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  1. steele
    I love the Russian Decapod design, though I've never managed to see a real one. Very happy to see it in bricks. Do you have a side-view? The Decapod design has a notable amount of empty space below the boiler but above the frame, was wondering if it was at all possible to incorporate that feature.
  2. steele
    For a DC-9-50, is there an easy way to add the strakes on the nose?
  3. steele
    I love the Transylvania set for the castle, but the minifigs seem "excessive"----few are very unique/interesting, and seem to be there just to pad out the numbers. I'd honestly prefer half as many figs and a lower set price. Or at least one more vampire/spook instead of so many kids and "typical townsfolk".
  4. steele
    We finally got a Lego store around here a few months ago, so this was the first time ever I could pick up an "exclusive" set on release day. Arrived about an hour after it opened, walked right in and grabbed a Renegade, and went to the counter. In and out in about 5 mins, most of which was waiting for the people ahead of me to finish paying using a complicated mix of cash, gift cards, and credit cards.
  5. steele
    I'm a HUGE Countach fan and have been looking forward to this, but now that the official pics are out---I don't like the front end. Specifically, the front fender arches, and how the sides are higher than the trunk lid (frunk lid). The pure side-profile shot especially looks off to me, around the top of the fender just in front of the windshield. (the doors are also rather "flat", I expected more curvature in cross-section)
  6. steele
    The photo of the real one on the box, is not what the set is. Most prototype Concordes had MUCH smaller and shorter tailcones than the production versions (and most also lacked the iconic vertical-slats visor, instead having small windows). The photo on the box clearly has a tiny little stub of a tailcone. This set itself has the bigger tailcone, which means it has to specifically be the fourth prototype, F-WTSA. No other Concorde had the big tailcone and this paint scheme.
  7. steele
    I think printed vs stickered passenger cabin windows will be the deciding factor whether I buy it. If they do the final schemes for BA and AF, then they should be able the use the same piece multiple times along the sides to do all the windows needed, for both schemes with no stripes. Just a simple print of windows, and perhaps a dozen of them or so? (depending on scale) But if they want a ton of window-stickers going down each side---pass.
  8. steele
    Warm water+oxi clean works amazing on vintage sails. I did it to my original 6285 a couple years ago. Let them soak in a dish for a couple hours. (or half a day, depending)
  9. steele
    I'm interested in how you did the tender trucks, if you can show them a bit more?
  10. steele
    Will you be offering instructions for the modifications done?
  11. steele
    Anyone else think the 2022 Countach has good odds, now that Lambo has unveiled it? (While I would like a large/Technic model of it like the Sian, I think it'd be too close to the Sian time-wise, to get another large Lambo already) Or maybe the "buzz" would help also get an 80's Countach officially made?
  12. steele
    That is the best 4-6-0 I've ever seen----but my question is actually about the track! I love those "black-based display sections" of track you have. Could you show those (mainly the ends) in a bit more detail? I have Tony Sava's Daylight instructions, and plan to "display" it rather than run it (no room for a loop, sadly), so having something a bit more substantial than 'raw rails on the shelf' would be nice---and your tracks look very nice, exactly what I'd like to have. Are they basically just large piles of 45-degree 2x2's? Is the very bottom layer 8x16's? (and a quick check of black 8x16 prices on Bricklink makes me think maybe not, or those are quite expensive display bases!)
  13. steele
    Yup, could have waited and gotten everything. :(
  14. steele
    Risk of missing out on the shuttle because of waiting for the probe is why I went ahead. Probe could show up next week, next month, or next fall...
  15. steele
    I noticed the stickers were in miles etc, I wondered if perhaps there were alternative stickers provided in some regions. The instruction book itself does a very good job----for the English parts, it lists miles etc, with the metric equivalents in parentheses. But for the French and Spanish parts, it shows metric as the default, with imperial conversions in parentheses.
  16. steele
    Mine arrived from the website today, plan to do at least the Hubble's stand, maybe the Hubble itself tonight. Tomorrow the real building starts. Pleasantly surprised by the degree of parts separation among the bags----#1 is purely the Hubble's stand, 2 and 3 are the Hubble itself, #4 is purely the orbiter's stand.
  17. steele
    Dare I ask for us to get gold stickers then? Even small polybag sets can come with decent-sized sticker sheets at times.
  18. steele
    Exactly---is pearl gold a more expensive color than "standard" ones? Pearl gold is obviously cheaper than painted/chromed gold, but plain yellow just looks very "wrong" compared to all the other satellites and lunar landers etc the past few years. Pearl gold is so common nowadays, I'd be surprised if it's any more expensive to use----the probe seems to mostly just need small 1x1 bits, and 2x2 curved slopes.
  19. steele
    I would gladly pay real $ for instructions for that!
  20. steele
    The two-layer effect is exactly: A. Why they're so distinctive. B. So hard to get the look! SteamSewnEmpire--any chance of an "incomplete" view to show how the "core" is built? Gonna try to replicate that this weekend! (don't think I have any black binoculars though)
  21. steele
    I'd be very interested in more details on the tender trucks-----the pics of the real thing show that loco with 3-axle Buckeye trucks, which are exactly like the Daylights had under their tenders----I've been trying to figure out a decently accurate set of trucks for a Daylight for a while now.
  22. steele
    Do you have any plans to make one of the smaller cities for it to eat? First thing I looked for was the Union Jack that covers the "mouth". :)
  23. steele
    I'd be interested in seeing more of the tender trucks----so many MOCs seem to just use the pre-made bogies under the tender, even when it's quite inaccurate. (I'm trying to do trucks for a Daylight----I'm surprised I've never seen a three-axle Buckeye truck done by anyone AFAIK, when so many different things used them).
  24. steele
    I love midi scale, wish there was more. (Especially for capital ships, I'll never have room or money for 10,000 piece monster MOCs)
  25. steele
    The first thing I looked for, because every other Y-Wing (including the new UCS) gets it wrong, is the "non-centered" wing/engine connection---from head-on, they connect ABOVE the centerline, not in the middle. This greatly affects the proportions. And jerac got it right! I've always figured it was very hard, if not impossible, to connect a cylindrical LEGO assembly "off-center". But here it is.
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