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  1. kiwinewt
    Have you seen the project on Bricklink at the moment for similar? It might give you some ideas: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/crowdfunding/designer-sets-for-adult-fans-of-lego/58139/Skyline-Express
  2. kiwinewt
    That is absolutely brilliant! I'm in love! Do you perchance have a bricklink XML parts list? I'd love to get it up and start acquiring the parts for this as soon as I can...
  3. kiwinewt
    Will there be a version with buffers as well? Effectively drop-in replacement for the current magnet version? (and in turn a cow-catcher one also?)
  4. kiwinewt
    Unless you have separate rail and sleeper packs, with the sleepers being produced in different 'common' gauges but the potential to scale up or down for small batches
  5. kiwinewt
    The problem with this IMHO would be similar to what happens when you use the silicone-brick-tape stuff, which doesn't properly hold lego pieces well. If it's done properly with something stiffer like you mention then it could work well - and I'd be happy to test it ;) I'm assuming that the ties/sleepers would then be plates from the builders collection? And then comes the thought of when you do a curve and the stud holes don't actually line up, how would that be handled?
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    Hi, I'd love to join in this please and thank you
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    I agree - I'm thinking more of an open-air cafe though, possibly with recolouring the upstairs as well. I can see some techniques in this that are new to me, so it's on my list for that reason... but it's definitely going to be heavily modified. Because old garages can become anything with a bit of imagination.
  8. kiwinewt
    English designer, music hall? Or something inspired by a movie their music was used in? e.g. Moulin Rouge?
  9. kiwinewt
    It's just a combination change
  10. kiwinewt
    Honestly, if he's fine with instructions then any of the Technic sets. I work with autistic kids in a Lego group and most of them have a learning difficulty too - they have been perfectly fine with the Creator Expert sets I bring in to challenge them too. He might need a little input on some parts, but apart from that should be fine with any that grab his interest :)
  11. kiwinewt
    That's got to be a call for some more Dr Who sets, right? Not just the ideas one... Come on Lego, please?
  12. kiwinewt
    That is a really nice sleek build of the Monster Hunter train. I like! :)
  13. kiwinewt
    This is a topic I have watched interestingly in the past. There have been multiple lego brick sorting machines that I've seen online - https://www.google.co.nz/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enNZ791NZ791&ei=DYrSW8WOMJD2rQHzubqICA&q=lego+sorting+machine&oq=lego+sorting+machine&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i67k1j0i7i30k1l4j0l3j0i30k1l2.9354.9354.0.9728.1.1.0.0.0.0.174.174.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.174....0.wg2dVj4tRms For me the issue is space and learning the AI interaction language. However you effectively just run the bricks through and it learns from both what it gets right and what it doesn't - therefore you don't need to spend aeons teaching the machine every brick from every angle in every colour. It would be a really fun project to do - although I think it would be more at LUG level where you have a few people with overlapping skillsets to contribute knowledge for building rather than on an individual level.
  14. kiwinewt
    Unless it was specifically initially scrapped in favour of the DD as the DD/garage wasn't as good a set idea as the potential garage? So went with DD and a future garage vs not-so-good-garage and scrabbling for future ideas?
  15. kiwinewt
    Hi guys, I'm part way through rebuilding my fishing shack as a modular, and I thought I'd share it and see what you think/if you can spot any glaring issues. I'd love to get some feedback :) (please ignore the junk on the bench behind!)
  16. kiwinewt
    I have to agree. NZD$400 is rather steep all things considered. I'm still very tempted by it for its uniqueness (I've only recently come out of my dark ages) but the price is very offputting, especially since it's also PF not PU like the entire rest of my motorised gear.
  17. kiwinewt
    Does fictional (e.g. Friends-based Generic Train, Ghost Train) count?
  18. kiwinewt
    My opinion would be, based on the other friends sets I see around (and have got dismantled in my parts boxes) would be that a Friends train would be closer to a bullet train in design. Potentially with a similar colour scheme and possibly nose as the 41317 Catamaran. Nose from the catamaran, sleek driver area along your design lines, then potentially similar design to the 60051 train - which I think is sleeker than the new 60157. Just my 2c. And now an idea that I might look into building... ;)
  19. kiwinewt
    Perhaps it's a mountain rescue type set, rather than fire brigade type?
  20. kiwinewt
    Even with so many cars in sets being obviously EVs?
  21. kiwinewt
    We got a couple of them and put them into rooms in our MOC'd buildings. There's some cool little bits to them :)
  22. kiwinewt
    Agreed, it looks like some form of sourcery if you ask me...
  23. kiwinewt
    Thanks for this info, now to work out how to hack it manually too...
  24. kiwinewt
    It also would tie in with the friends heart boxes, right?
  25. kiwinewt
    I've used parts of your model as inspiration, but this is where I am at with my one. Keeping it 6-wide does limit me a lot more. Next step... bricklink order for more parts! My poor bank account.... but got to replace the right-part-wrong-colour elements, and somehow get the battery box to fit in the tender. I know it's not a very good model, but I thought I would share anyway :)
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