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  1. dtomsen
    Thanks. The decals are designed by me and printed on vinyl by OKBrickWorks in the U.S.
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    My model and its real life counterpart during our LEGO Train Club's exhibition at The Danish Railway Museum 2025: Photos by Nikolai Olano Moleros Nissen 2025
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    The plastic part of the P40 switches from Fx Bricks are injection molded. Just like the rest of their tracks.
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    The decals arrived yesterday and thus my rebuild is finally complete
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    It seems you did miss something. The P40 switches were not called back. New tiebars were issued and sent out for free with complimentary S8 straight tracks. Or one could opt for a full refund instead.
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    You're welcome From my testing on R40 curves which it passed with flying colors. Still missing most stickers but otherwise pretty much done. Further testing at our LEGO Train Club annual one-day summer meeting in July this year (2025).
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    TLG and unfortunately the wider AFOL community have long embraced the Highlander motto "there can only be one" The subniche within a subniche which we call LEGO model trains has for quite some time now moved well outside of those constraints both out of necessity and creativity. Tracks, wheels, rods, power and control systems, stickers, UV-printing on elements, 3d printing own elements, heck, even other competing brands. The list just goes on and on. The genie is out the bottle and can't be forced back in. None of us diehard LEGO model train builders want to go back to only building caricatures of trains. We want to push the envelope just like you do, Sven. If those behind Rebrickable don't understand that with their reactionary and counterproductive move, it's their loss, not yours. You'll find other suitable venues like Open L-Gauge to share you fantastic creations and people will follow along.
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    Bonus night mode
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    Yeah, flex cables might be easier but also more expensive. Bars are "good enough" to get the job done Sure did but in another locomotive (a ficitonal one designed only for easy testing): That's max. slow setting in the BuWizz app which equals 5,2v and the train ran at that setting for a little more than 1 hour without any problems. Ridiculous speed and torque (!)
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    Thanks. Yeah, those are 1 x 1 Utensil Ring. From another competing brand in Metallic Silver tho. It's also rather tricky to render the glowing headlights in a nice way in Studio: A Trans-Black 0.1 point Bar in front of a Luminous Soft Warm White or Soft Red 0.2 point Bar. The 0.1 point space between the two bars is essential to dampened the intensity of the light. The luminous bar can be covered with a black decal in the back to stop any light going back into the cabin etc. For lights in the real model, I'll cut a 1/4 slice of the end of 4L Trans-Clear or Trans Red bars and put them in front of pico LEDs. Already tested and works fine. There is a link to my former design in the first section. I'll link below...
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    Never really happy with my former 8-wide design this is what I ended up with after reworking it digitally with what ended up as a near-total overhaul DSB Litra EA The Danish State Railways' (DSB) first electric locomotive was built by Henschel & Sohn in Kassel, Germany (the first two) and Scandia, Denmark (the remaining ones). 22 were built in total from 1984 to 1992. 1 was scrapped. 16 were sold to Bulgaria and Romania from 2007 to 2010 and 4 to Bulmarket in Bulgaria in 2021. The last remaining one (EA 3004) was transferred to The Danish Railway Museum in 2020. Wiki here and irl photo here. My model: DSB "modern" red & black livery used in the 1980s. Scale: 1:46 Length: 52 studs from buffer to buffer Width: 8 1/3 studs Bricks: 1.132 Weight: 1.042g excl. batteri box Locomotion: 2 L-motors (PF or PU) Power: BuWizz 2.0/3.0 or 1 AAA PF/PU battery box Control: BuWizz, PU or SBrick Designed: 2023 Redesigned: 2025 It still has the fictional serial number EA 3024 and is named 'O K Kristiansen' Very high setting render from Stud.io with custom decals done in the PartDesigner tool. Access through the removable roof to a fairly correct interior with ample room for the different locomotion, power and control options (2 x PF L-motors and 1 x BuWizz 2.0 battery box shown): 2-axled bogie design with molded MS Train Wheels from HA Bricks which are slightly larger (by one plate) than LEGO standard Train Wheels: The somewhat complex undercarriage The ubiquitous PF L-motor design originally created by Duq used in many of my models with upgearing from 20 to 12 teeth with a ratio of 5:3....more speed, less power: The design is done and the real model is currently waiting for a few essential new parts to be built and then thorough testing awaits
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    Almost spot on.
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    HA Bricks is up and running again! No custom sets this time around but Hein's own stuff and BrickTracks are finally available again
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    That's the point. I haven't lost affinity with the LEGO brand (at least not most of it). Which is why I love all of the wonderful 3rd party supplements available nowadays which greatly enhance my own enjoyment of LEGO in general and trains especially. And not only me but also seemingly the general public at exhibitions.I have found some affinity with other brands as well tho. But these different affinities are not mutual exclusive and do not in any way diminish my overall enjoyment of building with bricks in general. And why should it? The bitter part is that Hein probably was way too much of a LEGO purist to even consider alternative brands and kept the supplements to a bare minimum. And also why he proudly (and naively) displayed how pure LEGO his sets were Many good points Other generic or non-LEGO centric shows may not be that enticing for the average AFOLs collectors and even generic MOCers but some definitely are for us LEGO train builders, especially model railroad ones. Some of them are even huge and although they might not be LEGO centric the general public still know and love LEGO and basically any brickbuilt stuff.
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