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    Great work!!! The inverted vintage buffers, the stickers...I love it!!!
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    Great locomotives!!! Nice bogies system!
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    Very good tilting system!!! It is a great train!!!
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    Thanks!!! Here it is in "reality" , normally these were seen in green, in some cases DB changed the paint scheme. These exist also in four axle/two-bogies version (4yg). This evening I modified the wagon, making it a bit more detailed. Now doors are narrower than the rest of the body, and better resemble the original wagon. I made a custom base, keeping the total lenght of 24 studs, so it is longer than normal two axles and shorter than 4 axles 12V original wagons. It still is way shorter than it should be, but making it longer would have caused some proportions issues comparing to the other 12V rolling stock. I had to change a bit the steering link, but it works the same way and I did not made updated photos. Now I personally like it more than yesterday's version
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    What a beauty! What I really appreciate in your three models is the "feel" of British elegance in locomotive design. I'd really love to see a Stirling Single Driver made with the same style!
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    Thanks! Well, it is all a matter of using the right parts and color combination. The only thing I can suggest for gray era is spending a lot of time reading Lego catalogues, instructions and the "bible" for 12v/4,5v, which is the 7777 Idea Book. The parts are always the same - normal bricks and plates, wheels, 12v/4,5v motors, windows, doors, oldgray roof, light bricks - and some Technic and special parts (ladders, magnets, buffers, cylinders). 6-wide all the way. And stickers too! The bigger problem in gray era MOCs is they are pretty expensive (steam trains in particular), since made of vintage parts, in some cases really rare.. Yesterday I looked again at the Umbauwagen - I do not like the doors at all after all they are a distinctive detail of the real model - I have to find out a way to narrow the platform to 5 studs.
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    I love all of them! The solution you used in the 2-6-0 for boiler closing levers is very nice - may I use it on my clockwork locomotive #3? I would absolutely see more of these! Please go on also with narrow gauge trains!!!
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    Great job! Amazing train - the last photo is spectacular!
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    Hi all, this evening I prepared a wagon which was in my mind for some time, but I've never built. @jtlan mentioned it in the "castering effect" thread, showing us his two very nice Umbauwagen 3YG, which are built with new parts. Since these wagons are the perfect partners for DB BR78 locomotives, I tried to replicate it in gray era style. It is very simple and straight: the narrow part where the doors should be was not replicated interiors are similar to the 7725 undercarriage is quite simple - since it must leave space to the passive steering system I added a toilet, since it was a nice challenge. It does not have a door in the photos, so the toilet is visible. After some passengers complained, I closed the door. Steering system is very basic, and it leaves space for interiors (I just noted that the two red parts have "Pat Pend" markings - my 60s collection will be happy) . The only part not used in the gray era is the 6x24 train base. It can be made of plates, but I have a lot of them - and this is a good use. I cannot use the green color, but I saw the Umbauwagen was also made in blue as a wagon-lit. Here it is with my 12v BR78 and 7820 . Hope you like it! Ciao! Davide
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    Very interesting solution!!! Thanks for posting!
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    I once bought the "Enlighten" sets in 2010 - and quality was not so good. Wheels do not turn and must be reworked with Dremel tool, otherwise you have a train which cannot be moved even with two 9v motors. Enlighten models were straight rip-offs of Lego sets (apart two or three models). I bought a lot of them, since they were inexpensive and good to be used in the garden. They had boxes, simple but well done - no descriptions made with Google Translator...and the possibility to be ordered in plastic bags without boxes to save something. All in all I spent about 35 euros for a Super Chief with three units (I rebuilt the two heads copying the Lego one and created a MOC for B unit). I did not buy more since Enlighten disappeared and the wheel rework was a bit annoying. Now I see the Ausini sets are a bit more inventive - probably the quality is now a bit better than Enlighten (also prices seems higher). But some sets are really ugly. Welcome to new colors, welcome to a lot of things...but that blue half-thing-locomotive-train-whateveritis is quite hard to see. Come on, Ausini designers...you can make some nice MOCs also with non-Lego parts!!!
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    Very nice wagons! I like your spirit to keep them cheap and simple! I personally like the reddish brown since it remembers DB freight rolling stock. But also all black with coloured ends is not bad at all!!!
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    Thank you for the answer, I asked since I like more warm white lights and the currend PF lights are too blue for steam and in general all old locomotives and buildings.
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    Awesome creations, red wagons are really well designed!!!
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    Very nice, and surely an interesting attraction!!!
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    Really nice, they fit perfectly the lamp header! If I may ask - what kind of light do they emit? Bluish or yellowish?
