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What is the best 9v train to start with? So far I have tons of PF and the old R/C trains and want to start somewhere. This is my first topic so might as well tell some things about myself. I'm a huge fan of LEGO (especially trains). And have made a few MOCs.
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Hello! this is the first MOC that I've made. It is a box car with the color scheme of red and black (because I made it with pieces from the Hobby Train 10183). Here it is: It is a bit longer than the hazardous waste car from set 3677: As you can see, I crammed a battery box, I/R receiver and lights which turns out to be a mess of wires. So it has a remote-controlled red light in the back that sadly, is not blinking like it is supposed to :(. I also put some detail into the railing and a brake "wheel": So, that concludes my first MOC! I'm open to any suggestions that anyone has to improve it!
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Finally I had a few hours ( 3 hours ) to put all the parts that I have to work. I build two ramps and built a little ring with two different levels, also added a x-cross to make stuff interesting and used the rest of tracks that I have. It took me one hour to build the pillars, three for the ramps and the layout and one hour more to get back everything inside the box :) What do you use to design your tracks before hand?
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Hello there. i'm fairly new to this site, so my sincere apologies if I posted this topic in a wrongful place. Now I'm also quite new to the whole modelling arena, but I got really interested in making lego mod trains after having messed around a bit with the lego set 10183, which really captivated my interest for the whole lego building thing of trains. (Sorry for my english as I'm belgian. haha) Anyhow. After having toyed around a bit with LDD I finally decided to make a Moc. train inspired by one of my favourite trains I see running around on our nation's railroads. the train I took my inspiration from is none-other then the NMBS AM66 or AM74. now, here you have the first two carriages, being the front and the uhmm.. front? The first class end.. end the 'cargo' end. Here's the train, it's not fully detailed or similar to the actual model but as I said, it's simply a mere 'inspirational' creation. The train is 8 blocks wide. This is the First class, front. with Lights above every exit, as a smallish detail. This is the Alternative Front end, simply a Bagage compartment, indicated by the wide 3 panel door. and a half carriage for the second class. This is the same Bagage front version in a Diagonal view, here you can see the absent drivers window. This is the middle cart, a simple non motorised carriage, on one side of the carriage you have a distinct window, that breaks formation. This would be the lavatory. This window is only present on one side of the train. Here you have the connection between each carriage. Yes, despite the limit area of clearance, they can turn. At least, that's what LDD showed me. I tried everything and the carriages are able to turn without interruption between each other, If LDD is correct XD As I said. I haven't got that much experience. but I really like how it looks! The rest of the pictures are to give you a complete idea of the train in it's totality. I actually plan on one day building a train from scratch with real bricks when I made a build that I love! I like this one a lot. but I will try to improve on it a lot. Perhaps try to model it realistically after the AM66/AM74. Anyhow all tips and tricks are welcome! And thank you for sharing this. Hello again. I've been working on a different project now, but similar in theme. I've been trying to make a lego copy of the train I used to inspire my previous creation. Here is what I have so far. Not that the wheel and lower front still have to be build. and that it will not have a magnet. but in between the carriages, yes. Ok. Even tho I'm happy with how the windows turned out. I kind of feel that the 'round-ness' of the train itself as seen on the real picture goes missing.. in my build. I do believe that the inspirational creation had more of a 'like-ness' to it's roundness, unlike the two fronts I have now. The roof however is still a work in progress. I simply can't seem to get the height and blocks right to give it a smooth continues feel. Any tips on this? Thank you. Thank you!
