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    BL#27965 Dark Green Hose, Flexible 22L with 2 Connector Ends (Zipline) cut to 10L. The vertical railing are barholders with clip connected together by a cut-to-1L rigid 3mm hose inside. For the purists the only other options right now are to either pick another color or just change the building technique to a less smooth looking railing. There are a couple possibilities The DSB Litra MK has no such problems
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    Presenting a Dutch version of my DSB Litra MK - thanks to UrbanErwin for giving me this idea NedTrain Vossloh G 400 B My model: Scale: 1:45 Length: 27 studs Width: 8 studs Bricks: 640 Locomotion: 1 x M-motor (PF) Gear ratio: 1:1 Power: 1 x 9v battery with 1 x PF custom adapter Control: SBrick Designed: 2020 (Slightly) updated: 2023 Very high setting render from Stud.io with custom decals done in the PartDesigner tool. Left: Central coupling arm on without any wagons. Right: Central coupling arm replaced with a coupling magnet when pulling or pusing wagons. Interior with placement of the SBrick, M-motor and 9v battery: On a tableau at exhibitions: The railing can only be made in Dark Green using BlueBrixx parts for now. Change all Dark Green to Dark Turquoise and the railing can be made using genuine LEGO parts.
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    Why not? The quality of the moulded tracks from the 3rd parties are on par with or even better than the LEGO ones nowadays imo.
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    Thanks I use this one... Unfortunately the guy closed shop in mid-2018
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    Presenting another of my Danish State Railways’ (DSB) locomotives - redesigned from 7-wide to 8-wide and digitally rendered but already built and tested DSB Litra MK The Danish State Railways (DSB) first radio control shunter Litra MK was built by Siemens/Vossloh in Germany as type VSFT G322. 25 were built from 1996 to 1998. All but one shunter were transferred to DSB subsidiary Railion in 2001 and DB Schenker Rail in 2007. My model: DSB Gods version. Scale: 1:45 Length: 27 studs Width: 8 studs Bricks: 586 Locomotion: 1 x M-motor (PF) Gear ratio: 1:1 Power: 1 x 9v battery with 1 x PF custom adapter Control: SBrick Designed: 2020 (third attempt at the class) (Very slightly) updated: 2023 Very high setting render from Stud.io with custom decals added in the PartDesigner tool. Rear with the hidden SBrick inside: Removable hood for easy placement of the 9v battery inside - likely a 800 mAh rechargeable Li-Po one: The mechanical power transmission technique with 1:1 gearing: On a tableau at exhibitions: Link to my NedTrain Vossloh G 400 B and other liveries based on my design My earlier 7-wide version was rather fragile and prone to implosions when handled wrong but this time around the construction is pretty solid and the mechanical power transmission much better with surprising pulling capability. Long live 8-wide
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    But we are not discussing counterfeiters (per se) are we but other legit competitors be they clone or 3rd party brands. No need to blur those lines more than necessary ?
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    The old magnets are a much better choice for trains wider than 6 studs where the fixed train buffer beam with sealed magnet doesn't really work. They are also stronger than the new ones and these from Lifelites should be even stronger with neodymium magnets. Interesting product for sure
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    Black 47576 Hockey Puck, Small Unfortunately another part which has become very rare and gone insanely up in price in recent years Hopefully someone will make 3D printed standard train wheel sized blind flanks someday. We need those
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    Three-axle-bogies? Sure. Use LEGO L-motors and feed them more voltage than the specified 9v. The motor circuit drive can handle up to 10.5v continuously and more in short bursts. More voltage, more rotations. 20 tooth to 12 tooth upgearing helps too. Either one or two LEGO AAA battery boxes with 6 x 1.6v NiZn rechargeable batteries or one or two BuWizz battery boxes (up to 10.2v) can provide the needed voltage for reasonable speeds even with heavy loads. The BlueBrixx PF L-motor is noticeable faster than the LEGO one and still with decent torque but draws much more current so doesn't handle higher voltage well. Standard AAA or LiPo rechargeable batteries work best with those. The Mould King L-motors are gash but I don't need to tell you that. High rotations but no torque to speak of and will stall and quickly overheat with medium to heavy loads. 2 x BlueBrixx L-motors run by 1 x BuWizz battery box at maximum normal speed or 7.4v The three-axle bogies look like this:
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    Most of the brands mentioned before compete with LEGO ? Edit No more derailing from me = back on topic ?
