LiamM32

"Speckle colours" are a fine bi-coloured pattern of opaque Lego colours, often a mix of a solid colour and a pearl colour to give a worn-out metal look. In the Peeron titles, the word "glitter" is used (they may be considered to be the opaque equivelent to the glitter-clear colours, although still quite different). I haven't been able to find any information on the production of these colours on the internet. I want to ask a few questions; How are speckle colours painted? How expensive are they to produce relative to a single solid colour? Compared to a pearl colour? There are 4 speckle colours that have appeared to date; Speckle Black-Silver: The first and most common. Introduced in 2005 in "Vikings" and "Knights Kingdom". I don't know which type of silver colour is used. Speckle Black-Gold: Exclusive to 4 "Atlantis" sets in 2010 & 2011. I don't know which type of gold is used. Speckle Black-Copper: Exclusive to 2006 "Knights Kingdom" sets. Speckle DBGray-Silver: Exclusive to 2006 "Knights Kingdom" sets, just like the above. These are the Bricklink titles, as there are no known official names (probably because they are a pattern of existing colours, and 3/4 of them are rare).

Good church. Well detailed and realistic model. The scale between microscale and minifigure is called "Midi-scale". The term has only officially been used for Star Wars, but I consider many other sets to be this scale.

Thanks for the information. You said that real air motors generally don't use pistons, but I have seen compressed-air reciprocating engines on the internet before. Here's a locomotive with a piston engine; These locomotives probably work pretty slow though. But that will work for some Lego applications. I imagined future Lego models using Pneumatic reciprocating engines that are made to look like internal-combustion and steam engines. I had the idea of pneumatic versions of part 2850b, so that you wouldn't have a dummy engine for looks and a real engine hidden to power it; just one engine to save space. But some of you said that Pneumatic engines are generally rotary. Would this idea work if a turbocharger was added (as a new piece)? The rotary engine from a Lego gear is impressive. Is this more or less efficient than the propeller-like turbines, with the angled blades? I also noticed that you used wider tubing than the official Lego tubing. Maybe new wider tubes would help, or wider connectors.

I was reading about compressed-air engines on Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia....Pneumatic_motor Compressed-air engines have been widely used with success in hand tools. They were used in torpedos, which demonstrates the short-distance, fast use that someone may want for some Technic cars. They have also been used for rail locomotives in mines for short distances, where any fire would be hazardous. This also may be similar to the potential uses in Lego Technic. So Pneumatic engines haven't reached the high energy efficiency and capacity of electricity, internal combustion, or even steam; but they have certainly been used with more success than the Lego Technic Pneumatic engines. I have an interest in Lego pneumatic engines. But the models I have seen are generally not even enough to propel a Technic car of it's size a few meters. I want to ask; What the barriers are that make Lego Technic pneumatic engines so much less powerful, less energy-efficient, and lower energy-capacity than the engines on working machines such as those mentioned above? What would need to be changed or added to the Lego Pneumatic system to bring it closer to the performance of these machines? I hope that there are people here on this forum that understand compressed air power well (which there probably are). I don't imagine Pneumatics ever replacing or competing with electric motors, such as Power Functions. I just imagine it being a step up from pull-back motors, as a relatively space-efficient way to test vehicles, while adding to the technology of Technic models.

I like this model. It's a good looking car. I really like it that you have Ackerman steering, as most Technic cars unfortunately don't, and I was looking for one that does. It seems quite well-worked to me for being a "Warm-up model", but that may be because I'm fairly new to the Technic community. Most people think that they know what "fake" means. But I have heard it being misused to mean "unusual", or even to refer to products not made by Apple inc. This is a fake engine. A model engine that is "real" would actually work with fluid flowing through it, like those Lego Pneumatic engines.

I am very interested in Lego Pneumatic engines. You have done a relatively good job at making it work. Most of the pneumatic vehicles I have seen have to much visible parts, and are too big, but you have done well to hide the pneumatic while keeping the model compact.

I can't see the picture of this MOC when I go to this page. I would like to see it, as I live in Vancouver, a terminus of this train line.

This post is pretty late, but this is on Rebrickable now; http://rebrickable.com/mocs/LiamMcGillivray/emerald-night-kitchen-car

I really like the look of the set. I just think that they should change the box art a bit before they release it. I like to think of Creator as 3 in 1 sets. I think that they should use the good old Trains logo, as they should have for the Emerald Night, the Maersk Train, and the track packs. Just a minor complaint. The expert label is new; I like that part.

I believe that the Emerald Night only had a 2 year production run. It discontinued shortly after the Maersk train was released, or at least in Canada it did. I don't see why the Maersk train would last longer. It will probably discontinue at about the time the Horizon Express is released.

A high-speed passenger train. Just as I predicted. I really like the look of this train, so I will probably buy it. The only problem I have is that it uses the same train motor as most of the rest. A high-speed train should be able to move faster.

I'm going to be offline for a month. Maybe then I will post the instructions.

Thanks. I emailed them and they fixed it for me. I now have a VIP account.