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Hello to all another replica of a Portuguese train , it is a suburban train passengers. Wide 7 , very long , each carriage has approximately 50 studs length. I tried to catch the most characteristic details , the cockpit has a lot of work , but I liked the result. unfortunately given the price of the windows and doors will not build bricks . this is also my farewell as builder trains will go on hiatus this " branch " indefinitely. The reason is that it is becoming too expensive to build train to my current financial capacity , another is lack of space at home to expose them , I have all trains boxed and only see the light of day when they go exhibitions . I've had 4 front pages and it gave me great motivation not to stop :) but at this point I have to slow down a bit , I will continue to build the smallest things , but I promise to always keep the same quality and style that always had . thank you all :) BIG Size image: http://farm8.staticf...733617dab_o.png
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Hello all, An image for you of a little multiple unit I built mostly because my children asked me to... Built with a lot of red bricks, I built her over Christmas and forgot to put a pic on here... Nothing inside - mostly because it was built in a hurry. D
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I have spent probably the best part of 150 hours on this MOC, it was very very challenging, especially when it came to concealing the PF. https://www.flickr.com/photos/118397526@N08/13023744304/
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Video: Space Train based on Futuron Monorail in a big spacey landscape
AlmightyArjen posted a topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Hi guys, A while ago I started to design a Space Train based on the Futuron Monorail. With the help of the Train Tech guys it has become a very nice thingie! Space train Space train Space train! Since not all of you sci-fi dudes hang around in Train Tech, I have opened this topic to make sure you won't miss it! Enjoy! If you're curious in the original design topic, have look here: http://www.eurobrick...opic=91438&st=0 -
My first piece of track. Here my first piece of embeded straight track project, it's printing!!!! :D Printed!!!
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[ full gallery] As everyone knows, lego curves are very tight, so one has to build short rolling stock to make it around the curves without problems. Unfortunately, even at 6 wide many passenger train cars built to scale should be 50+ studs long, e.g., my Superliner cars were built with accurate length to width proportions and they are 52 studs long. They look HORRIBLE in the curves, with a single car spanning a quarter turn- notice that the ends swing out almost six studs (a full car width) past the adjacent car in the pictures below. These long cars on the short curves also have so much drag that it is hard to find a good speed that the engine can pull through one curve that will not send the train speeding away on the straight track to derail at the next curve. <<regular lego curves Over the past few years several folks have promised wide radius curves and I've grown weary of waiting for someone to actually produce a viable curve. So I set out to build my own. I contemplated 3D printing, but it would be way too expensive. After several initial attempts, I settled on using third party ABS rail stock glued to lego tiles (yes, "glue" is a four letter word, but so is "lego," grin... in any event, this exercise is definitely not for the purist). The tricky issues are the fact that the lego gauge does not split well into LDU, and worse, making nice smooth curves. <<new custom curves My solution was to make a rail gauge to ensure that the rails have the correct spacing. I am still revising the design, but once I've finalized it, I plan to offer the rail gauges for sale. For my prototype there were several things I had to decide upon. I personally like the look of one stud ties, but they do not provide a good opportunity for a rail joint on a curve. So I decided to use two stud ties for now, mimicking the look of the old 4.5v rails. I also had to choose the curve radius. I wanted to go wide. Until I prove this works, I want to do only two track segments per quarter turn. So with these constraints and my rail stock the widest I could go was twice the radius of regular lego curves, and so that is what I chose for my prototypes. After I finish one loop of track, I'll experiment with other radii. In fact one could even do variable radius curves, but it would be more work to figure out the transitions, so that is something to play with in the future. The rails are darker than lego dark gray, that shouldn't be a problem if the entire loop is the same color. The straight track went fairly easy, with a single segment coming in at 76 studs (4 studs short of 5 regular lego track segments). The curves took a lot more time to get right, but I think I've got the process figured out now (I'll need to make another quarter turn before I know for sure). This shot shows one segment of the new curve next to four segments of lego curve. My 52 stud long cars work so much better on these wide radius curves. Aesthetically, I think the 52 stud long cars would look better on even larger radii curves (perhaps my next project). Meanwhile, I think the curves look about right for my 42 stud long cars, as shown below. before after More to come, but for now, you can find a few more examples of my progress thus far here (including a transition piece to adapt to conventional PF track- primarily for switches- which I have no intention of making... at least not any time soon). Oh, and if you scroll back up to the top image in this post, you'll see the middle tie on the curve sticks out one stud. That's because I grabbed a 2x2 plate instead of a 1x2 to connect the rails. Also, my carpet has a little give, so I had to put a plate underneath the joints too to keep the weight of the train from popping the rail joints. I hope that will not be the case when I set it up on a hard floor, and I'll keep you posted when I test it. Worst case is that I'll need to add a layer of plates below, in which case I'll disguise it like ballast and then I can go to single stud ties. [ full gallery]
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I'm wondering if I missed out on LR sales. In particular I'm looking for the Constitution, so any in-store sales that you know about? My TRU still has it at full price, but I wanted to check here before I just went ahead and grabbed it. Thanks.
