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Thanks for that, i had actually been looking at your model for inspiration. Very well made i must say

Brickowl is good for buying parts in UK. Ive used multiple sellers for many different parts and ive never had trouble with any order ive made. Even spent so much with a seller once i recieved a bonus bag of small parts, nothing major but a nice touch. Also, ive never had that happen with an order from Lego themselves, but i bought a V1 receiver from brickowl once for less than the price they were being sold on Lego.com, purely because of the fact it had been used, but was in good condition. Looking around is best way to find good deals. On brickowl, Brickshop UK are reliable seller, as well as Creative Technic. They're the sellers i usually use.

I've started my shunter IRL and ive made a plank wagon/coal wagon. Its been made IRL minus the bogies and buffers so i made it in LDD to show you guys. Ill probably have enough done of the shunter worth showing you tommorow. Ive also worked out how im going to build my 'battery box' car, just debating whether to make it white or brown. My shunter will be yellow with black accents. Pretty much a smaller 4564 freight rail runner in terms of colours. Thanks for the help so far, and any suggestions for improvement of coal wagon is welcome, Joel

Yeah id have to buy motor. Ive done some building today and i think i can make an m-motor powered train

Very nice, i love the front splitter!

So make a custom m motor drive train maybe and hide m motor where engine would be on real shunter and have reciever in cab again? im comfortable making a technic drivetrain. Would the train motor still be too fast on low speeds with the speed variable pf remote? Ill try that later, thanks. may go with the ones with a 2x2 plate for the box car and use the 1x2 plate ones to add chain shackles to a flatbed car carrying some pipes that i can have as my second piece of rolling stock.

I'm going to start it tomorrow on ldd and do some prototyping of box car shaping with bricks tomorrow then if it will work. I'll try post some progress tomorrow night.

My first non-duplo set was a box of bricks my dad and i bought from the local toy store when i was really young, i even remember building with it all afternoon. Cant remember the set number or name off the top of my head and the instruction book is most probably at the bottom of my instruction box . It had an instruction book with some instructions for some models and some inspiration pages for other models. There was about 3 similar sets available at the time and this was the costruction site/boat one i believe? i ended up with all three to start my collection i think.

OMG AGENTSSSSS!!!! i loved this theme. I only ever got the agents truck but i built some more bad guy mocs to go with it. I havent got twitter to help with the hastag but you have my support as a forum member!

HI, i'm new on here, i'm mainly interested in Technic but ive been reading through this train section and its got me thinking about buying some train parts and using my existing pf parts to build some trains. I know id need a train motor, tracks, buffers and bogies/axles. 'Ive been looking into it and i have enough money to buy these parts and a few more, so i was thinking about building a small 0-4-0 diesel shunter (i would only be able to have a small loop as i don't have loads of space) and having the shunter house only the train motor and the reciever which would be in the cab. To house the battery box i would have it in some kind of small 2-axle vent van/box car which would always be behind the shunter and then i would be able to add other cars later on behind the shunter and the vent van/box car. Would this be an effective way to start off in lego trains? I don't really want to start with a single engine and no rolling stock that's all. Ive always been interested in trains since i was about 4 and with me living close to both Shildon and York (national railway museum, the Mallard and Flying Scotsman have always wowed me. I got to see the Flying Scotsman run last year btw) in the UK. I used to have a small hornby layout aswell which was mainly just small shunters so i kind of want to make it larger and more personal to me by building my own lego trains and having a lego version. Anyway, im open to other suggestions, Thanks in advance, Joel

I agree with that like

I think that colour within a vehicle chassis makes it more pleasing to look at IMO. The grey Gaz 66 i'm currently building has a mainly black chassis but i have used yellow half bushes wherever i can on the axles. Makes it look a hell of a lot better from underneath

Taking shape nicely, guessing the white flex axles represent the glass for the windscreen?

Anyone know if a wacker neuson/kramer allrad 1150 lrc has been built before? Considering one as a full manual model (no PF) in approx 1:17 scale.

Have you considered the Sopwith Camel at all grum, i bought it when it came out. Beautiful model and the string rigging that makes all of the flaps work via the joystick is brilliant IMO. Collects dust easily though if you're going to display it.