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That's a big curve! How many pieces does it take to make a 90 degree bend?

Fantastic work!

You have successfully captured the awfulness! I wonder if there is a way to show how bizarrely boring the interior is in Lego.

Love these!

Honestly I think I prefer your version!

I love this! NPU on the extinguisher in particular.

The marketplace is also a useful feather in their cap from a sustainability point of view, so is very worth doing even if it works out cost-neutral.

Is anyone else thinking Top Gear Burma special here? Fewer rear axles, yellow tipper body and replace the squirrel with a "jam bear" and you're right there!

Thanks for all the kind words! I did realise though that the lock gates are the wrong way around, so a minor amendment!

A little vignette born of playing around with angles. Back in the 1940s this canal was part of a defensive line, so there are fortifications carefully blended into the scenery... A maintenance crew uses a mini digger carried onboard their workboat

They're not, but happy to do stud.io if people want it.

Thank you - I was pleased to see that the crabs appear to fit inside!

A small MOC of a crab fishing boat Crab pots on the upper deck The bridge Small galley, with folding cooking area and utensils secured for sea. Sleeping area with "cosy" accommodation for two sailors when not on watch, which also acts as access to the forecastle A few shots of her at work

I think that a generally suggested maximum is one plate in height per track width; but in a layout that size you might struggle with something so restrictive (I'd think you'd want at least 20 plates in height even if using London Underground-style low trains) which would mean an incline taking up the full width of your layout. So a good starting place would be to do some testing with the trains that you have in mind to use, and see what sort of inclines they can comfortably handle. The obvious alternative is just to have an underground railway on the level, and adjust parts of the town around it - maybe raising up part of the street level to get the trains under it?

Thanks all!

I appreciate that it's already been done before (set 5009422) but to my mind that's far too big - the whole point of the Ape is that it's tiny and narrow! So I set out to try and make it as well as I could with a width no more than 3 studs. Tiny as it is, Giuseppe still has enough space in the cargo area for a crate of salami! The biggest limitation on it is that the 3 x 1 x 2 window is available only in a very limited colour palette which doesn't perfectly match all the other components; so a bit of playing around with colour schemes is necessary.

Nice! I can't say that I remember Homer Simpson being in Batman, but then I haven't seen all of them.

Slightly different headlights and you've basically made yourself a Jaguar E-Type!

A passing loop will work fine - for multi-directional travel each part will need to be on a separate circuit. That would allow you to run both trains towards one another with opposite polarity in the green and red sections. Direct the train from the green section into the blue, and switch the blue off Once the train going into the blue section has stopped, reverse polarity on the green section so that the train going from the red section can continue in its direction Once the train going from red to green has passed the loop, the red section can have its polarity reversed, and the blue section can be powered up again so that the other train can leave. You can also do a simpler one with only two circuits: But that would mean that the trains couldn't pass in the same way - one train would have to go on the red line, into the blue where it's shut down, and only then could the other train enter the red section.

Pony-eared tile?

I would have thought that the obvious "play features" train would be a recovery one, with a rail crane as the centrepiece?

A little project I'll probably build into something larger at some stage, but just a little vignette for now. There was a time when pretty much every park in the UK would have a little train offering rides on a little loop around the place, so I tried to create the smallest possible moving train I could. If anyone has any ideas how to do three-wide curves, I'm all ears!

Yes, I had a little think about that - the one issue with this is the wheels pushing outwards on the panels might push them off of the studs. However, using the 1 x 3 jumper and a cheese slope they can be reinforced if that does prove to be an issue.

I'd have thought that the simplest solution would be to use the 30413 1 x 4 x 1 panel? Can put it on jumpers to align neatly with other tracks, although there will be a height difference to contend with. Might get some clickety-clack sound effects too from the rounded edges.

It is also worth noting that lead is pretty harmless to handle, so even if it was a solid lead casting you'd be fine. Just wash your hands before eating/handling food.