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its a 7wide replica made in LDD rendering with POV-Ray more than 1900 bricks and lots of fun do it, hope you like it (the red/white strips made by a good friend on Photoshop)
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Hey guys! I got something I thought I'd show the community, since despite mainly being in the Heroica forum, I'm quite the avid Lego Train enthusiast, as well as an enthusiast of model trains in general. When I saw that Lego was releasing parts for a mermaid, in particular the legs, it got me thinking if I could use it somewhere on my layout. So, after a couple of months of ordering parts and a few design tweaks, I'm glad to present my take on an aquarium car! Here it is from the side! There's a bit of foliage inside to stimulate a water setting. Here it is from the back. It' the same on the other side. A view from the other side. Same as before. Fish out of water! You can make out the clear circle piece that the mermaid sit on to give somewhat of an illusion she's floating in water. So, what do you guys think?
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This is a Portuguese DMU Replica the only exists one of this DMU and its use only for rent. The Moc was one of the most challenging thing i haver did, the front have extreme SNOT technics i know some parts doesnt exist, but if i have chance to build this in real bricks i will try other solutions comments are welcome :)
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Hi Guys, I just wanted to share with you a project I am working on in my free time. The idea is to find a great use for the new WebGL capabilities found in most modern browsers (including mobile & tablet). I also want to get TLG interested at some point as an additional resource for the 'games' section of their website or as a stand alone project, much like Google's Build with Chrome. This is just a prototype for now but I am working on the interactivity and will soon turn it into a demo. The beauty of this project is that no plug-in's are required and the code is written entirely in Javascript. This means you should just be able to type in or click on a link (when complete) and dive straight in! I want to make this into a simple train sim game for kids (and fun big people) but it will also feature certain customisable features such as lay your own track and create your own trains (not models i'm afraid). I'll be working on this heavily over the summer this year but just wondered what you guys think or if you have any suggestions? Additionally, although this is a bit optimistic, I am looking for a programmer to help with the project as I am a mere designer, and quite frankly, it's a miracle I got this far! I will get the demo working by September however... maybe in time to include the new 2014 Lego City models! Update: Just to point out the project direction...
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Hi all, I have decided to share one of my more recent projects, of an Urban city train platform. It's a quite simply a train platform in a modern cityscape. I was quite happy with how it turned out, and would love some thoughts. It's the first City/Train MOC I've done before so I'm hoping I was at least somewhat original It's the first model I designed before building, so the architecture of the station isn't completely random. Without further adu, here are some pictures: Train Station 2 by LegomanNZ, on Flickr Train Station 3 by LegomanNZ, on Flickr Train Station 5 by LegomanNZ, on Flickr Train Station 7 by LegomanNZ, on Flickr And here is a link to the full flickr album Opinions, comments and criticism are all welcome. Sam
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Hello everyone, Years ago, I saw a 3D rendered image of a streamlined locomotive online. I built a model of it then, but I didn't do a very good job of modeling it. Complicating the matter is the fact that the locomotive seems to be fictional, so I only had one render of it to go on. After coming back from college I decided to see if I could do a better job of it. Here is the result: and here's the image I based it off of: Some details wound up being cartooned away. The fictional locomotive appears to be based in part on H45 024, a high-pressure variant of the DRG Class 45. Since there was only this one rendered image for reference, I had to extract out the proportions of the model by "reversing" the perspective of the image to figure out what the locomotive looks like from the side. The side view suggested an oddly short condensing tender; I may change that on a later revision. There are two things I enjoy a lot about this model. The first is the three linked flanged drivers, which prompts a lot of head-scratching when I point it out. The model does in fact drive through all switches and curves -- I'm using a variant of Ben's sprung wheel trick shown here. Essentially, the middle drivers are on sprung half-axles and retract inwards a little on curves. The second feature is the use of technic piston heads for buffers -- they're just the right size! It turns out that if you jam them over a 1x1 plate with horizontal clip they stick. Full gallery here. Thanks for looking -- let me know what you think.
