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The box is one of those temperamental parts where the camera angle plays a part in how things can connect to it. I assume it's because the little crenellations on the long edges count as connection points, making LDD's Brain-o-Matic all hot and bothered when trying to work with it. Superkalle can probably confirm this in less silly terms. I could only place a 2x3 brick inside the box when the camera elevation was low. Some things suddenly work when the camera is almost completely overhead. Whenever these tricks don't work, you can still force things to fit by building a simple brick scaffolding above the box with the right amount of space for a part to snap between them.

Basically, all the grey stuff you see is silver, until larger pictures without a peppering of JPEG artifacts prove that assertion wrong.

I had an identical problem with a Servo Motor a little while back (pushing the wire in the back made it reapeatedly initialise with that little electric squeak). I emailed Customer Services and described the problem in detail. About two days later, expecting a standard reply, they instead sent me a LEGO Shop invoice for a new Servo Motor (priced at £0.00p!). Out of courtesy I asked if they needed the old one back, and I was told that wasn't necessary.

An early glimpse at a future where all the black and light bley axles are red and yellow respectively! Lamenting the passing of black 3M pegs will be NOTHING by comparison.

I had a go at this and also failed. I got the lid to fit on the ammo box, though!

I know, right? I just bought a second-hand 42007 for less than retail. If only 42036 didn't exist, maybe I'd have to pay over £50 for it, such is the rarity and value of technic motybikes.

9398 and 8070. I got a huge tax return a few years back and thought about spending a lot of it on LEGO, but my Technic interest simply hadn't emerged yet. These days I can pretty much reconstitute the 9398 from my parts stash, but I just don't have the silly money that certain red bits from the 8070 demand.

Wagh, the mention of chrimblemas in my last post made me look for these, and yes I found them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40138 - Christmas Train - theme: Creator / Seasonal Errors: Print for part 14184 (Flat Tile Round 1X1 "No. 13") not available in LDD - left blank Print for part 15828 (Flat Tile Round 1X1 "No. 18") not available in LDD - left blank The stuff in the tender isn't attached to anything, but it has all been positioned carefully to look nice (only for the engineer to then mercilessly throw it all in the firebox - he is a miserable ole git who hates children and christmas) LXF (LDD 4.3.9 / b2075) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40139 - Gingerbread House - theme: Creator / Seasonal Errors: Print for part 14184 (Flat Tile Round 1X1 "No. 13") not available in LDD - left blank Print for part 15826 (Flat Tile Round 1X1 "No. 17") not available in LDD - left blank LXF (LDD 4.3.9 / b2075) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40141 - Hotel - theme: Bricktober Error: No sticker LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40142 - Train Station - theme: Bricktober Note: The train doesn't make a connection with anything LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40143 - Bakery - theme: Bricktober LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40144 - Toys 'Я' Us Store - theme: Bricktober Errors / notes: No stickers No idea what that greenhouse object is at the front. Maybe it's a "Dad Creche"? LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't want to look for any more things, just in case I find them.

We don't have this national holiday here (many countries don't) but we get a set for it anyway. Th-thanks LEGO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40123 - Thanksgiving Feast - theme: Seasonal Errors: Part 6100249 (Mini Head "No. 1582") not available in LDD - replaced with 4245644 [decoration 64968] Part 6112633 (Mini Head "No. 1666") not available in LDD - replaced with 6041706 [decoration 605156] (I was going to make this a bloke with a moustache for the hell of it, but no) The turkey is supposed to connect to the trolley via a transparent 1x1 round brick, but LDD does NOT like this, so the 1x1 round brick has been put in the sideboard with the wine, and of course the turkey doesn't actually make a connection. Neither does the apple in the bowl. Why is it in a bowl? What's it up to in there? I haven't really studied the habits of apples. LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pics of the chrimboid sets are on the back of the instructions for this - I'm disappointed that neither of them feature a microbuild train. That is spitting in the face of tradition, right there.

