Author Archives: Mike Walsh

Layout Planning with BlueBrick

January 30, 2010 – 10:24 pm

I have been using TrackDraw for layout planning for years. My friend and former NCLTC member Cary Clark wrote TrackDraw and I authored many of the parts in the TrackDraw library so I had a vested interest in using it.  Compared to TrackDesigner, TrackDraw was a huge improvement particularly if you were planning a [...]

Posted in CAD, LEGOPalooza, NCLTC, Planning | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

Converting the Emerald Night to 9v

January 26, 2010 – 11:44 am

I built the Emerald Night a while ago and it has sat in the box down in my basement ever since.  It is a beautiful train although it really does need additional passenger cars.  A month ago when I had the e-mail dialog with my Dad about the Emerald Night, he asked me how it [...]

Posted in CAD, Instructions, LEGOPalooza, LUGNET, NCLUG | Tagged , , | Comments (15)

New Trains for 2010 but limitations persist

January 21, 2010 – 5:10 pm

New Trains!
When I first saw some links to the 2010 trains I was excited.  These would be the first trains to be based on the Power Functions and in my opinion, the first train sets to come from LEGO since the decision to drop the 9v line.  One could argue that there were two RC [...]

Posted in ILTCO, LEGO, LEGO Hobby Train, Odd and Ends, Shopping | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Cool background on the Emerald Night

January 21, 2010 – 3:14 pm

I am not sure how I missed then when it was posted, but I just saw the link today on Eurobricks  (which admittedly I don’t visit very often).

There is some pretty cool footage in the video and some insight into the LEGO Vault. There is also an brief view of the LEGO Hobby Train [...]

Posted in Caught My Eye, LEGO, LEGO Hobby Train | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

WITC display for January – Arrrggh! Pirates

January 8, 2010 – 1:07 pm

I was asked if I could put something together on short notice for the Window into the Community (aka WITC) for the Raleigh LEGO Store.  I have a lot of the things I use for NCLTC layouts in boxes in my basement but several of them that I’d like to use (e.g. my church or [...]

Posted in LEGO, MOC, NCLUG, Pirates, Shopping | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)