Hrw-Amen

Those are pretty good. I have been trying recently to make some cars / vans etc and had rubbish results which I put down to not really having any interest in those type of vehicles in general in real life. Being someone who was until six / seven years ago a life long biker maybe i should try some bikes. I still have a couple in the garden I can use for ideas. (An R60/6 1976, & K100RS, incase anyone cares.)

I cannot say I have a real dislike for this part, but I do have to say that given a choice I much prefer the older 2507. Maybe it is because as a child I had it back in the classic space / Blactron / M-tron era and I have nice memories of it. I am sure that children of today will probably prefer the newer one for the same reasons, but really they perform a very similar if not identical role in most sets and MOCs.

This is an interesting little train. I recall going on one similar when I was a kid.

I have not seen that one. I did have (So presumably still do somewhere?) have some red and black hull parts like those. I used to play with them in the bath as a kid.

Clearance! My local store has only had them in for a week. I plan to get this in a couple of weeks when I get paid, so it is good to see exactly what is involved. Thanks for the review.

The trouble I find is not that the LEGO has reached Critical Mass, but the space available to store it has reached it instead! I really should not be buying right now as I have recently finished a large MOC, now sat on display in one corner of the living room. But I feel that for my next one I shall need lots of DBG, LBG, Tan and Dark Tan, so am ordering a few at a time from Bricklink as time goes buy. Small packages don't seem like much once a week and the wife will not complain about that. However I have reached the stage of sorting and storage where my storage containers have reached critical mass. I like to stick to one brand for my containers and sometimes i think i spend as much on them as I do on my actual LEGO!

All I get from the link is directed to the website of RCL Construction Ltd whom seem to be a building contractor and nothing to do with LEGO?

My experience even with geared medium and XL motors is that it is just easier and more satisfactory to have proper train motors in the tender pushing the engine. I know others have had great results with multiple M motors but for me I have nothing quite that big so cannot say.

Thanks for sharing they look great! I only wish there were such events near to me.

That is a good thing to see! It does seem a bit slow going considering how fast that piston is whizzing up and down by comparison. Never mind it just adds to the weirdness of the overall theme.

I was wondering how it floated until I read it is a space ship. Looks nice and I agree the colors are rather 'friendly for a space ship.

Here is my first attempt at a MOC for the Galaxy Squad range. I have been gradually collecting these as they have come out in the UK and now have all of the sets apart from the largest ones, Vermin Vaporiser, Bug Obliterator and Galactic Titan. So I have the small and medium sized sets so far. Anyway, I thought I would try and make a medium sized MOC. Several of the artwork pages in the manuals show numerous bugs of the same type and one even shows two Galatic Titans. As such I wanted a cheap bug/ship that could be made reasonably cheap, but in numbers of more than one. I bought four of the smallest set, the Space Swarmer, with the idea of making two of whatever I came up with. This would be good and leave me with some spare aliens and blue robots as extra troops, as extra troops are always good for battles. So after going through several failed attempts I managed to come up with something that fitted the idea of what I wanted. I wanted to make a bug alien ship that had the right number of legs, that is usually six for insects. I had the wing parts and each set had two, so that the new one model would be able to have two sets each. I also like the cockpit design that almost closed over the driver giving the impression of large eyes. One thing I did want to include as well as a general mouth similar to that of the original set was a Proboscis, mainly as over where I am right now we seem to be living in a swarm of mosquitoes! There were loads of bits over and enough hinge parts to make a good stinging tail, so the creature would have that feature as well as an attacking mouth. Anyway enough waffle.here i the link to flickr (Hopefully?) Here is my first attempt at a MOC for the Galaxy Squad range. I have been gradually collecting these as they have come out in the UK and now have all of the sets apart from the largest ones, Vermin Vaporiser, Bug Obliterator and Galactic Titan. So I have the small and medium sized sets so far. Anyway, I thought I would try and make a medium sized MOC. Several of the artwork pages in the manuals show numerous bugs of the same type and one even shows two Galatic Titans. As such I wanted a cheap bug/ship that could be made reasonably cheap, but in numbers of more than one. I bought four of the smallest set, the Space Swarmer, with the idea of making two of whatever I came up with. This would be good and leave me with some spare aliens and blue robots as extra troops, as extra troops are always good for battles. So after going through several failed attempts I managed to come up with something that fitted the idea of what I wanted. I wanted to make a bug alien ship that had the right number of legs, that is usually six for insects. I had the wing parts and each set had two, so that the new one model would be able to have two sets each. I also like the cockpit design that almost closed over the driver giving the impression of large eyes. One thing I did want to include as well as a general mouth similar to that of the original set was aProboscis, mainly as over where I am right now we seem to be living in a swarm of mosquitoes! There were loads of bits over and enough hinge parts to make a good stinging tail, so the creature would have that feature as well as an attacking mouth. Anyway enough waffle.here i the link to flickr (Hopefully?) http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrw-amen/sets/72157634529810033/

