Liam Biggs

@Hod CarrierThanks. Yes my primary scale is 8 wide. Certainly helps being able to use 7 even 6 wide for the smaller locos. @LEGO Train 12 VoltsCheers. Here it is replicating being pulled by station pilot over track circuit rail (too small a wheel base to trigger circuit for signals). https://flic.kr/p/2p1A2fw

@Feuer Zug @ivanlan9 Thanks. Cylinder technic not mine (can't remmember where I saw it). But I always wanted to try it. Usually tread is wrapped around a gear. Mine is a round plate making cylinder diameter larger. @zephyr1934 Cheers. Party hat was the seed piece for this build. My son won a small Disney Princess Pack at a Brick Show with this in it. Certainly built with pride but black certainly covers up muck when they are in use. Gordon Edgar has a nice colour photo of original in remarkably clean condition for an industrial shunter. Paste link(rights reserved so haven't embeded). Even survived (but hidden after museum got knocked down). No1 was scrapped in 2018. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/50158779207/) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5828263593/)

@Kivi Thanks. Link to video of it in action with old wheels and before the 3rd wagon was finished (motor is in first wagon. 9v battery/Pf reciever in the other). Fireless at Full Tilt by Liam Biggs, on Flickr

An old model with new wheels and conrods. Nice slow running rally shows off the motion. Despit only 1 stud holding each cylinder it very solid model.

@zephyr1934Thanks. @Supplement_CreatifThank you. So far all my locos have been mocked up in brick and I often find a better solution just after I place the Bricklink order. Studio would be a lot cheaper but my day job is CAD/CAM so novelty has worn off. Heres my original mock up not too far off the mark in this case(pity bucket dosn't come in black, 3d parts are rejects).

@JopieKThank you. @Feuer ZugThanks. On my NER K class would contain both water and coal on both side tanks. @GrandPixelManLOL cleaner anyway. Yeap pleased how saddle turned out I angled 2 long curved slopes with 3 longs ones where chimney(plus 2 tiles to reduce the gap) and pressure dome are.

@_TLG_@Sérgio@The Brick Boss Thanks.

This has been on my to do list for a while. Pity its black as its hard to see the details (even the front windows are hard to see).

@JopieK@Feuer Zug@zephyr1934 Thanks for the kind remarks. I often use 3d parts and stickers but this was was on the borderline of to much even for me.

LNER's smallest steam locomotive. Modeled as it first apeared. Only 7 wide which matches the scale of my 8 wide locos. 3d printed buffers/wheels/conrods and stickers.

I have a small tube bender (like a spring) and heat the tube. Although brass rod inside the rigid tube works even better. @JopieK @Asper @zephyr1934 @Ferro-Friki Thanks for your kind words. I will be posting a small steam loco shortly.

@Darkkostas25@Asper @zephyr1934 @Murdoch17Thanks. Been enjoying knocking out these small builds whith their own unique challanges compared to larger models.

Seeing Elis Clarks O gauge Wickham Trolley I had to have one. This is my smallest locomotive yet and is static. A petrol driven engineering personnel carrier. Scale is a little off being 1 stud too high and 2 or 3 studs too long. Minfig hands came in useful for both head/tail lights (highly illegal technique) and instrument panel. Almost pure build except for stickers and cotton for tarp.

Thanks Dave. He spent about a month on it. 3384 frames. Tommorow we will be playing it to the crowd at the Christchurch Brick Show. https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/profile/15917-man-with-a-hat/ Cheers.

My first diesel/ 6 wide build. Plus my sons first stop motion film (hes 11). Fully detailed cab,

Thank you Murdoch17 , ivanlan9 , SD100 and Darkkostas25 CaL it will move. Smallest track radius will be R88. The driving wheels are 3XL and have been succesfully tested on R40. Thanks Sven J. The buffers/chimney where designed and 3d printed by myself. The vapouriser can be found here:- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004782605451.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.5.316f6bdfB1AB7x&algo_pvid=f5745cf2-f9dc-45e0-a385-18b619e81760&aem_p4p_detail=202304070331131045984684135200004128672&algo_exp_id=f5745cf2-f9dc-45e0-a385-18b619e81760-2&pdp_npi=3%40dis!NZD!11.09!5.54!!!!!%40210218bf16808634730206938d070e!12000030467573676!sea!NZ!700875299&curPageLogUid=fwz0FEMuI7B1&ad_pvid=202304070331131045984684135200004128672_3&ad_pvid=202304070331131045984684135200004128672_3 The best vapouriser have a capacitor plus a larger chip next to them (see picture). Vapourisers with the smaller chip(normally without capacitor) have a considerable delay when switching. Unfortunately they are now the most common.

Thank you for the welcome I have posted here the model:-

This is just 1 of many locomotives I am currently working on the (LMS) Coronation Class the 'Duchess of Sutherland'. Wanted to have 3 headlamps. So I decided to go for the 2nd time it was used as a royal train when it hauled Prince Charles on the 22 March 2005 from Settle to Carlisle. Model has working smoke/draincocks using a 2 vapouriser to generate 'steam/smoke. Tender is currently being improved. Just requires battery and something to control it. Torn between using a PFX brick or Hornby's new decoder which can be controlled via a phone. PFX I am familar with but sound is not great(I am no sound engineer). Hornby's solution I have yet to figure how to integrate chuffs with their superb sound (although I do know how to convert it to battery). I appreciate this is not for the purist but their is a lot of complex techniques in the build that maybe of intrest to those who are. All 3d parts/stickers I have designed and made. This project has been on and off for many years. Video testing the smoke/draincocks. Plus completed electrics in loco with 2 vapourisers/speaker/3 lamps. Also of intrest is LEGO bending for tapered firebox. LEGO 1st? Steam from Cylinder Cocks by Liam Biggs, on Flickr

Hi Everyone. I got into LEGO trains after seeing "Tornado" in the film "Paddington Bear II". After finding out about this new steam train. I decided to make his knock off chinese Emerald Night look like it. Since then I have made several train/coaches/wagons all with genuine LEGO. ALthough I do make my own 3d parts and have made 2 of my MOC's with DIY steam systems and one simulates the drain cocks aswell.

Hornby's Hm7000 decoder looks interesting. Just needs a 21 pin adaptor and solder 4 cell LIPO(decoder cuts out under 12V) battery connected to pin 20 and 21(or possibly stay alive socket). Motor connection to pins 18 and 19. A smoke genrerator (or in my case vapouriser) would be powered from battery but controlled via the Aux pins using a Mossfet as switch. I just don't know how chuffs can be synchronized to sound. If you still have that PFX I wouldn't mind buying that in the meantime.