jrathfon Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 (edited) Hello All, Finally after 3 years in the making I am presenting my first MOC. I wanted to start out with something easy and something local. This is obviously based off of Shup's great E7 NYC set, and shup helped a lot with some details a few years ago including the windshield design. I had a few tweaks of my own as I was trying to model this as close to 1:48 scale as possible. I hate doing decals, so this sat on my desk for 2 years gathering dust. Now she's all polished up and all that's left to do is decal her fully built sister! Without much further ado, some background and some pics: History of the L&N Spec drawing I went off of: And here's the MOC! All the photos. Edited January 7, 2017 by jrathfon Quote
Jeffinslaw Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Wow! Excellent job. Great attention to detail. How did you do your vents on the top? That's the part I'm struggling with on my Union Pacific E6. Vertical half plate offsets are my weakness. -Jeffinslaw Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Wow superb work! Livery, design, proportion ...all is very well done! Quote
Feuer Zug Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Great looking covered wagon. Lots of details in there. Quote
J_C Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Hi, how did you do the front windows? there is either some incredible SNOT trick or borderline miracle? anyway, train looks great! Quote
pirzyk Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 I too am I defeated in more window details! Very nice overall, love the color pallet. Quote
jrathfon Posted January 7, 2017 Author Posted January 7, 2017 Thanks guys! I originally had the stripes brick built, but the proportions were off up at the front of the cab with 3 yellow stripes, 6 red stripes and a plate of blue between, so I rebuilt the entire loco and resorted to pinstriping. I'll most more photos when both A units are complete! The windshield build details can be seen in shup's Century limited I linked in the first paragraph. It's super complicated, but I reached out to Shup and he helped me figure it out in the end. Although his solution is purist, I found the windows kept falling apart so I used a little double sided tape to increase "clutch power" of the glass into the 1x2 grills. Quote
M_slug357 Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Very cool solution for those cab windows! Quote
legoman666 Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Awesome. Love the decals and all the little details. Got a video of it running? Quote
CrispyBassist Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Wow, very nice build! I can see the inspiration you took from Shup, but also there are some noticeable differences in the locos as well. The two of these will look very nice together! Any plans for cars for them? Quote
dr_spock Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Very nice. Decals really bring it to life. Quote
jrathfon Posted January 8, 2017 Author Posted January 8, 2017 Thanks all! The decals are "O scale" waterslide decals from "Microscale Decals". I got mine off of ebay because they've been out of print for awhile. I am still playing with sealants for the waterslides as they are a little delicate right now. Currently used "micro sol" to get some of the air bubbles out. Might need to do clear acrylic (nail polish) to seal them. Shup definitely gets a lot of credit on this, especially with the windshield. I wanted to start easy on my first MOC, but bit off a lot with the decals and pinstriping. I have shaky hands so it's hard for me. Due to the availability of dark blue parts, I had to change up the top of the nose slope. This part didn't exist in dark blue when I started, apparently it does now! 6091 I chose these guys because my local Tennessee Central Railway Museum has two F7A's and an F7B in this livery they use to pull tourist trains: And Bowling Green has a restored L&N E8 #796: https://historicrailpark.com/the-story-of-the-e-8-engine/ I do have a full line of Pullman cars LDD modeled after the Bowling Green train seen here (a la a Hummingbord or Georgian): https://historicrailpark.com/the-ln-presidential-car/ This will have to wait a bit though. Got to decal the other E7A, then finish my narrow gauge tweetsie! Then I was also looking at modelling this Dixie 4-8-4!: http://www.ncstl.com/576/576today.htm Quote
Jeffinslaw Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 On 1/6/2017 at 8:58 PM, Jeffinslaw said: Wow! Excellent job. Great attention to detail. How did you do your vents on the top? That's the part I'm struggling with on my Union Pacific E6. Vertical half plate offsets are my weakness. -Jeffinslaw Looks like my question got lost up above. -Jeffinslaw Quote
jrathfon Posted January 9, 2017 Author Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) @Jeffinslaw I'll take some better pics in a few days of the top. Do you mean the 1x2 grille 61409? There is also SNOT for the two sets of 4 exhaust ports, mainly using headlight bricks underneath and part 3700 to hold the 1x1 round plates for the exhaust tips. It's essentially an 8x8 unit with headlight brick on headlight brick to get the right plate spacing for the 8 stud long 2x8 central SNOT portion. Hope that makes sense. I'll post pics later. Shup's got good detail pics in his E7 Century Limited album linked in my original post above. Edited January 9, 2017 by jrathfon Quote
Jeffinslaw Posted January 9, 2017 Posted January 9, 2017 50 minutes ago, jrathfon said: @Jeffinslaw I'll take some better pics in a few days of the top. Do you mean the 1x2 grille 61409? There is also SNOT for the two sets of 4 exhaust ports, mainly using headlight bricks underneath and part 3700 to hold the 1x1 round plates for the exhaust tips. It's essentially an 8x8 unit with headlight brick on headlight brick to get the right plate spacing for the 8 stud long 2x8 central SNOT portion. Hope that makes sense. I'll post pics later. Shup's got good detail pics in his E7 Century Limited album linked in my original post above. I was talking about the SNOT for the two sets of 4 exhaust ports. I just need to sit around and play with that in the real brick to get it to work I think. I'll go revisit Shup's album on flickr. Thanks! -Jeffinslaw Quote
jrathfon Posted January 9, 2017 Author Posted January 9, 2017 @Jeffinslaw Hey Jeff! These should help! The headlight bricks are sitting on a 4x8 plate with 1x2 jumper plates. So it goes substrate>jumper>headlight>headlight>1x1 plate>1x2 technic brick. Quote
Jeffinslaw Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 @jrathfon Appreciate it! I was able to figure it out shortly after I posted. Thank you! Roof Vent by Jeffinslaw, on Flickr -Jeffinslaw Quote
Shupp Posted January 11, 2017 Posted January 11, 2017 Really beautiful MOC! I'm glad I could help with the nose design and windows some. Fantastic job with the colors and striping too, especially since dark blue can be a tougher color to build with! Quote
KlodsBrik Posted January 11, 2017 Posted January 11, 2017 What a gorgeous locomotive. As mentioned, you have nailed the proportions and colors perfectly. Awesome build ! KlodsBrik. Quote
jrathfon Posted January 12, 2017 Author Posted January 12, 2017 17 hours ago, Shupp said: Really beautiful MOC! I'm glad I could help with the nose design and windows some. Fantastic job with the colors and striping too, especially since dark blue can be a tougher color to build with! Thank you Shupp!! That means a lot, as you set the mark on the E7 sets! Thank you for the help a few years ago! You definitely deserve a lot of the credit on this build. There were some tweaks for dark blue, but you solved many of the hurdles before me! Using the scale spec diagram up above was also super useful in terms of proportions, windows and vent layouts. If anybody is ever trying to do a scale build I highly recommend finding the engineering diagram! I'll take some better pictures when both units are decaled (water-slided them a few days ago, just have striping left), with better lighting to highlight the tanks and trucks as well. Quote
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