SteamSewnEmpire
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I like your Berk a lot. It has toy-like proportions, but the detailing is first-rate. -
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I'm worried that they'll cop out on the rods like they did with the crocodile. It's odd how Lego doesn't seem to understand how the wheels/rods/valves are the most visually interesting part of any steam locomotive, and deserve the most attention. Hell, remember the Lone Ranger locomotive? They didn't even try.
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Alright, IMO the upward taper is so insignificant that it can be ignored (most U.S. steam locomotives also have a degree of flare to their stacks, and the majority of North American modelers do not attempt to replicate these, either). As an example, here's a NA locomotive with stack flare that's about the same as your own: Mercifully, for a continental European steam engine, your DR BR 38.2-3 XII H2 seems to have a pretty fat stack (I was really worried it was going to be a thinner model more common to Germanic prototypes). Therefore, I would propose a very simple solution such as this: The prototype probably has only 2 degrees of outward flare (maybe as little as 1 degree), so - from a distance - it's a detail that the eye won't typically pick up on. By contrast, the Lego cone piece probably flares out at a good 15-20 degrees - which is so significant that it becomes very jarring. Generally speaking, when it comes to Lego, if something has <5 degrees (or so) of change, I try to avoid modeling it - especially at this scale. People wouldn't notice the 1-2 degrees you're missing; they WILL notice the 13-18 degrees you added (which is exactly why I first commented - I hadn't even seen the prototype yet and knew something was a bit off). Hopefully this seems logical.
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I'll definitely see what I can do. Do you have a picture of the real thing to share? I have a really hard time getting Google to locate photos of German steam locomotives - I think their algorithms struggle with the decimal points.
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The only think I'm not wild about is the smoke stack. Everything else is spectacular.
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Really nice.
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I'm sure it is. And Maserati doesn't stay in business because nobody is buying their product, either. But I don't have to smile and wave as they speed past.
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Uh. Okay. Bless them and their unbridled avarice, I guess. *Edit* Also, a hudson would have been preferable. I mean, if you're going to do NYC steam, that's the one... Not to say this isn't a superb model. It is. It absolutely is excellently designed. I just... I dunno.
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I personally don't regard anything Lego has done as "iconic," either due to designs that are way behind the collective MOCer's "par," or because the engines themselves were either fictitious or simply not that well-known. As an American, in particular, consider that Lego has never even attempted a modern North American Steam locomotive (no Berks, no Hudsons, no Atlantics, no Consolidations, no Mikes, etc.). But wait! I'm not even remotely jingoistic - because I've been equally dispirited by their European steam offerings, especially the repeated bumbling attempts to produce an even halfway satisfactory GWR 4900 Class, and even the Emerald Night (which, although it might be considered 'the best' of what Lego has done, is still so far behind the power curve of what multiple people on this website and elsewhere are producing that it's almost laughable). The new Crocodile might eventually be considered iconic, but IMO it's just too new for that label to be applied, too fringe for North Americans (we have literally nothing that looks like it, except a few very early box cab electrics on the PRR, few of which survive [this is probably the closest thing to a Crocodile in NA, and it was not regarded as a successful design]), and it has performance issues out of the box.
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Neat.
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Is it not actually powered, or am I missing the cleverly-concealed motor and battery?
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Thanks. Yeah, I was going for the classic Pirates color scheme. Thanks, I'm flattered by your kindness!
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Yep.
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It's the bottom part of the flying saucers... uh... 30201. And I think it took like... 35 hours, maybe? As for the colors, the vast majority of them do exist (I have no idea as to the quantities available, though). Before I built the model, I checked every yellow detail part against Bricklink to make sure that they were out there. The only exception is the horse on the bow, as I recall.
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[MOC] Ninjago style flying food boat
SteamSewnEmpire replied to afol_legoist's topic in LEGO Action and Adventure Themes
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Very, very slick.
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God this is cool.
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For people curious to see the real thing in action:
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Are there even 4w switches?
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I don't often ask, but any chance you'd be willing to share the design for the gearing with us all? I work in narrow gauges a lot, and it's really difficult to get something running this smoothly in the 4w. If not, totally cool - I'm the first to acknowledge protection of design. But I figured I'd ask, given the quality here.
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Just superb. Out of curiosity, why did you decide to power the wheels on the battery car? Was the loco alone not enough to pull such short trains?
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I guess... I dunno. I mean, I watched Sesame Street. And it was Sesame Street in the good ol' days, before it was 'woke,' and had a fair amount of gags that adults could at least chortle at. Having said that, it's very difficult for me to feel nostalgic over something I watched when I was, like, 5. If Lego released, say, a Chrono Trigger set, or... uh... a Ducktales set, or something like that, then I might buy it out of nostalgia. But I just can't get nostalgic over something that I experienced at so tender an age that I cannot remember 99.9% of what I saw.
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Can't imagine what the market for this thing is. Leaves me shaking my head over some of the amazing castle sets that get passed up again and again...
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I ditched the cage because it was just a bridge too far for me visually. The ballista is pure silliness, but, then again, so is the scale of this monster. Most viking longships were pretty darned small (though there were exceptions) - this is one situation where the Lego version was really probably oversized (at least in terms of width) compared to the real deal. So having some kind of offensive weapon seems applicable just fill up that mid-deck void (which is why I retained it).