LTCSZ: Looking for assistance in finding parts, stickers for LEGO Railroad Passenger Car

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• Huw Brickset Towers, Hampshire, UKAdministrator Posts: 6,760

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  You should be able to buy most of them from private sellers at BrickLink.com or BrickOwl.com.
  
  It might be a job to find them, though, particularly at BrickLink, which has a steep learning curve for beginners.

  

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• Paperballpark Near ManchesterMember Posts: 3,929

  January 2014

  One tip to help you - when looking for your 'light grey' and 'dark grey' parts, choose the colours 'light bluish grey' and 'dark bluish grey' instead (certainly on Bricklink anyway. I don't know if Brickowl uses the same naming conventions). They are the 'new' shades of light and dark grey. Ordering the 'old' shades will be more expensive, as they haven't been produced for about 10 years now.

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• Paperballpark Near ManchesterMember Posts: 3,929

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Because I'm at a loose end this evening, I've spent 20 mins going through Bricklink and locating all of the items on your list.
  
  Obviously this assumes you want to buy them from Bricklink, which, as Huw said, can take a while to figure out how to use. Think of it as a bit like ebay, in that you buy items from different sellers. Obviously the less sellers you can use, the less you'll pay in postage. Once you've set up an account and have logged in, filter the lists I've linked to by continent or country (using the 'show more filter options' link at the top of the list).
  
  The thing to understand with Bricklink is that you can't pay immediately. Once you've checked out, the seller then has to send you an invoice before you can pay (usually requesting payment by sending money through paypal). You also won't get an absolute quote for postage costs until the seller sends you an invoice, although some sellers will tell you how much they charge by weight on their 'store terms' page. Some sellers also charge a small surcharge per order - it's worth checking their store terms. Finally, some sellers will have a minimum purchase limit, although it's pretty clear what that is on the listing page ('Min Buy: GBP 1.00' for example).
  
  Anyway, regarding your list, I've made two suggestions for substitutions, because the magnets/couplers/wheels on your list are either discontinued or rare, and therefore expensive.
  
  The list below is in the same order as your list:
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=280
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=6&itemID=280
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=280
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=348
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=6&itemID=232
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=91185
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=6&itemID=326
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=6&itemID=310
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=310
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=1445
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=1446
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=272
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=264
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=13&itemID=1351
  * http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=1603
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=5&itemID=68371
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=13&itemID=42404
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=659
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=376
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=369
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=709
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=709
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=428
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=417
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=987
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=82795
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=17084
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=84
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=798
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=85&itemID=94183 (I think)
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=95368
  * http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=769
  * http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=246
  *** http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=86&itemID=64880
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=1&itemID=62
  
  
  Notes:
  
  * I'd suggest you replace these three items with this (new version):
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=94181
  
  
  *** I'd suggest you replace this item with these:
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=65650
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=11&itemID=64731 (2 needed for each axle)
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?colorID=22&itemID=64732

  

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• dougts Oregon, USAMember Posts: 4,129

  January 2014

  wow, now that is community service!

  

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• lordzarak OH, United StatesMember Posts: 329

  January 2014

  I applaud you, good sir!

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• binaryeye USMember Posts: 1,734

  January 2014

  Paperballpark said:

  One tip to help you - when looking for your 'light grey' and 'dark grey' parts, choose the colours 'light bluish grey' and 'dark bluish grey' instead (certainly on Bricklink anyway. I don't know if Brickowl uses the same naming conventions). They are the 'new' shades of light and dark grey.

  Brick Owl uses a mix of official and unofficial color names. For example, it uses Tan and Dark Tan for Brick Yellow and Sand Yellow. For the light and dark bluish grays, it uses the official names; Medium Stone Gray and Dark Stone Gray.

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Thank you so much for a tremendous effort...I will go through the list and place the orders tonight...Great way to learn how to use Bricklink...I will report back on how it goes! Thanks again,
  
  Steve

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Is there a way on Bricklink to return to a default store instead of having to hunt through the lists to try to purchase as many items from a single store as possible? Thanks again...
  
