Murdoch17
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I'm probably gonna get the set just to make into that type too, with my toy story 4-4-0 in red and this engine in green, with each one having matching passenger stock for use on a amusement park or a western layout a display alongside my Fort Legoredo station. Back on topic, I don't see any buffer parts between the engine and tender, making this most likely a 4-2-4 out of the box. Consider this a definite purchase!
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I wonder if you could make this train into a 4-2-4T like the C.P. Huntington (or as a 4-2-2T as it's sister engine the T.D. Judah, named after the real father of the trans-continental railroad as seen below) of Central Pacific fame. I may have worked out a solution to the no-working-pistons problem, but I wont' know for awhile as it's an idea only in head and I have no idea if the set works the way I think it does, so I can't recreate it.
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This model is revamped version of set 41134 (Heartlake Performance School) with parts of set 10217 (Diagon Alley) and a heavily modified version of the truck from set 75972 (Dorado Showdown) thrown together to make this classical styled bank. The time-frame is set in the mid to late Roaring Twenties, when gangsters like Al Capone ruled Chicago's speakeasies and bank robbers such as Bonnie & Clyde ran rampant across the USA. (Of course, the law was always at their heels, and eventually justice was served.) This is the fourth version, which is set to replace my Gringotts bank model, which has become a sore spot on my layout as it's just too small. As before, this bank features a fancy entrance with Greek columns going up and creating a balcony on the second and third floors. The model features a detailed interior, and is open-able like a dollhouse to provide access to the inside. Also, the black 1 x 4 brick above the front door should have this BANK print on it. The rear of the bank has a second story fireplace flue. The model is open-able like a dollhouse to provide access to the inside, as you can see by the hinges on this side. Inside the front half and on the lower floor, we have two tellers desk with spots for four customers total. The upper floor features counting desks, along with half of the the money-filled vault. The lower floor on the back half features a staircase to the upper floor, a controlled access point to the behind-the-scenes part of the bank and the bank managers desk. The upper floor features the other half of the vault with the rest of the $14,800 in hundred dollar bills. (I transferred all the green bricks into 1x2 plates, then times by 100 to get that number.) This model was partially inspired by 2019 Overwatch set 75972 (Dorado Shwodown) which I reverse engineered from a picture last week into the front half of the truck seen here. The rear of the truck. The rear double-doors open to stash valuables, the roof section comes off, and the driving compartment seats one mini-figure. Thank you for looking at these models. Any comments, be they helpful, quizzical, or critical are welcome at any time. Thanks again for reading! -
I know, I'm not trying to complain or anything, it's just odd it was overlooked / disappeared.
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Thanks, I thought so too, but they are not any where in the first page or in the list of un-indexed builds!
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Could someone please recreate set 76045: Kryptonite Interception from the Batman VS Superman movie DC Comics lineup? The newer Batmobile windscreen is in LDD now, so it should be a little easier. Thanks in advance!
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Okay, so two pictures were released for the new LEGO Batman film sets coming in early 2017. The Joker's low-rider model caught my attention, and I started to recreate it in LDD. I couldn't see the back, so I improvised and made a quite large rear trunk instead of the spare tire. (The model was revamped yesterday to have a spare tire on the trunk.) I eventually made it orange due to pieces I used only coming in that color. I then realized it would look really cool as Bob's car, as it already had the right color scheme and a spot for the logo on the hood. Thus, it officially became Bob's car. Here is the front of the car, with it's large grille and logo on the hood. (this part: http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=15068pb004#T=C&C=4 ) Two mini-figures can sit side by side in the car's cabin, while the doors and trunk can open to access the inside. (The roof has been removed here, but it is not made to come off very easily.) The rear of the car has the spare tire. (This model is third in line on the to-buy list, after a certain dark green 4-8-2 steam loco and the space fighter ships that are earlier on this page.) LDD file for the car and it's driver (Bob): http://www.moc-pages.com/user_images/80135/1470358572m.lxf
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"Don't answer me" by The Alan Parsons Project.... I may have just found my new favorite song!
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Fan themes: Neo Nexus Force Space Police IV Official Themes: Classic Space (Original and Neo) Space Police III Galaxy Squad (orange team)* *The Galaxy squad one is only because I use them as Neo Nexus Force soldiers... their ships are nice, but don't fit my design aesthetic.
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Tug Boat SANDMAN I was inspired by my tramp steamer "Eastern" to make a tugboat to help tow the freighter into port. This rather small coastal vessel features a removable roof to get to the controls, and red / green directional lights. This ship will be be built as soon as funds allow. The LDD file is in the first post.
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sorry for the bump, but the ldd files and pictures have been updated due to revisions of the Mountain-type steam loco.
