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we defenitely have to do that! mine will only be a render though. what we could do is render both models side by side. tomorrow i am going to work on adding the tan stripe to the red one and attaching the front and back windows properly. another thing to work on is the roof electrical systems mainly the isolators and electric switching gear ontop of the roof

was ment more as a joke rather than beeing serious btw. and also competition is never a bad thing i am in it for fun and not for proving that i am better than someone/wanting fame or the first place! side note i could also just remove the pantograph of mine so it could go the other way round aswell! anyways i ofcourse wish you the best of luck with both of your designs! edit: once the competition and build is finished i will also upload the studio model of both color variants to my dropbox for all of you to build and have fun with

nice solution for powering the cute mow vehicle! as for enhancing the toy loco dont go too far otherwise you are going to end up with something that looks like mine!

also the rails are shiny silver and not dark bluish gray!

aah someone using model railroad software/hardware to controll lego trains. always nice to see! as soon as fxbricks releases their motor i am going to jump on that bandwagon aswell though i will use the full system with current carrying rails and decoders in the locos.

nice looking model and welcome to the competition! nice to see some electric locos i thought i was almost the only one doing one!

true. for me going completely 7 or 8 wide except for something like small details like railings etc feels like cheating 8 wide feels like easy mode to me and no challenge

v2 has a stronger motor driver for more current asfar as i am aware

here is my latest progress this time focussing on the undercarrige and i also tried out the dark green DR livery. i am now kinda undecided whether to send in the red or the dark green one as they both look equally cute as you can see i added the earthing pole for the overhead line to the side aswell as an air tank used for braking. here is the view from the other sides where some kind of radiator resides

thats quite the beast you built there has to weigh a ton but looks good! as for powering this beast a buwizz would be an option aswell

i will edit the first post to a sumary of the progress and some background information to the original once i am done with the model.

you are obviously correct with the stripe it is more of a tan color though depending on the picture you are looking at and very thin so idk whether i should include it or not and yes it is a little plow underneath the buffer as the prototype was used in the german alps where it snowes more.

that is true i didnt know this when i was new to the forum and i am not the person to read the guidelines very thorougly either like reading manuals and stuff beforehand is not my thing i just start with something and when something doesnt work only then will i look in the manual.

that depends on the types of motors and the gearing attached to them if you have equal gearing in the loco and the cars you are good to add more motors by just stacking the plugs of the motors at the pfx brick but if you are using different motors you need to dive into programming/rpm matching with powered up or with something like an arduino to controll the motors of the loco independent of the cars inorder to have the same output rpm

yea true the photo thing tripped me up aswell! i think they should make it more clear like say below the thing where you can add pictures that this isnt supposed to be used for pictures in threads

