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If you can't find one, Moore Wilson here in Welly have both. I could grab one and post it to you if are that keen. I just ordered over $100 worth via bricklink. It's an odd feeling, guilt, that I spent that much money on a kids toy, and elation, that I have a big pile of Lego coming!

Oh, and in responce to CommandFlash's original question about the Mick Thompson guitar. From what I can see that his guitars are made by Ibanez, a quality brand. I recommend with any guitar you buy you should take it to a guitar technician to have it setup to your liking. A good can tech can lower the action, improve tuning stability, and make the guitar easy to play.

I thought it was a cool little alien!

Hey, great thread! Here's my main guitars: Left -> Right: G&L ASAT Special, Cole Clark Fat Lady 2, Cole Clark Strat, Lowden 010. I use the G&L for rock, the Strat for softer sounds. The Cole Clark acoustic is my strumming guitar (in standard tuning), and the 1985 Lowden I use for fingerpicking. (in DADGAD tuning) My pedalboard has been updated recently and now looks like this: I switch the off-board pedal for whatever I need for the gig, usually fuzz, wah, compressor or phaser (all homemade) I don't have pictures, but I use a Bassman clone head with a Mesa Boogie 4x10 cab. I have a Marshall JTM combo for smaller gigs, and I'm building a Vox AC-15 clone for a different sound.

I build kneeling on the carpet. Kills my back after a while, but the kitchen table is way too small. I like to have coffee or water on hand, and I'm fond of jazz on the stereo. I have a couple of plywood sheets about the size of a 32x48 baseplate which I use to build on when the carpet makes it difficult.

Whoops, a wee typo there! I can't figure how to change the title, does a Mod have to do it? The white windows on the back end is supposed to look like an aftermarket tray cover/roof part, as used by lots of plumbers/builders and the like to keep their tools and equipment under cover.

WhiteFang's nostalgistic 4-wide vechicle reviews have inspired me to post this, my second MOC vechicle post Dark Ages. I call it the MeerKat pickup truck, becuase like a Meerkat, it is little and cute. With driver Timmy Johnston. With back door open, all ready to be loaded up with . . . something? Enjoy!

One my favourite sets ever. I had one when I was about 10, (which was lost to the younger sibling during my Dark Ages) and years later brought one second hand. I'm hoping to collect all or at least most of the western sets.

Nice! I just brought a MISB 6634, Stock car. Exactly the same design, couple of different stickers. Now I have one to use and one to collect. I'm a big fan of classic town!

We had funny names growing up - flat two peice (1x2 tile), skinny two piece (1x2 plate), two piece (1x2 brick) and wide two peice (2x2 brick) Now I just use bricklink names in my head as I don't build with anyone else, sadly.

Great thread. Thanks for all the tips. Now off the the building zone!

I got one last week, cool impulse. Haven't built it yet. I do wish Lego would put some female figs in impulse sets though.

That is a great article. As an AFOL who has been out of the game for a while, it's cleared up all my confusion about Lego's train options. I'm officially saving up for the PF Kit, some track and some train bases/boogies in 2010.

I really am intending to get a train set next year . . .

How are you attaching all those flippers? I don't understand the framework holding them together. Thanks ben

Looking great! Can't wait to see the finished product.

WOW. Those are all incredible.

I have only one thing to say, and that is - WOW. I love the shape of it and all the detail you have crammed in there.

I have built a car that my be worthy of adding. See it here. Thanks Ben

Accuracy for me. Let's face it, lego bricks is pretty cartoony, so it's nice to come up with something that has a tangeble sense of architechture to it, whether it's technic, town or star wars. But for me playablity is a part of accuracy - does this minifig fit in the vechicle?? Does the model fall apart every time you touch it? Is the gun in the correct (or close) scale to the fig?

Welcome! That is a very, very nice car you have built there. Ben

+1!!! I have one fabuland croc that I got at a yard sale in a mixed box, this is inspiring me to build something with it!

I have a small Lego collection combined with a reasonably small house and a 2 year old. So I need to be able to find peices to build with and also clear it all away pretty quickly. So I came up with the system of heavy duty clear ziplock bags, stored in two latching rolling rubbermaid bins. This works well, I can pull out what I need easily and pack it away fast I have a few catagories, bricks sorted by color, 1 and 2 wide plates, 4+ wide plates, tiles, odd specialist pieces, minifigs, minifig accesiories, hinges, trans parts, round 1x1's and 1x2's, technic pins, technic liftarms, technic shafts and quite a few more I can't think of right now.

I have maybe 60ish figs and 10000ish parts. I've only been collecting very infreqently for the last 5 years. Getting back into it a little now though! About 1000 parts incoming from bricklink.

A few points I've thought of . . . I've seen a few bricks with size inconsistency. I have recently built a MOC with four of these in a row, and one was recessed compared to the others. I went though my spares and found a few more that were slightly recessed as well. In my collection it only seems to show up in the yellow ones. And also, as far as printing goes, I'm a color printer technician by day, working in the graphic arts arena where color is extremely important. I would say that the bad color instructions we see are directly because of cost cutting. I would say that the printing company probably provide TLG with a top quality proof print of each batch, made at the beginning of the print run. BUT they probably aren't constantly testing and adjusting the color throught the run to ensure that the color hasn't changed since the orginal print. This lack of attention to detail probably allows the printer to offer TLG a lower price. I also wonder if Lego's graphic designers have correctly calibrated monitors. Projected color mediums such as monitors are capable of producing thousands more colors than Refelected color mediums such as print. Because of this, designers who are designing for print should use monitors that have been 'dumbed down', to match as closely as possible to match the colors posible in CMYK print format. This can certainly cause halftone colors such as pastels and process greys to look significantly different from the designer's screen to the printer's output tray Hope that rant is of interest to any one. Ben