Hrw-Amen

No i do not do that. All my parts are sorted by color and part type each with its own little bin or box. It does not matter how old or young a part is.

They do look like nice wagons, but I am not sure about the brake van? I remember seeing the double ended BR ones and if memory serves they were always just wood finish, as opposed to the old Great Western ones that were grey but only had an open platform bit at one end? Maybe it is just that I live in GWR territory? But yes, it was clear that you were reproducing them. I think the hopper is the nicest one but the other wagon is great as well.

I would be happy to have them as a separate set like the Olympic ones, but I do not want them to be a normal release. That cannot make sense and goes against everything that the Custom Mini-figs are about, it is that they are 'CUSTOM' that is the whole point of them. Replacing a whole release with named characters is just wrong. I cannot imagine LEGO would make such a big mistake as that. A Separate line as stand along figures. Great Idea. Release 13 of CMF Series. A big failure.

Star Trek ships are always good when someone pulls them off, I wish they did them instead of (Or as well as.) Star Wars, I much prefer Trek myself.

It is a nice enough model, but I would have rather had a model of a smaller ship in Mini-fig scale so it could be used in interactions with other sets. I've been collecting both recently and they are not the same. Very similar but different. I'd say that the Medium Azur is like a gloss version of the Maersk Blue being the Matt equivalent.

These are nice, are they for any particular reason such as a show, or just because you can?

Borg, Borg!! Really?? What next Ninjas on the Enterprise?

I have never seen one of these in real life, but I can imagine it is just the sort of thing that would be useful for running on a small branch line between villages. You could almost see them running a kind of railway taxi service with something like this in rural areas. We should get them brought back, they could have saved a few rural branch lines that got ripped up in the 60' & 70's UK like the one that ran behind my parent's house. I can just about recall the rails still being there but not the trains. Nice model of it as well!

Looks pretty good to me.

It is an interesting thing to make, I could see one would be very useful to a lot of people with limited space.

This just looks so real and the sound adds to the realism. Does it make the proper sound as the train moves off and stops or is that a bit much to ask for?

Nice engines. I like the British rail diesels and have quite a few myself. I am trying to think of which one to do next but cannot decide. Yours look good in 6 wide though I think mine would be a little wider as nearly everything I have is 7-8 wide.

That is really cute!

This is a most interesting development. As a child back in the 70's I had many Airfix kits to make (And a few other brands but mostly Airfix.) and whilst these were good, I enjoyed making them but was never really a fan of painting. I seem to remember that towards the end of my model kit building as a child Matchbox brought out some kits, mostly of WWII stuff and these were supposed to be snap fit and to a degree pre-coloured. The quality was not that good and they were not a patch on the old style Airfix kits, or indeed the real Matchbox kits. But the idea was a good one and appealed to many like me who were into wargames and wanted a set of models that went together quickly and easily and could be used almost straight away. I assume the Airfix release is an attempt at a similar thing which I imagine as long as the models are reasonable will certainly appeal to wargamers as the range expands. Not everyone who likes making models likes painting them as well. These from what I can see online appear to be a really good attempt. The fact that they may be compatible with other bricks LEGO or otherwise I imagine is simply a bonus as opposed to the main consideration. They probably looked for a way to do it for a while and found this style to be best given its tried and tested format. If they start bringing out tanks and the like in a reasonable wargaming scale I can see these taking off like hot cakes. If they are just a one off with a few random planes mostly from different eras then probably not so much as they are of limited use.

