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One word: A M A Z I N G!!!!!!! Ireally love your station and your train! The station is really full of details, looks reallu really good and reallistic. It has everything of a real train station and really takes you into the universe of it! I also really like your train even if i'm not a 8 studs wide man! The rounded shape fits it really really good and the interior really looks like a real train interior . And details are amazing like the little door to access the batery box! Congrats for this awsome MOC!!!

Congrats to the winners!!! You've done a great job and thanl you for your nice ideas ^^. We had a lot of good... heu... of really amazing MOCs!!! I'm also glad to be a random polybag winner

Yes sorry, I meant more than 6!!!

You're doing a good work here and you have really good ideas. But one thing is anoying me: sich a big fire station must have more than 4 garages!!!! I'm looking forward to seeing what you're gonna built now!

I really like it! This is well done. Just the fences are, in my opinion, not doing so good. I really like your facade style!

13. Invasion! - 4estFeller : 1 point 28. Ice Planet - Crystal Station - Siercon and Coral : 1 point 32. Survivors - Teazza : 3 points Really liked the ideas from these 3 particippants, especially the survivors scene!!!

Thanks a lot buddy! Thank you too redhead! I've looked at your flickr and your 10197 alternative. Find it nice! But I guess you must have a lot of remaining parts!!!

17. Attack of the Fish - cmaddison : 1 37. rEvolution - zane_houston : 2 50. Momo's Machine - CarsonBrick : 2 The entries 37 and 50 are for me the best ones and I could not decide wich one is better. They both have their own style (and theme: futuristic / steampunk). I find them far way better than the other ones. It was hard to decide for another one as 3 were really nice also: Run Woody, run! , the attack of the fish and Duh-Nuh. I finally decided to go for the fish attack because of its mini-scene that make it more alive than the 2 others! Thanks a lot guys for your really entries and thanks to all the contestants!

I really like your MOD / extensions rrigs!!!! This is a great fire station you made there. However, I really dislike the bows over the doors on the garages roofs!!! It doesn't fit the modern style of the whole station! Your tower is a great idea. Maybe you should work on the design of the upper part. I find it too simple... But, good job done here! Your idea and realisation are awsome!

Thanks a lot LegoDr! I really enjoyed MOCing with the parts of this set! It is really encouraging me that you all like my work!

It was really hard to find out what I was going to vote because so much entries are really really nice! Thank you all for all these great MOCs!!!! There are so much good ideas and beautiful things! A pleasure for my eyes! Here is my vote: 5- toorayay : 1 6- sdrnet: 1 18-Priovit70: 2 27-Nieks: 1

Lol!! Yes, he might loose some balls, especially playing alone^^ (One day, I saw a MOC, a building with a tennis court on the roof: better way to loose balls! Thank you all for your comments.

Thanks lightningtiger and psykaer!

I do really prefer the last dome proposition!!!

Hello everybody, I would like to share with you all my new MOC which is based only on parts of the famous 10197 fire brigade set . This challenge was inpired by Mr_No superb MOC who made a MOC using only parts from the tower bridge set. Link here: http://www.brickpirate.net/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=11311 Taking a set to make a different one is a good challenge because we are limited with parts and we are sometimes in the obligation to do as we can. In my case, you will certainly reconize the orignial set because i kept some remarkable elements and modify slightly some of them such as the roof, the first floor façade, les kitchen furniture...). I would like to change this, but limited in parts and the excellent look of origin made me keep them. I choose to make a ground floor with a store. The content of this store was decided after the parts in the original set: an old buffet. I mixed it with other parts and build some other ones with the lefted parts after building the housse. So it became an old furniture store / an antiquary store. Now, the photos...: The façade with its balcony all along the front wall: I was inspired by buildings in Bordeaux (France) where I live and added my personal touch and using the only bricks (and thus colors) I had: The back of the building: we can found a little shed to repair furnitures, a trashbin with unsalable old things and the dog with its kennel: The roof: I kept the original roof and removed the bell part which had no longer reason to be here on this housse. I replaced here the ping-pong table and build a deck chair with the lefted parts (it is the last element I built): Inside the first floor: the appartement. I kept here the kitchen furniture: the cooker, refrigirator, sofa, tap. I created a big TV for the resident and placed a table with a chair (where could he eat without a table?). And for the bed, we could imagine it is a convertible sofa :-) And finally, the old furniture store: I now the first floor and roof still look like the original set. I am planning to try some modifications when I'll have some free time. But this will be quite hard with the parts I have... I'm lookin forward to reading your remarks and suggestions.

