HoMa

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  1. HoMa
    Recently I've recorded young organ player Jakob Trenkle in our local church playing OST 'No Time For Caution' from Interstellar by Hans Zimmer. Then I added a few of my Classic Space photographs to the sound ... ... listen and watch and enjoy
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    Let's assume, I want to see all this. Let's further assume, I don't mind in which forum here on EB. Let's further assume, I prefer the train forum because this is the one I bookmarked. For sure: best regards from Holger
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    MISB 7750

    HoMa replied to Reker1000000's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    The real value of a MISB #7750 is not the price it is offered but the price someone is willing to pay or to set a bit. Keep an eye on the 6 months price guide about sold sets. Maybe this #7750 will show up or not. The price is ridiculous high, even someone with a good filled LEGO hobby purse might not pay such a price especially in times of prices for energy and food going though the ceiling. (Most polybags of mine #7750 are still sealed and no, I did not pay a four digit amount of money)
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    I can add the #7745 Super Train in #4558 Metroliner colours :-) ... and some monochrome versions #7720 Engine from 1980 #7822 Train Station from 1980
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    Question on 1980s train wheels

    HoMa replied to 156439DMU's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    As far as I know is the black pin the regular pin for black wheels and the red pin holds the red wheels, like in 7715. Some later sets like 7745 or 7813 and 7823 come up with red pins and black wheels. This might be caused by overproduction of red pins and the fact that the Grey Era ended with new sets in 1986. Maybe internally in Billund they end l were already working on new train wheels (which showed up in 1991 in the 9 V system). So there was no option to start production of black pins for a relative small number of sets produced back then. And they had the red ones left over. So they were used ... I got the container crane 7823 in sealed bags and it has black wheels with red pins. Holger
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    7777 sticker sheet

    HoMa replied to Reker1000000's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    I have never heard of a 7777 sticker sheet. The book only shows sets and MOCs of the creators of the book using regular stickers from sets from that time. On German eBay you find a lot of custom stickers in high quality, maybe someone also made a 7777 sticker. But I would say that a 7777 is customized using other 77xx stickers. Best regards Holger
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    MOC: Riviera Express with BR 10

    HoMa replied to Haddock51's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    @Haddock51 great to see some more trains in your excellent hobby room! Ah, the Riviera Express. I also build this train about 21 (!) years ago when I was new to the LEGO hobby. I needed some waggons for my first versions of my BR 10: Later I invented the "large curves" using straigt pieces of track with an off-set to get rid of the R40 radius, long before third party radii came to market: More old memories at Brickshelf (still alive): https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4451 and on my own homepage: https://holgermatthes.de/bricks/en/riviera-express.php ... again, great that @Haddock51 keeps this fantastic train alive! Best regards, Holger
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    @Railtobi welcome here to the world of LEGO trains at Eurobricks! And yes, you started here with a fantastic model of an iconic German steam engine!
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    @Paperinik77pk what a great new monster in your 12 V ++ line! Good to see that you concentrate on colors and elements from the first half of the 1980s and before. Two motors would be the minimum to move this locomotive around. The height is enormous, with those panthograghs it well not fit under the passenger bridge of #7822 ;-) BTW, can we filter Bricklink do it shows only parts/colors which were available in a certain year? And peeron.com is still online and might be a good resource to check old inventories and parts availability.
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    My contribution for this years Octrainber "Critters" is Vollert Robot DER 100 "Leonhard Weiss", a tiny little modern shunter engine I saw the other day in real live traveling from Stuttgart to Nürnberg in Germany. A quick google search brought me to www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de with some pictures and additional information about this a bit strange looking "thing" on rails. The shape looks a bit odd but it might be a challenge for a LEGO model, especially the dark grey triangle next to the front windows. But yes, not another KÖF, but something modern. And Circuitcubes Bluetooth controlled mini motors are waiting here to be used in a train MOC. The prototype was build by the German company Vollert. Vollert does offer a few shunting robots from very tiny to mid sized locomotives. The Robot DER 100 has a total length of 5,45 m and a total weight of approx. 44 tons. It has a pulling capacity of 2,400 tons. This robot is powered either electric (cable or battery) or diesel-electric. As option it can operate in explosive atmosphere environments, e.g. chemical plants. The version I saw is operated by the German construction and building company Leonhard Weiss which is well known in railway construction. The LEGO MOC also will be powered by battery electric but I will not pull 2,400 tons of rolling stock ;-) But it will (hopefully) offer enough space for at least 2 Curcuitcube mini motors to power the drive and as special function a decoupling unit. If this works, I will get a remote controlle shunter with a high play value. Attaching a small linear actuator directly to the motor seems to work. Now I need to squeeze in everything in the dark grey/yellow body of the Vollert Robot shunter. A few years ago I already integrated a decoupling unit powered with PF in a 12 Volt MOC engine. So I already have some knowledge to integrate LEGO set 7862 in a locomotive. Stay tuned for the further development of my LEGO version of the Vollert Robot DER 100 ...
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    I finally made a building instruction for my Vollert Robot DER 100 Critter. Free download at www.holgermatthes.de/bricks/en/vollert-robot.php (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
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    Upps, picking up an old thread. This gives me the chance to tell you about the Russian version of my book. I haven't heard of it for years and a google search finally proved that this version really exists: Source: https://eksmo.ru/book/bolshaya-kniga-poezdov-lego-ITD914123/ Due to a nice contact via Instagram to a LEGO fan from Russia and waiting a few weeks for shipping I was able to buy a copy for my collection. (The publishers were not able to send out a copy to the original author till today.) And from time to time I am asked about the blue engine on the cover image. Initially this picture was just taken to show the different width trains could be build: 6-wide, 7-wide and 8-wide. No Starch has just picked for the cover image, it was not mentioned to be the cover image. While taking a few shots of my recent project, I took out the blue engine and put it on track. The model was build back 20 years ago, 9 Volt, old-grey, 8-wide. Some blue bricks have faded or got yellowed, but a real 20-year-old locomotive also looks weatherded. ++ Source: https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11811… my brickshelf account still exists and I know my password :-)
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    OcTRAINber 2021 WiP: Köf II

