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    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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    Not necessarily so. One of the biggest AFOL events in the world currently, Skærbæk Fan Weekend, was called LEGO Fan Weekend when TLG actually ran the event itself. Since then the event has become an even bigger success with a lot more attendees and with less direct support from TLG. So it's possible and might even be advantageous. But yeah, the LEGO name has a lot of sway in our AFOL community. So much so that many AFOLs don't know or simply won't acknowledge (out of fear losing said privileges) that there are lots of opportunities elsewhere from brands to bricks to sets to supplement to exhibtions and beyond. There is whole world out there full of possibilities. And HA Bricks provided just that, new possibilities.
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    Small correction. The bricks supplied with Circuit Cubes sets don't have any branding on top so aren't authentic LEGO - at least not those in my Bluetooth Upgrade Kits. Great batteries, motors and all but the quality of the bricks supplied can best be described as adequate. Edit: I see @Toastie was faster than me
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    Yeah but we shouldn't disregard the LEGO part of the AFOL acronym. It's a fan community after all and thus the branding on top of the bricks do matter to most. Most AFOL exhibitions and communities I know allow 3rd party parts and accessories and have for a long time, especially due to us train builders (and the Technic guys) so things are slowly turning around (and in the process getting much more blurred). The model railroad community in general couldn't care less whether it's LEGO or other brands. It's all the same to them. So model railroad exhibitions have absolutely no rules in that regard when participating with LEGO train stuff which I actually find rather liberating and in some ways eye-opening regarding our many self-imposed AFOL rules and idiosyncrasies.
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    Many other brands do have licenced themes, everyday stuff like City and niche themes like trains, for example Mould King and BlueBrixx. Cobi, Gobricks, CaDA and others aren't exactly small manufacturers anymore either even though they are all clearly dwarfed by TLG.The point being, TLG does have serious competition in at least two of its main markets, Germany and China. And arguably the competition there is making headway on TLG's overall marketshare. Otherwise why the current judicial rodeo or the general ferociousness from TLG towards the competition? The crowd funding is primarily to show support to Hein Alkema himself and help him survive financially, not to make TLG notice. What a bizarre take.
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    Huge number of great news from Fx Bricks in the latest 2024 Update
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    Yep, except P40 switches and R72 curves they all fit fine. The correct ones that is.
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    Yes, afaik a cease and desist letter was sent by TLG before the case went to trial and HA Bricks did offer back a compromise to remove the custom ball bearings and printed minifig parts but this was refused by TLG as not enough. In court TLG refused to try another compromise when asked by the judge basically playing hardball and won decisively.
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    MAB: Question: Do you build your own LEGO train models or LEGO trains in general?
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    HA Bricks / Hein thought he had a strong case and could win in court. His lawyers too. Even so, if TLG demanded he basically close shop what else could he do than go to court and take his chances?
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    Afaik we do know second hand that the cease and desist letter had the exact same terms as those put forward in court and that TLG didn't want the compromise put forward by HA Bricks before the court (also known somewhat second hand) or first hand (court text) work out another even when asked by the judge in court. Make of it as you will but the TLG laywers sure seemed to me to want to make an example of HA Bricks and did. TLG was well within its right as things turned out but should we applaud it for doing it and in the way it did in this particular case?
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