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  1. Murdoch17
    Still waiting for one more order to arrive, which should be here in about two days, with photos probably being taken the day after that... if everything goes according to schedule, or course! Until then, I've made some more progress with the parts that have arrived. Here's a list of everything I did today: I added the final parts to the loco frame, placed most of the running-boards, and started on the cab. For the tender I started work on the long sides and rear wall. (I had to remove the back wall from the frame to attach the SNOT-ed stripe-work parts.) Also, the lead pony truck has been detached so it won't get in the way / break when I build the boiler. You can compare it to my previous photo on the matter from five days ago in case I missed anything else in the list. (seen in comment directly above this one) Side note: The tender wheels and underframe are still on the old grayscale loco, along with a few other parts so I don't lose them. Thoughts?
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    Clips are not a good idea to keep attached in any way for a long time due to cracking. Of bricks and plates, older reddish brown parts and dark red parts are prone to shattering too. (they supposedly fixed that in 2019, though)
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    (sorry mods, apologies for bumping!) Continuing with the "Thomas and Friends" theme, I've started construction on Thomas' coaches - Annie and Clarabel - using parts from my own collection. (I've already had my original Thomas built for several years, as seen further below) I had more parts than I thought I did for these two, so the only things I had to buy were the 14 magnets gotten from a local store and the 14 metal-axle wheels are on order. (I bought 14 because Murdoch's freight train needs 10 of each as well as these two coach needed four total of each kind.) The wheels should arrive in a week or so. Thomas has been built since 2019, and he was originally Inspired by the Carolina Train Builders set "3105-STD" from 2001, this engine has gone through significant upgrades, including Big Ben Bricks medium driving wheels, pearl gold whistles, and printed number 1 tiles. Wait, Thomas! You've left your coaches behind! Thoughts on this long awaited update?
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    I can sense a film being made about this: "Cowboys VS Astronauts" - Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Benny the 1980-something space guy. Anyway, I'll echo @NOD: the archway looks like a portal... "Guardian of Forever", maybe?
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    I'll echo @Scoog on the tram compatibility with L-gauge track. On one hand, I'm (cautiously) optimistic and hopeful. But on the flip side of things the recent Hogwarts Express fiasco* has me feeling a bit bitter and cynical. *We wait twenty-one years for a Hogwarts Express that looks good, and when we do get it, the dang thing can't run on train track!
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    The final batch of parts have been ordered for Murdoch as of today! (special thanks to my brother for helping me out with some of this project's parts-finding) Here we see the real world progress so far, with the frame and running gear of the original grayscale version ripped off and grafted onto Murdoch.
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    I don't disagree with either you, @danth or @TeriXeri. I would love a space set - really don't care what the subtheme is. (However, my first space theme was Mars Mission, which is 15 years old this year. How about a throwback to that!?) But I'm not the one making decisions. Lego had done stupid stuff before: Galidor, Vidiyo, Scala, the My Own Train series distribution, late 1990 - 2003's town, Hidden Side's box art, Life of George, Fusion, the stadium sets, and so on! So setting this fantastic idea aside wouldn't be a stretch for them.
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    Sadly, that's highly unlikely with 10497 - Galaxy Explorer still on shelves. They wouldn't want to cannibalize sales of each other.
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    Real life photos added to the first post! Sadly, it seems the house already has a Duplo infestation...
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    What about a ship named after Kate Bush? "Running up that Hill" seems to be all the rage right now...
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    "Mister Emmet builds his Dream Home" In this week's episode, you'll meet Emmet Brickowski and his lovely new bride Lucy. Together with their friend Unikitty they're are building their dream home. However, the universe seems to be conspiring against them with everything from not finding well water where they want it, (and finding it where they don't!) to reading the local commuter train schedule wrong, to pestering Duplo neighbors! Emmet, Lucy, and Unikitty are up to their eyeballs in problems of all kinds, but through perseverance, determination, and a whole lotta luck, they've managed to keep their collective sanity. (so far!) "Mister Emmet builds his Dream Home" is brought to you by these fine sponsors: OCTAN Corporation - "We make everything!" Ivory Soap - "99+44/100% Pure!" 20 Mule Team Borax Ovaltine WHAM Ham - "If you ain't eating WHAM, you ain't eating ham" (The house is almost done... Tomorrow is roof and picture day! Also, I was going for an old 1950's TV show-feel with this description and sponsors. How'd I do?)
