Bart
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Hydrograaf achtersalon by Bart, on Flickr I'm back! :) although I think I've sad that more then ones on this website, anyway I'm back from my 6 months at sea, now working on this old steamer again. I've build the aft part of the superstructure. which is not square, but narrowing. took me a bit of fiddling to get the deck right, but I think I nailed it. There are quit some small objects and details to be added on top but that will expand later. I really need to get started on the aft part of the hull, but I'm looking up to it because of all the odd angles and curvature you get there. and in the mean time keeping it rigged and space enough on the inside to aid an interior (I'm not high demanding on my self, just challaging) anyway enjoy the update Bart -
Time for an update ;) 4700 brick and counting. I think I'm at 50% more or less. (I don't get why the blurender render is blurry this time, sorry) As may be noticed by the gap in the bow, I'm still not sure how to continue the yellow line forward. And I think the stanchions of the railing are way to thick like this. but on the rest i'm happy with how its progressing. Still plenty (all) to do on the stern, the funnel is about midships and the superstructure contiues aft till above the proppellors or there about. so plenty to do. Greetings from the middle of the Atlantic enroute to Canada but slowed down by major fog (life at sea...) Bart
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Thanks Edwin
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I'm about to head out to sea for work, I'll be away for 6 months (aprox) So don't expect any updates from me till autumn 2017.Â
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As it is now. (the engines outside are copies of the ones inside which the render software takes into the frame. What I just build, the forward officer cabins. I realised here that the hull is a plate to narrow near the engine room/boiler room, which I might fix later, or not as I just build this for my own pleasure. I'm sorry Tommy I didn't go with your input, I DO appreciate the input though. The skylights are sunk inside the deck and are hold in place by gravity. the small chimney sit on a 1x2 with one stud in center behind it appearing to be connected but not. Although the black stanchions that are in real live there to hold up the hatches are too short like this, I do like the look. And with this design the hatches can't open anyway. Top view of the Engineroom and others. Name tags on alot of the equipment I've put in. the two spaces port and starboard of the boiler are the coal stores. All the walls run for and aft are connected to the bulkhead, I think they supply sufficient strenght if ever build out of real bricks. The aft engineroom bulkhead needs some re-designing as there are cabinets against that bulkhead, which I want to build into it. any C&C is welcome. any closeups on some details can be made as well! Bart PS should the topic name be changed? something along the lines of "[MOC](LDD) 1:40 model of the steam ship Hydrograaf as build in 1910"
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What is a planetary gear used for
Bart replied to aminnich's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Small space for the high reduction. and I think they can handle alot of power aswell. -
It looks very alike and it works!!
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Thats a first time i've seen a brick separator used as a brick. I like it.
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Wow, this is great! never realised you could do this on micro scale. one of the most realistic lego windmills i've seen
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I like it!
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Shipwrights Guild Hall (WIPs, feedback, and advice)
Bart replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Your india man looks sweet, although when I here india man my mind jumps to the 17th century with the tall aft castles and such. But that just me being dutch I think. Are you planning to start a navy of your own? looks like you are mass producing ships :P -
Indeed it is :) although that oldman didn't use it till around somewhere end 1950 or 1960
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Thank you all :)
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Hello fellow pirates! I am terrible sorry to be gone so long, but busy real life kept me away from the bricks. I wish I could say I am back though. Unfortunately for you, (good for me) I have to go to sea for the next 6 months, the real sea not the bricky waters. I'm a merchant navy engineer, :) Anyway great to sea all is still going on in Bobs, terrible sorry I sort of left, but I do intented to make my apearence again in the future. Bart
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[ESL] Torn apart between Two Worlds
Bart replied to Elostirion's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
I like the contrast of the dark green tree with the fresh green flowers. -
great architecture! love the floor.
