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    Josh
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    Josh
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    #13019
    Greg Schubert
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    #13159
    Greg Schubert
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    These LEGO fans run their LGV so fast that they had to make giant banked turns. Its crazy fun to watch, especially from about 1:40 on.

    #13342
    Greg Schubert
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    #13354
    Josh
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    hahahahahahaha!!!! I missed that train video. THAT’S GREAT! both entertaining (especially at the 1:40 mark!) but also very great for a display. It’s so long and functional! I wonder if they just use regular 9V…and I wonder how they did the bank. So great.

    per the castle – the snot walls to make those windows are ridiculous!!

    #13985
    Greg Schubert
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    classic cinema

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    #14298
    Josh
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    we’ve got a lot of technic stuff in inventory, just saying…perhaps 2016 Q1 build challenge idea….

    #14320
    Matt Redfield
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    His clock is pretty rad, too:

    #14446
    Greg Schubert
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    #14532
    Greg Schubert
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    Expert LEGO builders at work, timelapse; inspiring. 🙂

    #14536
    Greg Schubert
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    #14581
    Josh
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    so many great layout points here. https://www.facebook.com/TheSpiritofProgress/photos/pb.328666813850864.-2207520000.1452007834./1011221095595429/?type=3&theater

    backing (wish it were brick built), using 12v track to do curves and hills, lots of organic topography. beautiful.

    #14717
    Greg Schubert
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    #14720
    Tim
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    backing (wish it were brick built)

    Backing is a pretty standard RR modeling device. For Lego train builds, I don’t really like it, especially non-brick built. That said, Greg’s Alpine Village backing was awesome and if we could put together that kind of brick built detailed backing, that could work well for our smaller displays (where we need to visually separate different sections* or displays against a wall (where the backing hides the wall).

    *This display does use a mountain and tunnel as one visual separator. Walter’s mech bay wall also served a similar visual function at November’s Greenberg’s display, separating the mech bay from the winter village area (but still connected by the monorail).

    #14727
    Greg Schubert
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    Greg’s Alpine Village

    Funny you should mention this, I was just wondering this morning how to get it back into circulation.

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    #14732
    Tim
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    We could use it for a backdrop for either the Winter Village area or the North Pole area. Did you use a program to generate building plans (like for mosaics) or did you just “wing it”?

    #14733
    Matt Redfield
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    “It took 12,288 LEGO studs to make this beautiful mosaic.”

    http://replygif.net/330

    Actually, as great as that is, it’s not good enough…all of these:

    http://replygif.net/t/nope

    #14853
    Greg Schubert
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    #22675
    Josh
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    Pennlug setting the bar again at brickfair. automated switches with NXT.

    #22677
    Greg Schubert
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    Glad you mentioned this, it reminded me that I spoke to Cale about this. They use a white mindstorms “intelligent brick” (NXT) to alternate the trolleys by powering the track for different time intervals. The NXT also controls a motor which mechanically changes the switch track inside a building near the track.

    The task of the NXT is to
    1. power the track for 10 seconds so one trolley runs to the other end
    2. turn the track power off for a certain amount time
    3. reenergize the track, but reverse the track polarity for 10 seconds so the trolley returns to the shed
    4. turn the track power off
    5. energize the motor to through the switch
    (only the side of the switch that is lined up will become energized)
    6. reenergize the track so the other trolley leaves

    With regards to running trains for weeks on end at a Christmas display, without supervision, (think PPG plaza,) their solution was to have a push button which powers the train for so many loops then shuts off. The train only runs for a short time when someone asks it to run.

    Pennlug setting the bar again at brickfair. automated switches with NXT.

    Running trolleys today on the PennLUG layout at BrickFair Virginia.

    Posted by Brick Model Railroader on Sunday, August 6, 2017

    #22969
    Greg Schubert
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    I love how this looks, how can we use the idea of illuminating from below?

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    #22979
    Matt Redfield
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    Ooh, I like the chains as terrain…

    how can we use the idea of illuminating from below?

    We’d better MILS everything. Then, we have something coming up from the sewers of our tahn…

    #23000
    Josh
    Keymaster

    #23006
    Greg Schubert
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    I heard him say that it cost him 1800 pounds, which is over $2300, but its still not big enough to ride!

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