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Since I started collecting again 3 years ago, space has gotten tight, really tight. I had been keeping everything LEGO at my parents house. Then on January 18/19 I decided to rent a van and move it downtown to my building, closer too my apartment, where I can store it in a more comfortable, spacious, location. Now their weight is better distributed. Used sets are now 4-5, instead of 6-8, similar goes for the newer sets. Unfortunately this will only be a temporary, as this ex-communications room they are in will most likely be renovated and rented later this year. When this happens, I will move it into another location in my building. It took a few friends and I around four hours and two trips in a 10' UHaul. The hardest part was getting everything out of the room, downstairs, and into the truck. Couple that with a four inch snowfall, covered windy roads, and potholes, and you had our saturday evening. We only used two ratchet-straps and some care placement to secure the opened set bins on the first trip. A tarp and blankets and short stacks to transport the new sets. After a 15 minute, 4 mile drive, everything arrived safe, with only a single lever/antenna falling off an old fireboat. Unloading was very fast thanks to a loading bay, some carts, and freight elevator. A straight shot to 2nd floor and an hour of stacking boxes and it was done. I figured I shoot the move, but wish I would have had pics of the weather that night. Serving double as a record if anything bad happened to these, as we all know how valuable some of these are. Next I will be photographing the contents of the storage bins, as much has changed since 2011. Plus, I've always liked those 'I Spy' books, and looking at a photo shooting down into those bins is very reminiscent IMO. So here is a move of an AFOL with a serious problem
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Hallo Lego Community! I'm a Lego 12V trainsystem fan and I will show you my special variants of Set 7735 and the steamtrain 7750: It's a hybrid from Set 7735 and 7755. A hybrid from Set 7819 and mailwaggon 7735 The second model from set 7750 with new wheels Here my video from the new Lego 7735 Diesel-Train:
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Well, I've been lurking on these forums for a while. Time for me to contribute. Since a few weeks, my daughter and me have had a (modest) train layout with a cargo train, a passenger train, three sets of switching tracks and a decent amount of track. Having been an avid lego builder in my younger years, I really love sharing this with her. Anyway, because we were both eager to add some excitement to the setup, I decided to sacrifice two straight pieces of PF track and make a track crossing (whoa, accidents!). How I did it: The first of the two straights was cut in three pieces by cutting out a track section one stud wide on the 6th position, on both sides. Next, the center piece of this chopped up straight was disposed of its side studs. The second straight was also butchered by removing its central 2x2 and both of its central 2x1 side studs. Four more studs were removed on its sides as can be seen on the image. In addition to that, four grooves were carved out of this second straight. Tools used: a sharp knife, a miniature circular saw blade (on a Dremel clone) and a miniature grinder on the same Dremel. No glue whatsoever. It took a while to do this (+- 1 hour). To help making the cuts on the right place, I sacrificed two of my old lego 8x1 flats: it is quite convenient to click one of these on the piece of track right where it needs to be cut. The sawblade can then glide along them. (Honestly, the sacrificed pieces already suffered a dog attack in the early nineties. So it's not really a big loss ) The result: Everything fitted together: And by means of some 2x2 plates (I should probably get some bluish grey ones ), all the parts are connected: The result was added it to our layout and I must say that this piece makes the track a whole lot more interesting when trying to drive two PF trains around. With all the crashes we have had so far, I must say it's a good thing we still have my old faithful eighties firefighter helicopter around. Note: I did not consider buying a 4519 since I can't really justify its ~25€ price tag (used) for my PF setup. And of course it was just a nice silly project I enjoyed doing .
