Hey Joe
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Hey, it looks great! I especially like the use of the plates, and the first carriage looks really nice as well. Joe
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Hey! What a beautiful MOC. The first glimpse of color after the long parade of grey - the pic of the guy walking away from the bus - would have to be my favorite. The winos are a nice touch as well. Many thanks for sharing that with us. Joe
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Hey, I really like those bridges a lot. I also like how the street in the background goes uphill. Cheers, Joe
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Hey, how cool it THAT? A lego pop-up book, I never would've imagined. Many thanks for sharing. Joe
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I had something akin to an epiphamy as to how we could get some cool new train stuff out of Billund. It's so obvious I'm surprised that no one's thought of it already. It is; The Friends Train! I thought that the engine might look something like this (in the Friends pink and purple colors): There are endless rolling stock possibilities: - additional identical engines & passenger cars - Boyfriend Observation Car (for scoping out guys along the right-of-way) - Boutique Cars (shoes, clothes, cosmetics would each have a seperate car) - Cafe Car (gluten and MSG free, naturally) - Beauty Salon Car - Horse Stable Car All cars would be available seperately. The Friends mini-dolls in these sets will be wearing overalls/work clothes. There could be a new girl named 'Butch'. There will be a large selection of trackside structures including; main and secondary stations, towers, engine sheds, turntables, etc. There will be a complete range of track, including competitively-priced, remote-controlled switches! There's one caveat however; the track will be pink! Ok, hope you got a laugh out of it, and that the Friends-lovers out there see my tongue-firmly-in-my-cheek. Joe
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Yeah, that's one nice thing about the States, generally speaking there is more space to stretch our legs there, particularly in the Mid-West. We're still in Beijing, China. We've not yet bought the home in the States, so I can't provide a photo of the space at this time. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging or anything, but I think a layout twice this size would easily fit into an average, middle-sized, stand-alone family home's basement. However, I want to keep it modest-sized as I don't want to spend the rest of my life building the tables to hold the thing! Also, we might want to use the basement for other reasons too. For example, I've got a bunch of HO stuff that I'm thinking of breaking out of mothballs, but it will take up less space than this Lego project. The extra track arrived today! Thirty-six boxes of track should keep me busy for awhile (it gives me a total of forty boxes of straights and curves and eight boxes of switches). There are eight straights and eight curves in a box. The switches have a left and a right, and also have four curves in them. I'd prefer to buy Lego track, but it's not like Lego sells any special piece like a nice crossover or wye that will color clash with these, so why spend the money on Lego? Particularly since I would just throw away that flex-track and have to buy the curves from PAB online. I'll be throwing away half of these curves, and it'll cost to ship them back to the States, but I'm still coming out way ahead I think. I might use a couple pieces of Lego flex-track on my layout, hopefully it won't look too out of place next to this brown track. I guess I could always paint it. That flex-track is a very useful piece, but no one needs half-a-box full of it along with eight straights, do they? Thanks alainneke, and I appreciate that link as I'd been trying to find that exact page. Cheers, Joe
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She may turn out to like it just as much as you do. I've heard that women really like the Creator houses, maybe get her one and see what happens? Joe
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Lego themselves did a pretty nice mock-up of an airport for a show this year to publicize the new airport stuff in CITY. We saw the pictures here I think, and Brickset had them as well. Was it the big show in New York or the one in Europe, I can't remember. I was really impressed with what they did. Joe
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Hey! It's got a funky, steampunk vibe. Put a top hat on the engineer and let it rip! Great job on the photos, it's hard to capture black sometimes. Joe
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Hey! I might disagree with you on that. You get the bridge! This is a very interesting topic, thanks. You probably wouldn't get anywhere trying to contact Lego about this (they might think you were a bootlegger or something), but you never know; you might! Maybe they would find it interesting that someone was taking the time to try to dissect their work. Joe
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Hey, really beautiful. I love the window with the bike and all the interior details. The streetcar is a wonderful touch as well. Frontpage, again! Joe
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Hey! Extremely impressive! Apart from the excellent models the photography is very attractive. Many thanks for sharing. Joe
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Hey! I was expecting a little cabin, what a huge summer home! You really did it justice with both builds. Joe
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LEGO exhibition opens in Seoul, South Korea
Hey Joe replied to HayHay's topic in General LEGO Discussion
Hey! Those are some really impressive photos in that Flickr account. Check out that line of Santa Fes! Joe -