I have a wall filled from desk height to more or less ceiling with o.14L drawers of Really Useful Boxes, these are used for little 1X1 or 1X2 at the most bits that are sorted into types then colours, for example I have 1x1 round plates in one section and each colour gets a little drawer, then the same with jumpers, grills, cheeses, cones and so on up to the 1X1 bricks with small gribbly bits on them. Then I move to 0.35L Really Useful Boxes for single width plates, 1X2, 1X4 and so on. Each colour gets a box. I also have a corresponding box the same size for slightly larger Gribbles that are based on single width plates. I have the same policy for larger plates and wedge/odd shaped plates but these are in 0.75L Really Useful Boxes. Round bits, cones, 2X2 bricks etc get a 0.35L Really Useful Box for each colour. Ordinary bricks of various sizes 2X2, 2X4, 1X4 and so one get a 2.1L or if I have a lot of them a 3L Really Useful Box sorted into colours. For other bits I use a lot of such as the new brick effect 1X2 bricks or the wavey ones (Like used to make log cabins or western forts.) get a 0.7L Really Useful Box each, sorted into type and colour. Mini-figures get the same treatments broken into different boxes, heads, torso, legs, hats and so on. Roof slopes and other slopes usually go in long thin Really Useful Boxes (i forget the volume off the top of my head.) and are sorted by colour. I also use the long thin ones and the 0.7L ones for other bits I use regularly, usually they are either in colour or things like hinges, turntables are just in one box each type regardless of colour. I have a couple of odds and sods boxes for bits I have picked up that do not fit the normal run of boxes but at this stage they are few and far between. It is only if I start to buy a lot of a colour I have not used before, really they go in these boxes until I place an order for the right colour and size of Really Useful Boxes to accommodate the new colour and they are put out to the general farm with everything else.

Looks like a good model of the original.

That does look rather good. I am hoping to pick this train up later in the year and hopefully will be adding some rods, not sure which set to go with yet, though I will probably try some half width technic ones first before spending a load more than I need to. If that means a few other mods then so be it. I'd only be buying the set for the engine, Captain Mini-fig and other useful bits for my own trucks.

I think there are loads of ranges that need more mini figures. I know I have collected many space ranges over the years and now CITY as well as current space themes. The collectables help get multiples of most things but sometimes it is good to have them in an actual theme. For example I collected several Toy Story army men, then converted them to yellow heads and hands to be CITy army figures, but I only managed to get about twenty of them. Same now, I am building a Western army from the Lone Ranger Calvary builder, but am finding I need almost as many horses as men by the time I have hitched up the cannons and so on. The set itself only comes with one horse and by the way, who needs ten to twenty Lone Ranger figures, it could have done with being a generic Indian or even another calvary man.

I do have a lot of LEGO parts but they are all sorted as they arrive, mostly from Bricklink but also if I buy a set for parts, but that is not often. Most of the sets I have bought are made up and stored in containers from 'Really useful box' company as then they stack neatly and I can see what is in each without undoing it. I have a few larger sets I bought to complete ranges that have not been made up as I di not have space to store them all if they were made up. I have no plans to sell then and one day If i get a bigger house I want to make them and display them. Once a set is built I keep the instructions, but do not keep the boxes (I have no room.) and I certainly do not keep empty plastic bags. I do keep the club magazines and any other stuff they send as well as the brick Journal.

I guess the British one you mean is the type 08 class. A few of us on here have made them over the last year or so. They are almost everywhere you go in operational train depots. But there a great variety of other small shunters from the history books even if most are only now found on preserved tracks, but there are still a few very similar in private sidings and factory lines.

Yes, they do it a lot.

Looks nice just like a lot of country stations used to be in my youth.

The Doctors (BBC.) Episode 'The Edge 89/222' had a shot of Doctor Al at his computer and there was a Star Wars LEGO box on the side. It was not quite clear enough to make out what it was as it was just the side on vie, quite a small set though by the looks of it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b039q6vf/Doctors_Series_15_The_Edge/

For me it has to be 4209 Fire Plane if we are looking at recent purchases. I liked the idea, but when I made it up it just looked weird, the wings were all out of proportion and heavy, it just looked wrong. I have been thinking of taking it apart for parts which is not like me at all. I like to keep my sets together, but this one is so terrible.

I find that the sales in Asia were a boom to be difficult to understand. When i have been to Asia the LEGO sets are about twice the price they are in the UK and yet the family income is only about a quarter of mine for about double the hours worked. There must be some mega rich people in Asis buying LEGO to off-set that?