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So Bionicle is, for the second time, going away to the Obsolete and Retired Products Graveyard, to be laid alongside Hero Factory, Ben 10, and Galidor, among others. It's very sad it was cancelled so early it it's re-birth, barely halfway through it's second year. To celebrate it's second life through Ekimu and the island of Okoto, I have created this MOD of set 71312. (My alternate motive was because all that trans-light blue doesn't strike my fancy) It features a golden hammer with darker accents, and golden armor with an companion shield. It is also missing the main part: the mask of Creation! Sadly, the mask is not in LDD, so I left it off. Here is it at Bricklink: http://www.bricklink...age?P=20477#T=C The back of Ekimu features a part of Tahu's golden armor from the final series of original Bionicle from 2010. The hammer is mostly taken from set 71312, while the shield is from both set 70795 and 71312. The missing mask is found once more! (It's actually already in my possession, so I only need to order 99.9% of the model to complete it.) LDD file: http://www.moc-pages...1469920961m.lxf ...and yes, this MOD is 100% build-able in real life. I checked.
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Space Police IV - background information and models
Murdoch17 replied to Murdoch17's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Real life pictures, Police Precinct screenshots and LDD file for all of it have been added to the main post! -
I used those guys for SPIV... I've got the drop-ship and two patrol cars, but still need the precinct. I have the ldd file here: http://www.moc-pages.com/user_images/80135/1448477121m.lxf , if you want it. Here's the logo..... I hope this helps with your ideas!
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5 seconds of video! https://www.flickr.com/photos/55973205@N08/28218938560/in/dateposted-public/ Just something I made with some of my trains and my dads 12v / 4.5v track and custom tunnel. 10 minutes of planning and re-shooting videos, leads to 5 seconds of hand powered trains seemingly moving under their own power... while I used my foot to move the train, I used my hands to make the camera stay still. still photo of the video.
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In my fictional universe, the train starts at Chicago (Illinois), with stops at Springfield (Illinois), St. Louis (Missouri), Memphis (Tennessee) before terminating at New Orleans (Louisiana). The 2-6-0 "Mogul" steam engine & it's four car train is painted in dark green, thus giving the train it's name the "Emerald Express". The train consists of 1 baggage / passenger car (also known as a "combine"), two passenger coaches, and one observation car. These train cars were inspired heavily by instructions made by @TJJohn12 for his Retlaw Combine car and passenger coach, as seen here. The model has been remade by me to be four studs shorter, six studs wide (instead of eight), and no longer for use in a Disney theme-park setup, as it instead plies the rails of my 1920's - to 1950's setup. These cars now come with new inter-car connections and inset entryway doors. (plus the rear platform on the observation car) This Mogul type loco was originally made from set 79111, (Constitution Train Chase), with some features of TJJohn12's MOC of the E. P. Ripley locomotive (seen here) from Disneyland and set 10194 (Emerald Night) for good measure. This model has been through many versions since it was first built in 2013, but I think it's as close to perfection as I will get with the chosen brick-based medium. It pulls the Emerald Express of dark green - colored train coaches as seen in the other pictures. The sides of the steam engine's tender features the letters BRS, standing for Brick Railway Systems, which is my fictional railroad company. This combination baggage and passenger car (known as a combine) relies heavily on techniques taken from Retlaw baggage car built by TJJohn12. The two identical day coaches have inset doors I designed myself. The observation car of the Emerald Express. The rear deck isn't the best, but it works using the parts available in dark green... a not too common color in some brick varieties! EDIT 11/5/16: Added newer engine pics and ldd file for engine and tender as (removed) EDIT 12/9/16: Put in pictures of version three of the engine, with the placement of the domes on the boiler revised and the headlight moved to atop the boiler. EDIT 7/23/18: Added revised pictures of the locomotive to the thread, although I have by this point taken a wheel set off the engine to make into a 4-6-2, not a 4-8-2. Alas, I need to take the pictures again, and update the thread. It should only take another year or two... EDIT 6/25/2020: Added newly revised coaches, engine and comments on said models to first post. Real world pics coming soon(ish)! EDIT 7/7/2020: Added new real world pictures of the completely updated four car train. Comments, questions, and complaints are always welcome, so please give feedback!
