Brickstone_City

Hi, Looks great! :-)

Thanks again! :-)

Thanks a lot, guys! :-) Sure :-)

Alright - thanks, didn't notice that. Only tried to connect the remote first, and this did not work :-) But you can use the program to control, of course ;-)

Hi, One mission of the past weeks was to use up left Dark Blue parts... after Orient Express, Blue Lightning etc. I already was fed up with it. I still wanted to add one ÖBB favourite to my collection - however, using a different concept than the monstrous Blue Lightning. So, I tried to build a class 4010 "Transalpin" EMU in classic 6w format. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÖBB_4010 One condition for that was being able to design the front properly - which I think turned out nicely. You can recognize it from any angle. I managed to show the most important details (the croissant in the dining car can be imagined as a Schnitzel ;-)) Also from my childhood I remember the Vienna Local Railway EMUs from Cologne: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLB_Kölner In 8w size: A few remaining windows were put into a large couchette car.

Fantastic work! :-)

Very cute - great work! :-)

Hi, If you are looking for more advanced programming you can take a look at Pybricks: https://pybricks.com You need to load the firmware once to each hub, then you can run Pybricks programs on them. Downside is you need to load the program each time you turn on the hub. For multiple traction you can for example couple multiple hubs copying each other in several distributed locomotives. Also, you can get much smoother control.

Hi, Thanks, guys! :-) @Phil B I use what I have in store, the orange car, DMU and 2050 are mostly Lego bricks, other less so. These vehicles especially were built to use up some reserves. Otherwise: Please tell me what forum to go to for people who don't have thousands of Euros extra to spend for partly inferior quality and some parts even not available. All known forums declare themselves as "Lego", although we are in the year 2025 with many legal competitors on the brick market which are free to any consumer like us to choose from. Also, I often see digital models, not people actually building stuff. I only build models by hand, without any plans. It's easy to talk without having to spend the money. Not sure what the point is of people policing forums, do you want the see the models or not? I myself am running a forum as well, and I never would annoy people with such pettiness ;-) By the way, I am on more than 200 Bricklink orders in the past 5 years, I think I am paying my due to the Danish company ;-) @Ashi Valkoinen Thanks, I am from Vienna and know Hungary well as a railfan, that might explain it :-) As you might have seen, I also built "Brickabest Keleti" :0) I only know Bluebrixx as a reliable train window source, you can buy part packs there, some colors only come with certain cars. Dark red is available: https://www.bluebrixx.com/de/prod/606988/train-window-frame-1x4x3-x-25 I don't know any clone bricks, there are just several brick companies out there offering their products, like on any other market for any other product. You would not call all smartphones "iPhone-Clones", wouldn't you? ;-)

Hi, Somehow building mania got hold of me the past weeks :0) I wanted a fitting freight train for the Orient Express, so I built a MÁV III / 335: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/MÁV_335_sorozat The boiler of the loco is so low, the main construction is carried by the long Technic bricks outside of the driving wheels. Drive is provided by two Cada M-motors, the cables are led to the hub inside the tender below the cab. Luckily I found two fitting custom driving rods in my storage. I had the small blind drivers on the tender only in red - so, for the first time I just dunked pieces into paint. It does not matter too much, they are almost completely covered by other pieces in the model anyway. The narrow gauge train (proper 4-wide brick narrow gauge) with class U will be presented elsewhere. Finally, I managed to use the flippers as suspension springs as planned for a long time. The first car behind the engine is loosely based on one used for transporting milk preserved at the Austrian railway museum Straßhof. The milk barrels are mostly made of Hogwarts tower parts. Variant MÁV IIIe is displayed as JŽ 125-052 in front of Zagreb main station (my photo, taken in October 2003). The milk car behind a class 30 (also in my brick portfolio :-)) at Tauchen-Schaueregg (my photo, taken in October 2004). "Vindobona" addon-package for the ÖBB "Blue Lightning" DMU previously shown here, including ČSD class M 296.1 DMU, ÖBB class 2050 Henschel-GM diesel locomotive, orange ÖBB UIC-X AB and dark green two-axled "Spanten"-carriages, as well as dark green ČSD GDR Görlitz-built UIC-Y cars. The window partition at the front of the class M 296.1 was done by stickers. One side features red doors (remaining parts from Schlieren cars), the other a completely tan window section. Both liveries are historically accurate. Since then, I changed the headlights to regular 1x2 plates for a more square shape. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorové_vozy_852_a_853 The front decoration of the class 2050 is a dark green sticker on white tiles. The upper parts of the sides are tilted inwards by hinges. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÖBB_2050 In comparison to the pics above I shortened the roof 1 stud and lowered it. The Spanten car roofs have been changed to Light Bluish Gray. I tried out two UIC-Y roof variants, both weigh a ton. Thanks to a forum user I could get a third Mould King car for my Orient Express train (we split it - 110€ from a yourwobb EU warehouse. I already mentioned that the Orient Express features some of the best value/price ratio) - including 4 pure MOCs it is now a 7-car-Orient Express :0) This car is also more MOC than MOD. The side walls and roof follow the instructions in principle, the rest does not. For weight reasons, this car only received a spartan interior. I took the Helmet Ninja Horn Elaborate 11437 as CIWL sign. The other car of same build with interior. A chain of fairy lights (1€/piece on Amazon) lights the hallway and the compartment of the girl. Funwhole/Lumibricks was not known yet at the time of building, now I could improve the lighting with specialized parts. The luggage nets are football goals 23969pb004. My favourite is the leg stretched outside the bed :0) The full-length dining car with fake three-axled bogies. One light chain is illuminating each side. Passengers will only arrive later after departure. ;-)

Hi, Very nice model! :-) But are you sure about the gear connection, shouldn't it be the other way round (small gear attached to the motor, large to the wheels). This way you take away a lot of of torque and I am not sure the wheels need to turn that fast...

