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Thanks for the comments. I haven't had an oppotunity to display it anywhere, I'm not even certain if there are Lego events near me. Our library displays local Lego models in their display cases throughout the building, I have thought about loaning it to them for a little while. Unfortunately, I don't think it would be possible to have it on and in motion while in the display case, which is kind of what really makes this model interesting.

I keep all my sets in their own plastic bins with their instructions and pieces. I prefer the ones where the handles flip up to lock the lid in place. All of my parts not in sets, for custom building and modeling, are sorted by color in approx. 50 clear tackle boxes labeled with a code on the outside (BLK1, BLK2, GRN1, GRN2, etc..) and mostly sub-divided by Bricks, Plates, Wedges, Slopes, Everything Else. I maintain a brickstore database of my inventory so I can quickly lookup how many of a certain piece I have and in what quantity as well as learning which container I have stashed it in. I can fnd nearly any piece in a few seconds since the shelving unit containing the inventoried parts are next to my comptuer station. Parts not yet inventoried are stored in plastic containers with lids, where I then sub-sort them into baggies by brick, plate, wedge, slope, everything else, then one baggie at a time I inventory them into brickstore and place them in their respective destation containers. Minifig pieces and tiny technic pieces are one exception to the sorting by color and then piece hierarchy, they not sorted by color at all and they just have their own containers (MNFG1, MNFG2, TCNK1, TCNK2, etc...) sorted only by part. Another exception is baseplates and rather large pieces, they go into a plastic bin and get inventoried into (LRG1).

I use 2 plastic compartment containers (like tackle boxes) and open each bag into their own comaprtment (i can insert or remove dividers to make a comaprtment as large or small as I need). When you start building you will find one type of piece in one comaprtment, another type mixed with others in antoehr, and you will just pick up the pattern and when you need a piece you will know what compartment to look for it in. Eventually you will even know when it is a part you've never used in the model yet, just by deduction you will know what bag (compartment now) that piece will be in. Good luck and have fun, I really enjoyed building that model myself.

That is such a cool idea. My wife would love that too. You are brilliant sir, and I may "borrow" that idea for Valentines day.

Haha, I laughed when I saw it. You captured an expression for sure, and an ingenious use of parts. I like it.

Thanks for the comments. It is a nice addition that I tend display with the Grand Carousel and the Ferris Wheel.

Hi there, I just wanted to interact a little more with the community and I thought I would start by sharing my Lego model I designed and built based on my favorite carnival ride; The Tilt-A-Whirl. However, my model doesn't tilt, and the cars don't spin freely, and in fact they are connected to a gearing system so they are always turning while the ride is in motion. This was done because I really like to add motion to my Lego models, and allowing the cars to spin freely was't providing a lot of action. The deisgn on the ride has a platform planetary gear system that revolves around a single solar gear seen here in the center of the ride pavillion Here is a shot of the underside of the platform that shows the gears that move while the platform spins around the fixed gear. After marrying the platform to the base, the result looks something like this And in its current state, operates like this The first design could only be operated by hand (and at a time when I owned a really crappy camera) I then added a Lego motor, and after a bit of trial-and-error on how to attach it, found that using a worm gear to drive the entire platform was ideal. Finally, I submitted it to Lego for consideration to become a real mode at their Cuusoo site: http://lego.cuusoo.c...deas/view/18203 I hope that you like it and let me know what you think.