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I've rebuild most of it, changed some. But I could use some of your impout again, if you don't mind :) I first build the two left sky lights, but it turned out to be a stud to wide. so I created the one on the right as an alternative (the small chimney is an add that I recently discoverd) But I'm a bit stuck on how in LDD to fit the 2x6 plate with holes on there. If anyone has an idea I'd be thankfull, I think that in real I could cook up something that would use gravity or friction somehow. Links automatically turn into pictures now? sorry if this is to big! ldd file in this folder: http://bricksafe.com/pages/Bart/triple-expansion-steam-engine Bart
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That could be really nice Tommy, but let's finish the model first. I learned yesterday I'm starting a new job next Saturday, and that will keep me away from home for the next 6 months. So I don't know if I can upload any updatrs, I'll take my laptop with me to continue the build ofcourse. I work as an engineer on the ship I'm building here, only I build it in Lego as it left the shipyard in 1910. But as I want to upgrade my sailing license I have to go work on a big ocean going ship for a while. Bart
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Thanks! It was a bit of a huh? to figure out bluerender takes the view you closed the file with. and doesn't take into account the hide function. But it works. Building to scale is weird, doors are now 2 studs wide. which at first was odd, but now fits the ship as it should, (as you can see above I left 4 studs space first) I think of myself of a bit of a chaotic builder, I work all directions at ones, and can go back to the structure to change things back and forth at any time. Or maybe I give myself impossible challenges, as in decks should be removable to see the inside, and engines should turn. This section is by far the easiest, as the ship is box shaped here, more forward its pointy but the sides remain quit vertical. towards the stern though, is going to be a challenge to get that into shape. Bart I just deleted the entire top deck by accident (all the yellow and green including the galley in the center)
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This bluerender is awesome! Yes i'm just going to drop this like that. Now you might know what I ment with a tight fit for all the equipment. this is evolving in a wip topic more now, then just an help about the triple expansion, hope you don't mind. Anyone daring to guess which ship it is? (hint its a famous Dutch ship) Bart
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Ah thanks I'll have a look at those render programmes The whole ship is going to be 127 studs long and 21 wide, to keep it to scale. It's going to be a squeeze to get all the details in. The Lego ladders are already to wide imo. Bart.
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Ah you fixed it like that! the open space in the cross-head is used as a frame to knock the walking beam up and down. without a pin securing it in place. clever! PS. how do you get such live like pictures out of a digital programme? I use LDD, is there a hidden feature or do you use a different programme? Thats how they are situated into the engine room. on the left the boiler(room) as I have it now.
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yes that's almost exactly whats its like. More pictures of the blue prints of the steam engine, here http://weergang.tumblr.com/post/157240975815/weergang-lego-triple-expansion-scale-140-the LDD of the engine as it is now: http://bricksafe.com/pages/Bart/triple-expansion-steam-engine yes they are in principle the same as the engines of the Titanic, only would the engines from the titanic be 23 bricks high in this scale, the low pressure cylinder would be 8 studs wide alone. *although I think myself as knowledgeable when it comes to steam technology I'm not quit sure why they had air pumps. It an misleading term for the condensate pump. http://www.thesteamboatingforum.net/technology/pumps.html Bart
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It's a steam engine. The high pressure steam (170lbs /12 bar in this example) enters the high pressure cylinder, the small one, expands a bit thereby moving the cylinder. Then goes to the middle intermediate cylinder and does the same again. Ending in the big low pressure one to give off the last energy. Then the steam goes into the condenser turning it back to water, before being recycled back into the boiler. This model was used in a ship (build 1909 launched 1910) But during the age of steam they where widely used for anything that needed to be moved by rotating. The triple expansion is considered the high point en steam engine evolution. After they went to turbines, but that's a whole different story. On this model I left out the valves and valve arms riding on cams on the crankshaft, there is no space. The small diagonal piece is supposed to be the lever to switch from forward to reverse. Bart
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I'll look up some information. I can look at the original blue prints too. We used to share ldd files via brick link isn't it? Let's find out if I still have an account there. Copy paste the engine out of the mock up of the ship it's going in, I'm not ready to share that yet. Bart