Bricksonwheels

True. I never make instructions but still I get countless mails with one phrase only: "Hello - Send me instructions to this mailadress ..... " There are many that simply not appreciate the many hours that go into a good moc, and the concept that you should just give your instructions away for free I never understood. However I know a very few that make fair money from this. But that is only a handful, and you need to offer very good models and instructions. You would have to invest many hours in every moc/instruction to make a fair salary from this. And its not only time, but definitly also talent that sells.

It will be recorded at Legoworld, so will be to see end of October.

Thnx all Haha.. thats a matter of taste. The fact that they are chromed Fabuland buckets makes them quite unique :-)

Thnx all. Did some small mods to the drivetrain yesterday to make it run smoother,

Thnx all! This one has a normal receiver. SBrick and my Galaxy Tab 2 is a big struggle. I got the Big Boy locomotive running, but bought two new SBricks that both refuse to work on the exact same tablet. Connection trouble. I gave up after a while on those.

Most people know me as a truckbuilder, but it has been well over two years since I built my last one! So it was time to go oldschool again. On a lot of events our Dutch ensemble of Lego scale modelers always bring some remote controllable vehicles with us for demonstrations to the crowd. My models have been mostly static, so I decided to built some RC stuff myself. I started with the trains, and at last this truck now. After such a long time I had to built my favorite truck: a Peterbilt 379. Not too original, but thats what I wanted :-) I choose to combine it with a MAC tri-axle enddump trailer. The scale is 1:16. The tractor has a lot of retro-chromed bricks, but other than that all parts are standard Lego. The steering is achieved by the Power Functions Servo motor, and the rear axles are powered by two slightly geared-down Power Functions XL engines. A lot of power, especially as I wanted a true cardan to make it look real. But the thing runs smooth after some local reinforcements and its very strong. The trailer is heavily chromed and clocks over 500 chromed tiles to get the polished look some custom dumptrailers in reality have. It has a liftaxle and authentic tarp system with mesh. The trailer can be lifted as well. The total combination is 112 cm in length and weighs around 6 kg. The brickcount should be around 5000. Visit our group of Dutch scale modelers at Legoworld 2016, Utrecht, Netherlands. You can give this baby a testride!

Its a very original model, and good built. Its good to see motorcycles on the web made from Lego, as they are rare. The custom parts make it very realistic in apeal. One note though, meant positivly: I think your frame is too high. Looking at the original I think you trapped yourself in the spring length of the dampers. The original has the cylinderheads parallel, or even over the underside of the fueltank, according to your link. If you would use a shorter shockabsorber at the rear, and lower the front by a connector length it would be perfect. Keep them coming!

Fantastic work! Really outstanding detailling.

A great effort Paul! You did great on the show.

This is beautiful. You have really put a lot of time into detailling, and that paid off. Superb!

Thnx guys, I am glad the locomotive is so well received.

Thnx all! Enough trains for now. If more come it will probably be an old American F type diesel. The wheels are indeed BBB XL. I cut a very small groove to position the friction rings.

Thnx all! Your questions are answered in the description.

Hello friends, My 2nd locomotive here. The last for now. Time for some roadgoing stuff again. The German Class 41 steam locomotives were standard train engines operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRB) and built from 1937–1941. They were primarely designed to haul freight. A lot of the freight consisted of cattle, and therefore it had the nickname: Ochsenlok (cattle locomotive). A total of 366 were built by a number of manufacturers according to standardized specification. The one I built is nr. 41-241. It was manufactured by Borsig (AEG) from Hennigsdorf, Germany. It is now in possesion of the Dutch VSM and currently converted from an oil rebuilt back to coal again. This particular engine is called “Polarstern” as it crossed the polarcircle on a trip in Norway during the nineties. The engine is 23,905 mm (78 ft 5 in) in length (including tender). It has a service weight of just over 101 tons. The power is around 1870 hp, capable of bringing the engine upto 90 km/h (56 mph) topspeed. My Lego version is scaled 1:38 to correct Lego gauge. It is powered by two PF XL engines, and can be controlled by Lego’s PF IR Speed Remote Control Unit. Its all genuine Lego,except the valvetrain and wheels. The valvetrain is designed by myself and Jaap Kroon (http://www.jaaptechnic.com/), who 3D printed them in marvelous red and grey for me. This engine will be on display in October at the Legoworld event in Utrecht, Netherlands, and will be riding together with the UP Big Boy. Hope you like it!

Great job Pawel! I always watch your stuff, but you know that :-) It seems I am the only one dissapointed in this. The looks are ok, but that crane is a disaster. The steering is however cool and I love the wheels the most. It is however a good starting point of making a scale model version as cargo on a truck.

Great work, hope to see it @ Legoworld!

Built a watertender to it:

Good job.

Working on the auxiliry watertender, and will built a german DR41 next.

Hi Monai, You are not the first to ask. The wheels were printed by a friend of mine: Jaap Kroon, as a builder more known as Jaap Technic. I know for a fact that he had a lot of work with them, and therefor I dont think he will take it into series production easily.

Indeed 3D Lego. This particular one will run again in the future. Hope to see it one day!

Thnx Harnbak!

@Monai: You prove my point that it is possible. Yours looks good. I decided to keep the system like this, as it appealed more to me.

@Monai: The reason for that is that I aimed for a design that was still close to Legos look and feel. Adapting the whole valve system would have required too fine parts, and would have put the design out of balance. Lego is not too fine in detail, and I thought so should the design of the 3D printed parts. It would however have been possible. Maybe in the future.

Thnx all. I will add some additional shots today on my Flickr pages (www.flickr.com/bricksonwheels).