and just attached in the chassis process. This are the whole forklift forks, after building their module. in the farther process it's just trapped between mechanism and chassis front. This is the steering, which is made of six turntables, a rack and numerous pieces This is the chassis at step 8, just before adding the forks and steering wheel. The column is mostly plain basic and some technic. And this is the finished model with the large steering wheel and the blocky seat. The levers don't have any functions Model verdict: A blast from the past with many functions for something this old at 9/10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set verdict: Design and Models: 7/10, very boxy designs, due to the age and bad second alternate Build: 9/10 Classic early technic building. Simple and effective Sturdyness: 8/10: Sturdy, but some damage after the table fall Fun: 9/10 Blast from the past. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall: 8,25/10 Points - Blast from the early days of Lego Technic. mFg Widdi

This is my last round of City Ideas for now. Because I'm slowly running out of them. 1. Farm Subtheme This theme would be based off various DUPLO farm sets from the last years, but transferred to normal LEGO bricks. Old Tractor The small set of the series. It's just a smaller vintage tractor with a driver minifig and a small trailer. Price: 10€ Farm Animals Some sort of battle pack with built and prefabbed farm animals including, 3 chickens (with a cock), 2 cows, 3 sheep, a minifig horse with foal, a dog and a Farmer minifig. Price: 10€ Unimog A 6-wide two-seater truck (+doors) that should look like an older mercedes Unimog including haystacks as cargo and a driver. Price: 15€ Harvester Medium set with a complete minifig scale harvester and a trailer to attach the plow, when not using it for harvesting. Includes a minifig. Price: 25€ Agricultural equipment A larger set with two tractors, one should look like an old Mercedes tractor, the other like a modern John deere and three different trailers with cargo. A large bulk trailer, a sullage barrel trailer and a medium sized trailer Includes two driver minifigs. Price: 50€ Farm Largest set of the lot. Including a barn (1st: stable with various animals, 2nd: conveyor belt (chainlinks!) and haystacks , a farm house (1st: porch, kitchen, living room. 2nd bathroom and sleeping rooms), a tractor with trailer, a pickup (4w+doors) and 4 minifigs (Farmer, wife, maid and child) Price: 100€ 2. City centre Altough the name is taken from an late 90s Town junior subtheme. This sets are related to shops, offices etc. Bakery Just a two floor building with interior (1st: shop,bakery, 2nd Cafe) on a 32x16 with some places outside. including breads and croissant pieces as well as a huge cake and 5 minifigs (baker, saleswoman, 2 guests and a servant. Price: 25€ Diner A one floor building of an american-style diner on a 16x24 with interior (snack bar, seats) and 3 minifigs (owner, guests). Price: 15€ Italian Restaurant A cramped building in italian style with interior (1st: small kitchen, guest place, 2nd Restaurant and winerack), beergarden, a piaggio-like three-wheeler (4w+doors), motorcycle and bicycles including 5 minifigs (chef, servant, 3 guests) Price: 30€ Supermarket A one floor