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Awesome indeed. I'm defo going to build one, but I'll see if I can find a German prototype lookalike. Thanks for sharing the instructions.

Some European cities including some in Germany have Low Emission Zones. I recently drove through France, Belgium and Netherlands to Germany. You can apply for permits in advance online. I know Ghent, Brussels, Eindoven and Berlin have such zones. Most are free if you have a low emission petrol car, electric or hybrid but Berlin charged a small admin fee for a windscreen sticker. I'm not sure as my German is limited but I think the Berlin one is good for all Germany. Maybe someone local can verify.

If you can collect the all the parts for the sets, ideally with box and instructions, you could sell those on ebay. With their global shipping program the world is your secondary market. The rest you may have to sell by weight. I recently did this with 6 crates of vintage lego pieces. Although I am in the UK some of my buyers were in Europe and North America. It was quite a satisfying activity, avoided unnecessary landfill and made me a few dollars.

This must be documented somewhere but I can't find it after 30 minutes of searching, so apologies if the answer already exists. Is there a mapping of colour numbers / names used by LDD to those used by BrickLink? For example LDD calls something 194 Medium Stone Grey but BrickLink calls it Light Bluish Grey. LDD 154 New Dark Red is just Dark Red in Bricklink. LDD 371 Warm Tan maps to what in Bricklink? Tan or Dark Tan? You get my point I hope. Having designed some models in LDD I would like to order the parts on BrickLink. I am aware there is an "Upload" facility to read an LDD .lxf file which does the mapping but I have some problems with that which I am about to put in another topic. Thanks for your understanding. EDIT: I just found a colour chart on BrickLink which, assuming LDD uses the official Lego colour numbers, seems to provide the mapping. https://www.ryanhowerter.net/colors.php

Thanks for the tip on using SKU / ID number @Berthil LDD is dead as far as TLG is concerned but it continues to work well (under Windows 10) and as long as new parts are being added I am very happy with it. I guess at some point I may have to migrate to Stud.io but I'm putting off that date as long as possible! :-)

That's pretty amazing for your first print! An hour to print seems about right, maybe a bit longer than I would have expected. Is that with PLA? Your printer can handle ABS but I've never tried it. The default nozzle size of the default print head (0.4mm) has been good enough for all my printing so far. You can get a 0.3mm / 240 C print head if you think you need one. The slicer settings are probably more important to get the print resolution you need, but the defaults of the FlashPrint slicer seem to do a good job - I just turn off the the raft and leave the rest. Sometimes I turn Ironing on (Advanced Settings) to get a better flat finish on the top layer. If you plan to do a lot of printing you will need a replacement print head at some point.

I can thoroughly recommend Flashforge Adventurer as an introductory printer. I got a Adventurer 3 Lite as my first printer. Enclosed print space, heated bed, excellent support, very good slicing software, works out of the box. Currently under £200 on Amazon. For 3D design I use Tinkercad which is free to use web based software.

100% agree with this video. Some of the previous comments on this model have been let's say unduly negative and disappointing. Personally I'm looking forward to the release.

Wonderful model. If that's just 7wide you've worked miracles, if it's only 6 wide you're a magician! I love the way you've hidden the wheels. Are there just the two bogies for the whole unit? Great work.

Lots of detail in 6-wide. The grain cars with the grain store loots great. Thanks for sharing.

Very good end result. Thanks for the explanations behind your eventual designs. Have you uploaded your LDD designs somewhere?

Excellent rendition and a remarkable amount of detail in 6-wide. Good job!

Both 88005 and 88012 are back on the menu and showing as available on en-gb site so all is well. For some reason the Technic Hub is marked as "New.

Love the way you have done the livery and numbers in bricks. I don't like using stickers so I'll be using some of your ideas! Thanks for posting and sharing stud.io files.

Very good indeed and as you say an unusual source of prototype. Thanks for posting. Do you have details of the swinging cab frame? That could be useful for other long steam locos.

What an achievement. Well done, and good luck with this year's Brick Awards.

That must be one heck of a 3D printer! Fantastic result. I have a non-Lego 5" gauge ride on railway and it is great fun for kids of all ages. To combine that with Lego then... wow.

Excellent rendition of the prototype. Thanks for sharing.

Very very good. You've really captured the essence of these narrow gauge locos. The rollwagen and truck are equally good. If you have some photos of the prototype you can see they were sometimes dwarfed by the standard gauge trucks on the rollwagons, particularly coal hoppers. Is this to be a "shelf queen" or will it get some run time?

A beautiful model with an astonishing amount of detail. Conside that a job well done! :-)

Wasn't sure whether to start a new thread or add to this one, but as it is quite recent I chose the latter. I got this set #76423 "for my grandson" and we enjoyed making it together. He wanted it motorised. I have a Circuits Cube but I thought I'd see if I could use the more conventional Lego Train Motor and Smart Hub. There's no room for either of these in the loco but the motor fits nicely under the tender and plenty of room for the hub in the first carriage. The second picture shows the motor under the tender. This way around the motor is going "backwards" which you have to remember when using the handset - the cable is long enough to have put it the "right" way round. The third picture shows the carriage with the hub inside. Plenty of slack in the cable. The green thing is "the world's smallest Bluetooth speaker" an i-Star 79268 which is a 4 ohm 2 W speaker smaller than 4 studs square and 3 bricks deep. It is linked to the tablet with the Powered UP app so the sounds come from the train not the tablet. With more time I could have made a better job of the tender, like adding a row of dark red tiles under the tender sides to match the 6x8 plate that was removed, but it shows in principle that this approach will work. The tender needs more weight as there is quite a bit of wheel slip if you start on a bend, but there is no trouble pushing the loco through R40 points and S bends. Short video below:

Brilliant. A superb piece of engineering. And the video quality was just fine. Thanks.

I have started building a motor block with battery and hub inside my 4-wide RhB Ge 2/4 shown earlier. I needed to rebuild my prototype motor block to be one stud longer. So far I have used 4262 Technic, Plate 1 x 6 with Toothed Ends to hold the drive wheels in place but I have since tried 32063 Technic, Liftarm Thin 1 x 6 which gives a much stronger connection. I may have to switch to 5L Technic axle as the wheels keep coming free from the Technic Plates / Liftarms. The whole body rests on a 2 x 4 plate between the two motors (circled in yellow). I will have to rebuild the entire body to fit around the motors and Circuit Cube hub/battery box. At the moment the hub/battery box is at one end of the loco, but to hide that behind tiles means I lose the door features, so I may have to move it between the motors, or lose one of the motors. I'm reluctant to lose a motor because that would mean only one powered axle, but to keep two motors with the cube in between I may have to move the drive axles another stud further apart. The pony trucks pivot on more Technic Liftarms held on place by the drive shaft from the motors. The loco as it stands runs around the test track nicely, but I haven't finished the motor train design yet.

I think we need a picture to pass judgement! :-)

Currently new offered for £21.99 + £2.89 postage for UK buyers, see here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233609481151 Even less if you buy more than one. RRP is £69.99. I have no connection with this seller. There are other sellers with similar prices. I bought one just to make sure and it is the genuine article, sealed bag, put batteries in, connected it to powered up app, it upgraded itself and then ready to go. I tested it with lights and train motor no problems. I think they are a bit big for a loco unless you build 8 or 10 wide, but for a ground mounted hub for light signals and point motors this is great value as it has 4 ports (and built in sensors).