zephyr1934 Posted May 15 Author Posted May 15 14 hours ago, Darkkostas25 said: Nice and lovely engine and "cargo". Engine caught me off guard, and I was even baffled by its design and wheel arrangement :D Nice addition to BDP! Dyakuyu! And that says a lot to throw you off guard, given your knack for building impressive locomotives of both realistic and imaginary types 7 hours ago, LL1982 said: Fun I voted for this one. Totally weird engine, but the combination of themes won me over. Great that you came up with this. Bedankt! Once I focused on the classic themes (or more precisely, the very first classic themes) I then turned to some of the best source material for inspiration, including the Legoland Idea Book and even set 1592, Town Square from 1980. Quote
zephyr1934 Posted May 15 Author Posted May 15 I have uploaded a video showing the prototype of the locomotive running, including crossing over a prototype of the bridge: Or Flickr Quote
rjr Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Big smile right now! What a fun little thing, I voted yesterdday, fingers crossed it get selected! Quote
zephyr1934 Posted May 16 Author Posted May 16 Thank you thank you thank you! And I hope so too, but there are some seriously cool builds in the selection. I just hope there will be more trains one way or another. The neat thing about the bridge is that it can add vertical elements to a layout without requiring a lot of bricks. I think I built this bridge for Brickworld 2013, where I used it to give an added layer of track above my train yard. It can easily cut across the short length of a table without being connected on either end to represent a track crossing a valley between unseen hills. Quote
zephyr1934 Posted May 18 Author Posted May 18 19 hours ago, Darkkostas25 said: I have a suggestion Oh !@#$%, I did not need to know that those things exist. I thought I was silly enough with my shorty cars inspired by Walther's OSCAR and PIKER. Now I feel obliged to go shorter. (EDIT: all of this is PIKER and shorty car discussion is with regard to the passenger cars seen in the prototype video, they are not part of the BDP11 train that is the central topic of this thread) Quote
LL1982 Posted May 18 Posted May 18 The old idea books are great for some out of the box stuff. I have been buying some online and the designs are so nice in it, makes you want to convert it all back to the old days. Quote
zephyr1934 Posted May 19 Author Posted May 19 23 hours ago, LL1982 said: The old idea books are great for some out of the box stuff. I have been buying some online and the designs are so nice in it, makes you want to convert it all back to the old days. Indeed, if you look through the idea books from the 60's and early 70's you will see some ingenious construction techniques for the limited palette, e.g., using the blue era curved rails as a monorail system. And of course there's the iconic 7777 trains idea book. Most of them can be viewed here: http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/psearch?query=idea+book&limit=none click on the "yes" in the far right column. Quote
LL1982 Posted May 23 Posted May 23 I got the 7777 in hard copy. Definitely a source of inspiration. Quote
zephyr1934 Posted May 25 Author Posted May 25 Only 14 hours left to cast your vote to support this creation on the Bricklink Designer Program 11 and potentially turn it into a real Lego set. Thank you everyone who supported this submission! Don't forget to tell your friends to support it too Quote
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