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I just searched it, It's awesome!!!
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Great layout and fantastic work even on non-train related creations!!! I love that cableway, the church and that fantastic console for controlling all trains! Ciao! Davide
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Ciao @Hod Carrier - thanks!!! - I've seen your post on the new Octrainber WIP - so I'll move all the updates there The locomotive will be simple and made by really common Technic parts. I will consider also the "money factor" in the whole exercise. Of course making it in normal bricks could allow to have a more precise and detailed model. However, the use of new Technic parts on trains has always been fascinating me (do you remember the "spaghetti effect" yellow wagon)? One note: the Circuit Cubes motor and Hub are making price higher, but they are not so expensive, considered all the good opportunities they offer. Ciao! Davide -
I'm no good at all as a gumshoe detective!!!
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Thanks!!! It's a very appreaciated compliment, sincerely! Thank you sir!!!
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Hi all, this year I'll give a try to the Octrainber contest , without any willing other than to participate I am beginning to design and project my entry, which will participate in "internal combustion" topic.Probably it will be also considered as "fantasy" since my prototype is not a real locomotive, but a toy made by PIKO company in the East Germany of the 60s. This locomotive represents a somewhat Diesel version of a DB E69.05 locomotive. The E69 maybe could not be classified a "Critter" since it was a locomotive widely used on main lines.But a Diesel version of it...surely less powerful, slower...would automatically be used as shunter in a Station somewhere, sooner or later.The Piko model has ME-4401 identification code and was sold under the "Junior" product line, targeted to younger train fans and starters. It is described sometimes as "Spielzeug Lokomotive" and sometimes as "Rangierlok" (shunter).It is a model that is still existing and sold, under the new Piko "MyTrain" product line. The project is to create a Circuit Cubes based locomotive - built with Technic parts (honoring the old mechanical toys).Ciao!Davide
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Thank you very much
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I feel some James Bond villain end-of-movie speech around here ...but for the moment I'll use my secret weapon, the weapon of wise men - WAITING on the riverside for some other hints to pass! In the meantime I'll give it a try a foot more that you've (hoping that you don't lack one ) means 3 foot - or 914mm - sounds like a gauge, common in the USA. 2 foot, or 600mm gauge is more popular in Europe. two bogies but "none of the parts will appear", so also the fake suspension of Lego wheels won't be there. An internal chassis, maybe with coupling rods? Or maybe without. It's not steam , so we are left with electric or diesel. Puffing means smoke deriving from internal combustion, so I choose Diesel motor. BUT. it can be a Diesel with mechanical/hydraulic or electric transmission. Let's see - this could narrow a lot the choice! For sure it will be a small, cute locomotive, and to power it you may use something small. I have this feeling, because also mine has the same need. (CLUE!) MWUUUUHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH HA HA HA HA. ha. ha. Ciao! Davide
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I will follow this thread with extreme interest - I'm curious to understand what will come out I saw from Flickr that the competition has started also for this year - I did not remember it at all (I'm aging badly!) I would like to participate too, the "Critters Locomotives" topic is something I could manage in a little time, but I have to read HOW to participate. Ciao! Davide
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Thank you very much!!! They are nice locomotives indeed and deserve to be reproduced in any scale! Ciao Sven!!! Thanks as usual - the CAD is always Stud.Io, but in the rendering panel I chose "POV-RAY" instead of "Photorealistic". My poor spare computer (a barebone with a Celeron fanless and Intel Graphic card, even if souped up with a lot of memory and fast SSDs), has no power to generate high level renderings, but it seems times and quality is acceptable with this POV-RAY method. It has a more "playful" feeling I hope to get back to a more powerful rig, but for the moment prices are way too high due to "chip crisis".
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Great wagon - fantastic details and clever building!!! Ciao! Davide
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Hi all, after seeing the beautiful V60 created by @Asper, I realized that I've never tried to represent it (I started with the V80 and V100). Being the iconic 7760 historically identified a s a V60, I did not pay too much attention to that specific group of locomotives. But it's a nice shunter and has a pretty complex shape, so I wondered if it could be possible to replicate it in 12v-style. The result is pretty similar to the 7760 and to the red little locomotive shown near the car-loader in 7777 book. The front hood starts in 4 wide, then becomes 5-wide to return again to 4-wide. The rear part of the cabin is 5-wide and features low doors (standard train doors were too big). 2x1x2 blue windows are going all around the cabin (no absurdly expensive 3x1x2 windows needed!) I did not mean to make it too complicated, but at least representing the enlarging/restricting body was mandatory to make it different from the 7760. Paint scheme and the headlights were made to elaborate a bit the front and rear parts. Some handrails made with bars could have been nice, but were not existing as parts at the time. I made also the red version with yellow stripes - just to see how it was like. The more I look at it the more I think also the V100 needs some restyling, now! That's all for the moment! Ciao! Davide
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Thanks Emanuele! As soon as I go back to the house, I will make another photo with the full consist! I hope to take also a photo with some snow this year! Thanks Asper!!!