    HoMa replied to Ts__'s topic in LEGO Train Tech

    Amazing, now the Köf II even comes with lights. Brilliant. Congratulations to your great little Critter!
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    Here we go ... the beast is on track an hard working to pull some extra long coaches from station #7822 to station #7822. To let it run without problems I had to do some modifications of the original design by @Paperinik77pk 2 red motors instead of 1 motor No ladder at the first motorised boggie New base plate at the front using a 2x6 Technic plate to allow the motor to be attached Replacement of macaroni bricks with 2x2 round brick at the third big wheel Remove the grey 1x4 plates underneath the baseplates to allow the wheels to articulate freely and I had to de-plug the lights cable from the motor because there is not enough space for the rear motor to articulate freely. The cable caused to much resistance and this caused derailments … and my Bricklink order with red minifigure heads with solid stud arrived :-)
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    Time for an update … my Vollert Robot DER 100 "Critter" is done :-) I was able to squeeze in both the blue Curcuitcubes Bluetooth hub and a 2x6 weight brick for more traction. The "Leonhard Weiss" and further other stickers are just self-made prints on a transparent foil – @Toastie nope, no tin-foil this time – as reference once again I used pictures from eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de. That site also shows the Vollert Robot at work moving container wagons around which came by train from Stuttgart to the handling terminal at Michelbach. In Stuttgart a huge train project – called Stuttgart 21 – is ongoing, they are converting the main station to a underground station. Endless kilometres of tunnel are dug and the excavation is transported by track and road to it's final destignation. picture by Udo Plischewski, original source eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de While browsing the internet I thought, my "Critter" needs some work to do … so I started to build a yellow container (the original one are from German company Schmitz Cargobull and they seems to be designed especially for the Stuttgart 21 excavation transport). And then I build the next one, and a third and finally a fourth. But the picture from the terminal shows even more: A Liebherr reachstacker which will pick-up the containers from the train. And then? Where will it bring the containers? YouTube knows the answer: So I build a yellow/white reachstacker (not with the bowed design of the main arm, but a similar design. And I found an old 6-wide truck ... hmm, to small for the 7-wide container. So I had to convert the truck to 7-wide and add a trailer which allows to carry one of the yellow containers. The little Critter project now ended up in a whole diorama with a terminal to exchange the Stuttgart 21 excavations from track to road. Here are some videos I shoot at this grey and cold November Saturday: The uncoupling mechanism was already proven in an early work-in-progress phase. Luckily it also works with all four container wagons: And finally some more sequences showing the unloading/loading process using the Liebherr reachstacker:
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    Another great little Critter!
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    OcTRAINber 2021 WiP: Köf II

