-DoNe-

Mines of Moria. An iconic place in cinema history. The Lego designers sure had their work cut out for them when given the task to represent it in Lego. Overall I think they managed great. There was however one design choice which I wlays felt took away from the feeling of being in a cave; the fact that the set was designed with four separate structures. The idea was most likely to aid in placement and playability as well as keeping the parts count within budget. In this "MOC" the plan was to create a more coherent and display-oriented take on the playset. Nothing have been taken away from it, I've just added a base for it to stand on and added a few more minifigures yet I find it to be quite effectful. This also spelled the end for my Mines of Moria MOC that had somewhat survived in one piece since 2013:

Thank you. I feel this goes to show how good these playsets were. Thanks a lot!

I will not hold it against you, classic pirates radiates nostalgia. Thank you! Thank you. It comes with some furniture, but still quite spartan. Eventually I would like to get my hands on a few 1x1 headlight bricks and jumper plates in brown for a few chest of drawers. That is however, an expensive venture.

Admiral Woodhouse is visiting one of his new outpost. To his dismay it appears that the designer took not just a little inspiration from Governor Broadside's Brig!

What an amazing Lego-interpretation! Instantly recognizable!

There are so many delightful little details here its hard to pick a favorite. However the use of the staircase piece for the roof is particularly wonderful!

Currently working on this German Class 01 Steam Locomotive. I’m going for an all-Lego approach so I’m limited to Legos large Train wheels, which definitely are to small to be completely accurate. However I believe it scales well enough. It has a powered up! L motor built in to the boiler and the batterybox will be situated in the tender. Criticism and thoughts are welcome!

It is done (pretty much at least)! https://flic.kr/p/2pAXRUj https://flic.kr/p/2pB5xQN

It works a charm and have a vintage feel to it. Go for it! Frontpaged? Quite the honor! Thank you for the kind words! It was just what I was going for. Then I've done my job.

Thanks! Haha yes indeed from brickstickershop.

A few more updates. I have cleaned up the details around the boiler (still got some pipes to add before it is complete). The cabin got a slight rework as well. With part #60592 being a placeholder until I can get my hands on a pair of #7026. A final touch which was added is the stickers for set #7750 (from Brickstickershop). Which added some welcomed contrasting color.

Thank you!

The cockpit-design is delightfully ingenius. I also really like the drill arm. Very well finished model all around!

Excellent model!

For a start I think it will be the plain variant. Mostly due to costs... Would you prefer to see some custom stickers in there to break it of? There have also been major updates done! As always the photo-quality is absolutely awful, but hopefully you'll get the idea. My current thoughts goes as follows: I want to add brakes between the drivers. Not only will it add some more detail but also give it slightly better proportions. I'm also considering making the cab 1 stud longer, yes/no? Furthermore the blast pipes/cylinders are, well, not so done. Other than that I think it's nearly done!

Pictures of the complete trainset in the comments! Here is my overhauled Hogwarts Express plus passenger car finished in Dark red and Pearl Gold! I’m very happy with how the model turned out, first time building a train MOC (or a train at all) in 10 years so it was a bit tricky at times but it ended up just as I wanted it. This is my first attempt at a 8-wide train and I must say it is a scale I much prefer. It makes the model look much better scaled to both minifigures and track. This scale also gives a lot more room for an interior on the passenger car, in this instance the car is fitted with compartments which I will show once the model is built in real bricks. I also want to point out it uses 100% and no stickers just available printed parts. Now to the fun part, ordering roughly $400 worth of parts.

Huge thanks for the tip! You can now find the studio.io file here: https://bricksafe.com/pages/-DoNe-/rock-raiders-mocs/train-mocs

I just got a mail from Bricklink that the design have been denied due to copyright infringement. Which doesn't make that much sense to me given that there are literally models called "Hogwarts Express" on Bricklink studio that are using printed parts saying Hogwarts Express. So don't know whats up with that. Don't really have any good sharing site, do you have any ideas?

I hear I hear. Not sure I oblige tho, as the slightly chubby look is growing on me. As fir the doors; you are both correct. However when I ordered the XL-drivers from BlueBrixx, wheels might not have been the only thing that made it into the shopping basket...

It's been 60 minutes so its time to present V2 of the passenger car... Apologies for the spam. Rounded corners on the bottom plate as well as plain green sides. I think will look the best with some additional stickers.

Went ahead and tried a new design for the coaches. Now based around affordability as I would like to build 2 or three of them. These aren't based on any real passenger cars, sadly. Two areas need improvements; first of the black base corners under the doors don't harmonize well with the roof. Secondly I'm not 100% satisfied with the reddish brown striping. Should I remove it completely or re-color it?

Just checked and it still says "Pending access approval". I thought that would be done by now. If it hasn't updated today we'll figure something else out!

Hello. I've sadly not had the time to fix it, its been quite bussy. I can upload the file to Bricklink studio, so you can access it. As I believe the file is to large for email. Thank you! I have XL- and M drivers at home, but for this build I wanted to keep it 100% Lego. On my latest build I utilize BlueBrixx XL-drivers for the locomotive (I have a thread with it here on Eurobricks: DB BR01).

I do like DBG myself, so I like to see it all in full detail when someone suggests a color.

I'll give it a try! The loco is now coming to life! I had a surprisingly large portion of the required parts at hand so I got quite far! Quite a bit of detail is lacking tho and the CMF-stands will not be used on the tender.