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After the Lima Toy version, finally the poor DB V80 in its "real", 4-axles version, with some DB wagons
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Ciao! It's a very basic thing, using the 2x2 plate with pin hole for the coupling. The coupler is there to join wagons, but it was never tested "in motion". This drawing features the turntable, but if you are planning only to create static models - it can be replaced by a normal 2x2 plate
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Thanks Thorsten for being always supportive!!! Good point about the "size" - I think that this thread could easily accept also other MOCs under 6-wide, since also 2 or 3 wide creations can present interesting solutions and details
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Thanks, sir! Here's the last render , the three main passenger starter sets together (101800B, 103400T and 101500T) Bright colors, decent value for money and possibility to expand were the main (and it seems successful) keys to attract both kids and parents at the time!
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Here's some other variations on the Lima H0 starter sets. During the 80s the simplified DB V80 was used by Lima in many starter sets, representing passengers or freight trains. These trains were using simple wagons, sometimes shorter than they should be , colored in different (very colorful) liveries and branded after DB, FS, SNCF railways without so much adherence to the real prototyes (starting from the V80 with 2 axles ). All these locomotives used the Lima "G" motor, which was quite powerful and was used in a lot of other Lima models, with different gear ratios. In the back row, a DB version, a SNCF red and white version (never existed in reality, imho) and the yellow one, which is not a Lima model - I made it after a real prototype, which was a V80 used by RAILLOC private company in Italy. In the front row , the black/blue/gray V80 with no brand (used in freight set 103401T), another blue SNCF (set 101800b) and then, a very strange livery in white/gray with red and orange stripes, SNCF brand and with 9530 number printed on its sides. It's really strange, but somehow appealing. Set number in this case is 103400T. I bought these three sets mentioned above recently and are really nice toys.. I just prepared also the wagons of the 103400T (the real wagons of the set are a bit longer - but also the short version existed and was used with the same locomotive) so I can show you the full consist. Adding a power supply/regulator of the time completes the picture of an happy kid on 25th December's afternoon. Ciao! Davide
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Spectacular locomotive, nice, well proportioned and full of features!!! Great! Ciao! Davide
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You are perfectly right!!! In fact this LGB starter set (90450) was the inspiration of the yellow Toy locomotive. The blue locomotive seems a rework of the Playmobil locomotive 4025/4050, developed together with LGB. For the yellow locomotive the side ladders, open cabin and big black handrails were simply translated in Lego parts . In the first picture of this thread you can see that the handrails were similar to the LGB model, then I modified them many times during these years.
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Lovely Schienenbus!!!
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Hi and welcome! Personally I've tried several times to rebuild old 241 and 242 models, in order to get the "blue era" feeling and to replicate it in some MOCs. Buildings are more complex than it seems to rebuild, some trains are simple modifications of already existing official models. Some creations are really difficult to reverse engineer since photos are too small or not so defined. There are some buildings (e.g a bridge made with rails) introducing other ways to connect bricks and plates - the early beginning of SNOT technique. The great thing about 241 and 242 books is the amount of good ideas spread here and there. The fact that online there's less blue era related stuff is probably due to the fact that the Lego train system had a boom in its "gray era" of the 80s. The blue era 12v system was somehow at the beginning, introducing electric points, but nothing more. 12v system of the 80s was improved and surely more appealing, introducing some features similar to real modelling scales (H0, O , G) . Nonetheless, blue era is fascinating - and still possible to be "rebuilt" (paying attention to all the specific parts of the era). Ciao! Davide
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Great design Sérgio! There are so many details and many inspiring solutions (the ladders, the windscreens)!!! It is really recalling the prototype! Ciao! Davide
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Ciao Sven! Thanks again!!! The lack of those 4-axle chassis is something I really miss too, but maybe I found something similar that can serve to this scope: Better if you look at the wagons inside Flickr, so you get the full size - these black bases are from Newqida (or some other producer from China) and I bought them in England. These can fit easily a 48 studs-long platform made by Lego plates. With some parts (Technic, normal Lego - whatever you find appropriate) you can lock the platform on the chassis. The only "drawback" is that there's no buffer like the LGB wagons so it/they must be built. The good thing is that these chassis can be used both for 1:32 (Scale 1) and 1:22,5 (G Scale) wagons. If you need the link , I can give it to you without problems. Ciao! Davide
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Thanks a lot! Yes the new motor is on another planet if compared to the M Motor, which is anyway quite powerful (I did not expect that!!!). And for battery change you are perfectly right - I had to dismantle the hood each time! It was not practical at all Thanks, sir!!! Your feedback is always appreciated!