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Thanks for the comments so far. The emptiness is partly because I couldn't think of anything else to put in there. I may make some additions to it at some point in the future when inspiration hits me.

Just thought I'd share my latest MOC as I don't get much built that often. This is a small display showing part of an Arctic research building with a couple of vehicles outside. The larger tracked vehicle turned out to be an ugly beast of sorts, but I really wanted to try and use the helicopter cockpit windows (part 11289) on the front if I could, which proved difficult. There's also various SNOT on the snowmobile and brick separators on the building walls which I wanted to try out. Not the best photography, but I think it'll suffice. Full album of pictures which includes some more shots of the vehicles can be found by clicking here; https://www.flickr.c...57650420476168/ Any and all comments welcome and thanks for looking.

Nice, I like this. Looks good with the little display of water and icey shore

So far it's had 9 'likes' and one person said "That is really awesome! :) " Definitely a good idea to wait until better weather. Thanks to this discussion, I've just had an idea for a model to build now. Don't know when I'll get round to it though...

I like this. Would be interested to know if it's possible to make a version in grey to match Portbury's colour better. It's quite a good likeness despite the limited amount of detail you can fit in to such a small model. I've shared this on a Facebook group about M-Shed with links to here and your Flickr page. Hope you don't mind, but I felt it was relevant enough to Bristol Harbour Railway for them to see. You should try to get a picture of the model with the real thing if you get an opportunity.

Not seen a Lego version, but I do recall seeing a system for model railways for sale somewhere online. I can't find where I saw it at the moment other than a reference to a german company, but the link doesn't work. I have found this though. Don't know if it'll be any use to you; http://www.rosewarnejunction.me.uk/VerticalTraverser.htm

I was going to try building a model of this at some point (if I ever got round to it, which I probably won't...), so recognised it immediately. I always thought it looked kind of like something that could have been in an episode of Thunderbirds. Your version looks pretty much spot on. Awesome stuff.

I've not posted on here for a while either, but I must say, I like these. Especially the design of the first one with the slight angle to the front. Can't wait to see these built in real bricks.

These run in San Francisco. The cable that pulls it along runs under the road surface and the cable car grips the cable through a groove that runs through the street. This page gives a good description that isn't too technical; http://wiki.answers...._mechanism_work Also, I must say that the MOC is awesome. Looks spot on!

Love the front of the shop with the TOYS sign and the microfigs along the bottom of the front. Nice job on this.

That is awesome! All those curved edges and the twist to the tower is amazing. Love the tree aswell. So much awesome!

That is awesome! Love the giant minifig and giant bricks on and around the building.

I was going to have a go at making a Blackpool Balloon tram at some point, but decided the shape was going to be too difficult for my first attempt at copying a real design. I would like to make a few suggestions for improvements, but at the moment I can't see how you possibly can while keeping it at minifig scale and motorised. I can certainly see the resemblance to a Balloon tram though, so good job. I like how modern the Balloon trams look, despite first being built in the 1930s. I'm close to finishing a model of a Blackpool Coronation tram which is from the 1950s, but it won't be motorised or have opening doors like your tram does =(

Thanks for all the comments people. This is only the second MOC I've completed in a long time, so I'll have to get to work on some other stuff now this one's finished.

I agree with a number of things that people have already said. I like the lamp, not something I've ever thought about before. And is that a lever without the base pused into the cone piece to represent the pull cord to switch the lamp on with? If so, that's a great little detail that's easily missed.

B-OV-36E Hello people. Been absolutely ages since I first joined up on here and recently I've been lurking on here again and now I've finally decided to post something. This is a model of part of a warehouse I finished building about a week ago. I put the pics up on Flickr on the weekend and now I've decided to post on here about it to show anyone on here who may be interested. General overview: On the left is the yard outside the warehouse with a small lorry parked waiting to be unloaded and the manager's car parked in the background behind the fence. On the right is the inside of the warehouse that features a reception area, a number of shelves with boxes, crates and things on and a forklift truck. The forklift truck has accidently reversed into the shelves causing the crates on the top to fall off. "Dave knew something was wrong when he saw the expression on the managers face. And the noise behind him didn't fill him with confidence either." (Closer view of the forklift truck) Closer view of the lorry More pics and info on my website here or just the rest of the pics on Flickr here.

I haven't posted for a while because I haven't built anything new recently, so I thought I'd post some inspiration pics from the UK (Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England to be precise) in here having taken some pics before going to work the other day. If I get the code right, clicking the image should take you to a bigger version for anyone who wants a more detailed view of the buildings. All the locals I know call this 'the carrot' althoough that isn't a fully acurate description. The right hand side of it, you can see the opening quite clearly, is a bus shelter and the left hand side of it which you can't see is a little food kiosk thingy where you can buy a bag of crisps or something... The spike on the top lights up aswell. You can see all the individual light bulbs in the large image so you can tell how much of it lights up. There are a few more pics of different buildings from the same town in the gallery here.

I love the money box, so that gets my vote.

I first set that up ages ago, which is really the only reason I'm using freewebs. Once I can afford some proper hosting, I'll move it. And I could probably do with trying to fix the colours a bit. I'll have a play with them over the next couple of weeks.

I'm not quite sure where to put this, so I've dropped it in here. Please move if someone knows where it should be, assuming I got it wrong. I have finally updated a website I was making for all my Lego stuff and I am now going to call it officially open and start handing the link around. It's been made using freewebs so it can sometimes be a bit slow, but it's better than nothing so here you go: http://www.freewebs.com/acslego Enjoy and any comment on my previous mocs and brickfilms are greatly appreciated. Once I actually get around to making something new with my Lego, I'll let you know.

I don't know so much about in those days, but certainly in the UK in the days of steam, it was prefered to put livestock wagons directly behind the engine, becuse there was less chance of the wagons bumping about as much as if they were at the end of the train and generally you don't want the livestock getting any injuries, so the nearer to the engine, the better. I can't think of the correct terminology to make this clear on screen although I know exactly what I mean in my mind, so hopefully you can understand what I mean. Edit: And in response to the question about whether a caboose is needed or not, in the UK it all depended on the brake system. Passenger carriages in the UK usually had a form of braking attached to the engine (vacuum brakes for instance, The engine maintains a vacuum that holds the brakes on the carridges off), while frieght wagons didn't have these brake systems, so a guards van (UK equivilent of a caboose) would be needed. Although generally livestock wagons would be fitted with the same type of brakes as passenger carridges if I remember correctly.

thanks. I can't wait to see other peoples entries.

Thanks for all the welcomes. I need to get on with some more of my many projects and try to get some finished so I can post pics of them. They're actually individual light bulbs. I really need to build some more of that. I want to try a few different ways of lighting different sections of it up, but I haven't built much yet.

I usually just build whatever I feel like at the time, so no specific themes really, although Town, Pirates and Castle are my main Lego interests. Stuff I've built so far can be found here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=AySea Some of the stuff I've built can also be found here with write ups: http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/2514 although it doesn't get updated much. Cool. I wish I could go to that. I went to the Petersfield show last year before I became a member of Brickish and unfortunately, I haven't been able to make it to any of the events since =(

Here's my entry: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/11020 I built this ages ago, but it's still in use right now. The track list of the CD I'm currently listening to is clearly visible. I might try to come up with something else for the sheer hell of it and if I do, I'll use a better quality camera than that old thing I used way back then.