building on a 32x32 with parking lot, interior (shelves, cashpoint), two different cars (4w+doors), delivery van (+doors) and 5 minifigs (cashier, 2 customers and 2 workers) Price: 40€ Post office Simple one floor building with interior (counters) and a postal van including three minifigs (2 postmen and a customer). Price: 15€ Electronics store One-floor building with interior (record player, comp shelves and cashpoint.), a car (4w+doors) and two minifigs (owner, customer) Price: 15€ Hardware store One-floor Building on a 16x16 with fitting interior (tool racks, cashpoint) and one minifig (owner) Price: 10€ Motorbike shop One floor structure with interior (cashpoint, store display), repair shop with roller doors, two motorcycles, delivery van (+doors) and a car (4w+doors) Including 5 minifigs (worker, delivery worker, owner, customers) Price: 30€ Street scene Big Set with road plate, two buildings at two floors each with interiors (Left: 1st: barber shop woth complete interior, 2nd: Offices ; Right: 1st: farmacy with shelves, etc, 2nd medical practice with waiting area and surgery area), pickup truck, limo and a simple car (4w+doors) and 8 minifigs (barber, chemist, doctor, patient, customers, 2 pedestrians (one with baby carriage) Price: 70€ Shopping mall Big set with various small shops (two for clothing, bakery shop, hardware store and a electronic store), snack bar and a parking lot with 4 cars (4w+doors) . Modular building technique and 12 minifigs (5 owners, chef, 6 customers). price: 120€ 3. Industrial Subtheme This features mostly anything related to industrial districts etc. Forklift Just a simple forklift truck (+doors) with cargo and driver. Price: 7€ Delivery van One of the two small sets in this theme. Just a van (+doors) with driver Price: 10€ Semi truck This is a american style truck (max. 6w+doors) with two trailers, cargo and a driver. Price: 25€ Warehouse A at least 15-brick high one-floor structure on a 32x16 with high ceiling, cargo, forklift, office and 4 minifigs (driver, two workers and boss). Price: 40€ Bakery Big set related to a modern bakery (BTW:like my current workplace); 3-floor structure with interior (1st: garage (Roller Door!), dispatch and bakery (with fitting machines); 2nd: confectionery/(fitting machines), 3rd: lounge and office), delivery van (+doors) and 8 minifigs (2 office workers, driver, dispatcher, 2 bakers and 2 confectioners) Price: 100€ Brewery Bigger set with interior in a 2-floor structure (1st high ceiling: brewhouse equipment, 2nd office and lab), external garage (roller doors), beer barrels on cargo, semi truck (max. 6w+doors). forklift (+doors) and 6 minifigs (boss, secretary, driver, 3 workers) price: 80€ Powerplant Closed structure on 2 32x16 baseplates connected by hinges with interior. Including generators and a office. With 4 minifigs (3 workers, boss) Price: 60€ Factory Huge set with office building (interior: 1st lounge, 2nd offices), Factory Building with high ceiling and interior (machines, guard-room lurking above, and storage area besides), semi-Truck (max. 6w+doors) and a small forklift. also comes with three interchangeable machines (Paper machine, conveyor belt, furnace) Including 10 minifigs ( boss, three office clerks, 5 workers, 1 guard). Price: 160€ mFg Widdi