Tell me if I should start a new topic for this. The problem that I have is that I can't sign up for the program. I have a card that was given to me at the Vancouver Lego store. When I try to sign up online, I get an error message; "Registration failed, please check your card number and user information provided." Does anyone know the solution to this problem? I live in Canada.

I'm not such a fan of these types of Lego animals. They don't look very Legoish. I like brick-built animals. I think that I would like the tigers more if they were posable, and had a simpler shape to fit in better with Lego structures while making them cheaper. I think that single-piece animals of this size would be fine if they could look good in a Lego display, but I definately think that all larger animals should be brick-built.

Thanks for the comments. I'm glad that people like the idea. I might post it on Rebrickable if I learn how to at some point, as some of you seem to want to build one yourself. The large windows are expensive on Bricklink, as they were only in one set.

This is my first MOC on Eurobricks. Of course, as the title suggests, an extra car for 10194 Emerald Night. I don't know if this is really considered to be a "MOC" or a "MOD". In many unofficial Emerald Night cars, they simply use the same 4-stud wide windows, and subtract some of them. I decided to get more original. There are also 4 air filters instead of 3 (as in the official car). The reason for this is because there may be gasses from the cooking. Here is the opposite side of the car from a different angle. Here's the interior. From left to right; a counter with storage for utensils, a brick-built sink, a refrigerator, and oven and stove, and shelf's for glass cups. The passengers paid much money to get a first-class train ride. It isn't "First Class" if they don't get good food to eat. The part at the bottom is modified to be bisymmetrical. I also modified this on the First-class passenger car. Here you can see the car in the train. In this photo, the car is a bit different than in the rest of them, as I don't have enough pieces to complete 2 cars. You can see the page on MOCpages here.

Thanks. What topic was that? Was it "2012 Train 'Exclusive' - Rumours/Rumblings?"? I actually tried to start my first post there as a new topic, but it was moved into that topic.

There are many ideas that I have for new elements, mostly for Technic. One idea that I have are rotor blades that actually work to make a fan, and possibly even lift a chopper off the ground. This might already be in the new 9396 Helicopter. I have some ideas for Pneumatics. It would be good if there was a corkscrew compressor. That would give a constant flow, and possibly greater efficiency. I would also like an engine cylinder to replace element 2850 that would be compatible with pneumatics. I prefer electric cars in real life, but I find reciprocating engines interesting in Technic. I have ideas for Power Functions; a small rechargeable battery, 2 small motors, and a train charging station. The small battery would be meant to quickly charge and then release, or for trains with the also mentioned charging station. One of the small motors would be for System, more speed less strength. It would be good for multiple-unit trains. The other would be for Technic. It would have lower speed and higher strength. It would be good for turning switches. The train charging station would be a length of track equal to 2 straight tracks. It would recharge trains batteries when the train passes over, if the train has the new pickup brick (also new). Another idea is high-performance wind-up motors for Technic sets. Flywheels would also be good for non-motorized models.

I like it. You did well making the windows. Is this meant to be a locomotive-hauled car, or a multiple-unit car? I'm going to post my first train MOC soon, or after I solve my problems with uploading images.

I have had problems posting images of my MOC in the train forums. When I try to post it, it says that the image is too large to upload. In the Member Guidelines for Eurobricks it says; I tried resizing the image to 640 x 420. It still said that the image was too large. There was an image in my first post, and it worked back then. In the meantime, you can see my MOC at; http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/326733 If you know the solution, please tell me how I can solve this problem, or solve the problem yourself.

I agree with SimonWilliams. McDonalds is very unhealthy, which is why I haven't been there for many years. Starbucks is better, but why go there when you can go to a nice independant coffee shop. The independant ones have better hot drinks, better pastries, and other things like sandwiches. Of course, I shouldn't decide not to help you because of this, but only because I don't know how to. It might be true that they don't like chat websites. Even though they say that EB is for adults, and that there is adult content here, I haven't found any so far. They should unblock it. They shouldn't block chat websites in general.

I'm fine with a a tablet and smartphone app, but it seriously annoys me that you're proposing it for iOS only. Android should get as much priority. For the past few days, I've been using Eurobricks alot on my Motorola Xoom tablet, which uses Android Honeycomb. It wasn't that bad, but a bit hard to click around. Please don't make it exclusive to Apple users.

Thanks Splat and Kevron. I have that pull-back motor from my brothers Racers set. It wasn't much, just enough to make 8256 move a short distance. How many and what motors were in the clocks that Kevron showed? I read on Wikipedia that these are called clockwork motors. So if there are any clockwork experts reading this, I want to ask you something; Can clockwork motors potentially be very powerful for their size? Could a clockwork motor the size of a PF XL motor potentially have enough speed, strength, and range to move a $80 CAD Technic truck 3 meters? If they can be made very powerful for their size, than I think it would be good if Lego released a high-performance wind-up motor mainly for Technic models. Mostly the fairly small ones, and the large ones where they don't have much space for Power Functions. I think that the reason that Lego doesn't often use Power Functions to make Technic vehicles move is that they will drive until they hit a wall, and the motors will try to keep moving. That wouldn't happen with clockwork. I like to test suspensions and transmissions with internal forces. A flywheel might be another good option for smaller models.