monai
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just paint them they will look wonderful and real
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Very nice again, now it will be mandatory, after Christmas, to take some photos of the entire collection, perhaps put in parallel to enjoy the BR monumentality. Sergio and Eros
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Really nice, and what a collection! have you some display cabinet? it would be wonderfull to see them alltogether. In this decade, after the BR96, I love the BR 59 and her "mother" the OBB 100.01 but SIX coupled axles are perhaps too much for Lego geometries.. good work Sergio and Eros
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hi, perhaps you should have a look at this topic: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=104603&hl=%2Bblue+%2Bcrane and the 4.5v based trains (above all Thomas which is very close to the 112 architecture) you can find in the brickshelf galleries. the beauty of Lego is that you can play today in the sixties way (as I did 50 years ago) and go ahead if you want Sergio and Eros
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Hi Congratulations, it's a very interesting model, as usual from you, a lot of intriguing details, your ability to insert the lights is awesome. What about the rubber insertion on the BBB wheels? does it need some turning ability? best regards Sergio
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yes it could be, but there are not many 3d printing services still available where I live (a 3d printer is rather expensive), then you have to build up a computer ready numerical project. Perhaps is still faster (I don't know if cheaper) to ask a mechanical shop to turn a metal wheel, at least for full wheels. 3d will be the future (http://www.bigbenbricks.com/track/track.html). Up to now buying a spare wheel from LGB or Marklin should be better. What is amazing is the reality of the ensemble, the Lego track are really too simplicistic and unnatural for such creations.
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The flange problem is only a minor issue for me, too, as I need the LGB rails anyway (for a 1:20 Accucraft Live Steam Engine) - and unfortunately, I have neither room nor money for yet another layout with low-profile gauge 1 track... Wow, these loks, together with the AsterHobbies ones, are the dreams of every rail modellist: 1:20 means it is a "schmallspur" on a 45mm gauge LGB track, just a question, are you using live steam inside your home? Now I understand your considerations about the wheels but you should take into account the fact that BBB and Lego large wheels are spoked ones, so if you need a full wheel for some shunter the problem is still there. best regards Sergio
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A really Lego masterpiece. Well you are in competition with Marklin gauge 1 rolling stock... Your cornerstone work poses some questions about the future of Lego train scales: 1) what about the possibility to build some larger locomotives given the maximum wheel size now available? do you foresee to use some LGB or Marklin wheel (BBB are not Lego too), in order to avoid the flange problem too? 2) given that the scale are changed, the actual Lego track system is definetely ruled out from the game, I presume this way to build will be a bridge over the universal model railway comunity (you can run on their tracks but not on Lego ones). I hope this will open new horizons for AFOL comunity. If I remember well something related was posted by Anticyclone http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=77956 with my best regards and compliments Sergio p.s.: only one small point; why, given this scale, the lateral door of the second wagon seems not to open?
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Thanks a lot, I felt somehow "heretic" for some comments on the comunity. I only wished to replicate a beautifull locomotive by means of a tremendously versatile toy, but it's impossible to make everything for Lego too. I wonder if someone has tried to use metal train wheels from the (gauge1) model railway world in Lego to solve the deep flange trouble.
