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That's awesome thanks for sharing. I hope to do that myself. My main goal is to buy a house with one more room than is needed so I can turn it into a lego room/man cave! UG!

A thread about guitars on a lego site? I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My first guitar was an encore with practice amp (bb blaster), bag and so on and I have to say if your just starting out, it's a great kit. You won't need anymore for some time. Later I graduated to a squire stratocaster (if you use one of those Jim Dunlop picks the wrong way round you get that "ching" soung which makes it sound very close to the real, 5 time more expensive fender startocaster). To this guitar I have added a fernandez (spelling?) sustainer and it's great. Think of the intro to U2's with or without you, it has those impossibly long guitar notes at the start. The sustainer does this perfectly. Right now I have what I consider the best guitar of all time. A sunburst gibson ES335 historic 1963 re-issue. It sounds beautiful. My style of playing favors melody and making each note really sing over being the fastest guitarist in the west. This guitar is perfect for that. You hit a big bend right on the high end and it will sound like an angel having an ! I play it through a pod xt live pedal and vox ac15 custom classic amplifyer with blue speaker. I play alot of Moody Blues and U2 and lots of other things. I'm trying to write and record an album. My first proper go at recording isn't that great but if you wanna laugh go to http://www.myspace.com/thebandknownasmisc and listen to my cover of Joan Osbourne's "One of us". BTW not long found out there is another band already called misc so can anybody here think of a good name for a band?

HAHA that made me laugh! Thankyou.

I have wondered about using these. Does anyone know if the are strong enought to return both motor and valve to centre whilst being weak enought to allow the motor to operate the valve?

ROLLER COASTER TYCOON! Just think of it. The are countless rides on which you could base smaller sets, each one of these smaller sets could include a small kiost (for food, drink, inflatables and so on) and then for the big sets, oh yes, roller coasters! The track peices would be probably 6 wide with a 2 wide hollow centre spine and very similar in design to those found in roller coaster tycoon and would just snap together using technic fricton pins in holes in each end. Other accesories (probably lego exclusive) could be stations with que lines and scenery and extra cars to make the train longer. There is sooooooo much you could do with this. Soooooo many sets that could all come together in a giant, fully functional theme park.

One thing that might help to explain more complicated circuits could be to have a diagram of each phace of a cycle showing the positions of each switch and pneumatic in each phase. Another thing that might help would be to show which hoses are pressurised in each phase by having them a different colour (red for pressurised, black/grey for non-pressurised). Again I think this is something that would be quite easy to achive in MS paint. This may be time consuming tho so I would probably only do that for very complicated circuits.

That is just brilliant. It already has an advantage over a solenoid valve in that it can be used to control many other things besides pneumatics. But to have proportional control as well is fantastic (especially for steering and pneumatics) . What would you use as a transmitter for this kind of control? Could you use the existing PF train remote or would you have to create a new one? Either way i'm liking what I see very much

WOW this is great. It would be wonderful if lego produced something like this. It could be used everywhere like steering, pneumatic control, trains (for lots of things), changing gears remotely, and many other things. Well done

Well I think that when most people design a MOC, they design it once. However when a designer creates a product for lego, they tend to build several prototypes and versions of it. I think another aspect is time. We mortals have to design our MOCs outside of work in our free time which for many, is a precious thing. Official designers however get to build lego all day at work giving them the time to really perfect the design of a model. Another advantage they have is the resources to design and create totally new parts, existing parts in new colours and new decals/printed parts. So whilst the designers have some limitations like cost and so on, they also have some very useful luxeries. This thread is an interesting one and I always enjoy the challenge of building my technic MOCs as if they were to be mass produced by lego. I limit the number of peices (eg a maximum of say 1800 elements plus one motor or 1300 elements + 2 motors/pneumatics). I only allow parts that are currently in production. I certainly don't allow any cheating (like cutting parts or glue!). The finished model must be strong and sturdy enough for lots of being played with by kids. It must have new funtionality and playability. It must be an improvement on any past iteration (if I build a supercar, it has to be an improvement on the 8880, 8448 and any MOC supercar i've seen on the net). It must be as complicated as it's size allows and also have that finished/perfected look that would fool anyone into thinking they are looking at an official set. It's because of these goals that I can fully appreciate the amount of time it takes to really perfect a model. That, among other things, is something the designers at lego have much more of than we do.

