dtomsen
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At first, from definitely no to not sure My first very very large MOC and estimating from 20.000 parts (station alone without interior) to >25.000 (including platforms and surrounding area) too extensive for my parts collection and hence too expensive. Approx. 400 white Windows 1 x 2 x 2 Flat Front with glass, >2.000 llght bluish gray Tiles 2 x 2 and so on and on. And no room for such a big display at home. But after talking with a very nice person about a huge loan of parts, very likely and should be ready for events next year
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Thanks guys!
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Design used for the lamppost - later told is Philips Helios
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A little LEGO Digital Designer project I have been working on since the beginning of March...now rendered in Stud.io using highest settings and a very large size of 4800x3600 Odense Banegård The train station was drawn by Danish architect Heinrich Wenck and built in 1913-1914 in the city of Odense, Denmark. It was used as such until 1995. The building was later bought by the city, housing the city's music library for several years. The actual Odense Banegård My model: Scale: Minifig or approx. 1:42 Area: 3 x 8 baseplates 32 x 32 Number of parts: 23.223 The ground floor consist of 2 wings and 1 main building which all can be separated. The roof consists of six sections which can be removed, giving access to the building inside. The platform consists of multiple sections which can all be clicked together for added stability. Frontside: Facing one of the city's many old parks, Kongens Have (The Royal Garden), separated only by road (and a light rail line from 2021). Trackside: A mix of its appearances during different ages with a few modern train station equipment added as the building isn't used as such anymore...and I didn't want to fill this side completely with bicycles Rigth wing: Facing musikhuset Posten (live music venue) which was originally built as a parcel post office in the same architectual style. The two buildings are separated only by a small paved area, now a parking lot. Left wing: Facing Danhostel Odense City or what is left of the hotel when the new monstrosity Odense Banegård Center was being built in 1995 and needed the space. The main clock: The main platform doors:
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I hope not as it is rather ugly
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The Moduverse standard is 2 bricks = 1 bottom plate + 1 brick & 1 plate in the middle + 1 top plate (usually 16x16 plates but “floating” baseplates could be used). 1 additional tile/plate is only needed if combined with removable track sections. Thus, Moduverse is slightly more parts intensive than MILS but provides a few building advantages without being that much more expensive (no baseplates needed). A topic for another discussion ?
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Maybe our Scandinavian Moduverse standard for ballasted tracks?
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Updated with more photorealistic renderings using Stud.io instead of Bluerender
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Thanks AE brick, your own singnal box looks inspring too (and your people even got a bigger coffee machine than mine) The control room with the big junction panel looks amazing and your MOC really deserves its own thread
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Free building instructions by fellow Danish LUG member Knud Ahrnell Albrechtsen at snakebyte.dk. Beware that the base of the shed follows the MODUVERSE-standard but can easily be reversed back to ordinary baseplates and train tracks
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A fellow Danish LUG-member Lars Mogensen already tried this on LEGO Ideas two years ago getting 2018 votes before deadline whixh is not that bad for a trainset. Still, best of luck to you, you could not have picked a nicer train Link to LEGO Ideas Link to our Danish LUG site with pictures of the whole trainset
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Love it, voted for it and would buy it for sure, multiple times
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For those interested: Free building instructions by felllow Danish LUG-member Knud Ahrnell Albrechtsen and stickers by me at snakebyte.dk
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Lovely train - you always seem to have a very aesthetically pleasing look to your builds which have been an inspiration for my own work in a long time ?
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With no room, a suggestion could be to start building virtual models using some of the nice building programs out there ? We want to see more ?
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Marvellous MOC ??? Totally killed any aspirations I ever had to build our local Danish version of the TEE, DSB Litra MA - I will just buy your next book with the building instructions, deal ?
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And in addition to what zephyr1934 wrote, don’t submit models to LEGO Ideas borrowing heavily from other people’s designs. At least not without contacting them first
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Yeah, a stand-alone Powered Up hub (with adapters) would be nice too
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Always fun to see another tackle a much beloved locomotive and try and translate it into bricks...a tough one! Very nice looking 7-wide version with some unique solutions (!) I especially like the three-axle bogies (dremel or not) but the nose seems a bit too steep and the portholes a bit off even though they seem ok size-wise (maybe the surroundings?). And with the dremel already in use, lights in the upper nose shouldn't be a problem But well done overall
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Serveral wonderful trains have been proposed on LEGO Ideas through the years, some from known great builders, some beautiful beautiful designs, some famous trains with mass appeal and none, except the tram mentioned above (and it still wasn’t picked) have reached the votes necessary (not even above the 4000 mark, I think). Trains are too niche for the masses, one could argue. And it seems that LEGO knows this very well from their own market research, just look at their current product line, 1 cargo train, 1 passenger train and from time to time 1 train station or a creator train, that’s it. Otherwise they would be producing more train sets for sure. A LEGO Ideas train set probably would not sell enough in whatever shape or form or however brilliant to be considered a valid option. That is the harsh reality imo. So it seems futile even trying but I would very much like to be proven wrong ?
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Not with a train motor (and protruding pin) directly underneath ? A smaller battery box would be nice, LEGO ?
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Actually the PF train motor also works with PF to 9v extension wire between the IR Receiver and the old smaller 9v battery box (the PF battery box is too big for a train this small). Only PUp seems a no-go currently.
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Thanks, nice compliment But seriously, some essential parts have not been in production in a long time, the old 9v battery box or the 9v train motor. Without them, the Kof would be push-only and who wants that. I also see no way how PUp would work, yet that is. And no old train windows Even with the required 10000 votes, I don’t think LEGO would pick it, because of the reasons mentioned above and look, it is a train after all Anyway, a fellow Danish LUG member and I are working on building instructions (and stickers) people can download for free and build it if they want to.
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[MOC] Laura's Narrow-Gauge Rolling Stock Roster
dtomsen replied to Laura Beinbrech's topic in LEGO Train Tech
I love Narrow-Gauge, so cute and difficult to get right. You are on the right track - sorry couldn't resist -
Well, my turn to present this lovely shunter even though the MOC was designed in 2012 and is based on my DSB Køf already shown here LEGO Gmbh Spielwaren Köf Deutche Bundesbahns legendary shunter köf was built in 1950 by Deutz, and bought in 1987 by LEGO Gmbh Spielwaren in Hohenwestedt, Slesvig-Holsten, where the shunter moved cargo between warehouses in an old industrial area until sold in 2002. My model: Scale: 1:45 Lenght: 17 bricks Width: 8 bricks Bricks: 268 Powered: 1 x 9v motor or PF motor with the old 9v battery box using the PF to 9v extension wire Designed: 2012 First, a high-quality rendering by LDD to Pov-Ray using custom decorations and some manual editing: The stickers are downscaled versions of the official LEGO ones but homemade from then on. The IR receiver can be reached easily from the section behind but the receiver, the 9v battery box and all the wires demand optimal utilization of the tight space inside, especially some of the empty space above the train motor: Photo from Klodsfest 2013, our yearly Danish LUG event.