Mafortune

Thank you all for your responses. As there seem to be no perfect solution (except for possibly the very complicated one shared by davidzq), I'll share how I tried to make it work. I started by calculating distances and angles and I was very hopeful that a simple solution containing only 4x4's and 5654's should work. And it actually looked quite promising: However, it turns out that it was too tight on the outside corner of every 4x4, causing the tram to derail. Consequently, I found a workoround which is slightly worse to look at, but still acceptable: Unfortunately, I also discovered that 5654 does not come in dark grey, which is kind of strange. However, this is the best solution I currently have, but I am definitely open to other ideas. Is there any way to make the tram wheels to require less space? Maybe by increasing the space between them? Will probably increase the chances of derailing again though..

I apologize for asking a question which i assume has been answered here before, but I am not able to find it.. Due to lack of space, i had to settle for trixbrix R24 curves for the tram in my city. Further, again due to lack of space, i need to build an eight studs wide road for cars within the tram track. I have not been able to do this in a way which makes it functionable for both a motorized tram (the powered up motor) and the cars in the corners, while it works very well on the straights. Any suggestions? Any help is much appreciated!

Thank you all. I have come to the conclusion that cutting 32x32 plates is probably the easiest option, but I am not sure if I am able to treat lego in such a way..

I am planning to build a small city, preferably using MILS with a number 32x32 plates in the bottom. The area I have available to build the city is however not square, instead it is a large rectangle in the middle with two 45 degree angles at either side. So my question is then, how can I fill out the available area? If the height of the 32x32 plates were 1 it would be quite easy, but how can I do it when they are just 1/2 high? Any help is highly appreciated.

Hello everyone, I have finally acquired some of the winter village sets, including the holiday train. I am therefore looking building a winter landscape for a christmas village display, but I have never done anything like this before. I am therefore hoping for some tips, tricks and advice on these forums. I have tried searching for similiar threads, but came up short. As a start, and for this year, we will just build a fla landscape with the train going around, but in the years to come, we hope to develop it towards a layout like the one displayed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCec2vdvS2Q We are however planning to make everything out of lego, while the guy who made this used other building materials for the landscape. In the verty beginning, I have some specific questions that I am hoping for guidance on: 1. What kind of white (base)plates should i acquire? The MISC 32x32 plates seems like a good alternative for a completely flat landscape, but maybe not if I am planning on building hills, incorporate tram tracks in the ground, cables for lighting, etc.? For this, the 16x16 91405-plate might be better, but much more expensive. Any advice? 2. Winter landscaping: Making hills and such should be ok, but what about vegetation? I haven't found any trees that are (partly) white or seems snow-covered. And what about other vegetation? 3. Techniques for building hills and landscapes? I would guess that the model becomes very heavy and brick-intensive if I make these solid, but there might be techniques for building them hollow and strong? 4.Technique for mounting train curves on base plates? My initial idea i to use 1x1's where these align and fill out with tiles, but I would assume that there are better ways of doing it? 5. Anything else that need careful consideration before i head over to pick a brick for the first order? Any help would be much appreciated!

Agree 100 %, and the main reason is probably that 6086 was built around the raised baseplate while mountain fortress and fire breathing fortress were built on top of the baseplates. The marvelous Eldorado Fortress from the pirates line is more in line with 6086 in this respect.

Thanks for the replies @SteamSewnEmpire, @brimbolet and @azog. I ordered the set just now and i’m very excited!

Is the ship you can build from this set identical to the original barracuda? If not, how does it differ?

Nice to have another civil medieval building, but i guess most of us already have multiple blacksmiths. I would much rather have a bakery, inn, etc.

Do we know who the leading minifigure(s) are for black falcon or black knights? Is there a Black Falcon? A Black monarch? Or a Black knight? For the latter there is a minifigure set called «black knight», containing a knight in armor with red dragon plumes. But the leader in the set «black knights Castle» has Yellow plumes, so who is then their leader?