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idlemarvel replied to Kalais's topic in Forum Information and Help
You can use my login if it helps. I have been following this thread with interest as I experience this problem every day. Let me know if there is anything I need to do. -
I love this set. The brick built horses are the highlight for me. The four walled fort is very retro. I made the village with windmill alt build as well. I got it for £98 at Argos, at that price I think it is good value.
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Your attention to detail is inspirational. Many people (me among them) would have been happy with an approximation and been very pleased with it, but you take it to the next level. I can't image how many hours you spend on Studio. Some of the details I really like are the slight bulge along the bottom of the body in the middle, to accommodate the middle bogies. And the detailing of the bogies. And the staggered headlights. And, and, and... Just disappointed you couldn't make it run on R40 curves (not really!). Thank you for sharing and taking time to provide details of the prototype - educational as well!
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Here are some pictures to give you some clues. This shows a 2 axle bogie but the idea is easily extended to a 3-axle. Picture 1 is below and picture 2 above. Picture 3 shows the motor inside a loco, the recent Spiderman Subway car. Use a 7L axle through the motor into the bogie, with a 1/2L bush to hold it in place (yellow in the picture). Hope this helps.
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Looking at his printable.com page I would say 16 pieces as each curve is 5.625 (5 and 5/8ths) degrees.
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You are correct, the L motor does not respond to the remote, or rather it does but only on/off and you have to hold the button down on the remote. You can use the train motor on its side inside the loco body. Its only 3 studs wide (plus some allowance for the pin on top of the motor) and less than 4 bricks high (lower than the hub) so its doable in a diesel or electric loco. Then you can use the remote as normal. If you need more help a have a few pictures I can upload later today.
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Very nice. The 7740 is an iconic set. Ref 2 or 3 axles for the loco,.it's quite hard to use the middle hole in the PUp train motor as it is only 1/2 stud deep. If it was 1 stud deep you could use a Technic frictionless pin with cross axle but it isn't. It would probably be easier to build a custom 3 axle bogie and power it from a motor inside the loco.
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Very good work. I especially like the livestock car and the mini-bulldozer!
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Technic General Discussion
idlemarvel replied to Jim's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
I think most of us realise this Thorsten, and we need TLG to continue to be profitable, but a man can dream! -
Technic General Discussion
idlemarvel replied to Jim's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
I completely agree with the sentiment - too many cars, too much licensing, too little functionality. Not sure about the proposed solution which was a bit tongue-in-cheek if I interpreted it correctly. But the Technic theme needs a complete reset. -
I noticed in the monthly bulletin from newelementary.com that there are one or two parts that might interest rail fans. On the way out are dark blue (Earth Blue) train doors. LEFT DOOR 1X4X5 design id 43967 element id 6454451 RIGHT DOOR 1X4X5 design id 42819 element id Element numbers 6454451 (left hand) and 6454450 (right hand). New to Pick a Brick are the new track pieces from the Arctic Express set. RAIL CROSSING 16 M design id 2824 element id 6530143 RAIL STRAIGHT 16 M, W/ 3.2 HOLDER, NO. 1 design id 7442 element id 6546033 This is the track with the cut-out to trigger the rockfall. You need this piece to fill the gap and act as the trigger: PLATE 2X4 W/ HOR. 3.2 SHAFT, NO. 1 design id 6512 element ID 6517270 (Medium Stone Grey)
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I don't think a bar with clips would be a string enough connection to lift a barrier. It looks like a toothed rack is moving a plate under the rails. Maybe they have used single rail pieces under the crossing which would give you a plate height to play with with a larger gap between sleepers.
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You could check out his Flickr page in the first post of this thread.
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Well done @kbalage Best Lego channel on YouTube by far.
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What a wonderful collection of Austrian trains. You have a lot of skill, time and patience.
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Very clever. As it happens I found a new set on eBay for £60 so when I've made the "A" model I'll maybe have a go at this. Would be nice if it could be motorised.
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Thank you, I'm glad it proved useful.
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You can definitely connect the Lego app to two hubs at the same time, in fact up to four. One or more of those four can be a remote. You can refer to my online book for details on how. If you use the remote, one simple way to make the motor attached to the second hub to go in reverse is to attach it to port B and then invert the port B control on the remote. You need to be careful to press buttons A and B at the same time when driving the train. A bit tricky but no coding required!
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If you don't want to or can't use Pybricks then there is the Lego app which can control two hubs and a remote at the same time, but you will need to do some app coding. I assume you know you can control two hubs at the same time from a remote, as long as they are on the same channel (red, blue, etc). To reverse the motor you can physically run the motor around but you may need a 3rd party extension cable.
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Remember that the crocodile has to use an app as the remote cannot control the speed of an 88013 motor, only one speed (full speed). If you're tight for space you can save about a plate in height if you take the bottom off the hub - not sure you can model that in stud.io though!
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Agreed it is not very detailed but it may be a necessary compromise. You can run two train motors off the same hub. Using Pybricks you can configure the hub so that the motor on port B runs in the opposite direction to port A. The YouTuber Battery Powered Bricks has a few videos on setting up Pybricks to do this on one of his locos.
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How much of a change would it be to use a standard train motor at the front of the power car? It looks like it could be made to fit with a bit of tweaking.
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Excellent article with a well-balanced view of the pros and cons of L- gauge. Thanks!
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You are very welcome Antoine. I wonder if you model French trains, or are your interests in another country? Or maybe just generic Lego trains?
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Hi @FireflySherman and welcome to the Train theme. You should follow the advice from @JopieK but to answer your question no there are no instructions for this. I may have some stud.io models of some of these 1:100 models but build instructions take too much time.