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    Hi there @ColletArrow! Thanks! The idea started from the hand railcar and some track I had around on the desk...a man...some parts...the 7777 came immediately to my mind. Speed is ridiculous, but it can pull a small wagon with the 9v battery box and another light wagon, so I think a replica of the original wagons will be part of the set. I will build it in original colors in the next days, this one was made with the parts I had on the desk this afternoon!
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    Just for laughs!!! The train has wrong colors and during the photo shooting I mounted the roof in wrong position...but it was a simple and fun experiment after all. BTW...I'm still pushing the hand railcar!!! Bye! Davide
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    Hi there, @Hod Carrier - yes it absolutely looks odd, it is a "Toy Train" by all means! I wanted to recreate the Hornby "feel" which I like a lot. Buffers are very high, wheels are big and the whole locomotive is ridiculously tall I think performance is better due to BBB wheels, which have a smaller border, therefore on curves are less aggressive on track. The flywheel gives a bit of smoothness during the run, distance is increased thanks to the two pull-back motors and the big wheels helping to achieve a balanced gear ratio (speed and torque). But what really makes the difference is the reduced weight of the locomotive. Now I'm working on the small (single pull-back motor) locomotive, which is following the same "diet" - let's see how it works!
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    A little update: the tender is now finished and ready to run! I added a lever on the front of the boiler and gave it a more "British" look, by adding one white lamp on left side - which, if I'm not wrong, should mean that this is an ordinary freight train (please correct me if it is not so!). I add some more photos of the clockwork motor I made today : Bye! Davide
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    Thanks! The wagons seems bigger because...they actually are! As an example, the battery wagon is bigger to fit the battery box and eventually the IR receiver, plus the switch between the wheels. The locomotive is a bit smaller than 7720 (6x16 over buffers instead of 18). The other two wagons are a pure exercise on SNOT, I can make them smaller without problems...but I like them a bit more "realistic". Let's see, I'm still working on LDD to make some practice!
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    Hi all, after the arriival of BBB wheels, I finally completed the third clockwork locomotive. It is based on pre-war Goods Train No.2 made by Hornby Thanks to BBB wheels reduced profiles it manages well large curves. It works also on R40 radius curves, but looks a lot better on longer ones. The clockwork motor is quite the same as my previous version, only a bit lighter and made all in dark-stone grey color. Two pull-back motors are connected by two red 40-tooth gears, which power the rear big wheels. Motion to front big wheels is achieved trough coupling rods. It has no brake lever, since for winding up you need to keep it on one hand and you can stop the wheels with your fingers. So, being an unuseful weight, I did not include it. It is very light, since the boiler is made by empty cilinders and the body is made by panels. Gear ratio is 5:1 to the axle, then large wheels help to furtherly overdrive the gear ratio. I choose 5:1 since this locomotive will be part of a set, and needs to pull three very small and light wagons. The bolt works as flywheel, and it is put over a little piece of flexible Technic tube. No wheelspin at all allows a bit more travelling. Front wheels on bogie are completely independent, so they make less friction. Front bogie is made to follow the track and not to guide the locomotive, as in old Hornby models. On a mixed track made by straight and large curves it can manage 9 meters with a pair of wagons. I plan to replace the full coupling rods with @zephyr1934 ones, since they are much nicer and surely lighter than mine. Hope you like it! Davide
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    Very nice!!! I like the front lamp a lot! Plus, he backround adds an appropriate atmosphere of good ol'west!
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    Veeery nice!!! If I may ask, what kind of 9v motor are you using inside your locomotive? I also love to create some very small narrow gauge locomotives and it is really interesting to me how you created the powered rails - I could get rid of 9v batteries and get control of my locomotives once for all!
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    Hi all, also the Yellow wagon is now ready: The rendering sofware has cleaned the Tiles, but in reality the horizontal lines of the wooden planks are all visible. I'm not so much convinced about the side of the roof, I have to study a cleaner solution to avoid those blocky "holes". It is the first time I manage a slope not made by slope bricks, so any suggestion is really welcome. Here's the full set of wagons: I made also a version of both in reddish brown - and they sure look more realistic, but the 7720 was made with the above colors, and I'll keep them this way since I'd like the whole set to be recognisable as a reloaded version at first glance. The only thing that comes to my mind now is that the locomotive is too small - I think I've to increase its size. An E69-005 is 8700mm long, and a KKLM505 is 10005mm long over buffers - these new cars are longer than original ones, so also the locomotive needs to be bigger. I do not know, probably I'll keep my daughter's locomotive as it is (converting it to PF standard motor and IR system) and make a new one, more similar to the DB E69-005.
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