  Steve

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• klatu003 Hobbiton, Shire, Middle EarthMember Posts: 723

  January 2014

  @Paperballpark - You have made me ashamed of all the time I have spent here on grousing threads **sneaks of to check on the latest at Legorado**

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• BrickDancer Dunes of TatooineMember Posts: 3,639

  January 2014

  ^^Yes but that will require that you first set up a want list of your desired parts. Then you can search for just those parts and the list can show which shops have the most of your needed parts. Here's a nice 7-page thread to help you get acquainted with Bricklink. And I think the 'want list' topic is somewhere in the last half.
  
  http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/784/ordering-from-bricklink/p1

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  I'm looking for a source of very small USA flag stickers that would fit on such things as airplane tails, vehicles, etc...Any advice appreciated...
  
  Steve

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  I have searched all over the net, but cannot find these parts...You guys took pity on me a few days ago...Can you help again?
  
  Slope Brick 45 2x6x2/3 Black
  Train Bogie Plate Black
  Train Coupling New Black
  Train Wheels RC Set 2 Black
  Train Door 1x5x4 Left with Red, White, Blue Stripes Pattern Light Gray
  Train Door 1x5x4 Right " " "
  Slope Brick 45 2x2 Double Concave Light Gray
  Train Door 1x4x5 Left with Red, White, Blue Stripes Pattern Light Gray
  Train Door 1x4x5 Right " " "
  Train Window 1x4x3 New Light Gray
  Glass for Train Window 1x4x3 Trans-White
  Brick 1x4 Lt Gray
  Brick 1x6 Lt Gray
  Brick 1x8 Lt Gray
  
  As I mentioned in my first post, my grandson and I are novices, so please have a little patience with us...(I did manage to find the majority of parts I needed!)
  Thanks again for your assistance...
  
  Steve and Benny

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• leemcg Member Posts: 607

  January 2014

  Are you anywhere near a LEGO store? 1x4 light bluish grey bricks have been on the PaB walls.

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Nope...I am about 350 miles from the nearest Lego Store...Probably a good thing: I'd probably be broke by now if I lived closer...

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• binaryeye USMember Posts: 1,734

  January 2014

  Slope Brick 45 2x6x2/3 Black
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=230&colorID=11
  
  Train Bogie Plate Black
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=95368&colorID=11
  
  Train Coupling New Black
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=246&colorID=11
  
  Train Wheels RC Set 2 Black
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=65650&colorID=11
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=64731&colorID=11
  
  Train Door 1x5x4 Left with Red, White, Blue Stripes Pattern Light Gray
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=3598&colorID=9
  
  Train Door 1x5x4 Right " " "
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=3597&colorID=9
  
  Slope Brick 45 2x2 Double Concave Light Gray
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=439&colorID=9
  
  Train Door 1x4x5 Left with Red, White, Blue Stripes Pattern Light Gray
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=812&colorID=9
  
  Train Door 1x4x5 Right " " "
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=819&colorID=9
  
  Train Window 1x4x3 New Light Gray
  It looks like these don't exist in Medium Stone Gray (i.e. new light gray), and all of these other parts are old light gray. Here's a link to the old light gray:
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=772&colorID=9
  
  Glass for Train Window 1x4x3 Trans-White
  Do you mean transparent clear?
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=773&colorID=12
  
  Brick 1x4 Lt Gray
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=326&colorID=9
  
  Brick 1x6 Lt Gray
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=316&colorID=9
  
  Brick 1x8 Lt Gray
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=310&colorID=9

  

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• madforLEGO Chicagoland USMember Posts: 9,933

  January 2014

  You can also check shop.lego.com in their pick a brick to see if any of those are there and price compare between LEGO and Bricklink.

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Binaryeye: Can't tell you how much i appreciate your efforts for us...How the heck do you find these on BrickLink? I searched every way I could think of...Thanks again for your kindness...
  
