Ivan Furlanis

Hi. In the last months I built four European freight wagons: Two open wagons, one with four axles (Eaos)... MOC Eaos feight car by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr and one with two axles (E): MOC E freight car by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Both have a step at their ends to help railway men to stand on during marshalling moves, as you can see in this photo (with the Eaos still WIP): MOC two and four-axle gondola freight cars (series E and Eaos) by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Grain hopper (Uaggps): MOC Uaggps freight car by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr The last MOC, built Saturday flat wagon with stanchions loaded with timber: MOC L freight car by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Stanchions can be lowered or removed, timber boards can be removed, too: MOC L freight car by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Next projects are a refrigerated van and a four-axle covered wagon (series Gabs), I hope to build them in a few month.

After months and months without writing anything, today I break the silence to show you this simple MOC I created in July, a compact, PF-operated, two-axle tramcar. The goal of this creation was to build a small tram, as small as possible to have all PF elements inside; of course the car cannot carry any real passenger, there's just a little space for the driver, but as it has couplers at both ends, it could be coupled to one or more trailers when I'll build them. MOC two axle PF tram by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr MOC two axle PF tram by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr MOC two axle PF tram by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr MOC two axle PF tram by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr In the photos you can see my MODded 60097 tramcar, too. Free .lxf can be downloaded from MOCpages. I hope you enjoy it.

Hi! My second LEGO train, bought about two years ago, was the red passenger train 7938. I liked it from the first sight, but, after building it, I complained that the model lacks doors and the three cars are a little too short. So, I started to modify it in stages to achieve a better result. First stage, in November 2014, was adding (real) sliding doors: MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr The idea seems nice, but in fact those doors weren't too much steady and sometimes they opened or falled down when the train was running, so I blocked them and kept just for display. To resolve the problem of the length of the three section I replaced the four central bogies with two placed under the articulation: in this way the short sections are justified and the proportion of the train is more realistic. I changed the livery, too, adding a yellow band at window heigth: MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Finally, last changes (February 2016). New rotating doors, new roof (allowing higher size than those bad sliding doors) and completed new livery, with dark bluish gray frame and underbody: MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr The new roof can be open, although not completely like the LEGO version: MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Door opening system is copied from the Horizon Express, very easy to do. MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr MODding LEGO 7938 Passenger Train by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr That's all!

A very beautiful layout, indeed. But why not to add baseplates to it? I think it will become ever better.

I would keep the ferry without any doubt.

I'm happy to see an update of this little but very nice town: Ballabreek is the proof that we don't need modulars to create a beautiful LEGO city

Still sealed 9 sets: 2x 10233, 31036, 60051, 60073, 60081, 60083, 60084, 60095. And I finished to build set 31026 (my 2014 self-Christmas-present) just some days ago!

Very nice trams, well done. Are they motorized, or not? If I'm right each car has just two dummy axles, hasn't it?

Wow, I don't understand how you could put both battery pack and receiver inside this small loco .

Hi. Today I've tried to MOD the 60052 loco into an EMD GP35, with low and high nose versions, keeping as much as possible from the old model. At present I've done the excercise just with LDD, but I'm planning to do with real bricks as soon as possible. Modding 60052 into GP35 by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr With Photoshop I've added also virtual stickers to the virtual builds . Feel free to give suggestion to improve the result. The only thing I don't want to change is sides with train doors: I know real GP35s don't have side doors, but I don't like LEGO trains without them: minifigs are tired to enter inside locos and carriages flying through the roof .

Aha! I didn't know about that set: I'm more focused on city and train sets and I never put attention on Scooby Doo series. In fact it can blend very well with city sets, I should think to buy it

Thumb up for the cave: this small island is amazing, but the idea to dig a cave inside is outstanding.

Althogh I HATE earthquakes, I like a lot this small display. Teddy Bear is a nice (but sad) touch to the scene.

I like to see how the city it's growing. Can't wait to see next installment!

I know the cab-pulled truck method to move freight cars along a spur or a siding, thanks. Maybe I'll improve Deskton Yard with this system in future . Another interesting switching move is the launch of a freight car behind a loco inside a trailing spur, but this is quite impossible to do with LEGO . By the way, I've just improved my transfer caboose. Someday it will have the same livery of the locos, but for the moment I keep in "caboose red" with just two stripes in blue and yellow. Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr The flatcar is carrying rails for an upcoming project to be done in the yard. Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Now the caboose has some interior details, too. Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr In this pic you can see where rails continue with imagination beyond the desk.