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    What if that real deal hasn't been produced by LEGO in a very long time and is only available for loads of money on BrickLink (or other secondhand markets) like the aforementioned train windows? Most 3rd party products are seen as enhancing the Lego experience and thus allowed to be discussed in most LEGO communities. Some parts, components and even sets from clone brands now exist in the same space. Why the double standards? Some we are allowed to talk about, some we should keep to ourselves. If we want a 100% pure LEGO train forum, everything else should be bannned, no exception.That means no BrickTracks, TrixBrix, BuWizz, BrickTrainDepot, Elegant Bricks, LightMyBricks, SBrick, FX Brick, BMR and so on and on. But that would definitely diminish our hobby in regard to advanced train modelling. So let common sense prevail and let us all keep our minds open - nobody is saying buy this or that brand instead of LEGO
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    Unfortunately no. As far as I know, mostly Lele for the bricks and CaDa for the PF parts.
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    Mould King doesn't make bricks but buy them from Gobricks like many other clone brands. Gobricks looks like a serious manufacturer and not the prototypical Chinese sweatshop described here and elsewhere.
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    Mould King was spun off from Lepin so not surprising if they are not totally clean
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    Clone products are not necessarily counterfeit. Not every clone brand is a Lepin. Most LEGO patents ran out years and even decades ago. Alternatives and add-ons from some clone and most 3rd party brands can be good and even great. That said I agree with the rest of the statement
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    Only the top train is from BlueBrixx. The middle one is from LEGO set 60052. And the bottom one is from the North Pole Railroad set from Bricktrack, a truly high-end kit.
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    In short: I like the new more sensible naming convention.
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    Yeah but no worse than the LEGO IR Receiver
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    Yeah but LEGO don't make PF parts, rechargeable battery boxes or many of the rare out-of-production and thus crazy expensive trains parts like tan train windows anymore. And never did R56 or R72 curves. BlueBrixx do. Those are not in direct competion with LEGO but with the other 3rd party providers and second hand markets like BrickLink. And they also have other offerings which could enhance our train hobby here and now. Some of them at least Something like this: Heck, even the sets are still worth discussing as the purists among us can download the building instructions for free and build those with genuine LEGO (!) In that aspect they could be considered nothing more than fancy DIY mocs...
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    It's not. Unfortunately if you ask me We are missing out discussing here all the great things happening for the model railroading aspect of our LEGO train hobby right now.
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    Yeah LEGO sets like the Emerald Night, Maersk and Crocodile are all great but we unfortunately have to wait years between those. Hopefully increased competion will shorten that waiting
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    Actually I find BlueBrixx trains a step above the typical LEGO city ones in regards to design but several steps below most quality train builds here or elsewhere including the high-end kits mentioned above. Just compare these three offerings:
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    That speed is normal and fine for two L-Motors with 20 to 12 tooth gearing. I had exactly the same reaction when I transitioned from Train motors to Technic motors with much lower rpm (but much more torgue) You are comparing ~1.458 rpm to ~453 rpm max. speed with completely fresh AAA batteries. https://www.philohome.com/motors/motorcomp.htm One of the (few) ways to get more speed is to send more voltage to the L-Motors. Either by using a BuWizz battery box or by using rechargeable 1,6v NiZn batteries in the standard AAA battery box. The L-Motors can easily handle more than the stated 9v. Or buy a L-Motor with more rpm from a competitor Max. speed using the same configuration as you with 7,4v: Max. speed using the same configuration as you with 9,2v: Max. speed using the same configuration as you with 10,2v:
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    Nope, most parts are from Lele. Xingbao get their parts from Gobricks which supposedly are better quality. My train window frames from BlueBrixx are almost exactly the same quality as genuine ones with identical clutch-power though. They are much much cheaper than on the secondary markets (due to being long out of production) or in otherwise unavailable colors like Dark Red, Dark Green etc.
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    Most BlueBrixx parts are from Lele, these tracks appear to be done in-house by themselves. We'll just have to wait and see how good they are or not.
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