Union Pacific SD70ACe Heritage Fleet - 6 Locomotives!

[legoman666]

Hello all. I've been working on these for past several months. I built the first one last year and completed the remaining 5 just recently. I did all the vinyl stickers myself, and I take custom orders. I can print and cut on any color vinyl. Just shoot me an email to legomand666@gmail.com.

Anyway, here's the first one I did, the Missouri Pacific aka MoPac.

This one was a little tricky because it's powered and the rarity/lack of selection in medium blue. Custom steel wheels pick up 24V DC track power that charges an on-board 10F 24V super capacitor bank. Homemade bluetooth motor controller powers 2 PF L motors.

And the second was the Missouri Kansas Texas aka Katy. 

I regret that I had to resort to red vinyl to do the diagonal striping, but there was no other way to achieve the effect I wanted.

The third was the Rio Grande.

I debated whether or not to use bright light orange, bright light yellow, or yellow. Fortunately, my wife picked bright light orange (chima yellow), which turned out to be the perfect color. A few tricky bits as a result, no 1x2 grille tile, so I had to creative with the grilles on the rear of the body. Luckily, the ladder is available in bright light orange. Getting the mountain silhouettes to line up across "elevation" changes was difficult. I tried to precut everything perfect, but my mental model was wrong, so I had to do a little slicing and dicing.

Fourth, I built the Western Pacific. 

I just realized my photos were taken one BrickLink order prior to completion, but I think the only thing missing are 1x2 dark green grille tile. Anyway, getting the artwork for this one was the hardest part. I ended up downloading an addon pack for a train sim that I dont play, extracted the texture files from it, and vectorized them. It was a lot of work! Also, the 2 x 2 weird slopey piece I like to use for the angles on the nose is not available in dark green so I had to get creative with cheese slopes.

Fifth, I made the Chicago North Western, aka CNW. 

After using up all my own dark green tile and small plate to make the Western Pacific, I had to buy a bunch to build the CNW. I was glad that I was able to brick-build the dark green to yellow transition. It was kind of tricky to get all the snot to work out, but the result is good.

Lastly, I built the Southern Pacific.

I was dreading this build, I almost didn't bother with it because I thought the prototype was so ugly. But seeing as how I had already completed the previous 5, I decided to go through with it. I'm glad I did, as it had started to grow on me during construction. I tried brick-building the orange/black/red color transition on the front under the cab, but gave up and used a few small pieces of orange vinyl. Lego doesn't make any pieces to do the inverse of a curved slope. Those white pin stripes were a lot of work too. I printed/cut them with my printer pre-spaced, so all I had to do was lift up all 4 at once with transfer tape and put them on the model, but it was still very time consuming getting all the curved and angled bits right.

Anyway, that's all for today. Thanks for looking.

Edited August 13, 2017 by legoman666

[Stefaneris]

They are so nice I followed this project a bit on flickr, and now I can finally see them all together. Now go for the Norfolk Southern Heritage fleet

[brickostan]

Wow. Impressive work. Nice locomotives.

You run 24V on the tracks and use capacitors in the trains. Why?

edit:

I found earlier posts where you explained the 24V setup.

Edited August 13, 2017 by brickostan

[Jeffinslaw]

Excellent job on these. My favorite is the Rio unit. Bright light orange is an exact CMYK value match to the real world color they used.

-Jeffinslaw

[M_slug357]

((I didn't know that diesels rolled with the help of carbonation))

 

These look awesome! And, of course, those crisp decals make them all the more so!

[Nemo57]

Significant work. Liked absolutely all the locomotives. Very similar shape, beautiful coloring, stickers - very high quality.
Afflicts only one thing, vertical rails are a bit thick. But, as I understand, otherwise they can not be done.
Chic models.

[baard]

Very nice locomotives

I like the way you have made the stickers. Impressive!

Thanks for sharing

[legoman666]

6 hours ago, Nemo57 said:

Significant work. Liked absolutely all the locomotives. Very similar shape, beautiful coloring, stickers - very high quality.
Afflicts only one thing, vertical rails are a bit thick. But, as I understand, otherwise they can not be done.
Chic models.

Funnily enough, my friend and I were talking about that. I'm considering 3d printing a thinner piece. I guess I need to start drawing the model.... 

Thanks everyone! Very funny about my soda can bearings :P I considered printing a sticker that more closely resembled the real bearing, but decided to keep it as pure as possible.

[pirzyk]

Nice, really think that CNW should be on a certain layout....

 

[legoman666]

12 hours ago, pirzyk said:

Nice, really think that CNW should be on a certain layout....

 

Which could you possibly mean...

[dr_spock]

Very nice UP EMD family.    Did you get a printer that can print on vinyl?  

 

[legoman666]

42 minutes ago, dr_spock said:

Very nice UP EMD family.    Did you get a printer that can print on vinyl?  

 

Yes, can print and cut. Any color ink including white. Any color vinyl including clear. 

[Man with a hat]

That's quite an impressive collection. They are all looking really good.

[Feuer Zug]

Great collection of Union Pacific EMDs. Your attention to detail is excellent and I'd love to see these in real life.

[Asper]

Wonderful collection. Great work on the stickers!

[marbleman]

The color scheme and paint is beautiful.