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Re: Parts for building from MOC instructions
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:16:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, patrick flaherty wrote:
> Hi,
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> My son (5) and myself and fairly new to the Lego world.
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> We've built from bunch of Lego kits, including some relatively complicated
> e.g. the Santa Fe locomotive. And are looking to expand our horizons.
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> I've discovered the following link:
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> http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions/offsite.cfm?linkID=851
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> It's got an MPD file; I'm familiar with MLCad (I'm a programmer); and I can (I
> believe) extract a parts list from this.
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> The parts list is of course quite long. I've bought handfuls of parts in the
> past from various vendors on www.bricklink.com and my experience is that very
> few of these independent vendors will have all parts.
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> So how best to collect (order) all the parts associated with the URL above?
> Best of all of course would be, for a fee, I send the parts list to some single
> party and they collect everything in the list and send me in effect a kit (I
> don't know if this is available and if it is it's doubtless not cheap).
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> Or are there any good tricks (comprehensive lego parts vendor search engines
> or software or some other kind) that will allow me to put together (in some
> optimized fashion so that I'm not contacting 50 differnet vendors) all the parts
> that I need to build the locomotive above?
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> Help appreciated.
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> pat
Unfortunatly Ross' suggestion is probably the nearest you are going to get to
what you would like. I have had the same problem with having to buy from
multiple sellers. I think it is a problem that occurs more with train building
than for example castle building as you tend to require small numbers of a large
variety of parts.
One thing to look out for with Briktrak is whether the partlist created from an
.mpd file actually contains the correct number of parts. If a submodel is used
multiple times in a model the parts list generator built into MLCad only lists
the parts once. I've not actually managed to get Briktrak to work so I don't
know if this is the case with it. (I've not tried very hard tho)#
Tim
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