Brickstone City (Roni)

[Brickstone_City]

Hi,

I would like to introduce myself, my name is Roni, living in Vienna. My main hobby actually is another - railway photography for more than 25 years (in railway online communities I am known as Roni ;-)). I had gifted all my childhood Lego bricks in early teenage years to my cousins from Sarajevo as they had fled from the war.
In 2020, I came across the topic again watching well-known Youtube channels, in September 2020 I finally could not resist: the Bluebrixx VT 11.5 TEE was my first brick set since the early 90s. A Lego Crocodile followed, and I collected parts for morningstrummer's Big Boy. I started designing my own vehicles and buildings right away.
I order parts via Bricklink or take them from sets - I'll take anything that fits, no matter from which company.

As a concept, I don't build fixed sceneries but create scenes to take photos of and then change everything. Some objects are kept permanently, some are being recycled. I built the first MOCs in Studio first, but don't do that anymore. I am a computer scientist by profession and did not want to spend my spare brick hobby time in front of the screen as well. If I do anything on the computer, it is a rough sketch to measure some dimensions. The models themselves are only being built spontaneously and by hand. This offers much more fun, you can optimize details for weeks - I can only recommend letting go of building instructions. It is potentially cheaper than constantly buying something new - although MOCs all in all are quite expensive, of course. However, once you have a basic supply of parts, it becomes easier. With other words: please don't ask for instructions - they simply don't exist. Of course, I will gladly show you anything and help where I can. I am also planning to show the most important objects from every theme here in detail over time.

Disclaimer: In first place I want to have fun with my hobby. Where I want, I put in the effort, try to build as close to the original as possible. Most of the stuff is not meant too seriously, with lots of obligatory puns included. :0)
My historic scenes are not meant to accurately depict the society of that era. I am open to all people of the world.
And finally: my hobby activities are 100% non-commercial. My Youtube channel is not monetized. There are too many restrictions for hardly any gains at all - I don't want that in my hobby.

Sceneries include:
Brickstone City 1957 (Recreation of Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the Big Boy)
Brick Fort 1980 (Indian Railways with steam, electric and eventually diesel engine - I like Indian Railways very much, have friends in India)
Brickenstein 1957 (transport of an Indian broad gauge steam engine from Vienna to Trieste port via Semmering Pass - actually happened)
Brickabest-Keleti Orient Express 1920 (Steam locomotives and carriages, terminal station influenced by Budapest-Keleti (Eastern Station) and other stations of that era, city and vehicles)
Schneebrickbahn (1:16 scale model of an Austrian Schneebergbahn rack railway steamer, working Technic rack loco)

I also built several MOCs of mostly Austrian ÖBB trains (5145 "Blue Lightning", 1042 and 1045 in reddish orange ;0)) and modified several commercial trains.

As mentioned, MOCs and themes will be presented here in detail over time.

 

Brickabest-Keleti station with BBÖ 310 and 30. Best friend of the scale model photographer: a small fog machine. Also using the real winter sun, no artificial lighting. :-)

View behind the scenes of Brickabest city centre on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbK52jtLaDE

For many, this is the most beautiful engine design of Austrian origin: Class 310. I changed the headlights since.

 

 

The first driving video of the complete Orient Express (some details have changed here since as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYcv2O1SfEY

 

As you can see, I am building big with large curves. Minimum radius for my larger models is the now widely available r104. Second hack to make brick-built railways run more smoothly: put a carpet under the tracks. I especially purchased some artificial lawn for that purpose.

 

I hardly built any cars until now, but I like those early vehicles ;-)

Yes, I just purchased the new "main station" (already 59,95€ from Müller in Austria), for the new pigeons! ;-P

 

 

 

Welcome to Brickstone City, my first building - consisting of 2200 profile bricks, 1500 light bluish grey, 700 medium nougat...

 

The Union Pacific streamliner bus and passenger train cars were my first vehicle MOCs. Also lots of self-produced stickers, nowadays I am making decals as well.

 

"The Wrangler" looks like it was taken out of a Lego city, but is a real building next to Cheyenne station.

The caboose is also my MOC.

 

Rack railway driving video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLnlHR0j8_I

 

 

Krauseltunnel on Semmering Pass.

 

I have changed the class 95 since, only large wheels were available back then. The scenery is real: https://www.irfca.org/gallery/Heritage/WienerLokomotivFabrikFloridsdorfAG/22_FK3875_95_106_Rh+33_IR_Reihe_WP_Bf_Breitenstein_Aug1957.jpg.html

Indian broad gauge steam engine on standard gauge rails.

A few winter scenes with commercial trains, the mountain in the background is a projection.

I try to light many locos, mostly using "fairy lights".

Indian electric WAP-1 and 8 coaches.

More soon :-)

Edited Wednesday at 09:21 AM by Brickstone_City

[SpacePolice89]

12 minutes ago, Brickstone_City said:

P.S. just noticed images are not included here like in any other forum... will try to work around it

Welcome to Eurobricks! You have to host the images on websites like Bricksafe or Flickr and then link them by clicking the "Other Media" button.

[Brickstone_City]

Hi,

Thanks a lot! :-)

Thanks, I have my own server for hosting. It is just unusual that this forum does not accept straight BB tags, as about any other forum does. At least I don't see any option for that...

But I managed to insert them one by one, future posts won't include that many pics anyway ;-)

[Yperio_Bricks]

Welcome to Eurobricks @Brickstone_City  Great to have you aboard!

Your Mocs and photography truely look amazing  Your use of fog and lightning is next level and creates some very atmospheric scenes! So good!

 

Edited Wednesday at 09:38 PM by Yperio_Bricks
typo

[Jack Sassy]

This be a lot to take in. Impressive shots of yer city. Everything looks splendid! Good work and welcome to Eurobricks! 

[Brickstone_City]

Thanks, guys! :-)

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

What an incredible collection of trains and huge stations!

The vintage photos with the fog and lights transmit energy vibes!

Fantastic!