LordsofMedieval

Thanks!

I love the dioramas - they're just perfect.

This is a case of awesome set... awesome design/concept... horrible game, lol. My wife was so angered by the twists that she didn't even want the sequel. Nice review. I've almost bought the thing several times because it just looks so well engineered.

Wow, 8 bucks for a 1x1 plate. Great design. I have never been a big fan of trucks, but tanks and tractors are awesome. Wouldn't mind building one of these myself, though I'd likely do red to keep the price manageable. Love how you got the blue axles, btw - it's a thing of beauty.

Friends figures might be 1/35, actually, now that I think about it.

Thanks. Yeah, I never thought yellow + red + brown was a good look for... anything. It's like a rusty Iron Man armor set.

Unless something fancier catches my eye, yes. The entire front lower pilot (beneath the silver line) is attached only to the lead bogie so as to allow full pivoting on narrow curves. So it was very much designed with construction in mind (as are all my engines, but this one required extra attention due to the shroud overlapping wheels).

By the way, for anyone wondering what these engines looked like without all the cladding, here it is:

Thanks. I cannot be credited with the colors though - UP's marketing department came up with them themselves. Sadly, the 49er only lasted a very brief time - into the early 1940s. So the streamlining never survived long enough to receive that grey treatment. Still, I think it's not too much of a stretch to have slapped it onto this locomotive.

This is the most difficult thing I've ever done in Lego. Also, I ditched the original color scheme for UP's Greyhound - I just don't think the candy-wrapper appearance of the original is all that good.

I model 1:48, so I would not be game. 1:36 kind of pushes things out of minifig scale.

Wow! These look great! I love the side windows - you nailed the shape. Why are the ends/stripes black, out of curiosity? I always loved Metroliners - they felt so British.

Wow! Supported!

Also, just a little trick for anyone who would like it. I doubt I'm the first to stumble onto it, but I just came up with this a minute ago: That is an XLL wheel - like, exactly. It's 12.5 plates high. It's going to look ugly, but it's a better stand-in for scaling purposes than those gears.

You're very gifted. I cannot even imagine having to work under these constraints.

Simply put, was wondering if anyone is yet selling stl files or designs for wheels that don't quite fit in with the established custom sizes? I'm working on a locomotive right now that had 73" drivers IRL. 73 is an... ugly number, at least from my perspective, when it comes to train wheels - it's 2 inches too small to be XLLs, and 4 inches too big to be XLs (it's made worse on this particular engine because the prominent side-skirts on the real-thing had the effect of making the drivers look extra-small; so even though XLL is the closer fit, my eyes keep wanting to default to XLs, if that makes any sense. You be the judge, but to me these just don't look like 73" driving wheels): I know, I know - rivet counting is kind of silly in Lego trains. But I tend to base my scaling of a locomotive around a wheel size, and those stupid gears I'm forced to use to represent XLLs in Stud.io are looking really, really chonky right now. I'm not technologically inclined in the slightest, so trying to design a spoked wheel for CAD is a little like asking me to cast a magic spell. I feel like the day is coming when more options are available, but is anyone there yet?

Got this in my email a couple of hours ago: The set only came out, what... 3 months ago? I'm not going to read too much into it, but it smells a tad desperate to me.

I figured since I already had the tender done, I might as well do this locomotive, too. As per last time, there are no Stud.io files for XLL (#12) wheels, so gears have to be the stand-in.

Just PM me.

Funny tidbit of trivia: there actually are Walmart grocery stores. They seem to be most common in the south and west. I've never seen one in New England or north of Colorado-ish.

Poor kid with the prosthetic leg - I hadn't noticed that before. On the whole, I sill feel like I did with the school: this set has to much road, and not enough building. And the price is insane in USD. I do really like the color pallette, though.

Wow. Love the clouds.

These are great. The cloths add a ton, too. What were the upturned wheel hubs on the top one for IRL? Like, did they have a function?

Awesome to see it move so smoothly.

I had to use the gear wheels because there are no #12s (XLLs) in the custom folder for Stud.io. As usual, no advanced pipework because I just can't do it.