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hello my friends this is my recent creation made on LDD and render with Pov Ray its a 7wide train:) its another portuguese Replica, The "presidential Train" full size image: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2860/12527833244_ba0c7ef1bf_o.png The project Presidential Tours - Tourist Travel Train in Historic Trains primarily aims at the conservation and restoration of the old Presidential Train - a special composition used by the Head of State and his Entourage between 1910 and 1970. In the year of the celebration of the Centenary of Tourism in Portugal, this emblematic train got back not only all its physical and functional capabilities, through a rigorous process of conservation and restoration, but also all its dignity as a patrimonial object of unique value. The key solution for a better understanding and interpretation of the Presidential Train was the full restoration of the six vehicles that comprides the Presidential Train, according to the look it would have on the 1970` s, wich is the last known image of the Presidential Train as such. In a unprecedent project in Portugal, the vehicles were recovered from the mechanical, technical and patrimonial point of view, in order to proceed with the reorganization of this special composition, according to its valences and historical-cultural values. Now its a long journey to make it in real bricks :)
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My first post was about the construction of my new train table. I left it with this vision of the layout. Here is the reality. As you can see, with the help of some flex track, I was able to make it pretty close to the blueprint. This is a fantasy layout meant to show off my collection. It is heavily influenced by the design of Disneyland in Anaheim. Separate "lands" that use colour among other things to distinguish them from one another. For better or for worse, I don't use base plates due to budgetary concerns. To help distinguish the areas or "lands" of my layout, I like to use coloured construction paper. The right hand corner has the mountain from my old layout. It's a cardboard strip frame with some grey mesh fabric and white cloth to suggest snow. I am not 100% happy with it but I really wanted a tunnel and past a certain point we need to move on to get it done. I am quite proud of the tunnel entrances though. Built using what I had on hand. The bridge was built using scrap wood and vinyl and spare bricks. It is a placeholder until I can bricklink something more realistic. One thing I have experimented with is using ballast as a border between the different areas and add some realism. The ballast is parcel paper with a colour photo of model train ballast printed on it. The next step: Populating the world. I will let you know how it goes.
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Exclusive 10233 Signed by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen and others
Tupolev posted a topic in LEGO Train Tech
Now you have a chance to the a one of a kind LEGO set. The money made from the sale goes to a LEGO friend who lost his job and could use a helping hand. You might know the seller Henrik Ludvigsen how has the World record for the longest LEGO train track. 10233 signed by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - owner of LEGO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp - CEO LEGO Jamie Berard - the designer of the set Jan Beyer - LEGO CEE Kim E. Thomsen - LEGO CEE Peter Søgaard - Country Manager LEGO Danmark Annette Sørensen - Project Manager LEGO World Svend Erik Saksun - LEGO ambassador Denmark Cecilie Fritzvold - LEGO ambassador Norway Rickard Rasmusson - LEGO ambassador Sweden *snip* -
For Sale: Lamborghini Gallardo, Hogwarts Express
MikroMan posted a topic in Buy, Sell, Trade and Finds
Need to shed some shelf space, so I'm selling cheaply: 2814 Lamborhini Gallardo Polizia - 80 EUR 4841 Hogwarts Express - 115 EUR Both boxes have traces of price stickers, but are otherwise intact. Contact me for shipping quotes. Payment by PayPal or IBAN. BL profile: http://www.bricklink.com/feedback.asp?u=tinesubic MikroMan -
I am just to embark on a new Power functions layout and would love to see all your home creations, setup and layouts