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    Thanks @Paperinik77pk, I agree 100% about the color scheme! Here is my latest change to the plans: Murdoch will need a freight train to pull, so I devised some cars for him: This 5-car train includes the following: - a flat car with a Rolls Royce Phantom III load (this is actually prefect as the Rolls Royce has issues that prevent the wheels from turning) - two privately-owned vans (these will bear the Rust-eze printed panel piece from the Cars 3 theme) - OCTAN tanker (slightly based off CITY set 7939's version) - brake van (based on the Toy Story 2 caboose from set 7957) Two of these above cars are finished IRL except for the wheels and magnets. I still need 49 more parts (10 magnets and 10 wheels are included in this total) until I can call the freight cars complete. Besides the aforementioned wheels and magnets for everything, the brake van and loaded flat car are done. The OCTAN tanker is missing the eight quarter-circle "tank" parts and printed identification markers, while the two Rust-eze branded vans are missing the logos and a few other parts. NOTE: The 1930's-styled Phantom Mk. III used in this model was heavily modified from Rebrickable instructions by Dongeraldo that were originally based off @ER0L's model of the car from the James Bond film "Goldfinger". The instructions can be seen here at Rebrickable. Thoughts?
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    Here is the same car type (a 1960's Ford Anglia 105E), from the Wikipedia page on the Anglia: Also, remember the wheels of the Olton Hall are 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches wide at the rail, and the Lego model's is 7 1/2 studs at the same place. Car wheels can be around the same width IRL (there is a reason the similar in wheel spacing DeLorean fits on train tracks!), so the Lego version of the Anglia must be in the same ballpark of 7 - 8 studs. Since it's REALLY hard to build 7 wide, I'd say the car thus needs to be speed champions scale (8-wide, a tiny little bit longer, and more detailed) before we get close to "in scale" with the train. Thoughts?
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    Main post EDIT 9/10/22: vintage car model finished in real life and added to main post, while the remaining house parts have all shown up from BrickLink. Construction on it is supposed to begin tomorrow.
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    No problem, glad I could help! Here is an update on the part-finding process, if anyone is interested: All the parts left to find for Murdoch are shown above. He's currently sitting at about $25 worth of parts from Bricklink.
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    It's a seriously good album, and a absolutely fantastic MOC!
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    @M_slug357 it depends on the engine color / era. If it's British Railways-era black with red (mid-1950's to mid-1960's), then blue and white coaches would be the most likely choice, followed by a few tan and brown leftover from the GWR days. If it's (the currently impossible) Great Western dark green (1928 - early 1950's timeframe), then brown and tan are the only proper way to do it. If you choose the fictional modern Hogwarts Express red, then you've already got your answer there on coach color! I would (personally) do the easiest choice: black-and-red engine with a few white-and-blue coaches. However, as I was typing all this, something just occurred to me: what about making some freight cars too?
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    Here are some answers to your questions @natesroom: - Orange wasn't from the real world class, but from a Thomas and Friends Tv show character from 2005. In the real world, dark green was the only other color besides black for this engine class. (Evening Star, the last steam engine built for British Railways, and was the only dark green one and the only one to carry a name in it's original working life. It ran for only 5 years out of a projected ~30 year lifespan.) - Because layouts without motion become a boring diorama. You see a moving model train on a layout, it become interesting, lifelike, action-packed. The same is true for other scales of models too. You have to have motion to capture people's attention... especially when working with the public! In my 10+ years of LUG experience, trains (or things moving, really) capture more people than anything else. Sure, Star Wars or licensed displays may get a lot of people, but they don't dwell for long if things aren't moving. It's pure human nature to want to see something moving. - This page on the Whyte notation might explain a lot on why they are named as such. With this loco, 2 front wheels (one per side) - 10 driving wheels (these power the engine and are attached to pistons, zero trailing wheels (these support the firebox, but this engine has none) Each type of steam engine was cutting edge at one time and was used for a specific purpose. Some caught on nicely (4-8-4's were very popular as passenger locos in the 1930's to the end in the '50's, for example) and some didn't do very well (4-2-4's are one of these who never did well at all). Also, as a side note,: Duplex engines are tow sets of pistons on a rigid frame, while articulated types are jointed between the tow sets of pistons with the boiler staying straight. Garratt types have two sets of pistons: one under the coal bunker at the back, one under the water tank in the front with boiler hung up in the middle and joined to the two pistons sections with hinges. Geared locos are just named after the type they are, such as Shay, Heisler, or Climax, and use something akin to car pistons to turn a crankshaft to power the wheels. If you have more questions, just ask. Agreed!
