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I know exactly how you felt ;-) Should I ever get one I'm gonna ask for a pic cos I know I'm not going to like a crashing crane arm and I don't really trust in my modding skills that much ;-) And if you don't mind, I'd like to hear how you liked 8439 and 8455 once you built them, cos they're on my wish list, too :-$ Oh, I finished the truck yesterday. The chassis at least, the crane arm's next. I never thought it would bother me, but I ran into a color issue: 4 pieces were old dark grey where all others are new dark grey. The pieces are used in the seats of the driver cabin, so they ain't really visible. But it did bother me when I found out. And I'll always know. So, work for the Service again. I'm not a die-hard defender of the old colors, but when I buy a new set I want the colors to fit together, old or new. If I build MOCs I probably won't mind... dunno... Anyways, the entire thing should be finished tonight :-)

Exactly. That's why I haven't tried anything yet. I rather bought some modded track (including switches) from a guy who sells his work. And IMHO it's worth every cent. I think I linked to his brickshelf gallery once: Ondrew Hartigan's modded track What I like is that he keeps the original "end piece" of the track to the mod so you can put the mods together like normal track. And he doesn't use glue (except for very short track). Amazing skill. I'm totally satisfied with his work..... OK, enough adverstising ;-)

Both are MIB and according to the sellers display models. But thanks for the hint.

I'm watching two on ebay ;-) *wub* With the old set being the base... ;-) I like the sturdy look. I don't mind studs on top - although some SNOT techniques are pretty cool and give you nice effects. But overall a LEGO model has to be recognizable as a LEGO model.

It's funny, I haven't read one entirely good comment about 8421. Everybody says, "It's ok, but not great." Well, saves me 135 bucks ;-) That's a nice list of "old" sets you have collected there, gylman. I've come across all of them on ebay at some time but never bid. Now I'm considering looking for those "older" sets again...

Anybody seen this? (thumb clickable) Cool :-) Wish I had the skills to do my own track mods... :-/

After sorting my old LEGO I came across my old Technic box. In a sentimentality attack I decided to rebuild my favorite set, 8040 (yeah, that old). Unfortunately I'm missing the pneumatic distribution block, but it should arrive from BL soon. So I put it aside for the moment. In the meantime I decided to delve into the new worlds of Technic. Browsing through the current sets on S@H I liked 8435 4WD. Tough luck, I missed the 50 % offer they had by one day. On that day I found it on ebay, though. MIB even, and also for 50 % off. So I bought it. The next day I bought a 8436 for 30 Euro off at a local TRU, and while I was at it I took a 8281 Tractor, too, cos I kinda liked it. The tractor was the first model I built. And while I was baffled over all those new pins, connectors and bricks I missed over the last 25 years, I was surprised by the detail of that little set. Then again, it does have 120+ pieces. I enjoyed building it - although I have to admit that it took me quite some time cos I wasn't used to all those pieces that had nothing to do with the Technic I grew up with (except the pins). After that I decided to build the 4WD. Now that was something else. I kinda missed that it had 700+ pieces - and most of them connectors and pins. While the model looks great once finished it took me pretty long to build. I liked the motor and the moving zylinders and how they're connected to the rear wheels, pretty nifty. The building process left me exhausted, though. Still, I was glad I decided to buy it. Yesterday I decided to build the truck. After opening the box the first thing that struck me was an almost entirely dog-eared instruction book. I read about that happening a lot lately, but it's an issue I handed over to the Service. What had me kinda confused was the amount of connectors and pins. Literally hundreds of them. From the heap of pieces I have on my table it looks like that set consists of pins and connectors only. There is exactly one(!) classic LEGO piece: a 1x6 black plate. The rest is pins, connectors, and studless beams. I should have sorted them, though. I noticed too late after I started to build it. It was a pain to pick out the pieces for each building step. Picking the pieces had a feeling of sorting to it, rather than building something. And those stud-less beams - I don't like 'em. It just isn't LEGO. Looking at all those pieces I had the feeling I'm building a "Fischertechnik" set (for those who don't know Fischertechnik: Fischertechnik Website). I finished on page 39 yesterday. Considering I have 50 more pages for the truck, 30 more for the crane arm, and some necessary sorting to do, I'm not all that happy. But I will finish it, of course, cos I'm sure in the end it'll look great on the shelf. I'll let you know when I'm finished... in three years or so... Now, after building (almost) three new Technic sets, I have to say I like the older Technic sets better. They had more of a LEGO feeling to them. And it's easier to make Model Team style models out of them to... "complete" them, so to speak :-) I might buy a few small Technic sets if I see one I like, but I'm not sure anymore if I'll get 8421, which was a sure buy up to now... Again, I'm not saying Technic is cr@p, the sets all do look great in the end, but I guess I'm not used to that kind of building. Guess I'm too much a purist ;-)

