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  1. Ferro-Friki
    So…. Mystery solved…. It turns out that accessing the Lego website from the BDP preorder link somehow overwrote my region to France and wouldn't let me change it at the checkout page, despite both websites already knowing my location. Who would have thought! Turns out I will be getting my locomotive after all :) I should learn to double check this stuff before complaining on EB...
  2. Ferro-Friki
    Hang on a minute, you’re the designer! Hahahah I think you made an amazing job, it’s one of the best high-speed trains I’ve seen made out of Lego. I really want one for myself. Good luck with the review process, I hope they approve your train. And if they do… talk to whoever you need to so that they let me buy it!
  3. Ferro-Friki
    So, I’d finally decided to preorder the Brick Railroad Locomotive, and I was quite excited. It's been a long time since I last bought a Lego set. But when I was filling in the delivery details the country box was locked in France and wouldn’t let me change it. After a quick search I found out that they don’t ship to many countries because of “tax regulations”. I had no idea about this, I’m very disappointed. Come on, Spain’s in the EU it can’t be that different. I guess I’m missing out on this set… You guys have fun with it. I just hope they let me preorder the Sakura Express if it makes the cut :(
  4. Ferro-Friki
    What an amazing model! I agree, dark blue is way classier on an engine. Those custom wheels and valve gear are STUNNING! The realistic rim and hub width, as well as accurate number of spokes hit way harder than standard wheel ever could. How did you make the red accents on the rods? Are they 3D printed with a second printer color? They look so thin too, but run very smoothly. How fragile are they? I knew that 7307 ladder piece would be useful for train MOCs as soon as I saw it, thankfully it came out in black rather soon. It’s been a while since I bought from Webrick, I knew they were under new ownership or something but this is news to me. I’ll look into it, I need a good source for magenta or I'll quit the hobby...
  5. Ferro-Friki
    Gorgeous model, and powerful too! I wasn’t familiar with this engine until I saw your renders. It looks great in the Estrella livery, also one of my favorites. Great job with all the angles, I particularly like how you did the windshield.
  6. Ferro-Friki
    I love this shade of blue, it’s very refreshing for such a popular engine. The vinyl lettering looks amazing! Just a number 1 would have been a pity. I’m looking forward to seeing it with medium azure wheels. That and side rods will make the engine even better.
  7. Ferro-Friki
    What a gorgeous engine. I love a locomotive with plenty of texture and detail, and you certainly did her justice! I still can’t get over how good the bogies look… The stack of sideways plates with clips next to the Medway logo are a ladder or another grill? Are the bogie pivots between the first and second axels? In that case, how well do the inner axels take the curves? I guess all those grills made it impossible to apply the yellow arrows on the black background design Medway uses for its other engines. I think I like the “Pikachu” livery better. But not as much as the original CP orange. Still, anything is better than the boring dusty beige Medway uses for their Stadler Euro 6000 in Spain.
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    Impressive MOC! These modern rounded trains are not easy to make out of Lego… Great job sculpting the nose, the green hose around the windshield looks fantastic. I was asking myself the same thing! Working with half-plate measurements is a pain, but so worth it for accuracy. Besides brackets I find panels on their side to be very useful. Also, I love all the texture on the roof, it looks amazing. It’s hard getting good reference pictures for that.
  10. Ferro-Friki
    Oh wow, that’s a lot of batteries to change / recharge I think I’ve said everything there was to say about my S-251, at least for now. I’m more than okay with this topic becoming about 3-bogie engines in general. That would probably be the best approach for a symmetrical engine, as opposed to steam locomotives. Good luck with that! The vacant lot close to my home has been taken over by cats, and the smell is NOT pleasant… That’s perfect then, since the PF motors only have that much free space to move side to side. Your approach is absolutely impressive! I’ve never seen anything like it on a Lego train. I should have expected as much from the same person who cracked the code for close-coupling Talgo rodales. Thank you for sharing! :) I think your design is very much applicable for my S-251. It would need to be redesign from the ground up around it, but I think it’s doable. The levers would have to sit as low as possible but not too low so as to interfere with the cosmetic underframe details. The PF motors currently have plenty of free space above. The battery box might be more troublesome, since it already sits as far up as it can go. Currently I have other trains in mind, but I don’t rule out revisiting “La Reina” in the future. And this kind of lever-linkage mechanism is giving me ideas for other aplications…
  11. Ferro-Friki
    That’s really good outside the box thinking. I hadn’t thought of tackling the middle bogie from the other two. I’ll take note. Was the weight of the driver wheels assembly not enough to keep it always on the rails? How well do the engines run in reverse? That’s a very nice looking locomotive! I used to think that B’B’B’ engines were far less common in Europe than they actually are. I imagine it’s powered with a third-party battery box, right? Since a PU train hub only has two ports.
  12. Ferro-Friki
    True, it’s probably its best application. I suppose at least the four opposite straight sections, possibly more. It’s not something I’ve thought about. According to Holger Matthes' page and the Railbricks magazine it takes 92 straight track pieces to make a full circle. Although in my experience, the curve is very flexible, so you can make it smaller or larger. Thanks! :) You mean the side bogies would also need to slide side to side? My S-251 has 2 studs thick walls for the SNOT grills, so it has even less space inside :/ When you put it like that how could I possibly refuse? hahaha What do you have in mind? I'm interested. Cool! What prototype is it based on? Were you able to motorize the middle bogie?
  13. Ferro-Friki
    Thanks! I'd rather not think about that... I’m still hang up on that actually. This is how far the current middle bogie pivot would have to slide out in order to navigate R40 curves. If I could reduce the same blue fold on the bottom that you mentioned to just 1 tile thick, and the sliding pivot to be 1 stud wide somehow, it could work. I’ve been thinking that R56 curves are a bit pointless. If a model can’t run on R40 and you have to buy larger radii, you might as well get the R104+ curves, which look far better, allow for more straight-forward couplers, and higher speeds. R56 has none of that, nor the universality of R40. Right now I want to make other trains, but I might look into making the S-251 R40 compatible in the future. BONUS: here's La Reina in motion :) I wish the video had better quality, but this is the best my potato phone could do :/ Turns out that this engine can be motorized with a PU city hub and just one PU L motor (there’s no way for a second motor’s cable to reach the hub port), unlike what I first thought. Still, my intended 2 PF L motors and Buwizz 2.0 setup would be far better. And yes, I’m a big fan of Holger Matthes’ brick-built large radius curve design.
  14. Ferro-Friki
    Thanks guys! :) I did try some more complicated designs, but they didn't work as well. In the end, the more simple and straight-forward, the better. 1 x 6 bricks with channels would work better, but I don't think they'll be coming up with that piece anytime soon. Don't worry, no atoms were split in the making of this train, just some transparent bars and ribbed hoses I tried to do her justice, this is a very beloved engine in Spain
  15. Ferro-Friki
    Amazing model! Very well captured. I really like the details on the roof and the undercarriage, it’s very hard to get good reference pictures of those. I’m happy she got to meet the remaining EA in Denmark. It’s always special when you can get the MOC and real engine together. Where did you get the decals? They look high quality.
  16. Ferro-Friki
    Hey, these all look pretty good. I understand you don't like round streamlined trains? Now that you mention it, I don't really like the ICE3 that much either. It’s objectively one of the best AVE trains we have here, but it’s just not interesting to me. Of course, you and anyone. It’s not patented or anything
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