42Km? Really? hat does seem a bit of a stretch for LEGO Trains, not saying it cannot be done, but would the batteries last that long? (Assuming it is 4.5V or PF?) If it is one of the other systems how are you going to get the power to that length of track? Seems a bit extreme but i wish you luck with it.

Looks nice so far.

When I was a teenager I wanted to rebel about many things that I was told were wrong. i thought about it, then thought about the dam good hiding i'd get when my father found out about it. I was always too afraid to rebel for fear of the consequences!

Looks fabulous. Have we not had mini-figures as crew before though, I seem to remember them but perhaps my mind plays tricks on me?

Gosh, I had not noticed it had train wheels either and I looked at it at the weekend as well in the shop. I have to say that I thought it a rather ghastly set that looked like a load of random bit chucked together in different colors. To me it did not look like anything and I was thinking why was it so expensive? True I do not know anything about TMNT or the universe they occupy so was not really able to comment of how accurate it was? Looks from the 360 image on shop at home that the road wheels raise up so it can run on its train wheels! If it was not so expensive I'd get one and try it out, but as it is that expensive and Is quite ugly I won't. Would be interested to see though if anyone else gets one, what is the gauge, can it run on normal train rails or the little narrow gauge ones that have appeared?

Very nice engine, I must have somehow missed it when you originally posted. Wonderful!

Sometimes I tend to go back to them if I have a good idea of how to improve them, but for t.he most part they are left made if they are things I have actually made to keep. I do not tand to make things I do not intend to keep made.

Does he have a minimum order?

I hate the way that if you have a tub of unsorted bits and you are looking for a small bit in a certain color you can sort through for ages but eventually find it. Then if you sort the bits in that tub into neat piles/containers or whatever, finding that you don't actually have that bit? It happens all the time, but I am not sure how a random pile of bricks can manifest the one you want that a sorted neatly stacked pile cannot!

Great idea for the children to lay in bed watching the train go around. I was thing of similar but the height meant scenery would have to extremely restricted and I want to be able to interact with it. Nonetheless this is a nice idea and I am sure the children will enjoy it no end.

Yes, it is truly disturbing that children would do that. What did they hope to gain from it? I am sure they must have known they were being recorded on CCTV. I bet if it even got to court they would get away with it as well as some feebal minded judge would say “Its only LEGO, it can be put back together, it is not really broken.” Which totally ignores all the hard work and hours that have been put into it.

I tend to build my building on 32X32 baseplates and have quite often come across wanting a room a different color than on the outside. I have sometimes used SNOT to make the outer surface more brick-like but to be honest I normally just make the wall two studs wide. Don't forget that any internal walls will not need to be two studs wide unless you want a different color scheme in each room.

I have to agree with Spitfire2865 on the cab and engine being too wide. I think if you can just leave them 5 wide somehow then you will be able to have the walkways at the side which the 8 wide chasis will enable you to do. I do myself find that usually it is width things that are harder to do with my own MOCs, sometimes it is just one point that needs to be wide, whereas the bodies as a whole are OK in 6 studs or less. But i can see what you are trying to do and i think if you give it a bit more time and address those two points then it will look great. The longer container looks good though. Maybe the side of the container wagon needs a bit of greebling? It looks a bit flat too low down at the moment. Perhaps take out the bottom tile layer and put some detailing in? That could just be the angle of the photograph, I am undecided as it is hard to tell from the angle we have on it.