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  1. Ropefish
    I do not envy you and your friends who have to move that beast! but it is a beautiful piece. Do you have any plans to add an interior at some point? it would be cool to have a section as a cross section!
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    After almost a week of building Version whatever of the AC-9 is now ( mostly ) complete. However I am missing a set of flanged drivers, Electronics, lights, running gear, and one of those round 3x3 Black tiles that didn't become available till after i got all my parts! and some track but all in good time. I am 90% sure that it should run on R104 but 50% of all statistics are made up. A lot of shaping and internal structure didn't change all to much but little happy accidents happened here and there that really gave way to a good looking boiler ontop of being much more solid then originally intended resulting in me having to actually /reduce/ the connections to the external plats here and there. The front was also modified in its connection and the 'monkey' deck lowered a plate for the boiler to swing without knocking into stuff. Also do not mind the boiler pointing a bit further up then normal i placed tile under it to lift it up for the time being.
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    I just wish lego had more vested interest to have a unique locomotive, sell separate rolling stock, etc. I mean I can still build my own of both sure, but it just doesn't feel like its own thing in the lego lineup.
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    it is! I actually ended up having to do some changes to the back tender truck, but it runs on two L motors or so the plan is.... the connection in the loco itself for the motor is questionable at best in the 3d model so ill see when i get to it. I also have two designs for attaching the knuckle onto the tender depending on how strong the first deign is.
  5. Ropefish
    I have a treat today, I have finished the tender, work is much slower on the Loco itself as even still I have made small changes and tweaks before building ontop of buying a 3d printer now to make more accurate running gear! In the mean time the tender is very solid... I am actually impressed with how brick-like it is.
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    I have a odd question but would it be possible to run a smoke generator off a PFx brick LAB?
  7. Ropefish
    Oh jeez this is amazing, been working on a similar caboose myself that's a touch older for my locomotive once it gets some length going. I would love to see how you did the roof though, i can never seem to really nail those down myself :/
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    hah thank you and that's nice! surgery is always scary. That's why i got a bunch of extra parts in-case it does get nasty but fingers crossed, i expect some changes with the main drive but i got some redundant designs to work out if need be!
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    Well it has been a hot minute, but i have all the core parts now, did some mild sorting but need to actually get back into the headspace to do so. Still need a few more third party bits but i should have something more to show in the coming months. For now the parts will remained packed till I get in the sortin' mood Can you believe there is a whole train in there?
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    nice and simple! wish i had the space of a layout this size ( and the money hahah )
  11. Ropefish
    Little update, the display base is now finished. I am going to start working on the locomotive itself Soon:TM: however I still need to get the running gear and i forgot a set of drivers on my order for them. Also still need to get some R104 Curves for testing.
  12. Ropefish
    can it even go on narrow gauge?
  13. Ropefish
    Its reached 10k now all we gotta do is hope lol
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    you could always use a curved track possibly to keep the angle going but then you'd either have to angle the platform or have it extend the other way. With two sets i'd assume you could probably just straighten the entire thing though but i think it'd be more fun to double wide angle it hah.
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    Yea i can see that, overall the sentiment is good. Maybe some point they can increase the set limit or release instructions of some sort. My only other worry is actual delivery times seeming pretty long ways away from how quick some get crowdfunded.
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    its a good system but it still feels overpriced for some of it ( but what in lego isn't these days?), For a good few people I'd say some of the items are out of reach ontop of limited supply leading some FOMO which rubs me a little the wrong way. But its a tricky position seeing the work brick link also has to put into it. The one thing i'd really hate to see is what was done with the ghostbusters firehouse done to one of these crowdfunded sets, Imagine paying for one of these then lego comes out with the same if not very similar thing for less due to the resources lego has! But if this is the one way to get more lego train sets its kinda our only option.
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    looks like a neat set, much smaller and would pair well with the emerald night. I don't have any plans for big passenger trains so this would be a nice addition to a loop for the emerald night or a trolley.
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    messed around with it, would fit but this would mean I'd have to remove a lot of stuff from the calf section and then it would end up being needed 100% instead of being optional
  19. Ropefish
    Nice and simple, good work.
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    Seems pretty chunky to, lack of more ports is interesting... i wonder if they plan to just run splitters of the ports? 200 Euro for that though is a bit steep, seems to be a trend with newer lego product though. Maybe it will come in a set that will make its price more digestible.... granted don't really know how much better it would fit then the current PU hub! The rechargability at least shows Lego Isn't shying away from that tech.
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    i could but getting my hands on one would be the real trouble. Though im sure some company might reproduce them? ill look into it however ;D
  22. Ropefish
    I think im going to go with PFx Just for the sound features alone, It seems to have the most expand-ability to. Battery wise i think i should be fine via some other avenues of power source.
  23. Ropefish
    Thank you so much, this is a very handy chart!
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    As my project nears the building phase I've run into a funny little fork in the road, How the heck am i going to control this thing? Ive seen a lot of talk of the PFx brick, Sbrick and BUzzwizz but nothing that really tightly compares the three! if anyone has some better insight on their upsides and downsides that would be very helpful... ive already leaned a bit into the PFx brick as it having sound and ability to create sound profiles is pretty big pro so far.
  25. Ropefish
    would be pretty easy to do, just remove the tinder box over hangs ( oil fired still kept the main tinder boxes ) and some of the piping along the left side then replacing the coal tender with a oil tender. The greebling for the firebox already is hard to find any reference to outside HO and O scale models! most of the oil fired models in HO/O already just don't change the cab detail from the coal fired version. Speaking of I never did share the cab details i did. haha yea i already have a good portion of pieces from the 1.0 version sop hopefully not that much.
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