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Next MOC: 1:33 GHH G7.1 (0-8-0) steam locomotive with PF
monai replied to Sven J's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Really wonderfull. I love the detailed boiler and the way you realize the tender suspensions system.This is the confirmation that, for selected model, a exact scale building is possible. Obviously the great step to another track system helps a lot; in a 1:32 or 1:30 scale the realtive dimensions are better reproduced with Lego bricks and, above all, you have an enormous choice in track geometries. You'll face the disappointment of purists but, since Lego seems to have dropped out of train track system I think the change will be mandatory. Only one thing, since you use non Lego parts, why don't you think to upgrade the rods of your loks? you can make them by yourself or to buy from the market, many Afols do that. sincerely Sergio and Eros -
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The wheel diameter is in fact THE constraint for the right scale in Lego, I was lucky because the BR96 diameter is in right scale (1:38) with the Lego XL wheel, but normally the wheels are absurdly small with a abnormally high flange. In principle is possible to customize the right gauge (peko code 250 rails and self made tires..), but the right wheel is very difficult, well we have to admit we are playing with a toy born for other things.. but when is possible the results are remarkable. If the scale will be 1:33 I presume the gauge will be 45mm so spur G LGB (for the flange problem), I admit to be very very curious... gruss Sergio
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I'm flattered in having help you to post your beautiful work. Let me ask you some more technical questions: you have said to use the scale 1:30, but if I remember well the gauge 1 is 1:32, there is a specific reason for this change? you are certainly a very serious railway modellist if you are used to work with Marklin spur 1 (by the way the Marklin br96 spur 1 is a dream), from longtime I was wondering how the Lego wheels could run on these code 200 (is it right?) rails; you have said is difficult due to the out of scale flange but this is a problem for the BBB XL wheels or for Lego ones too?. The LGB are code 335, definitely too high, as you certainly know they are conceived for "Schmalspur" (spur G), are you using them in a "garten bahn"? A final question, will you use the Lego PF on gauge 1 (45mm) or in standard Lego gauge (38mm)? with my best wishes and impatience to see your next models. Sergio
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Simply wonderfull, I'm very happy that other people are thinking about the exact scale modelling with Lego. The static modelling is perhaps the way to achieve the best results, as I said elsewhere (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=115207).
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thanks for the appreciation, well the variety of parts involved in such a project is so great that I should have put so many different orders only to get few small pieces that the timescale would explode (and my conto too..), it took 2 years to complete it (I'm doing other things in the meantime like working... ) so I decided to use (really very few) pieces I had in different color and paint them, as you said when I get the exact color the change will always be possible.. 9 studs are the exact scale 1:38 with the loco original width. Since the very beginning the goal was to make an exact scale model, everything was conceived to this, also the maximum velocity (36sm/sec)x 38=50km/h.
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Many thanks for your comment, I agree for the references, in fact I loved the works of Brictrick's, and those of Ulimy too (http://http://www.br...ery.cgi?m=ulimy I also agree that, in playing with Lego, the purpose justify the means (as Machiavelli said). Perhaps there is room also for static railway modelling in the community, after all a real Mallet design has the first boogie fixed. (We say "the world is beautiful because is different").
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thanks for compliments, unfortunately is V1, I know that V2 has vastly improved but it costs a lot more..
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thank you very much, said by you is particularly appreciated
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Now it's opened: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/erosergio/Gt2x4-4/video1.avi http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/erosergio/Gt2x4-4/video2.avi
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See the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_modelling_scales
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Brickshelf don't open to public untill they have checked the content. Since I've posted the videos yesterday evening (central Europe time) it will be available today (hopefully).
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I have added two videos about this creation, they will be available on Brickshelf. I beg your pardon for their bad quality but I'm not well supplied for these things.
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right, since there was no room for 6 AA or even AAA batteries, I used a 9v one, but the capacity was too low for such a locomotive (in reality is the PF receiver that ask more current) so I have connected 2 batteries in parallel and now it's working pretty good. The velocity is also in scale, I mean: the original Gt 2x4/4 had a max. speed of 50km/h, which are some more than 36cm/sec in Lego scale.
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there are no question in playing with a toy.. You are speaking about what a Lego model should be? ask to the firts Lego target, a child, and we'll see the answer. Perhaps I'm not skill enough for your taste but there are railway models that are roughly made to simulate the real use and weathering. I wonder if you prefer those un-natural Lego mountains brilliant and with studs that you can find in every event. Ok they like them and there is a lot of skill in doing that, I will never say that they have to change also if i dislike them. Let me suggest you to read the Railbrick magazine n.6 (pag.20) "the greatness of geatrix".
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You are right, it is at its limit, but the space was that, no room for XL, perhaps a Large one. The playability was not the first goal, perhaps to make exact scale model the final way would be a static MOC (also because a real Mallet has the first trolley fixed). I post where I want till they accept me, I'm not a LEGO taliban.