I like it. Can we see more pics? Thanks. Edit: I've just discovered on your Flickr there are those more pictures .

Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr I tried to use a horse, but it likes more to sniff at flowers rather than pulling freight cars Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr By the way, I'm continuing to MOD the 7939 locomotive, this is the last result. Well, the door has been stolen from the 60052 loco: before to buy new doors I want to see how should look the vehicle. I've built a caboose, too. It looks simple, I know, but I've used just pieces I have at home.

Wonderful. I like a lot how you paved the switch: I have a sort of obsession for street running

Thanks. It's still a WIP. I'd like to replace the two grey train front bases with blue, but they are too expensive and I'm looking for a cheaper solution. I'm planning to replace those fake doors with real train doors, too. The concept is to have both freight locos in blue/yellow livery. I know this system was used in the past; today, I think, it would be forbidden by safety rules. But I was luck to see cable switching in Romania: CFF Vişeu 764-421 "Elveţia". Paltin by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Here the loco is pulling the freight car on an adjacent track with a cable connected between the two vehicles.

Hi! After moving in a new flat some weeks ago, I settled a small town on a top of a commode, called Bedford-on-Commode, shown in another topic. That tiny town was just a display place waiting to clear the smallest bedroom where I'll push all LEGO stuff inside. As the future LEGO room is still full of boxes and books and I feel a compelling desire to move my trains, I decided two days ago to build a small freight yard on a desk in my main bedroom. So, here is Deskton Yard! Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr The yard isn't huge, just five stub tracks and a switchback spur, but it is enough to keep all my seven freight cars. Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr The switchback track is used as a loading area of logs coming from nearby woods. But how can I switch this spur without a runaround track? Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Easy: with a cable and capstans! Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Cable connected Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Let's go! The loco is moving to the right, the freight car to the left; the capstans guide the cable along the tracks. Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Now the freight car is ready to be coupled by the loco. Deskton Yard by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Finally, the morning freight train is ready to leave the yard. That's all, for today.

Nooo, Tüblingen is gone what bad news!

This layout looks very interesting, something different from the classic loop and more close to a large scale model railway. May I ask for a trackplan or some photos showing the complete layout? Thanks.

Thanks . By the way, I didn't use smaller wheels, all trucks are almost unmodified (for example, I added mirrors on the red prime mover, from set 7939, but this made it larger than the original ). In this time I rebuilt two old space sets, so Bedford-on-Commode was ignored, but for the next days I'm planning to built the B-model from set 31026. Stay tuned.

Dear AFOLs, after months and months of lurking here I am to show my first real city I'm building as an adult. In this time of my life I'm moving in a new house where there is a spare bedroom that I'll use as a hobby/studio/LEGO room; at present I use this room to store everything during the moving, so in these weeks no LEGO is allowed here. In the meantime I'm building in the true bedroom a small city (4x 32x32 baseplates) on the top of a commode, hence the name Bedford-on-Commode. There is nothing special in this city, in fact it is just a display of some sets of portion of sets, both old and new. City of Bedford-on-Commode by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Bedford-on-Commode it's very small, but there is a lot of traffic everywhere. City of Bedford-on-Commode by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr I managed to create a small garden behind the wall where citizens can rest a little... perhaps they could rest better with benches, ops City of Bedford-on-Commode by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Police and dust everywhere City of Bedford-on-Commode by Ivan Furlanis, su Flickr Overall view of the city.

At present I'm trying to complete the 6542, customizing it a little bit, too. For example, I modified ships' lightes to be more prototypical and I made the cab of the container vessel a brick higher. Next duty will be to finish sorting all the bricks, as they were stored in two big boxes without order. Then... well, when I was a child I desired a lot to have a Lego train, but Santa Claus never brought me one, so I think in the near future I'll do what Santa never did! Besides the 6542, other old sets I have are: 6970 Beta-1 Command Base, my oldest; 6081 King's Mountain Fortress; 6392 Airport 6285 Black Seas Barracuda and others that I don't remember (mainly smaller sets).