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This loco is a 1926 oil burning 4-8-2 "Mountain" type, (4 leading, 8 drivers, 2 trailing) that was made surplus in 1951, donated to the Museum of Transportation (of St. Louis, Missouri) in 1959, and restored to working order in 1988 for it's excursion career. It's new lease on life lasted until 2002 when insurance costs and a failing boiler made the engine enter it's second retirement, while will be probably be forever. This may not be the best interpretation of the Frisco 1522, but it seems to be the one of the few I've seen built out of Lego. (this loco is the only other 1522 I've found and it really blows mine away. ) The model you see here has been my dream ever since I was 5 or six years old and rode behind the steamer on one of it's last public trips. (I don't remember much of the trip, but I do remember the sense of awe and respect for the power of steam after seeing the loco pull past us on it's journey back to the museum and into what looks to be permanent retirement.) The cab walls on both model and real engine have the name of the railroad (Frisco) on it's side, while the number of the loco (1522) goes on the tender sides. The way to do this is using printed 1 x 1 tiles. The real engine is publicly displayed at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri. The Lego model of the loco is sitting on the front of the loco, just above the cowcatcher. Here is the most recent LDD file for the engine and tender. NOTES: Hopefully next year the Frisco 1522 and Milwaukee Road Bi-Polar will be built in real bricks, ready to be displayed beside the Southern Pacific 4460 and the GM Aerotrain that I already own. Please, if you have any complaints, praise, questions, or anything like that, please post it below. Feedback is always welcome, and I would like some advice on things I could improve on. Thanks in advance! EDIT 9/28/17: Updated ldd file and added new pictures. The device in between the two domes (I forgot it's technical name, "feed water heater" maybe?) is now more like the real engine, with two cylinders instead of none like I had before. This engine should be built by early next year. EDIT 10/6/17: the parts for the Frisco 4-8-2 steam loco + '57 Plymouth Fury parts are finally here! NOTE: Two tender wheels and all the letters / numbers are not here because I need to place that order separately later on by myself. So it's really not all here, but it's about 99% arrived. EDIT 19/29/18: Here we can see my newest brick-built model, Frisco 1522 (4-8-2 "Mountain" type) meeting my long-built Southern Pacific 4460 (4-8-4 "Northern" type). Above you can see it next to my other already-built Museum of Transportation models. Ever since I went on the last Kirkwood to Hannibal trip behind the Frisco 1522 in early 2002 at age 8, I've wanted to own a model of the famous burly Baldwin. I've tried many times over the last 16 years (mostly in the last 8) to recreate her, until finally getting it right in late 2017, in LEGO 6-stud-wide format. Then, the museum in which the engine resides opened up the cab for the 16th anniversary of the last ride on the 22nd of September of 2018 (they had never opened up the cab to the public before then and may never again). I tried to get in, but didn't due to unforeseen complications. That is, until a helpful employee let me into the cab to take a couple pictures with me and my model this Saturday, the 29th. All I have to say is, thank you to Sam, who helped me out to get the above photo of me and my model in the cab of the Frisco 1522. Here is a closeup of my LEGO model of the 4-8-2 steam engine in the real-world Frisco 1522's cab it is modeled after. I believe the model is sitting on the diesel link-up computer that allows for the steam loco's engineer to simultaneously control the following diesel locomotive that provides electricity to the train and emergency motive power in case of steam breakdown. Any thoughts, comments, complaints, or suggestions are always welcome!
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You are quite right. it does add another level to the character. Oh, and I posted the mansion for Sam Sinister over in the town forum, in case you want to check it out. Here's the Link: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=113860
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1950s retro style rocket with crew - 3831 / 3368 inspired MOC
Murdoch17 replied to Murdoch17's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Main post updated 7/15/16: Since last uploading this, I rounded off the ship's angular walls and added some height via the curved fins near the bottom of the ship... it should also improve vertical stability. Also, The two astronaut figures have also been removed. I have added a story to the post, although it is set in the 1960's, and not the 50's as the topic header reads. Oh well, not everyone is meant to bee a rocket scientist... -
Thanks! Your suggestion of wrought iron roof details is interesting. I'll have to look into it! Thank you, and yeah, any train would look nice next to this model, from an American 4-4-0 steamer, to a French TGV electric. Thanks. Those dark green windows are hard to find in quantity for a good price nowadays.... I guess I got them at the right time!
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This model looks awesome! It will be really nice to see it pulling your dark green cars... it would be even more awesome when you get your pistons problem solved. You've made quite an entry into this forum, and i'd like to see what you have up next to build! Anyway, keep up the good work.
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sorry to bump this... Thanks, and sorry for the late reply. I used the seats the way I did because that's how Lego does it, and all my models use it that way too.... it just looks right to me. Anyway, the main post was edited today after hearing some good suggestions about adding a ramp back onto one of my railroad stations. I have finally finished finding the parts for it and gotten some pictures taken of the updated model. Enjoy!
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1920's era steam locomotive trio + and their consists
Murdoch17 replied to Murdoch17's topic in LEGO Train Tech
I have revised the main post, and added newer pictures of the 909 National Limited passenger train. (I revised the panel windows into actual frames and glass) Enjoy! -
This looks awesome! Dark green is a good color, I used nearly the same colors and setup on my six-wide, four-car-long 1920's steam train. Do you have a locomotive in mind to pull these? If not, i would suggest looking at the Lone Ranger engine from set 79111: it can be updated like in this thread to be useful on any number of loco types: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=121651 (I hope it's okay to post this link, as it compares your lengthy coaches to my short ones.... if needed, I'll removed the thread link.)
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The First post has been updated with new pictures and a updated ldd file! One man, one machine, out against the forces of evil in the universe! I'm a bit late but thank you!