Selander

super cool and nice house !!!

So here's the problem: I wanted to re-create in Lego a Swedish famous electric locomotiv, namely the DA-class engine. The original engine has a small "lip" (or edge) along side its base, which covers the wheels just a little, so the ideal lego base would be a 6x24 train base plate in dark-red (or reddish-brown), which has the same kind of lip, when the wheel boogie is assembled under it. But, Unfortunately a dark-red train base plate is a not-existing combination.... After some creative thinking I found out that dark-red panels 1x2x1 mounted upside down, gives the same look and overall dimensions as a train base plate. So this is how the upside-down built baseplate looks: And this is the final result, a Swedish class DA engine. Please share your own solutions, for this kind of "problem" :

I like both, but I prefer the set from 2007, for two reasons: 1) The boat is much larger = meaning it has a much more realistic minifig-scale. 2) Containers are 6-wide. I could write a long novel about containers....but bottomline is that a container to my opinion shall be 6-wide. I have experimented a lot with various sizes and my favorite is 6 studs wide x 14 studs long, with approx 5-6 bricks height.

At this stage there are no doors on the blue engines, however it would be easy to modify them to have doors like the orange RC-4 engine.

Great entry in the competion, but I thought this was a complete set, hence for category 1 ? Nevertheless it has a very nice modern, sleek look. Good job !!!

I added a few more pictures of my locomotive. I think its easier to see all SNOT technics I applied on those pictures. Hope you enjoy

This competition sounds interesting. One thing I didn't get though....where do I send my picture/-s ?? -Do I just start a new topic and refer to the competition in the headline...? -Or, should pictures be sent by e-mail ? If so, to whom ? =Pls clearify. Thanks in advance.

While unloading coal from this 6-wide tan SCANIA R-class truck, one worker was seriously injured......(....e.g broken ABS...) Pls let me have your comments. and...yes...he is slowly recovering.......

I used a transparent, Lego item no 42445 to position the hat over the head, that way shading and colours get natural. As you suspected, after that it was easy to clone the near background in photoshop, to make the holder disappear....

I assume you mean the chrome silver tanks !(?) I concider them as quite unusual, and they were part of a Lego 4 Juniors, set 4652, which I bought two set of, just to get those tanks, back in 2003 ! Lego ref = 45408, I saw there were a few on BL. Size of them are rather 1,5 x 4 studs, so in between the two tanks I put 3 x 3701 (Technic brick 1x4) + over them some half-stud tiles to get the complete package in center of the 6-wide truck. Here are the two trucks that I have, with those special fuel tanks.

You bet ! fantastic buildings and details. I also agree with other comments, that the colour scheme is very "real and town-like". In many MOC buildings I think a common mistake is to have too much bright classic lego colours like yellow, red and blue, but you manage the balance in colours in an almost perfect way. Also, I might copy some of your nice roof and fasade solutions

Regarding the tan-red BR 103 engine, my colour scheme is rather exact to what it was in "real life". The white-brown BR 111 engine, existed in a similar but white-orange colour scheme (among several other colour schemes). Thanks for positive comments I intend to also upload pictures of my Swedish locomotives, from "SJ" =Swedish state railways, so you will have a chance to see even more european electric train MOCS

Perhaps my Post Truck could do you some service, for example to distribute all the parcels from lego shop@home which are on their way to eager Lego fans... http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3969438

Picture is taken in my home, bur I normally just make small sceanarios for photographing, so I don't have a large layout. The wite-brow engine, is a design by James Mathis, namely a German BR class 111, which in james version is white-orange, which in fact was a colour scheme that existed in real life. Mine got a white-brown colour, but is otherwise a quite correct copy to James model. And, yes I enjoy building several similar (or rather exact) designs but with different colours. I started with making copies of locomotives like 4564, and 4565. Later I discovered 10183 and made 3 different colours of the design I enjoyed mostly - which also happen to be a James Mathis design as it turned out. Lately I have tried to focus on making 6-wide replicas of locomotives from Sweden, like the famous RC-series and the older DA. Also, as in this post mu own MOC of BR 103. I am glad you enjoyed my models :-)

Here's a first try to post something on eurobricks. A Scania R-series truck, 6-wide, which makes things more challenging. Can you see any resemblance with the original truck or ? Pls post your comments, if any. For more pictures pls see brickshelf, user name = selander.