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    This looks awesome! Glad to see there are more people keeping the Wild West theme alive! ..but I have to ask: do you have a train for that track?
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    Thanks @Jack Sassy! Thank you @JopieK for fixing that! Agreed, @Poodabricks! Murdoch was my top-of-the-list favorite character. Before he existed, it was Donald... or was it Douglas? They ARE identical twins, after all...
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    Thanks to whoever front-paged this topic! However, the main picture on the front page is the wrong one. It should be the third picture in my post above (the first orange one). Maybe somebody could fix that, @JopieK, perhaps? Please? Thanks you! Thank you! It's been a labor of love these last 9 years! The actual tender on a real 9F only has 3 axles on it. I couldn't get that to work, so it made due with what I could. Thanks for the suggestion, though!
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    This started out as a test in LDD as to whether I could build my BR 9F in orange and not use unavailable parts. (I obviously succeeded!) However, you may be asking, why Orange? And why change a model eight years after building it originally? Does this have something to do with your username, 'Murdoch17'? The answer to all these questions are intertwined: The model is based off the BR standard class 9F 2-10-0 steam engine Murdoch from Thomas and Friends (introduced in the last year of the "pure" model series, 2005), which was also the basis for my half my original Lego website username from 2007, and then everywhere else later on. But more on that later! I originally built the model in late 2013 based off this unfinished 9F Murdoch model by @ScotNick. It was uploaded on Brickshelf first, and later on Flickr after I uploaded my copy (LDD only, at first) in November 2013. When I had redesigned the engine to build it IRL, I realized orange had virtually been eliminated as a color choice at that time. Windows were (up until that summer when CITY Arctic dropped) only from the 2004 BNSF loco, and orange was VERY expensive as a color. It was impossible. I thus decided on "works gray" as the only option I could do it in... you can see the original February 2014 version above. ...and here it as of 2019. Orange's pallet of parts would increase in the intervening 8 years, culminating in 2022 with every orange part I needed being buyable! The rear of the tender with the number 17 on it. A view inside the cab. This brings us back to me and my username: Murdoch is the part you know, but where did "17" come from? Well, Murdoch also had a wooden railway model released in 2005 (my favorite, even though I was WELL out of the age range), and I didn't like that he was never assigned a number in the TV show. So, I randomly chose 17, had my dad printed me a sticker, and slapped it onto the wooden tender. Fast forward a few years to late 2007, when I was thinking of a username for the Lego website. I wanted something catchy, and something I could easily remember. (and something nobody else could take!) The wooden Murdoch was sitting on my desk, and caught my eye and I typed it in. Thus, my online moniker was born. Thoughts? EDITED 9/24/22: real world photos added!
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    I guess so? I don't really have a need for either of those cars... I can upload the LDD file someplace if you want it so you can mess with it. I will admit the color has been changed to black instead of blue, because that's the color I have the most of...
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    This model was heavily inspired by the 2014 original eight-studs wide Ghostbusters Ecto-1 (set 21108) and a MOD of that set I found on Rebrickable. Instead of a late-50's Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance, it's now based on the (very similar) '59 Cadillac Eldorado. In the changeover, I added a hardtop (removable) roof, different mirrors, 1/2-stud offset side-by-side seating for two, and opening doors. I also changed around the wheels to be less stressful to assemble compared to the original 2014 set. Rear view, with driver's side door opened up. The opening doors were taken from the Ecto-1 and 2 (set 75828) from 2016. The roof is only connected by two studs, making it easily removable. The car seats two figures easily. I plan on getting one of these in real life in a different color sometime in the near future, probably soon after Emmet's house parts arrive from Bricklink. Got any thoughts comments, or questions? Leave 'em below!
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    NOTE: This is NOT my picture! I just though I'd share it all with you: Photo from Nick Jackson on Flickr. His accompanying text: "By request, I rendered the base model in both GWR green and BR Black. I think the green looks the best, but is not feasible based on the current parts' required-- there is a shedload of brackets that are woven into the construction of the boiler which don't yet exist in dark green. Will definitely MOD the boiler to be less jagged but (hopefully) more hollow to allow for motorization, lights, etc."
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