Thankyou very much for the reply, i'll try that and let ya know how I get on. Thankyou.

I have. I found this very same question posted..... "Are there any plugins or methods to import LDraw or MLCad models or parts into trueSpace, preserving textures? I have used ldraw2lws and loaded the .lws object into trueSpace. This imports geometry but does not preserve textures, or so it seems." .....to which there is no reply. LDView is good but Truespace 3.2 does have quite a nice renderer considering it's free.

MS paint is quite often overlooked I think when it comes to these things. Its very easy to use. I would start by drawing a complete set of parts (real of schematic) and then saving it. you then have a template with which you can copy and paste your saved parts and then use the line draw or paint brush tool to draw the hoses. It won't look professional but they will be easy to understand. I hope this helps.

If this helps answer my question I can import a model into truespace but when I hit the render button all the parts are the wrong colours. Reds are grey, blacks are white and transparent is just black. It all goes into grey scale and transparent is no longer transparent. I could re-colour the faces manually but on a simple car model, the one that comes with MLcad, there are around 29,900 faces!

Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me. I am quite well versed in the use of MLcad and Truespace 3.2. I don't like POV at all so is there a way of creating a model in MLcad and then importing it into truespace (whilst preserving the textures, including transparency, of all the individual parts) for me to render? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well I am a total technic fan. Nothing but technic ,and the occasional large non technic set, for me (tho I'll try not to let that make my opinion baised in any way ). And in my view I agree that even in technic sets some of the colour choices for parts are quite frustrating so the problem must be even worse for regular sets whose main function is more about aesthetics than functionality. But apart from the colour issues I think that there is quite a good balance in the non technic sets I have. It can also add alot of strength and also allow models to increase in size without stretching the price so much (to do the ICS imperial star destroyer the same size without using technic would have made for a much weaker and even more expensive set). I also think some sets would have been much better if they were nothing but technic (the eiffel tower for example). But that's just me!

Ahhhhhhh, two VERY excellent modles sir.

Look at the rear legs of this model for an idea as to how this is done http://www.peeron.com/scans/8891-1/33

Congratulations. I'm sure she'll make a fine AFOL haha! P.S. thanks for the excuse to enjoy a nice smoke

Remember it says "revised" which does not mean released. This revision may take several years of product devolpement so I think it's a little unfair to say this info is totally wrong just yet.

Wow! that is what I call pristine condition! What I wouold suggest is find one that has been build maybe once then put away, buy that one and build it. Alternatively you could build the one you have and then either store it in a dust tight box that does not allow sunlight in or dismantle it and put the peices back in the box, bags and trays before any dust gets on it. Iv'e done that with a few MISB sets and this is the way I enjoy them most. I deffinately would not sell it though.

This is great, well done.

It looks to me like those dark grey axles on the front wheels of the tractor are the new 4 long with stop axle. Thankyou Mortymore for the pictures, nice one!

That is a very good point, looks like i'm just gonna have to visit bricklink a buy more pumps I have seen that done. I might try it but the purist inside me says no ya crazy fool, that's cheating

That would be very cool. I can't think of many MOCs that use only one pump, they all seem to use about 4! I was thinking of something like making the pump body half a stud longer to make it easier to mount and perhaps making it 2 studs diameter instead of one (effectively increasing the pumping volume 4 fold which would be the same as having 4 motor pumps). Even better would be some kind of rotary pump (like a vien pump) that would fit right onto the front of the medium motor and has a through hole like the fiber optic light brick. However I can see that being too costly for lego to produce and probably not very efficient at PF motor speeds either. Would it even work at the very low output of either PF motor? Ok forget I mentioned it Oh wait but then if they realeased an L motor (similar power and speed as the buggy motor but in a PF format)

It would probably be easiest for them to just include a motor pump in the set. I am really exited by this, this set is deffinately a must have! BTW does anyone else hear think that the small motor pump is in need of a revamp/upgrade for 2010 enableing the motor to generare more air pressure much more rapidly?