I thought that it might be nice to do something for the community to finish off 2008 (fixed thanks). So I’ve begun a project to develop a Western Train along with some instructions. You can find the instructions here or as an MPD.
I’ll be adding new posts when I complete new stock so check back regularly.
Hope you enjoy it and may 2009 be a great year.
Tim
We featured Brent Waller’s desert-camo Tumbler back in April, and now he’s released full instructions for the black version of his LEGO Batman Tumbler.
You can download the instructions from Brent’s site (4.5 MB PDF), or view the parts list and page-by-page instructions in HTML.
Several years ago, Jake McKee, the former “community guy” for The LEGO Company, created the Building Instructions Portal (currently unavailable).
Due to real-life priorities, Jake announced over the weekend on LUGNET that he’s looking for someone to whom he can hand over the reigns of the site.
Read all about it on LUGNET, but in particular Jake is looking for someone familar with Adobe ColdFusion. (I miss Allaire…)
EDIT: Jake clarifies:
I’m looking for someone interested in a solution, which may or may not be based on ColdFusion. Since the site AND the database need to be recreated from the ground up (because both were done by a foolish young code noob…me), language doesn’t really matter.
Ross Crawford announced today (well, technically tomorrow) that he has made queries to his LEGO Instructions Cross-reference database linkable using Web addresses.
For those of you unfamiliar with Ross’s ongoing project, The LEGO Company releases instructions for older sets on LEGO.com. However, the instruction code LEGO uses doesn’t necessarily match the set number you might be familiar with from the box or sites like Peeron and Brickset. Ross has painstakingly cross-referenced the LEGO instruction code with the set numbers.
So, head on over to Brickley’s Words and try out the instruction cross-reference tool:
http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29
Ever wanted to build a mecha of your own? Not satisfied with puzzling out building techniques from Brickshelf pictures? Wonder no more! Soren Roberts and Tim Gould have teamed up to announce step-by-step instructions for Soren’s RGM-79C GM mecha:
View the partslist and download the instructions (in PDF format).
(Okay, so I have some catching up to do… Credit to mumu for blogging this first.)