One 8435 MIB for about half price off ebay, one 8436 for 30 Euro off regular price, and one 8281 at regular price because I liked it at the moment *sweet*

Blue-grey, since it has a blue-ish "touch" to it. Jan Beyer confirmed it today on 1000steine.com: "As of 01.01.2006 LEGO does not produce old color bricks anymore. What's left will be used up as best as possible, so it might happen that there are old colors in new sets." Original statement

Looks like "Little Round Top"... except, they didn't have cannons there IIRC... anyhoo, glad he's continuing his work :smile: (clickable thumb)

Phew... impressive... and I agree with Norro, I like the sail layout and the rigging, too. Very nice MOC

Is it just me or do more and more Civil War MOCs/WIPs show up on Brickshelf lately? Anyhoo, here's another one, the famous battle of Gettysburg. It's not that big a MOC, rather looks like a WIP. Seems it is a scene of the first encounter between Union's General Buford and Confederate General Heth, just outside of Gettysburg. I'm guessing, but that was the only encounter where the town provided the scenery, the other battles were outside the town on more or less open fields (anybody more historically adept pls correct me): (clickable thumb)

I haven't watched since they cut Dr. Drake Remore out... Seriously, I haven't seen one episode. Doesn't air here and I'm not interested in getting it "from somewhere else", if you know what I mean...

Mmmmmh, two very nice sets... I've been looking at a lot of Technic sets lately and, though I'm still mainly into Train/Town layouts, am considering buying me a whole bunch of them. I dug out my old sets from the 80s (8040 is my favorite) and I'm going to "rebuild" them (Bricklink was a big help with a few spare parts I broke as a kid - pneumatic pump, for instance). Guess I'm gettin' into Technic again (real smilies, pls) Oh, yeah, to be on topic: got my second BL order yesterday. Just a few parts for my town and trains...

ROFL :-D :-D I dare say that one's "based on a true story"

I just noticed that Weebleleezer is a 1000steine member. He postet there that he's nearing the finish line, about 1-2 weeks to go. Over one year of building time, 150 kg of old grey bricks, a 4m long/1.4m wide/1.2m high model as a result, and a five-digit amount put into it :) Weebleleezer @1000steine.com Weebleleezer @Brickshelf (check the ebay screenshot in the "HarrySTruman" folder )

Comment from Jan Beyer, German AFOL Community Liasion: "To my knowledge currently there are no new releases planned but that doesn't mean there won't be Legends anymore." Original message on 1000steine.com

Thanks for clearing this up :smile:

Um... I don't have that part, I just assumed it isn't hollow cos it looks like it from yoda's pic. Shame on me if I jumped to a false conclusion, it's just that I'm not too happy with the use of that part :$

Mhm, on the outside the train is/looks like 5 high, but the roof part isn't "hollow". So the "ceiling" starts right above the windows - which makes the inside 3 high... The trans-black part looks "hollow", though...

If this is the roof part of the train then there's no head room for the MFs - the waggons are only three bricks high?! Or is it a kid's train, as in "Transporting MF kids only"? :dry:

'lo :smile:

That's the middle waggon of the new ICE set. F'up New Train pieces

Thanks to Wolf04's post I'll definitely pass on the new passenger train. What looked promising at first sight looks horrible in the picture: the roof seems to be one piece instead of a few of 2x4x1&1/3 brick with curved top. Also, trains used to be 5 bricks "high". 4511 was the first 4-brick-high train, and the new passenger train is only 3 bricks high with a higher roof. While this may look more like a real ICE it calls for new roof pieces. Too bad. A definite "no buy" for me.

To me those "black thingies" around the "thick thingies" look like rigging used to tie rolled-up sails to the mast... I agree, usually sails are done in white. But this ship isn't "usual" in any way so he could have been thinking of doing the sails in a more "natural" color. I could be totally off, of course