(MOC) Metro Exodus - Aurora Steam Locomotive

[Hass Kabal]

Metro Exodus - Aurora Steam Locomotive 

Hello to everyone,
Metro Exodus, inspired by the novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky, is the first game to be fully established after the books, not between them or among them. Aurora is in the game, with the steam locomotive Lego design.

The Aurora (Russian: Аврора) is a heavily modified steam locomotive, boarded by Artyom and Anna to find a new home far to the East in Metro Exodus. It serves as a mobile base for the player. Yermak is the Aurora's helmsman, while Miller serves as its crew's leader.
The Aurora is a "duplex" locomotive, with two sets of driving wheels in what appears to be a 2-8-8-4 configuration, which means a forward pilot truck with two wheels, two sets of driving wheels with eight wheels each, and a rear trailing truck with four wheels. In Russian configuration, this would be a 1-4-4-2.
The locomotive may be a heavily modified Russian P38 articulated locomotive which were the biggest and heaviest Soviet steam locomotives in existence.
It might also be based on two Soviet IS20 locomotives (like IS20-317) combined into a single engine. Those were made from 1932 to 1942, and were used even all the way up until 1972. Most were scraped in the 1980's due to larger locomotives had taken there place on Soviet railroads. This is the first steam locomotive in the Metro series of games.
The locomotive that was converted into the Aurora could have been taken from one of several Moscow's railway museums, where some steam locomotives are preserved in a fairly good shape, despite their age.

Source: https://metrovideogame.fandom.com/wiki/Metro_Wiki 

specification:
6600 Parts
2-8-8-4 configuration wheels
Full Interiror design
Light bricks for engine room
Old Railway snow base
9 Minifigs

1-Artyom - The player character and protagonist of the game, returning from previous instalments of the series.
2-Colonel Miller - The Sparta Order's leader, commander of the Aurora
3-Anna - Artyom's wife and best sniper of the Ranger Order
4-Yermak - Helmsman of the Aurora as well as the driving force behind all of its mechanisms, he used to work as personnel in the Moscow Metro before the war.
5-Idiot - One of the smartest men aboard the train, he is considered its resident philosopher.
6-Tokarev - The weapons expert of the armoured train's crew, responsible for creating many of the Order's weapons and modifications
7-Stepan - Specialising in heavy weapons as one of the strongest fighters aboard the train, he is taller than all members of the Aurora's crew. Even though he may appear intimidating, Stepan is a hopeless romantic and always wants to help those in need.
8-Katya - A trained nurse who initially survived with her daughter in the Southern Urals, she moved north towards the Volga River. They were both captured by the Church of the Water Tsar and its leader Silantius.
9-Nastya - Katya's daughter, was captured by the Church of the Water Tsar along with her mother. Particularly hated Silantius as he smashed her flashlight in his technophobic zeal.

in-game dialogue:

Idiot: "How about Aurora? The Roman goddess of dawn and a cruiser of, uh, you know what...
Alyosha: "Not bad! I like it."
Yermak: "a beautiful name..."
Sam: "Sounds OK... but a cruiser of what?"
Alyosha:"I'll tell you later..."
Miller:"Looks like it's decided..."
Miller:"Lets drink to AURORA!!!"
TO THE AURORA!!!

 

for to high resolution photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hasskabal/albums/72157712735244367

Thanks Everyone,

hasskabal

Hasan Kabalak
 

Edited January 19, 2020 by Hass Kabal

[SteamSewnEmpire]

Wow, that's gigantic. I like the trailing truck a lot.

How do they get through tunnels without everyone dying?

[Hass Kabal]

48 minutes ago, SteamSewnEmpire said:

Wow, that's gigantic. I like the trailing truck a lot.

How do they get through tunnels without everyone dying?

haha good point. I dont know. he could easily pass through tunnels in the game :)

maybe they may have raised tunnels after the third world war. :P

[Toastie]

This is fantastic!

So many details ... there is so much to discover. Meter that are facing towards the engineer, all that piping with the meters, the beautiful "house" ... incredible. I like this kind of building very very much - it's the heart of LEGO. Will spend more time with your model.

(I believe you may have miscalculated the dimensions? Ate least width and height seem to be off).

Thank you very much for sharing!

All the best
Thorsten

 

[Hass Kabal]

4 minutes ago, Toastie said:

This is fantastic!

So many details ... there is so much to discover. Meter that are facing towards the engineer, all that piping with the meters, the beautiful "house" ... incredible. I like this kind of building very very much - it's the heart of LEGO. Will spend more time with your model.

(I believe you may have miscalculated the dimensions? Ate least width and height seem to be off).

Thank you very much for sharing!

All the best
Thorsten

 

Thank you Thorsten.

an imaginary locomotive that does not actually exist. In fact, if you look at it, one wheel size corresponds to the human size. :)

I was able to get so many scales with Lego.

[SteamSewnEmpire]

I'd really like to see you do the coach, too. 

Also, considering the work you've put in, have you considering making it able to run via some custom wheels, power sets, etc? Even just making it a static display where the wheels turned would be a really neat visual.

Edited January 19, 2020 by SteamSewnEmpire

[Hass Kabal]

Just now, SteamSewnEmpire said:

I'd really like to see you do the coach, too. 

Also, considering the work you've put in, have you considering making it able to run via some custom wheels, power sets, etc? 

Collecting 6600 pieces will take some time and money, but I will.
I designed UCS scale. For display purposes only, the Wheels do not rotate normally. I didn't need to make electrical stuff. There is no track to go anyway, like normal lego train sets ...

[zephyr1934]

That thing is insane, what is it 18 wide? Great detailing and a Tank Girl feel to it

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Huge and impressive locomotive, I like also the rails and the snow effect on the ballast