Odyssey

That's sweet. I've always been thinking about that real water thing (also back when I was planning a "normal" modell railroad - which never came to pass in the way I wanted it ;) ). I think the real challenge would be to make things water-tight. You'd either have to somehow glue parts to get them watertight or build the whole landscape (or at least the parts with water in them in a water-filled basin but high enough so they stand out of the water...

Well, you know in fact lime green was the original colour of the Emerald Night anyway, they just never cleaned it ;)

Actually - and that should probably be strange ;) - I really like it!

A very nice MOC you are workin on there! :) How about you use rounded slopes for the lower part of the front to better represent the rounded front maybe? If you make the roof one plate higher you could try using cheese slopes for the transition from the front to the roof. Or try one of those bigger sloped plates. Just some ideas...

So, I just uploaded the pictures of the finished full rake! I hope you like it as much as I do... And while we are at it: Happy Easter everybody!

Thanks a lot. I'll be uploading a few more pics soon :) Most of them, I designed myself in Photoshop based on photos of the original printings on the train. I made two A3-sized files and had them printed at a copy shop, one on transparent sheet and one on white sheet. The transparent decals are mostly used on the outside of the train (for labels etc.) and the ones with white background on the inside (for signs, displays etc.). The problem with this method is that it does not allow to use white colour in the decals (everything that's white in Photoshop becomes transparent when printed on transparent sheet) so the few white decals on the train are from stock Lego sets. That is a bit of a problem when building a train with a dark "paint scheme" like the railjet... I since learned from other Lego builders that if you need white decals, label printers are an option...

Well, I find this topic quite fascinating because it brings together two things I love - Lego trains and great design. When I took the photos of my Railjet Moc last week, I had a nice idea for a poster inspired by my Lego train. My goal was to design a stylish "advertisement" for my Lego train which would look great hanging at the walls in a modern-styled Lego train station. Admittedly, it's not Art Deco at all but rather in a futuristic design that fits to my Railjet MOC... Bigger version here PS: yes, the Railjet train service exists in reality and the travel times on the poster are the actual travel times from 2013 on but the poster and the design are purely my own work and don't have much in common with actual ads for the service.

So, some of you might remember my first MOC project to build a Lego version of the ÖBB Railjet highspeed train... Now, here are the photos of the finished full rake, consisting of a locomotive + economy class car + bistro car + premium class driving trailer: More photos in my Flickr photostream... Well, I hope you like it! PS: Is there a way to remove the "Coming soon:" from the thread title? I don't really want to open a new thread...

Wow, this is just brilliant! I already loved the first iterations of this concept you showed but I didn't think it'd be possible to make this even smaller - well, you have me stunned here! Keep up the amazing work!

Wow, I'd wish to be able to build a station like that sometime, especially in this classical European styling. But at the moment, that's sadly not an option...

Haha, nice idea, reminds me of that build of my own: Concerning putting it on rails: I think those small rail wheels don't fit onto the rails in LDD for some reason. It's probably a bug. They fit in reality though ;)

I really love it! :)

Having lived in Brussels for a short time, I very much like that scene. It really combines some of the architectural traits of the city. (You might want to add a faceless slap of concrete as a third building though ;) ) It's also very nice how you are using the model to tell a little story and breathe some life into the scene!

Really cute design :) the many small details (like the tipped can of colour, the images etc.) give it the feeling of real life. Just like a good painting ;)

Wow, just wow. It's so beautiful, especially with all the details on the outside. You really know your Lego :)

Being more into realistic space stuff myself as well I rellay like that thing. And there are lots of nice details and functions (like the detatching containers :) ) that make this quite amazing. Keep up the great work!

Now this look slike a great start! I can't wait to see the final result as well... You know, the front of the loco kinda reminds me of the lunar lander. If you stick some rocket engines underneath it, could it fly? ;)

I'd also second the MOC, MOD, MOCD, MODD proposal. I also interpreted MOD as MODification and have the impression many other people do as well. But then again I'm rather new to the community so others might think differently.

Oh, wait, I haven't yet commented on this? First of all, the whole display is just amazing and filled with nice little details (I don't want this to seem like I'm only critisising you...)! You might want to add one or two big flood lights to the display and a few lights on the roof or the sides of the train shed just in case your minifigs need to work a night shift to get a loco back to service... Also, I find that the area between the shed and the back wall/tunnel portals looks a bit crammed and quite dark with the new crane. Maybe if you removed the black side wall or made the crane span both tracks? I guess the depot is only for diesel or steam trains, right?

Unexpectedly enough I've received a few requests as to whether this modell would be available for sale or for download so others could order it over LDD. I'm surely not going to sell my MOC but I've therefore decided that I'll make the LDD files available on request. So, if you like to get a copy of the Railjet trainset, please don't hesitate to send me a PM... By the way: I expect a few brick orders in the next days and weeks so stay tuned for updates :-)

Well, I've been noticing since Wednesday or so that the buying process is having the hiccups. It keeps on telling me that I can't order my modell because certain parts (especially the train buffers but also the occasional grey plate for some reason) are unavailable. It doesn't do so when I click onto the Buy-button but only once I'm on lego.com. This could mean that they're already changing the inventory for LDD 4.0. But then again it doesn't necessarily need to mean anything, maybe the new trains are just selling unexpectedly well and they can't produce those parts fast enough... I hope the buffers are coming back, though, because I need them for my current project...

This is a sweet MOC. I love it if someone carries the architectual beauty of gothic churches over into Lego anyway but yours is outstanding. A frontpaging well deserved :)

Well, and you have one massively talented minifg here ;-)

The vehicles look really awesome. As they seem to have motors will the trains actually be running? From what you wrote, I suppose you won't make any more changes to the landscaping, right? Because I was thinking you may want to add supports for overhead lines for the track with electric loco, one or two floodlights (as train yards tend to operate 24h) and some random garbage, old locomotive parts etc. (at least in Germany, train yards always look rather run down)...

Wow, I'm flabbergasted. Designing and building a single nice cc-stlye building is hard enough but a whole quarter -