I've got some more Ideas for new sets: 1. Beach subtheme This would be in the neigbourhood to some paradisa sets, and some early to mid 90s Classic Town: Hot Rod Just a simple deuce coupe (4w+doors) with driver. More or less in the spirit of 1994's Rebel roadster Price: 5€ Dune Buggy 70s VW Buggy-based car with a minifig (driver) 7€ Surf shop A small structure with a surf board rack . some kind of cocktail bar and 3 minifigs (more or less a spin-off from 6595) Price: 10€ Beach cafe A bigger, but simple structure placed on a beach-like baseplate with ice cream vendor, bicycles, lifeguard, surf board. Interior: snack bar. Reminiscent of the Sand dollar cafe, 5 Minifigs (Surfer, chef, waiter, 2 tourists). Price: 20€ Beach club Some beach huts for changing, beach-like baseplate, transistor radio, drink vendor, small dock, motor boat, two surf boards with sail, tropical animals. Basically like the Cabana beach, but more pieces. 4 Minifigs (surfer, waiter two tourists) Price 20€ Luxury yacht Bigger ship with interior (downstairs: bed, kitchen, deck: living area and above it the bridge. Can be floating or non-floating and a dock fitting to the yacht. with 4 Minifigs (man, woman+child. shore fisherman) Price: 30€ Shoreside Hotel Larger structure with interior (1st: restaurant, reception, kitchen, 2nd: 3 bedrooms, 3rd. roof terrace with small pool), a car (4w+doors), 6 minifigs (3 guests, receptionist, chef and waiter) Price: 50€ Beach scene Big set on two beach baseplates with two docks, small restaurant (inside: kitchen or snack bar and places, outside seats for guests) Live guard tower, jet ski rental (at the small docks), two jet skis, emergency station (small building with Xray etc. inside) 8 Minifigs (chef, waiter, guest, 2 tourists 2 surfers and two attendants. Price: 60€ 2. Amusement Park subtheme A subtheme with some working and non working attractions for your own little lego amusement park Arcade Smallest set of the series: A small building (16x16 base 10 stud wide) with brick-built machines with spin-offs of arcade games, etc. with 2 minifigs (players).Price: 10€ Food Court Just three basic food stands on 3 16x16 plates with pizza, burger bar and drinks. Each one with typical interior and benches opposite of them and 5 minifigs ( 3 different chefs, 2 guests) 20€ Merry-go-Round This is a carousel built on a fitting baseplate with a hand-of-god rotation mechanism, ticket booth, two horses, two dragons (the old style) and 4 minifigs (operator, 3 riders) Price: 25€ Swinging ship Smaller ride with some kind of pirate ship-shaped-gondola, ticket booth, non motorized and 5 minifigs (two operators, 3 riders) Price: 40€ Ferris wheel Smaller, but motorized Ferris wheel (9v) with 6 gondolas on a mostly technic-built-structure. Includes a ticket booth, stairs to the wheel and 6 minifigs (4 riders, two operators) Price: 50€ Bumper cars Bigger set on a 32x32 structure with 3 bumper-cars sliding on a tile-built surface, ticket booth and 5 minifigs (two operators, 3 riders), non-motorized!. price: 70€ Rollercoaster Huge set with a mostly technic-built rollercoaster structure with a rather simple 8-shaped layout plus up and downs, motorized lifthill, one roller coaster train with 3 cars, ticket booth, support structure. and 10 minifigs (two operators, mechanic, 7 riders) 140€ 3. Rapid Transit A subtheme, which is very train-oriented. Could be put into both categories Bus stop A medium set with a 6-wide city bus and a Bus stop building built on a 32x32 baseplate and 4 Minifigs (Bus driver, 3 passengers). Price 30€ Classic Trolley A tram consist built out of two double units, which look like munichs old P-type for example (maybe S@H exclusive), with seats, driver and 4 passengers. Very piece-heavy: price: 60€ Trolley set Big classic 9V train set with a track layout (with switch), speed regulator, motor and 2 stops (one with small parking lot behind it. Includes modern trolley car, vintage trolley car, both with seats inside, car (4w+doors) and 8 minifigs ( two drivers, car driver, 5 passengers). Price: 150€ Monorail Basically a modernized rehash of the classic 6399 set with monorail train, two stations and various track pieces, for a two storey layout. Upper station (platform, stairs to it) lower station: (snack bar just right besides the platform), civilian car (4w+doors) and 8 minifigs (train driver, 2 passengers, chef, 4 more civilians) Price: 120€ Metropolitan Station Bigger train station, which is reminiscent of 1991s 4554-set with two platforms, interior (1st: snack bar, waiting room, ticket counter; 2nd:office), baggage vehicle and classic 9V tracks laid at the platforms and 8 minifigs (3 train workers, 4 passengers, chef) 60€ Subway set Includes a simple Classic 9V track oval with long straights and full equipment (Regulator, 9V-motor). two different stations (enclosed: one of those with a snack bar), complete subway consist (two cars) with complete interior and 8 minifigs (chef, train driver, 2 workers and 4 passengers. Price: 140€ Commuter Train A train consist made up from two railcars, with rather modern look, seats and 5 minifigs (Train driver, 4 passengers, without motor. Price: 50€ Classic Local Train This would be my biggest CADed train MOC for now as a set. With a detailed DB 212 Series engine and two german Silberling cars in grey with 9 minifigs without motor. Price: 170€ (as a S@H exclusive) ;-) Now thats's all for now, but I've still some Ideas in my mind, following in here sooner or later. mFg Widdi

