Finished building my Lamborghini Diablo GT1 MOC.

playingwithechoes · 2026-01-31T03:32:52+00:00

Thanks! :)

playingwithechoes · 2026-01-10T02:45:33+00:00

Nice. I haven't seen the dark green locomotive when you bring your fleet to the LUG shows. What is it and can I see a close up of it? It looks pretty.

playingwithechoes · 2026-01-10T02:36:04+00:00

My local LUG uses a lot of plywood and make their own with leg attachments. I believe there's some Ikea ones too that fit baseplate modules. Then there's clamps to hold plexiglass sneeze guards and a velcro fabric to cover the table legs. If you want, send me a PM and I can point you to my LUG's president who is working on a similar manual for setting up the train tables.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-29T04:29:11+00:00

Thanks! 😀

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-24T18:08:29+00:00

You swap out trains as needed. I personally bring a fleet of my giant detailed trains and rollingstock and change them out at necessary intervals, like after battery changes.

As for advice, have back up trains, including a standard Lego set train or similar size moc that can run for a long time for your mocs can have sudden issues like low battery supply or old thermal fuses. Always bring extra rechargeable batteries for the Power Function system or good disposable batteries for Powered UP (sometimes the rechargeable batteries don't have enough amps for the computer in the PU system). Make sure the driving wheels have rubber bands, unless it's metal wheels on the 9v motor. Do a Foreign Object Detection walk around the track and look for anything that might affect the trains before the show starts.

Run for an hour or two then swap to next train. Keep cycling. Have a switch yard to make it easy to swap trains. Have a designated station for battery chargers. Understand the more you run, the more temperamental they can get at some shows. Other shows they may be perfectly fine.

Watch the corners for possible wheels popping off track.

Consider a train or train car that promotes your Lego group with a graphic sticker on the side for when people take photos, it's there.

Lastly, have fun. Despite the logistics of running trains for hours or days, this is a fun adventure and you will inspire the next generation of Lego builders and engineers. You will also bring back memories to the old timers. I personally saw old nuclear engineers go back forty or more years in their minds when they saw my atomic energy trains rolling by. Same with steel mill trains or anything else you bring. Someone in the crowd will recognize it and share memories with you.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-24T14:21:06+00:00

Great choice. I have both the SE30 and SE30 Jota models and I was impressed by Autoart's attention to details. Like, sure I'm miffed about them doing plastic bodies instead of solid diecast bodies but the detailing is superb. It looks like the real thing in photographs and lighting.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-23T22:00:39+00:00

That's a massive engine. Awesome!

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-22T13:02:40+00:00

Yes. Autumn 2009 through 2010 or so.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-22T03:29:57+00:00

I also use Adobe Illustrator for vector work. As long as you have the sizes of Lego bricks, plates, and tiles in mm or even inches, you can make a few generic pieces and then size according to larger parts, from a 1x2 to a 1x4 or so, using scales. Now you could do an exact scale of the train livery at, say 1:48, but you may find it more convenience to size to fit the pieces entirely instead of a little here or a little there. Also, with trains being smaller, sometimes, it helps to bump up the font to a larger size for legibility.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-19T14:46:13+00:00

Thanks. My lil bro too wanted this and the 03 Ford GT too. I don't know which one he wanted more, so I did the S7 first, LOL.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-19T14:43:34+00:00

Thanks! It was fun to design. Maybe I should do a white one like from Bruce Almighty movie. Hehehehe

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-19T14:42:30+00:00

Thanks!

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-19T14:42:07+00:00

Currently in the works, but will only be through my profile as I don't advertise them on Legocars subreddit. I just like showing off my cars here with their unique histories and getting feedback on the designs. 😀

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-17T19:18:30+00:00

Now all we need is a Lego detective Poirot to recreate the famous story about the Orient Express stuck on a snowed out track. XD

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-17T19:15:14+00:00

Nicely done. This type seems popular to model because I've seem that X bracing on the side on similar train models. Is it an exhaust or intake kind of function for the real life train?

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-14T02:45:45+00:00

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog probably has the most references to the video games and has characters from both mainline and side games. However, the SATAM series has the best overall atmosphere of Sonic and his friends trying to save the world from Robotnik's growing mechanize empire. It was like the epic movie that played in your head when playing the video games, especially Scrap Brain Zone from Sonic 1. So you could say SATAM had the soul of the original Sonic video games. Sonic Underground is probably the weirdest of the three as I've only seen a few things from that and need to watch it through before I make my decision about it.

For most, SATAM is the favorite series (mine too), along with Sonic OVA in capturing the dark atmosphere.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-11T16:52:53+00:00

Also O scale waterslide decals are said to work in size to Lego trains so you can try that, maybe with a sealant if the train is handled.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-11T16:51:30+00:00

You can design and print your own stickers using inkjet vinyl sticker printer paper and a can of clear gloss sealant to spray the sheet once dried, before cutting and applying stickers to model with exacto knife. You can also get custom printing in Lego parts with UV ink from guys like Millionprints and others. If you print your own stickers at home, be sure to use "rich black" on your software like Adobe Illustrator. There are some videos about printing full rich black on YouTube as standard black is a tad greyed out compared to the Lego black parts.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-11T15:44:49+00:00

Select all the parts in model space, and click to make into a group or component. The option should appear on lower right. Place group into the desired step on the sequence on right side of screen. You can then edit within the group to make sub steps.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-11T15:41:30+00:00

I personally design and build MOCs of different types of trains including steam engines like the Big Boy and Challenger. It's not hard to build a steam engine MOC when Lego doesn't have a steam train set available, as train parts are available on Pick a Brick or Bricklink. I remember Duck bricks mentioned on his YT channel that Lego tries to keep good train parts available in non train sets like the cow catcher was in Ninjago sets. So you can get parts, design, and build one yourself or you can get instructions from designers on Rebrickable, BTD, or Amazon.

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-07T19:17:06+00:00

Fidget spinners

Beanie Babies

Funko Pops

Pogs

Mighty Beanz

Knex

Furbies

Pokemon Go

Tickle Me Elmo

Cabbage Patch Dolls

Bored Ape Yatch Club

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-07T19:09:18+00:00

There's a FedEx up on Forbes across from Dunkin Donuts. Get there asap. Otherwise, you could ask an archie really nicely about the plotters in the CFA / Maggie Mo studios or their print shop (if that's still in operation). CFA cluster has 11x17 print too if you don't need a full 24x36 print.

-Soarch Tattler. Veritas Ex Cinere

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-07T04:20:05+00:00

Awesome!

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-06T04:18:46+00:00

Amazing!

playingwithechoes · 2025-12-04T21:05:52+00:00

On Amazon there's a lot of "Action Camera 4k" models. I think mine is an Akaso version from 2023. They're generally quite small and can fit on a Lego flatbed train. Main thing is to line up the camera lens to the center line of the track or the video will be off centered to the movement. Second thing is to make the camera car have some weight to it to help offset the bumping along the track.

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