A.W.S.O.M.E. MOC!!!! Great job, I love it!!!!

@cnd: my train baseplate won't be higher, just thiner (1 plate high instead of two: it means no "side walls" as you say). It is only the "hole" for the wheels that will seem a bit higher from the sides (i don't know if i am clear).

Your porsche is simply awsome!!!! Really reallistic and more: two passengers fitting in!!! Love it!

Hey CND! I'm planing to do as you: modifying it to be as closed to the origianl. Here is a picture for you (it is the same TGV in its new color (llok at the roof of engine to be sure). Just type TGV Sud Est in google): http://www.hornbyinternational.com/2552/tgv-sud-est-renove-coffret-de-4-elements.jpg and this one: http://www.hornbyinternational.com/2551/tgv-sud-est-renove-voiture-intermediaire-de-1ere-classe.jpg You have to notice that the first passenger coach on each end (after engine) in longer than the other passenger coaches! What I will do: extend the end of engines by the length of a motor bogie (11 studs) and apply tgv logo, extend first and last passenger coach (by the end in contact with engine) by 10 studs and let other passenger coaches as they are! You are right, in the TGV Sud Est, bogies next to the engines are motorized. You can take a look here (but it's in french): http://actgv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bogie-des-TGV-PSE-2012.pdf And it seems that new tgv, no passenger coach bogie is motorized: only engine bogies: http://actgv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bogie-des-TGV-Atlantique-Reseau.pdf But if you power all engines that are meant to be: you'll need 6 motors (3 by each ends!)!!!! Hope if you do so, that you're running 9v motors!

Now 93 supporters, I was the 25th! It is a great idea to make it work on a flat surface: thus everybody, even child, will be able to add it into their layout. Even more: make the round house modular il also really nice! I really like your project. The only point I find that is not so well done is the fact taht tracks and plates moves around the turntable when loco runs over it. But I'm sure it can be fixed easily with some 1x1 round plates! Great job! Congrats. I hope you'll get tones of supporters on cuuso!

I think there is not enough place for two lights... Even one light requires some little modifications.

That part is for 9v train lights and have no real utility if you already have transparent bricks to simulate your highlights. It is not really conducting light, it is just transparent. To be honest, I don't really know much about the 12v system (only have two car motors+battery boxes). I never seen a 12v train motor... :-( Why not just adding a 2x2 light brick into the train noze? If you have one, you could try this: -open the noze by removing the big orange wedges -take of the sides with the orange and white tiles and rounded slopes maintained by the brackets -take the two yellow brackets one stud backwards -remove that brown 2x4 tile and then I think you will have enough space to add the 12v+cable (just let 1 stud space between transparent headlight bricks and your light to let the light pass). And then, rebuilt the train noze.

Yes, you can add PF lights on old 9v system by using this cable: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Power-Functions-Extension-Wire-8886 I've just bought two of them in the same time I bought the horizon express sets. I think I'm gonna use at least one to add PF lights at the front car by connecting it onto the 9v motor (I only gor one set of pfs lights). And therefore I won't need any battery box in the train. I don't really like using batteries cause it is not lasting and I'm always missing some of them and rechargeable batteries are quite expensive... (but I will have to get some of them cause I don't have many 9v tracks...) That could be a good option for you to use this 9v as it is not really heavy and thus won't weighten your train too much (if I understood well, you are speeking of this one: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4760pb02).

That is really nice! The exterior reminds me old village houses we have here in french like post-offices! Like the interior also, you managed to re-create that cosy ambiance-style of a library, especially on ground floor! Maybe you could add more books on 1st floor that looks like between a bedroom, office and library. Great job; congrats!

Love that MOD haha! Great idea!