In terms of Town/Trains I'm loaded with some set ideas: 1. Civilian Cars: These would be some normal Lego Cars. A roadster, a sleek sports car, a Jeep, a Taxi cab, etc. All with a driver minifig and doors, please. Price: between 4€ and 10€ depending on the size 2. Parking garage This could be a rehash of this one It should include a service station with repair bay, the parking garage itself with 2 floors and parking decks, tow truck, 3 civilian cars all 4 or 6 stud wide with doors, a motorcycle, two mechanics, 4 drivers and service station shop owner. Price: 70€ 3. Skyscraper This should include 7 floors with interior (1. lounge and information, 2nd-6th offices, 7th small restaurant, roof: viewing platform or just an antenna), 2 cars (4stud+doors), 8 office workers, chef, waiter, 3 tourists, 2 secretaries. price: 120€ 4. Civilian Houses six different civilian houses with one or two floors each: Modern house with one floor and panoramic window, bedroom, living/cooking area, car (4stud+doors) and a couple (male+female figure). Price: 20€ Family home A two floor house with interior (bedroom, living room, kitchen) ,car (4stud+doors) and a family (man+woman+boy or daughter). Price: 25€ Rich people's Villa with swimming pool in the garden, interior (kitchen,living room, bedrooms, library and a small office) a garage (roller doors), 2 cars (4stud+doors) and 5 Minifigs (Family with two children and a servant).Price: 60€ Suburban house with a car (4stud+doors), garage, two floors with interior (living room, kitchen, bedrooms) and two minifigures (man+woman). Price: 30€ Older people's home with interior (bedroom, living room and kitchen), bicycle, patio and two elder people (man+woman (grey hairpieces) and an older looking car. Price: 25€ Vacation home: Very small single floor house with bed and seat, surrounded by a gardne with BBQ, a bicycle and a car with trailer and a small boat (4stud+doors). Two minifigs (man+woman) Price: 15€ 5. Camping subtheme Various different sets related to camping: Single camp: Tent with fireplace, tree and one minifig on a 16x8 base. price 5€ Whitewater Raft A rehash of the mid 90s set 6662 with 3 minifigs. Price: 8€ Caravan: More or less based on Set 6351 from 1992 (6-wide+doors) with cramped, but detailed interior, trailer, a small boat and two minifigs (man+woman). price: 20€ River cabin: Basically a rehash of Set 6552 with river baseplate, cabin, a mountain surrounding, various trees, a small boat, jeep (+doors) with trailer, horse and 3 minifigs (man, woman and a walker). Price 30€ Campground Big set with four tents, bicycles, car with caravan, car with trailer and boat (all with doors!), service building with showers, toilets,a snack bar, some trees, a river baseplate and 7 minifigs (5 campers, chef, camp attendant). Price 75€ 6a. Alpine Subtheme summer Divided subtheme with sets for summer and winter settled in the mountains. partially related to the camping theme These are the summer sets: Resting hiker Just a minifig and a little mountain structure with creek to rest besides. 5€ Log cabin Below a small rock structure (with trees) with oven, bed and a chair as well as an patio. Includes one minifig. Price: 15€ Mountain Lodge Two-floor structure. Settled on a raised 32x32 baseplate with kitchen, patio, restaurant in the ground floor and various beds in the upper floor. Also including a rock structure with a small creek running down on it and white bricks for snow on the top of it. Including 5 minifigs (chef, landlord, two hikers and a mountainbiker). Price 30€ Mountain Rescue Small lodge (with rescue bed, computers) on a raised 32x32 baseplate with helicopter landing pad, small mountain structure, small helicopter, Jeep (with doors), and 4 minifigs (pilot, two mountain rescue forces. lost person. Price: 50€ Rock-Climbing Big set on a 32x32 baseplate with a 50cm high closed mountain structure made up of partially BURPS, partially normal parts, with bivouac closely under the top, a small cave somewhere in it some plants, for the lower parts, white bricks for snow covering at the summit and 3 climber minifigs. Price: 70€ Aerial tramway Huge set built on a 32x16 and a 48x48 baseplate. Including a 60cm high mountain with massive structure to the summit. two stations (lower: cash desk, engine room: upper: small restaurant, cash desk, engine room), 9v motor, and two small gondolas. Including 9 minifigs (4 hikers, lift staff, cahiers at each station, chef). Price 150€ 6b: Alpine Subtheme winter Divided subtheme with sets for winter and summer.This are the winter sets: Snow scooter Just a simple snow scooter with driver. Price: 3€ Husky race two sleds powered by 4 dogs each with a start and a finish line. Includes two minifigs. price: 7€ Snow Fun Medium set with a toboggan run area upon a white 32x16 base, two sleighs, skier and a snowman. Includes 4 minifigs (4 Normal City guys/girls in wintry outfit) Price 20€ Snow groomer snow groomer model with chainlinks and technic underbody, front plow, rear plow, halfpipe groomer, crane and 2 Minifigs (driver, skiing minifig) Price 20€ Ski lodge Alpine structure on a white baseplate with two floors and interior (kitchen, restaurant, ski depot, bedrooms upstairs) includes an outdoor area and a wintry rock structure behind it. Includes 5 minifigs (3 skiing/snowboarding tourists, landlord, chef). Price 40€ Ski jump 35cm high mountain structure with a steep slope and a jump on the lower end. Also includes a shelter, public tribune and 6 minifigs (3 spectators, security and two jumpers) 50€ Ski slope Huge set with a ski lift with 9v motor, supports and 4 chairs also includes ski slope surrounded by rocks on two partially huge baseplates, 10 ski pieces and two snowboards, as well as 9 Minifigs (two lift operators, cashier 6 skiing/snowboarding Minifigs) Price: 110€ Ok I'll stop posting Ideas with this post for now, but I've an truckload more in my mind. mFg Widdi PS: Some of my MOCs base on these Ideas (mostly CAD)

