Hrw-Amen
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This good, it really does look like the real thing in the photographs, the carriages may be long for a LEGO train but for yours they look just the right length.
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It is always nice to see these bits of railway landscape and to see that they work. Would love to build one but I know I have nowhere I could store it.
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This is really nice with loads of differing details and shapes in the build, this makes it interesting to look at from many angles and multiple times as you always notice something different ech time you look at it.
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You have captured the look of the original series very well here and it certainly is better than I could do. The corridors with the curved wall is really nice touch. It will be a good layout when you have done the extensions.
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It does look nice for a first try. I guess most of use start with a lot of red and white, I know I did. Maybe to make the wheels go round the curves better you could build the middle set to have a little lateral movement. It would require building the actual bogies though rather than just using the standard wheels, but should be easy enough if you have the parts that is. There are some examples on this site somewhere if you wanted inspiration. (None of my own though I must add.) But a good one for the start, very nice.
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I have made a small signal box to go with the only junction on the only bit of track I can leave made up in my house, that being the bit that runs behind our chairs and is out of the way and too hard to get too to take it up and put it down all the time. Pity as it is the most sculptured bit as the rest (Apart from the station.) is just plain track. Anyway, here it is. I intend to put it between the workmen's hut and the water tower taken from the Constitution Express.
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A nice little engine to make from that set. Looks good.
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Nice old fashioned looking build here to the engine and the carriage. I remember those old style blocky carriages, they were really good in their day and now hold a nostalgia value to so many of us.
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Yes, nice model but you would not want to get stuck in your car half way across a crossing with that coming towards you!! Not that you would want to do it with any train coming towards you, really, but that would be worse! I think? Nice purpley friendly looking until your in front of it any way! It is good to see Friends getting into trains as well.
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Great build. What does this machine actually do? Is it for laying sleepers or something?
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Lego Displays at ToysRUs and other stores
Hrw-Amen replied to DrJB's topic in General LEGO Discussion
My local toy shop had a couple for sale recently as they were having a clear out. They were very reasonably priced but for me they were of little use as everything was stuck together, even the wheels on the truck in the case was stuck so they would not turn, the figures head were stuck and everything so I did not bother with it. I did consider getting one but it was just stuck too much to do anything with it other than use it as a display which was a bit boring. -
Great build, so many different themes all at once with so much detail.
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I note that on the LEGO online store they now have for sale a LEGO Servo motor 88004. It is rather expensive coming in at £20.99 in the UK. I was wondering though has anyone got one and despite the price are they ant good for things like electrification of point operations or mechanisms to uncouple shunters from trucks etc? Has anyone used one for either of these things so as to get an easy LEGO solution, or is this not what they are for at all?
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I found the solution to the front truck with pistons was to make the middle part that connects it to the rest of the train really thin and to use the very small train wheels as well, then you have plenty of room. There is a photograph in my post on the subject.
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Oh yes, I see. I had never seen that before on one of them. I just assumed they must have little shunters in each station, or a turn table of some description. I must say though even with that set up on the cowcatcher, it does appear to be a little flimsy for heavy railway carriages and wagons?
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Looks like a really spooky carriage.
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Is this axle 7 is too long in PF train motor set?
Hrw-Amen replied to mikezang's topic in LEGO Train Tech
I have always used the 6L ones that come with the motors and they work fine with the side plates. I have made some up using the technic bricks with axles and / or just greebled motors with the side plates in some models, but I have always used 6L axles with no problems. -
This looks like a nice train and in many ways it appears to me to out ghost the ghost train in the way it kind of looks like a train, but not really if you get what I mean? However I am a little lost, I have to admit that Technic is not something I have done a lot of, but what is the mechanism in the tender all about? What does that do? It may be clear for some more engineering orientated people but I am not able to work it out?
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I put dirty and damaged bricks into the replicator and press the waste button. When I need new ones I say 'Replicator 10 blue 2X8 bricks.' and so on and they magically appear fresh and new in the same place the dirty one vanished from. If only it were that simple! I have found the warm soapy water and small nylon brush to be the best, it is very time consuming and tedious but it gets the results. Then just rinse them and lay out on dry cloth / paper towel / sheet depending on how many there are. Hopefully though fingers crossed I don't have to do it that many times.
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I will try and get a video at some point, maybe at the weekend I have time as I have to lay the track as well. It really is a good kit to use as a custom base for old American style steam trains, simple yet with loads of details. I may try another American style steam train at some point, possibly one without a Cow Catcher. I was thinking to myself 'how do they run in reverse, or shunt with that great big thing on the front?'
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Certainly looks retro. I seem to recall having some old 4.5V carriages with the Trans Europe Express logo. They have transparent bricks as windows even back then. Yours is a nice mix of old and new and doubtless would look good running on a set up of either type?
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This is nice, it is good that it can tow other trains. I bet it looks spooky all glowing at night!
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Here is my version of the Constitution Express. I have like so many others modified it to have working running gear. It was more tricky than I imagined and I went through several versions until getting one I was happy with the look of. I tried using the original wheels, like those on the tender, but they kept hitting the running gear. I did try having the front truck as just two wheels, but then there just seemed a big gap. I tried moving the truck forwards, but again too much of a gap, it just looked silly. Eventually I made the truck as thin as possible and used the very smallest train wheels and it seems to work a treat. It is quite a small locomotive actually so the Power Functions gubbins is all in the tender. I then found I had enough bits to actually make another one in red and black. I really wanted to use the red wheels on it, but I lacked them in the ones that fit on the motor and also I have never seen any of those smallest train wheels in red? I am not sure that they even make them, I have some in black and white and that is it. Now I have two of them I did a name for the red and black one, any ideas? I have made a Western style carriage in both green (Not Dark Green, I don't have nearly enough.) and red, one for each engine. I'll post pictures when I have processed them.
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I think most of the modern trucks and vehicles over the last few years have been a lot better than previous examples. True that they are sometimes, even most of the time releasing things that have come before, but some of those old four stud wide sets do not have the same level of details and whilst we may have enjoyed them as kids, I now want something a bit better. I would prefer they built them seven studs wide to get two min-figures side by side in the cab, but they are still a lot better than they used ti be. I say that without knocking the past, they were great at the time, just not as great as they are now.
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That is a really nice looking scene, it does look like it would,be a good place for a mountain retreat away from the noise of city life. I can imagine that the building is fragile as you said, but non the less you have done a very good job of getting ti together and such nice scenery as well.