Yeah, I kinda learned that lesson back in my HO days. I had one big, huge, well-built table. They could've planned the Normandy Invasion on that thing, it was impossible to move it. This time I'm going to make it a little more portable. I really appreciate your feedback. I kinda see what your talking about. I've read that a dozen times, but I'm still not exactly sure where I'm supposed to put what. Anyway, I know what you mean and I won't be gluing anything so I can easily play around with it. I don't have any pieces to make crossovers anyway. I changed the layout to incorporate the excellent suggestions. If anyone has any further comments (positive or negative) please don't hesitate to post it. Here's a close-up of the main part. I changed those ugly crossovers (it was somewhat painful watching a train go over that type of connection anyway). I like the more realistic-looking ones where the switches are closer together, but this is Lego and we have to make concessions, right?. Thanks! Joe
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MOC: Pennsylvania RR's York Coaling Tower and Yard Office
Hey Joe replied to Cale's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Hey! That coaling tower is a beautiful piece of work. The scale appears perfect. I think I've been through York, it's near Gettysburg? Does York still have it's old RR station? I like to photograph any that I come across. Gettysburg's is quite special of course with the Lincoln connection. I always enjoy going to PA, lots of interesting historical things there. Joe -
Hey, it's interesting, thanks. However, I thought YOU were the first AFOL Gary? Joe
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Hey! Thanks for the review. Joe
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Hey! Those minifig-sized ones are excellent! I'm partial to the flower power one personally. Joe
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Hey! I really like that a lot and it goes well with HH. Thanks for sharing! Joe
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Hey, I started my own thread yesterday with Blue Bricks graphics of my layout, take a look: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=85623 Your layout looks great, I also like how the tracks don't run exactly parallel to each other as you often see that in real life. Maybe put some 'rocks', trees and/or shrubs in between the tracks to give them a reason to deviate. Post some pics when it's built please! Joe
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Thanks, some good replies so far! Yeah, I'm not much on doing MOCs yet, but I do have a couple small towers that I'd like to build for the layout. There's a new Lego store w/ PAB in my hometown in the States though, so I'm sure I'll be doing some of my own building sooner rather than later. This here will probably keep me busy for a year. That's good advice. I'll try to spread it out a bit more. Yeah, I think I'm going to put the layout on short legs that are high enough for my fat you-know-what to crawl under, but not so high as to make it inaccessible to him. He may have to stand on a stool to reach some stuff for awhile. He's growin' like a weed! Were you referring to the crossovers? I'm really not happy with them, but I don't see any other way to do it. I definitely want crossovers. Joe
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Hey! I just worked up my first Lego layout with Blue Brick, and I was hoping to get some comments and suggestions from some of you. I have a little free time on my hands here presently while we move back to the U.S., so I'm trying to use the time constructively. I'm not real sure of the exact dimensions of the space we'll have, but this layout should more-or-less fit into a medium-sized home's basement, don't you think? What do you think of the size of the layout, does it look too big or small? I think it strikes a good balance between being a decent-sized layout that's big enough to hold what I've got (plus a little room for expansion) without being grounds for divorce. Our son is only three, so I've tried to keep it as accessible as possible from all angles. I'm thinking of making the tables modular, so I can always add in another table in the future when/if we run out of room with this design. I mostly used the 3" x 3" tables in Blue Brick (and added on 1" x 3" tables for the harbor which was something of an afterthought). The table size isn't set into stone. One of my main questions is about the two crossovers between the two main lines. Is there a prettier way to do it? Do I need to get my hacksaw out and cut the switches they presently sell? I'm using PF track so I won't be using the 9V switch tracks with the shorter diverging track, unfortunately. Also, I won't be spending the crazy money that 7996 (Train Rail Crossing) is getting. It's a pity that Lego doesn't sell 7996 any longer as it's a very elegant solution, and I'm also more than a little bummed about the way they package the road baseplates. I won't be purchasing them unfortunately. Guess I'll have to find the time to build my own. Ok, well, thanks in advance for your input. Feel free to post graphics of your layout in this thread as I'd love to see what others have come up with. Oh, for the record; this is the parts list: 4x Right Switches 9x Left Switches 192x Straight Track 43x Curve Track 60x 48x48 Grey Baseplates 13x 32x32 Blue Baseplates and a handful of Flex-track Joe
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Hey! I remember seeing this back in May, but I guess I was too busy at that time to comment on it. Anyway, your work is always very nice. The bus station is great. Did you get the latest Cottage? I'd like to see what you've done with it if possible. Thanks, Joe
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Hi, the track has small holes in it already, so you can just use those for the screws. Joe