Now that's good news, bbut since I've got very limited amounts of money I won't pay for uploading to the page. I think that this monthly 5$ fee is just for some kind of an Premium account, like I've seen on various train/flight simulator fanpages. But my small maj.com lego corner will stay there for a while, since I can't really thrust BS anymore. Luckily my folder is backed up on the HD. mFg Widdi

My favourite Folders apart, from some you've just linked here are: Legomaneitaliano's (salvobrick's on Eb) gallery You've just got to look at his great Town MOCs, with the spirit from Lego's golden age Lbaixinho's Gallery and tbaixinho's gallery with MOCs spread over most genres and open backsides on most of their buildings. Some of the folders are empty for whatever reason. Ben's gallery You've simply got to look at his Steam engines. Misterzumbi's gallery This guy has various extremely detailed MOCs spread over multiple genres. James Mathis's gallery This one is a must look. It has plenty of instructions and MOCs mostly for trains and some factory-based creations. Widdi's (my) Gallery. Mostly CAD and some real brick, as well as some events and not to mention the best work until now (the Silberling-Local train) too bad, these will be gone soon. But I'll try to save all these gallerys on my computer within the deadline. my BS to maj. moving will continue in August. First I'll enjoy these gallerys and loading them to my HD and later CDs/DVDs. mFg Widdi

I didn't have any dark ages. I only had one almost complete collection break in 2003 only, but since 2004, I'm still going strong, although brickshelf is dead for now (or ever?) and this won't stop me. The only bad thing, that my brick collection isn't that great, lacking greys etc. But I'm a CAD-Moccer, where I have some my best works until today (reuploading-process getting ON tomorrow). mFg Widdi

I'm just beginning to move my old BS-content over to maj.com. The Renderings will get up on there, too ASAP, which means when I found enough time to rehash them out of my CAD-Files. I'm still hoping, that BS gets resurrected but hopefully not as a pay-site. If it gets profit, I'll wait until a new FREE Lego-Image hosting server comes around, which is just a matter of time.

What the megablock. Luckily I was able to save my MOC-Pics. So my only loss are the BrickingBavaria event pics from 2005. My CAD-Mocs will come up to maj.com if I find the time to rerender and the rest of the old BS gallery, too. I hope that such a thing doesn't occur with maj.com, too and I'm doing regular backups now, so that I never get into such trouble again. And a maj.com dead would be an even worser thing for me, since I'm keeping all! my non-Lego Images there and this are about 1000. My loss is est. 5-15% and much work resulting due to that mFg Widdi

Great, then I'm able to rescue all my content. I'll try this with BSBackup. Whoops: BSbackup only links to the normal http: I'll take my real brick-builds only. The renders can be made again.

I'll have to check my whole digital photo sticks, if pics from the gallery are still on them, I'll only have to download and resize them, but that will cost hours. And then get them up to maj.com if this is permanent. my render instructions from early 2003 to present are still complete as CAD-Files on the HD, but It will be much work rendering especially the later ones again. Some of my pics are gone meanwhile, with a loss of 50 to 65% from not too many real brick pics. Upgrade: My pictures from 2006-present are still there, but most from 2005 are gone now. Therefore my italian restaurant and various other city houses/buildings. For new pics I'll might have to rebuilt them someday. But this isn't a big problem, since I always make instructions to them. Only the first snow groomer is completeley lost now, and I won't rebuild it again, due to the better 2006 follow-up. mFg Widdi

I'm hoping that these are just serious server problems. Since maj.com still works fine and accepts my BS-login and my non-lego pictures taken recently. Without brickshelf all my lego pictures are gone. If it gets back up again (with hopefully all content), I'll immediatly try to backup my BS-folders on the HD or maj, so that I won't get in such trouble again. *n* :-X mFg Widdi

I just wanted to surf it recently, and then I got this message: Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience. What the megablocks is up with Brickshelf, since I just was up there about an half-to one hour before checking the news. Normally this would've been announced somewhere. has anybody further knowledge about this? mFg Widdi