Hi, Lovely with the interior detail! :-)

Sounds good! :-)

As mentioned, the 6w models were commercially bought (apart from the modded front of the 1044), so these are MODs not MOCs :-)

There are some LEGO bricks, some others, as I almost completely rebuilt most of it... especially with Red it is quite difficult to match colors as different batches feature different shades of red...

Hi, Thanks, guys! :-) As mentioned in my introduction, I fully build manually and spontaneously, as I want to get away from the PC in my free time. However, I am happy to show anything in detail and help along :-)

Thanks, guys! :-)

Hi, As I was a little sick last weekend, I could once more take care of the indoors hobby... ;-) Next to my MOCs, the rebuilding of some commercial sets to 8w is now completed. First, the "Schlieren" coaches and class 2043 diesel of Verein Gailtalbahn / Bluebrixx: https://www.gailtalbahn.at/show_content.php?sid=92 Comparison before/after (the stylized ÖBB logo is my design ;-)) Two 8w Schlieren MODs were made from 3 6w sets, the "Langer Schlieren"/"Inlandsreisezugwagen" MOC behind the class 1042 MOC contains parts of an additional two 6w Schlieren sets. 8w version of class 2043: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÖBB_2043 I tried to keep the spirit of the original designs - however, with 8w, the structure of the model has to be completely newly built. More space allows the hub to be moved inside the engine - before, it hung down below attached only by a few studs which loosened over time (as the top of the engine narrowed to less than 4 studs wide). From Lesdiy, I purchased an ÖBB class 1044 electric, two red-gray ÖBB Eurofima cars and an Italian FS class 656. I won't order from then again, because I think it is ecologically not viable to order with a German company only to get single packets by airmail from China. Also, the parts are of low quality compared to the price. Most alternative companies have improved massively over the past years, these are parts like you got them around the year 2020. So, many parts that could be replaced have been replaced. Some were not available otherwise. I fitted two train motors to the class 1x44. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÖBB_1044/1144 I came up with the "1" design last Sunday :0) The roof parts were taken from several Bluebrixx "Mitteleinstiegswagen" sets, some other parts of those were used for my Chinese passenger car MOCs (could be seen shortly in the last video, will of course present them later). The 2nd class coach. The most grueling job with the colour red is finding matching pieces. It's like having a dozen different colour tones available. That's how it had looked like in 6w, back then I already had changed the locomotive front design.

Hi, You can easily build two smaller cars from the parts for this one... ;-) Cheers, Roni

Hi, Thanks! :-) Good idea, am just wondering if that produces an even result... at least I have a second fresh set of the wheels as I bought the loco without tender once more as a parts donor. ;-)

Hi, Yes, they both have a 5cm diameter. Sorry, it is definitely a problem that there are no proper single part dealers yet for alternative parts. Some are on offer, but not those special parts. But if you find it cheaply, I would definitely recommend just buying the set (often see it for 120€ and less shipped from the EU). More than 3000 Gobricks parts, plus a whole R104 circle which alone costs about 80€ at Trixbrix for example, plus hub, two motors, fogger and lights... I mean you basically get a whole bunch of additional stuff for free compared to anything else.

Hi, Just a fun side-project using the only properly working Lego propeller parts, 89509. At first I was trying out a Mould King Furious Hyper Speed L-Motor, but it always had to rest after a minute or so of continuous use. Other motors with gears did not work properly either. So, I replaced it with an old Lego 5292c01 RC Race Buggy motor. Other scenes show various test runs featuring various MOCs and MODs. I stuck rubber traction rings to the driving wheels of the Cobi Ty2 Kriegslok with superglue because of lacking grooves like usual. That's why it is running quite wobbly sometimes, still trying to perfect it, maybe will remove them again... ;-)

Thanks a lot! :-)

Hi, In January 2024, Lego released the first sets containing parts featuring a new color - "Reddish Orange". This sparked my interest, as classic ÖBB locomotives from the second half of the 20th century often were painted in "Blutorange" - "blood orange". Of course it is not easy to collect standard parts in a recently released color. Lastly, I scraped together enough this spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0YHSGpdN0 ÖBB class 1042 first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÖBB_Class_1042 I started taking photos in the early 2000s, when engines from number 1042.531 onwards had been converted to class 1142 with push-pull capabilities. Night train from Italy, I will show the cars here as well. Decals have not been attached to most of the newer stuff yet. All cars might be converted to 8w, the one behind the 1042 already is wider. The catenary wire is 3D printed bought from "Train-Brix.de", the ÖBB concrete masts are my construction. I built a 1042 from number .531 with cab corner windows which later were removed. The center of the roof can be picked up, not attached to studs. The train control part is a printed tile from Trixbrix - of course not authentic, I might add more details to the cab. The side row of grilles and windows is built studs on the side. Since there are no bricks modified in reddish orange, it is held by an interior structure. The roundness was partially achieved using small Technic L-shaped liftarms. Traction is the biggest challenge of the engine as the bogies are so long only the inner axles of two train motors are driven. The clacking in the first video scene are the flippers - I removed them for the rest of the runs. ;-) 1x8 plates were the cheapest way to build the bulk of the loco, bricks in reddish orange were hardly available. 1x6 bricks have been recently released in two "Bluey" set. More soon :0)

Thanks a lot, guys! :-) No, I am happy if they stay relatively straight - pretty nightmarish stability, but I wanted some kind of ladder structure - it's a case of form over substance ;-) The lamps are a bit more stable - I just stuffed the inside of the round bricks with Bluebrixx train axles. ;0)