My model is basically done so here is the summary of the progess/background info about the prototype for it. First off all i will do the summary: Summary: It all started when @Paperinik77pk started his topic about the e69 "spielzeug" locomotive. i was thinking to make a really nice e69 locomotive myself. I did one as a kid but it obviously wouldnt hold up to moy standarts today. i always liked the e69 because it kinda looked like the crocodile but wasnt as big and i really like small locomotives. i then posted my thoughts about building the e69 in a more "realistic" fashion in the topic that @Paperinik77pk was posting his progress in and he really encouraged me to participate in this competition. I choose the 005 like him because of all of the locos in this "baureihe" this one looked the best to me. my first step was designing the basic shape of the loco: this is the first screenshot i took of the design. first model had the hoods non inset compared to the body. the whole loco was 6w in this step i tried to make the hoods 5w inorder to create the offset between the cab and the hoods fom the prototype but this resulted in an ugly gap because the top half of the hoods is completely snotted. my next steps where primarily aimed at reducing the gaps: as you can see here i was able to eliminate the gaps completely in this one. next up where improving the looks of the headlights and adding the vents: this further complicated the snot design. in this step i also added some details to the undercarrige of the model like improved looks of the snowploghs and the sanding boxes. next step of the way was by far the most time consuming and frustrating one: i dint post all the iterations i went through but i can tell you there where many! this one is one of the many iterations i went through: this one was tantalizingly close just a gap of 1/4 plate but still a gap. for the next design i finally caved in and stopped trying to make the rear hood half snotted which made things work: inbetween the two i also posted a pic of the last attempt and the model i did all those years ago as a kid: really shows my moccing skills improvement! anyways next model was all about detail and another livery: i added the earthing pole for the overhead line and some more details to the two liveries. here is the other side with some sort of radiator in the next iteration i added the tan stripe to the red one: next step was improving the looks of the pantograph and making it look more like the "einheitsstromabnehmer" this is the first render of the red livery: @zephyr1934 encouraged me to do a dark red one so here it is: these are the final renders for this model. I had to change some colors due to them beeing not available: rear view: As i am done with the model here is the file for all the versions: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0gvbojy3d6ihmz/e69 v6.io?dl=0 History of the prototype: Here is a quick summary of the history of this loco and her sisters. All five locos where bought by the LAG (localbahn aktien gesellschaft) and where used on the small branch line from murnau to oberammergau. They where given female nicknames. the line was first electrified in 1904 with a single phase electrical system with the voltage of 5.5kv and a frequency of 16 Hz. the frequency was later increased to 16 2/3 Hz to make conversion from the national grid with its frequency of 50 Hz easier. Later, in 1954/55 the voltage was raised to 15kv to match the rail overhead voltage in the rest of germany. Locos: E69 001 (LAG 1, Katharina) this was the first loco purchased and was notably the first single phase electric locomotive in germany. it had a very weird pantograph with two lyra style arms touching the overhead line. this one is also the only one thats not able to run today due to the increased voltage where its drive motors and electrical systems would have to have been replaced which was never done. it now resides in the lokwelt in freilassing right at the border to austria. i actually have seen this one in person already. e69 002/e69 003 (LAG 2, Pauline/LAG 3, Hermine) the next locos purchased by the lag to cope with the increase in traffic for the "passionsspiele" in oberammergau where the e69 002 and the e 69 003. these where basically identical except for their color. the 002 was green and the 003 was red. the 003 was also the oldest regular running locomotive of the DB when it went out of service in 1982. e69 002 e 69 003 e 69 004 (LAG 4, Johanna): the LAG 4 has a bit of a weird history. it originally was built by combining one half of the 3 phase trial locomotive produced by siemes for the trials at marienfelde-zossen and a new electrical system to form a quite odd looking locomotive with a cab in the rear of the loco. the other half was used to create this industrial shunter for siemens in berlin which gives you an idea what it looked like as no picture of it in this configuration exists: i it is the right one with the cab on one side. later it was converted to look more like the others with a central cab but higher hoods to acomodate the bigger electrical systems needed for more horsepower: the loco now looks like this and isnt able to drive sadly. e69 005 (LAG 5, Adolphine) this one is the one i built and is by far the most powerful one of them all with over 820hp and a design that looked bulkier. it at first had a green livery but this was later changed to red with a tan or yellow stripe depending on the picture you look at. this loco was also a longer than the others and was one of the first to include a modern safety system by default. here is what she looks like today: she is all up and running today and occasionally pulls historic trains. edit: here is some further background info from a german book about locomotives:

lipos are a bit dangerous if you dont know what you are doing so id soggest the coin cells as they are small light and fairly safe to use without additional circuitry as for the e 69 havent had a lot of time to work on it and i am still struggling on the half plate gap edit: did some more thinkering with it right now and my first attempt was this: whith this iteration i reduced the gap between the bricks to about a quarter of a plate though one brick wasnt held on atall and had would rattle around because of the air gaps around it. so i finaly caved in and stopped trying to do the half snotted hood and this eliminated the gap! next up will be trying to make the roof electrical equipment look more prototypical and just general detailing

aah thought i had seen this before but you are correct space might be an issue

the pantograph now looks a lot better than before! wait the loco really only had 62hp? ok i guess you dont need that much power for pushing a single car on a straight and level track but still 62 hp is very little i would have guessed the loco had like 150-200 hp but 62? never would have guessed that!

nice progress there! for the baztery depending on the voltage these things need and what controll sceme you want there are two options: a single cell lipo (dangerous without proper cutoff circuit as they dont like overdischarge and may or may not catch fire in the process), one or two button cells or triple a batteries should fit aswell however that depends on the lenght of the space inside your cute mow vehicle

first of all great idea for a model and great first steps but what about instead of having something pushing the wagon not just have the magnet retract inwards and create the neccessary distance for the decoupling that way

looks pretty good!

ill probably skip this one as i have no real time for it right now (octraintober oersonal stuff etc.)

join bmrs flickr group here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/3699484@N23 then go to discussions and to your category: https://www.flickr.com/groups/3699484@N23/discuss/72157721915096853/ and post your moc there beware only one loco is allowed so make a render with the color sceme that looks best! only post it there if you dont want to make changes to it though as this will be the model you enter the competition with! (as far as i know i am new to octraintober aswell) if you want to make changes to it post it in the wip discussion first or just make a flickr collection wit octraintober 2021 in the title. good luck and have fun!

here is a quick comparison between the current moc and the moc i did all those years ago as a kid! as you can see the new one is a lot bigger and closer to the original but the old moc has some toy like charm!