JopieK
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well, if a set still exists and the stickers are damaged, LEGO will replace them AFAIK (customer services, LEGO has a very good customer services!!!), and if not, there are people like us (wife and I) that reproduce originals as close as possible.
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Very nice MOC indeed! Welcome to Eurobricks b.t.w., good first start ;)
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Next time, you can better ask a moderator / regulator to move the topic!
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Then it would be a robot shunter. The might have small windows, but some look like 'black boxes on rails':
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Does anyone know what happened to Locomotive Annie?
JopieK replied to Pizzareno's topic in LEGO Train Tech
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A shunter would indeed be a very good set. We haven't seen that in a while.
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I totally agree with Hrw-Amen!
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you use the very thin coper wire right?!
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For a shunter it looks quite nice Rail Co, but it would be better if you add more details. Also, unless the driver has a screen and a camera, it will be hard to see signals and everything else in front (and at the back) of the train :)
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there is a good site about this: www.floodland I'm not sure where to buy it in the US but I get most of my components from Mouser.com (US based) or an alternative would be Farnell/Element14. I have some experience with this and I used metallic wheels (custom made by a mechanical engineering colleague, now and then handy if you work at an engineering university). I found that it was difficult to maintain a stable contact with the rail: that is why one would use 'gold cap' capacitors. B.t.w. please don't add two posts from yourself directly under each other, but use the Edit button for it instead (I merged the two posts)!
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Really nice! Great contrast as well! Guess you even didn't need to destroy the grey city first ;)
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very interesting!
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Looks very nice Space Ranger 29!
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welcome to Train Tech Dutchdoughnut! What tool did you use?! Looks quite well! Very interesting, what printer do you have access to?
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And of course the ME Models tracks for 9V layouts!
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Hi RailCo, that is a question that is very hard to answer: first of all, since you don't say where you live we don't know what is local to you. I mean, in the Netherlands I would say A-Tembo as a normal store or Amazon.de as an online store (since they ship free or almost free to NL and taxes and prices of LEGO are better in Germany), but maybe you are in NZ or something like that. And for 9V, there are some people that do sell them, but a local marketplace is probably the best place to look.
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Here are some tips about motorizing Narrow Gauge LEGO trains: Link
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A student of mine (first grader in computer science) was also in that aircraft, together with a friend and his family. I didn't lecture him myself, but my direct colleagues did. Quite shocking indeed! Hope there comes eventually something good out of it and the losses will not be in vain, although it is still such a great misery for all people directly involved! Hope the people behind the misery in Ukraine and Russia will also learn a lot from it and make peace instead of fighting each other.
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it is possible and people are also using that! actually LEGO is also doing that in different sets like the large Gold Mine from two years ago, you could e.g. use jumper bricks to connect the two rails enough together to avoid derailments.
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Well, if you look at model railroads, there are famous brands like Märklin & Fleischmann that have excellent trains, there are also companies like Busch that sell entire lines of side structures. To name just a few: - car docks (to let cars on a train) - collieries - sanding and watering installations - pits for maintenance - engine sheds - signals - signal houses - rail road crossings (including automated ones) - catenary stuff - postal stations - cattle stations - etc. etc. LEGO used to have a lot of such a buildings from 1980 - 1990 but not anymore, only a few, often quite rudimentary structures in larger sets. @Heavy2600: b.t.w. welcome to Eurobricks in general and Train Tech in particular, why don't you also introduce yourself (see my signature -> New member)?!
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I will, but being an engineer I try to make a design to get things started (to get the mental process up and running), also that helps for the bricklink orders of course!
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very scalable indeed! looks very appropriate for an old train building too!
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that is great indeed!!! beautiful MOC b.t.w., I loved lifeboats as a child, having been to England once this reminds me of the Eastbourne lifeboat museum. The SNSM also has nice boats, but the British rule :)
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he is! but that doesn't explain the technique I'm afraid :(
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Very nice MOC indeed! would also be great for a 'normal' mining scene! Very inventive.