[MOC] Dome Car for 60197

[BrickMusher]

Hello Everyone,

its some days ago since I last presented a new MOC. And unfortunately I was also not able to participate to this years Octraintober due to some very sad things around me. But I will show up soon with the nearly finished model I created for that contest.

But for now, I proudly present my Add On for the new passenger train 60197. It is a Dome Car, following the tradition of the legendary 4547.

As always, you are very welcome to have a look to my flickr-page for more pictures!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/156473872@N02/

Lego® 60197 Dome Car by Brick Musher, auf Flickr

 

Lego® 60197 Dome Car by Brick Musher, auf Flickr

 

Hope you enjoy.

Kind regards

 

Brick Musher

[Roadmonkeytj]

It looks slick but wonder if it will short out on the (low) electric lines lol

[sed6]

Very nicely done! 

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Very well made and nice building technique!

[Chilis]

Awesome job! Great use of the roof windows!

[Cylo]

Very nice! it looks really sleek!

[Laura Beinbrech]

Nicely done!  Very elegant design.  Just curious as to what for track you have the train & car sitting on?  It definitely isn't LEGO, but it appears to be compatible with standard LEGO train wheel bases.

[Winchester]

I need those train fronts in LDD... :)

Very nice dome car, I wish they'd sell the cars separately though. 

[AE bricks]

On 11/6/2018 at 10:07 PM, BrickMusher said:

But for now, I proudly present my Add On for the new passenger train 60197. It is a Dome Car, following the tradition of the legendary 4547.

Great work BrickMusher, I like how you got the orange roofparts aligned properly. I had some trouble with mine and had to put in some more dark blue bricks to cover the transition to the panoramic roof ...

I used a dark blue double concave brick (3046b)

On the plus side it does make it kinda modular this way:

Greets AE

 

[Laura Beinbrech]

@AE bricks I was actually thinking about using pretty much the same technique as you for when I got around to making a dome car for one of my standard-gauge passenger trains.  I'm glad to see that it does do the job fairly well.

[BrickMusher]

 

Hello again,

Thank you for all your kind words. My intention was indeed to create a design that fits very "smooth" into the existing train.

@Chilis Tusen takk, but the usage of that windscreen is not my own idea. @frogstudio used this part for his 60051 DomeCar about three years ago

 

 

@Laura Takayama You are halfway right about the train track. The sleepers are original Lego-Parts, but the rail itself is a non-lego, full-metal part. It fits perfect with the original tracks, I can bend large curves on my own, and it is electrically conductiv, so I can use 9V Motors. I am planing to show you how it works in a seperate thread, but still need some more time to pepare everything. So please be patient ;-)

 

@AE bricks The lack of the double concave brick created some headache to me also. I finally solved that issue with theese parts: