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  1. monai
    well it is what we are facing with . I mean, if the tracks system (including switches) is dimensioned to 38mm this is the right scale, other scales simply don't work, as our friend Tenderlok teaches us, the way to go to is to adopt other tracks system, if you need a 1:48 scale you should look for a 30mm gauge (O-scale has 32mm, acceptable). One thing is to play (like children do) other is to model in scale. Your technique is very interesting but I guess if the final products will be in scale. Sergio
  2. monai
    Very interesting, I was involved in exact model scaling and I wonder how do you scale at 1:48 if the Lego gauge is in 1:38 scale, without using non-Lego tracks. Let us forget the absurd minifig scale that, you said, is not proportionally correct; the railway modelling world is scaled by the gauge, and eventually I came to the conclusion that simplty not every prototype is available to Lego downscaling. The fact is that we are working with a "quantized" material (bricks) so we cannot model anything and the "selective compression" could be useful but not resolutive. Anyway your tecniques are very interesting and I'm very curious to see your brick-workss. best regards Sergio and Eros
  3. monai
    Lovely, also if I was too old for the 12volt grey era, this train was a must and you have put the icing on the cake Sergio abd Eros
  4. monai
    Oh yes, I've travelled also by train in Germany, but it was longtime ago, in my youth I was used to buy the inter-rail card, and they were "Deutsche BundesBhan", very clean precise and.. with working WC. Some friends who are living in your nice country said to me that with the privatization something has changed..now perhaps they are more similar to the italienische "ferrovia"?
  5. monai
    wonderful, as everything you've done so far.. but I hope the lavatory door will open otherwise... ( I'm a door addicted) I wonder if there would be some troubles when you negotiate a rise, do such a long trolleys have some tilting in the rail direction? best regards Sergio p.s.: let me know how do you order this huge amount of pieces in so short time.
  6. monai
    Really museum quality realization! In the sense used by Marklin and MicroMetakit or Lemaco. Finally you have implemented the doors, wonderfully as you usually do ! I'm rather frustrated by the wheels problem in scale modelling, perhaps I will return to open fantasy models, do you know it? waiting for your passenger car best regards and "good puff" Sergio
  7. monai
    Tenderlok is right the "2000" is a sticker but what a wonderfull idea: to paint with masks... it should be better than stickers!
  8. monai
    Since I'm rather expert in painting bricks..:-) I think it could be the right answer, but it has been made very well, probably with areograph, and, above all, using a mask to produce the 2000 writing on a white windscreen. The only doubt arises because the studs, on which the trans windscreen is mounted, are painted too and to force the windscreen on them should scratch the paint but nothing is visible.
  9. monai
    Many thanks, I have it, "und Ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch, aber hier man sprecht English". What about the Stalin loko with 7 axles? There is a very interesting site (unfortunately only in Italian) with a lot of news , photos and drawings about lokos of many countries www.marklinfan.net it deserves a visit.
  10. monai
    in Lego scale (1:38) BBB XL are just perfect but the problem are the tracks and, above all, switches! ME 104 or similar should work but for the points? there are some home made examples but it turns to be too cumbersome.. you also have to take into account the first Bissel and the 2 axles below the coal reservoir which are swinging.. honestly 97.4 is not very "elegant", it is challenging. What I dream of now is the austrian K.k.St.B. 100.01, simply wonderful also if it is not a lokotender, .. time, money.. we'll see.
  11. monai
    ..That's the question.., also in 1:38 there are too many lokos which are impossible to model cause the wheel diameter. Have you see the new wheels of "bricksonwheels" for his BigBoy? perhaps with a sufficient demand jaaptechnic would release theese large wheels, his site leave us a hope. http://www.jaaptechn...-3d-design.html As regard the Bulgarische br46 I've studied the problem quite in depth and it is very difficult to solve it, at least without your LGB tracks or ME 104. It was not only the most massive lokotender ever built but, also the only one to use 9 axles! so, given the wheel diameter (BBB XL), there are no ways to negotiate nor 56 or 72 studs curves, not to speak about switches. Perhaps we can think about it as exposition only model, but it would be a pity.. The Eisenerz Obb Br97.4 is the world largest rank loko and deserves some attention in realizing a working rank mechanism.. gruss Sergio
  12. monai
    Another masterpiece, you are on the verge to change the way lego trains AFOL community will think about scale modelling. As I've already said, producing exact scale models is possible in LEGO (at least for some specific models) but one have to leave the purism and accept some compromises. Eventually you didi it, accepting the zephyr rods, the fact that lego tracks are thought as a toy for kids and not for scale models. Your results open new perspectives that deserve attention. I love the third cylinder solution and the brake design, by the way I love the lokotenders too and I'm making some thoughs about the bulgarische br46 and the Eisenerz obb br97..(but perhaps they are too demanding). Ok these are my sincere compliments but.. why have you not make use of your indubitable skillness for details and functions to produce a real walve mechanism and opening doors? you should have enough room at 1:33 scale (gauge 1). with my best regards Sergio and Eros
  13. monai
    The more I look at your custom wheels the more I'm interested in, could you post some more detailed images of them, and above all, are they available somewhere, I mean there is some service that can produce them on request? many thanks
  14. monai
    I beg your pardon if I cite myself but let me invite you to see at http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=115207#entry2343753 a functioning walve system is possible, I've cut something and made by hands the rods , you have printed by yourself some pieces with much better finesse so your results are smoother and more elegant, but the possibility is real. I love the way you have produce the right scale feeling, definitely these wheels are a must for train lovers. regards
  15. monai
    Awesome model, like all your works, certified personally by Christiensen! only one question: since you have rightly produced the wheels and rods that Lego doesn't make, why have you not concluded the work and produced a real functionig walve system? I see only the eccentric crank and eccentric rod and a pseudo expansion link but not the radius bar and the walve stem. wit my best compliments
  16. monai
    The man did not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. (G.B.Shaw) But, as my brother (physician) says, we all are afflicted by a severe chronic degenerative desease called "registry office" or simply "age" .. I have still some images of steam locos in my childhood memory so perhaps is a "lost time research" Sergio
  17. monai
    Hi Sergio you're right but with hypothetical XXL wheels also standard lego curves should not be more comfortable and even worse the railway points. Right, this is perhaps the reason why Lego doesn't make different sizes, but the potential market of different track geometry should be at least investigated. Someone (Tenderlok) has gone on LGB tracks, ME is evolving, BBB has made some interesting projects but hasn't the financial strength for production, perhaps when this will be available, at reasonable price, the things will change.. waiting for another puff puff Sergio
  18. monai
    Hello Sergio, about the wheels I think that BBB has made many interesting molds that compensate the shortcomings of lego ...and about the steam I'm already focused on a new BR Ok for BBB, but they are limited too; in the Lego scale the XL are equivalent to a diameter of 1368mm, let's say actually too small for the great oldies steam beauties.. but another problem arises for the modern machine as well: the contemporary wheels are full, not spoked, and are larger then 646mm (the scaled diameter for the 17.4mm lego train wheels). Final raw: in order to play everything is good, to model at right scale Lego should give some more attention to AFOL(T) community, just as in the cars and trucks affairs. I'm waiting for the next BR Sergio
  19. monai
    Very nice, really impressive, like all your models. Welcome in the definitely "NO PURIST" club..(o my god, drilling!! ). As you have pointed out a real problem with Lego trains are the wheels. BBB L have no counterweights ok but they have holes for rods, I don't understand why Lego make tons of different car or truck wheels for Afol (the last porsche is not child targeted, I presume) and not some more size and shape for train fans, could the community make something in this sense? with all my compliments.. but don't forget the steam... Sergio
  20. monai
    Very nice work, I think the Lego modellism comunity has to accept the fact that Lego original track are not suited for a true scale model, it is a fact. compliments Sergio Monai
  21. monai
    Really nice, your work is very interesting and offers very clever ideas to overcome the difficulties of the Lego track geometry. many compliments Sergio and Eros
  22. monai
    Finally, I can enjoy your last creation which we have discuss so much about. I've just come back from an easter travel in Bayern (where I've visited the DB museum in Nurmberg, with a "modellarium" simply awesome), and I think it's really impressive, you got the spirit of the locomotive also working on a smaller than truth scale, many compliments. As you say the choice of 2nd and 5th flanged axles is on the bordeline to negotiate the Lego curves with Emerald type wheels, do you think it would work with BBB XL ones? (you know I should use them on my, for the moment, abandoned project). I hope you'll not leave the steam world, there are not only BR but plenty of wonderfull steam beasts to model regards Sergio and Eros
  23. monai
    really nice! plenty of details and charme. Those wheels are fantastic, could you said us something more about them? (what they come from, I guess O gauge but where have you found them?)
  24. monai
    I haven't got anything till now my exact e-mail is monai@oats.inaf.it, I'm very curious. Well as regard the doors it depends how the original is made, if it opens outward or inward etc. anyway your realization is exceptionally well made, you make a very clever use of the larger scale advantages. Sergio P.S.: ok I've realized late that you meant eurobricks messenger and not my personal e-mail, thanks again
  25. monai
    wonderfull, the rendering is impressive! Just one request: since you make exact scale model please put a photo of the original because it's very difficult to find images of this locomotive. Obviously for a tenderlok is almost impossible to have a detailed cab, if you want to make a self moving object, but perhaps a working door would add the icing on the cake. many compliments Sergio and Eros
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