    HoMa replied to Ts__'s topic in LEGO Train Tech

    ... time to show us the brick build version soon. Fantastic KöF MOC. Hopefully we can have a shunting party with your KöF and my Vollert Robot some day ...
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    I would say it's a mix of various aspects. The 1980's LEGO style is the LEGO period when I (and most of us) was a kid. A reason enough to glorify this time and the sets coming out back then ... Legoland town, 12V trains, Classic Space, Technic not to forget. We knew each pixel of inspiration books like 6000 and 7777 or 8888 ... and we never had all the pieces to build all this. But we had that dream ... One day I will build all this. So we became AFOLs, a huge LEGO room, a million bricks, sealed sets in the basement with a new dream of making a fortune one day with the Cafe Corner MISB. We are challenging each other with even better building techniques, incorporating the latest fancy elements featured on newelementery.com and pushing the border of SNOT using all available brackets and tiles and bricks with studs not only on the top. Sometimes even no 90° angle can be found on some MOCs ... But we are aiming for simplicity, unconsciously. And then this childhood dream comes back in mind. Ey, I could afford a second 7750 to get the elements for the huge 7777 steam engine I never could build. What about a third one, building the B models? And after so many breathtaking MOCs we ask ourselves: what the 7777 designers have done, we could do the same or better. So we jump on the time machine, filter our LEGO room in pre and post 1990 elements, take the old ones and take our experience and let the dream become reality. Back in the 1980's we showed our creations to parents, siblings and friends and received a handful of likes. Now we found soulmates online, worldwide and we receive more likes (the new currency for well-being?) ... even better we push the boundaries even further ... a virtual model by @Paperinik77pk as inspiration for a brick build version. That is what the LEGO train community is about. Great to be part of it! ... but now I really should finish my Octrainber Critter first before I go back to 12V++
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    @Paperinik77pk you gave me a great afternoon/evening converting your explosive image of the V 3210 into real bricks. Great fun and here the beast comes in real bricks. I've used three 12 V lights in total, on in the middle section giving a nice touch while illuminated. I have not 7760 stickers so I used some repro 7755 sticker I found in my sticker collection. Hmm, but no red head with solid stud in my collection. But Bricklink will deliver some the next days (less then 1 Euro per head is not to bad, if you compare this price with the price for black small windows. Most parts are original parts which existed back in the 1980s. For the structure next to the doors I've used the new type of jumper brics (and ran out of them on the other side of the loco). Maybe I try to rebuild the light grey radiators at the front and back of the loco this way (in light bluish grey) … what do you think? The most challenging part in reverse engineering this model were the cylinders on the front bogie. 1x1 round bricks are attached to a 1x1 plate with a ring, the lower ones are build in upside down to get the cylinders as close together as possible. So I ended up in a half stud gap on the red tiled surface. But I promise, I've just used 1x1 and 1x2 tiles and 1x2 jumpers, no other modern half-width or SNOT elements. I am really looking forward to the original solution @Paperinik77pk did use in his original design?! Again … a weird prototype which I never heard before. The weekend is not fare away, then I will set up a loop and give it a ride on 12 V rails. But now the night approaches at the quay …
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    Hi Davide, I've solved the cable issue a different way. But I need to check if it really works using the top outlet of the motor to connect the cable. And for better turning I modified the 3rd large wheel chassis a bit. Nice reverse challenge with the cylinders on the front boogie ... Now let's go hunting for the small black windows ...
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    @Paperinik77pk ... again, a wonderful MOC addition to the classic Grey Era scheme and the way would have build our MOCs a kids back in the 80's. Can you give me (us) a few numbers of the required rare elements? I see 3x large red wheels, 2x standard red wheels, 1x red 12 V motor, 4x black 2x2 windows, 4x black 1x2 windows if I get it right. Probably some red bogie plates from #7750? Anything else? I might loan some of those elements from other sets from my collection to give it a try in real bricks.
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    Circuit Cubes

    HoMa replied to jburgt's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    I've ordered 2x Bluetooth upgrade kit a few month ago. The boxes arrived super fast from US to Germany and I had no trouble with customs. This years Octrainber contest was for me the initial starting point to use Curcuit Cubes. And yes, they are tiny and overall great in building LEGO MOCs like small Critters. The Bluetooth kit comes with two of the transparent boxed motors which are used in the tank chassis shown in the video. I don't have the "pink" motor and other 4x4 electric devices which are available from Curcuit Cubes. Integrating the motors in a MOC is a lot of fun, they offer a lot of attachment points for it's size, e.g. hollow studs on top or Technic Pin holes on each side. For a compact axle configuration I had to cut a 2L Technic axle down to a 1.5L version (upps, sorry). The control app is not documented well, that's right. But you will get through it and find a way how to remote controll your motors. The latest update for iOS now offers a custom control panel where you can select two Bluetooth hubs and then select the outputs on the hubs (1A, 2A, 3A, 1B, 2B, 3B). The custom control panel only allows to add 5 controls (as far as I could figure out), so you could control 5 motors on 2 BT hubs at the same time. Unfortunatelly the app does not remember the outputs you've addressed to each control, so this has to be repeated each time you've connected the hubs. But I hope the development of the app will continue and bring more stability and more options. To play around, it works for me.
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    Well done Davide. Good job recreating this workhorse by so few dark images. Maybe a black 1x6 with light prisms was used as front light? Next challenge: what is standing behind the train on page 8? We can spot 3 yellow cones from the 7730 wagon. But it looks more like a stationary structure. And on page 11 we can spot a grey mudguard an a car wheel and a red slope behind the black locomotive. This seems to be the car shown on page 9 next to the transformer.
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    My 12v layout

    HoMa replied to Maarten Krol's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    Welcome to Eurobricks! Great that you had the opportunity to convert your living room into a LEGO 12 V train world. Huge layout and so many of the iconic locomotives, wagons and structures. The trains perform very well, e. g. 7740 pulling 5 coaches. Do you use two motors to pull such a long train? You should add a few streamers, 7777 style trains or build some own MOCs.
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    Octrainber 2021 and lots of coke

    HoMa replied to KvadratGnezdo's topic in LEGO Train Tech

    Heavy industrial stuff on rails :-) Does the waggon carry melted ABS for new LEGO bricks?