Another time almost a year late: *digsthreadoutofarchive* My vote went for 6380, too, since it's so classic looking. And very easy to rebuild with classic town parts, too. Sadly I don't have this set, but rebuilt it by instruction scans various times through the years. mFg Widdi

Oops I'm a year late, but I voted for 6398. First it's the only station that I own and it's still the piece-wise tallest Police Station ever made.I really like it's two and four level structures and the fact that it doesn't have any juniorization or raised baseplate. The vehicles are great on this one, but the Jeep doesn't do much for me. It would've been better if they included a prisoner transporter instead. But other than that it's a classic town beauty. And it brings back memories, since I got this beast back on christmas 1993. it's pieces are now shattered in my ca. 75000 piece collection. mFg Widdi

I'm stuck to the classic 4-wide cars and trucks and 6-wide trains, because I love the old Town/Train sets from 80s-mid90s. Any MOC, which I'm doing in Real brick or CAD is more or less inspired by the style of old Classic town sets. Only few MOCs like the Judas Priest show cars have a scale of 8-wide. And most of my train MOCs are 6-wide, but in the lenghts often close to the real things. just look at my 70s-style German local train. It's 6-wide, but packs in details like an 7 or even an 8-wide. The current scale-system with 4-5wide Cars, 6-wide trucks and 8-wide Big Rigs is nice, but my vote goes to 4-wide cars. 6-wide Cars, if not a SUV or a 50s-70s US car, are just too bulky for my taste. mFg Widdi

I made these two Snow groomers a while back in the winters of 2005 and 2006. Both are small real Brick MOCs, but I've got a slightly altered CAD-version with instructions for them, too. 1. v1.0 from February 2005 I'll start with the first edition, which I made way back in early February 2005. I used the <insert that tiresome argument> Threads and the front plow of my 6573 set. Most of the underbody was supplied by the Arctic Expedition set, too. The Cab, is heavily inspired by classic Town trucks. It has a 10-wide rear plow, too, where I used 5 Minifig hips and legs, too make it look right. here's the whole Real Brick built model. The snow on the picture is real. The groomer is quite simple and has some room on the backside. The snow scooter is classic 90s style, too, but with an Arctic MF. This is the groomer only viewed from back at the table in the Living room. And now the link to the instructions folder at brickshelf The whole CAD version contains only 127 pieces including the 3 figs, because it has an additional MF on skis, that is missing in the real version. The built was easy with little SNOT and the low piece count, it would be 10-15€ calculated to lego prices. Sorry, for some color errors, didn't find the black slopes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. v2.0 made in February 2006 I've built this version about one year later, in another great winter. Meanwhile, I've recieved a lot of the classic technic chainlinks with the Sandcrawler set for Xmas. And I just had to use them for the underbody, since my previous version was slightly, too simplified. For the built I've reused the front plow from set 6573 and the rear plow design od the earlier one, but with blue minifig legs. The underbody is made up of mostly technic bricks, due to the chainlinks. The cab is altered from the early version, with a different rear window. and the rear is 2 studs shorter and no scooter as supply, but a skier. This is the whole MOC and again actual and fresh snow on the picture, so the threads now leave marks and add more realism on the photo. There are some tools behind the cab, like the shovel and the radio and even a set of skis in the whole cargo compartment. this is the rear view from the living room table. It's altered compared to the old version stated above. I made instructions for the set, too. it contains now 203pcs and was a medium difficult build for something that small. Calculated to lego prices it would sell at 15€ - 20€. This is the CAD render, only some color change in parts and no 4-long bars for the skis in the RBB-version Instructions are found here! mFg Widdi.

Yes but, the real train consists back in the days had the same problem. Since the carriages are a bit more than double the size of the locomotive at 26,4 metres each, but the V100/BR 212 engines are only 12,1 metres long. here's a picture of a similar consist to my train-MOC, without the Karlsruhe Cab, but another one of the multiple types of those old Silberling carriages/Cab cars and a red engine, but the same type. I hope, that the picture, taken in may 1977 (not by me, found it on the web, since I wasn't born until 1988) gives any justice to the dimensions. mFg Widdi

Nice pics and a impressive and really classic (due to Basic brick usage) set. *wub* I might pick up this beast, but it's very pricey to me. I think it would be at 199 € here in Germany, since the Statue of liberty had this price tag, too in the last years of Availability through LEGO and both are in the same leguage of monumental sets. But here's the problem: I don't have that much money at the moment. >:-( mFg Widdi