Perhaps he could also mount it on a trailer behind the vehicle and chase after it to control it.

Private Message, not Pulse Modulation.

I've just had a quick look at the usual suspects (Amazon, Bricklink, eBay), and S@H looks like the best we'll get for now. You could always wait until the next double/triple points offer and get a sort of £5/10 "rebate" from buying it at that time.

I got a new 42036 for just under £20 from Amazon's current Argos-taunting sale, as well as a PF IR Receiver V2 for £14 from a Bricklink seller also having a sale. That same seller was offering the new rack and housing assemblies from 42043 for about £3, so I got two just to see what I can do with 'em.

It appears to be a single signal - I just did a test where I sent a command and hid the remote in a box. Commands seem to "linger" for a second or two in the remote itself, discovered by fiddling with the thing in the box then whipping it out. As far as I know, the IR receiver will keep running the stored command until it's either interrupted by a new command on the same output from the same remote, or sadly, a new command on EITHER output from a standard IR remote*. Aside from the obvious timeout when your battery dies (or enters "sleep mode" after 2 hours), there may also be some extended timeout buried somewhere in the official documentation PDFs on Philo's page. * This means that unless I'm willing to use two IR receivers on different channels, I can't have the benefits of a Speed Remote for adjusting the speed of a vehicle, with the snappy steering response from a standard remote. Booo!

The old Designer Set 4403 Air Blazers features one of the best implementations of this idea. Although the spinning rotor action is activated by squeezing the helicopter's bum to make a "scissor" assembly push the rack forward, it does have that nifty ratchet: Not shown: the elastic band on the end of the rack to make it return. When the rack springs back, the 24Z gear (still spinning in the opposite direction from the energy of the rotors) would normally stop it, but it's hinged on an armature which instead causes it to skip.

Give me a few hours and I'll make you one :B

BOOM (no idea why this set doesn't show up in the instructions portal) EDIT: B-Model also

Here's the latest seasonal thing for all you seasonal thing-wanters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40122 - Trick or Treat - theme: Seasonal Notes: No errors, wooow No, wait, the controversially busty child witch isn't attached to anything because I was too lazy / picky to raise the bucket above her head to make her stand on the step while still holding it. Skelly pose: "SOON" LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We didn't get a summer thing! D:

Add me to list of people who have had problems fixing long beams across gaps where lots of pegs are involved. Luckily I've only broken a peg once, but there have been many occasions where I've experienced a combination of "hot brains" and "my insides are disappearing" feelings. It's a bit like the strange awareness of your own muscles when trying to judge the exact amount of strength to open the cellophane on a supermarket bakery loaf without completely destroying the packaging, but worse.

It's a shame that the grooves on a 1x2 Grille Tile can't mesh, because I have a Tiny Turbo-esque Euro Box Truck minibuild which relies on this obscure technique to prevent the chassis from flexing too much, thus ensuring that all the wheels make contact. The pic shows the part before I positioned it by editing the LXFML, but reopening the file just forces the grille on the back of the cab to be removed.

The motor does appear to keep pushing further for a second or two, but then it gives up with a little electronic *squeak*.

Swans, ducks, maybe also hodgehegs.

OpenGL is a sort of "layer" between software and hardware which enables accelerated perfomance. This layer is usually supplied as part of the drivers for your hardware. To find out which hardware you have, type "Device Manager" into the search bar at the bottom of the start menu, then look in the Device Manager's list for "Display Adapters". There may be a right-click option to "Update Driver software", but going to the vendor manufacturer's website is recommended (I think this is what SylvainLS is referring to).

one of these for pushing / pulling out pegs, one of these for extra grip on those axles that can't be pulled / pushed out. Oh, and brick separators still have obscure uses for all such as getting things like wheel bearings apart. Only in extreme circumstances will I resort to other solutions, and then it'll be something brutal like locking pliers.

Regarding the last quote, you really, REALLY should have dealt with the first three issues before creating a MOC thread with no actual MOCing to show.