  Steve and Benny

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• Paperballpark Near ManchesterMember Posts: 3,929

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  @LTCSZ it's a combination of things - partly knowing how to navigate Bricklink (BL) and how to best search on there (the search function is... idiosyncratic), and partly being familiar with a wide range of parts and the different names for them.
  
  To find parts from the BL homepage, click 'buy', then 'parts', and then you'll be confronted with a huge and intimidating list of categories. However, once you start to realise how parts are categorised, it becomes easier to find them.
  
  For example, the 'brick 1x4' etc, because they're plain old bricks, they're in the 'bricks' category. If you have a plain brick with a bit sticking out of it, or a pattern carved in it, or modified like that in any way, it'll be in 'bricks, modified'.
  
  Likewise, slope bricks are in the 'slopes' category, wheels in the 'wheels' category, and so on. It's not all simple though - there's still parts that I have to find through other means.
  
  One thing to bear in mind is that you'll only ever use a fraction of the categories. Most of them are specialised or for strange discontinued parts (e.g. Modulex). My main ones are bricks, plates, tiles (and their modified and round counterpart categories), as well as a few others like slopes, cones, windows, bars etc.
  
  Once you've found the category you need, you'll be presented with a list of parts in that category. They're generally sorted by alphabetical order, but because of how they're named smaller parts are usually above larger parts, making it a bit easier to find what you want.
  
  Once you have found the part you want, look at the list of available colours. Beside each colour is a number, indicating how many are available (I think). Basically the higher the number the better your chance of getting it for a reasonable price. Click on the colour you want, and you'll go to the screen that we've been linking you to for your various parts :)

  

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Thanks for the tutorial...Guess it just takes some learning time...It does seem "idiosyncratic" as you say!
  
  Steve

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• graphite USMember Posts: 3,265

  January 2014

  If you can't find something under the categories using the "catalog" search with a couple of the descriptive terms works best. "1x2 plate" will bring up all of the plate types in 1x2 so the hinges, with fingers, etc all come up so that will narrow it down. The catalog search brings up the part entry, you then need to click on the part number for the one you want to get the colors it is available in. From the catalog page you can also do "Add to wanted list" so that you can try to find a store with everything you need.

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Hi Yet Again: I really have been trying to find this item and have used every description I can think of to search (Maybe one day I will catch on)...I need some form of USA flag...Maybe on a pole, whip antenna, stickers, etc...Any advice will be appreciated...
  
  Steve

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• Paperballpark Near ManchesterMember Posts: 3,929

  January 2014

  Try searching for 'American flag' or 'USA flag'. As an example of the oddities of the BL search function, 'America flag' turns up no results...

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• Paperballpark Near ManchesterMember Posts: 3,929

  January 2014

  Alternatively, you could use this or this (only one side of this is flat), then print an American flag onto a sticker if you're good at that kind of thing.

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• luckyruss UKMember Posts: 872

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  One of the old style flags on an antenna is http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3596pb04
  
  The other one I know of is a sticker from set #8679 on a 2x2 square flag part, but there aren't any for sale (stickered up) on bricklink http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2335pb087
  Otherwise you'd have to buy P 2335 and then a sticker sheet from set 8679 (would have other flags too!)

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• Legogeek Orange County, CaliforniaMember Posts: 711

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  As far as a flag.... You can probably find something at places like Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
  
  Or a train shop.... Walthers is a major supplier in the US - https://www.walthers.com

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Thanks for all of the advice...I am going with the flat flag "plate" and shrinking a larger USA flag, printing it on the Lego part and using that...
  
  Steve

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Here are my stickers in .png format by request...Thanks for the suggestion! I'm working on the next sheet of stickers...
  
  Steve

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  lego stickers 2.png 479.6K

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Here is the Starbucks logo in both jpg and png format...
  
  Steve

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

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• LTCSZ USAMember Posts: 81

  January 2014

  Here's another sheet of miscellaneous stickers (sheet 3) in both png and jpg format...Suggestions welcome...
  
  Steve

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