Selander

Here's my re-vote..... Etzel - 3 74luloute - 2 Legowarlord8 - 2 many great entries !!!!!

So after some consideration, here are my votes: Jansued - 3 Lorentzen - 2 Admiral Ron -1 Lego Warlord - 1 There were really many many good entries, so decision was hard. I also take the opportunity to thank you for kind words about my own creation "Best Pie-rates here".

During the recent AFOL meeting in Sweden, one member displayed a fantastic farm building. As an accessory, I tried to make a typical Swedish style milk tanker truck. As always for me, design is in 6-wide. I haven't seen anyone else using these wheels as tank elements (yet ?) Any comments and feedback is most welcome, there is defenitely room for improvements.

Always nice to see your detailed creations. I also like Renault Magnum since it has such a lego friendly design. Below a 6-wide version that I made some time ago. I think your is more true to the original, but I have my own rule to only make truck moc:s in 6-wide......and then this was the best I managed.

Does anyone know if it is over for good ???? Or is it just temporary ??

Thanks for advices. I was actually not thinking this was a "street creation" with cobblestone, but more a rough terrain just besides the trail (footpath) to a village. That also explain the "random flowers".

A simple yet elegant design

Hello Stefan Search for "Dark green diesel shunter", it has already a thread hear on eurobricks train tech section. Otherwise on Brickshelf, user name = Selander. B rgds // Selander

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Great overall looks, and I really like this colour scheme. Dark red and tan is one of my favorite combinations. It seems you had to use quite a number of dark red plates under the windows

Great realistic look, it's really easily recognizeable. Personally I am not so fond of such "wide" vehicles, so I would prefer making it in 4- or 5 studs, but I assume it'll be very hard to keep any resemblance with the original as you successfully achieved with your 8-wide version.

It looks SUPER very nice colour scheme and overall realistic look.

I made a few small adjustments, so now it looks as you wanted and described above For all four "cylinders", when extended max or min, there is nothing sticking out. I will post some pictures later. Thanks for good advice, Milan - I must admit it looks more elegant and realistic now.

It's 30studs long. I use a relative scale and compared to my other MOC locomotives it has a correct lenght. But you are right in that sense that basically all Lego trains are too short compared to trains IRL, especially wagons.

Nicely done! Good looking front with those angeled front lights

Acc to Wikipedia: The Sr1 is a class of electric locomotives built for VR (Finnish railways). These 25kV locomotives were built in the Soviet Union at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory between 1973 and 1985. Electrical equipment for the locomotives was supplied by the Finnish company Oy Strömberg Ab ( later part of ABB). I built a replica in 6-wide (as usual) for the past weekends AFOL meeting in Sweden. I haven't seen any Finnish locomotives before on eurobricks, so it's about time And here's the original: Visit My Website

We had a AFOL meeting this weekend in Sweden, and to that I did a little display as a construction site. And I received some good feedback on the cementation scenary.... Minifigs are busy with cementation of some ground for...I don't know what.... The cement mixer truck is inspired by a similar truck by P Normandin, but I have a more Swedish (or european) inspired chassis and some other details. I thought it was a nice design so I have been thinking of making my own version for several years, and now it is done.... Any comments are appreciated.

I think I follow you.....but I am not sure it is possible to fully realize.....you have to bare in mind this "cylinder" is more like a bushing and the exact movement you get, depends on the relative friction between axle and item 6536 versus friction between axle and item 53586. This means it can be difficult to always predict which of those two parts moves first. On my design it seems I have a lucky combination on the mid-placed "cylinder", because that moves as you would like it to move. A preliminary test I just did, shows it does not seem possible to change anything for the double "cylinders". But I think it could perhaps be possible to improve the bucket "cylinder"......I will investigate further. As I understand you like the design, I like to encourage you to build something similar and make some trials on your own. With our combined efforts we might achive an even greater technical solution. Needed parts are few and relatively cheap.

Cylinders are made from relatively soft plastic, so SURE axles can slide ! The good thing is you have a just enough friction in them, so axels can slide, but you can stop in any position and the friction force is enough to keep the axle in that particular position, even with load in the bucket. "Cylinders" are used in for example set 7992 = Container stacker. Check that out. So far, I haven't seen so many MOC:s using them as cylinders.

Updated arm is now ready and works flawlessly, pls see updated pictures in the first post of this thread.

I think I figured out a new durable solution using only standard parts (all is in theory - but I usually always start so...) AND I got some ordered Technic parts fromBricklink today...so hopefully I am able to present an updated arm quite soon.

Thanks Otters ! Yes I strived to have a good minifig scale. In fact I downloaded some tehnical brochures from Volvo that had drawings showing all overall dimensions, and then I converted them to a 6-wide width with the aim to keep the original feel and proportions. I choose 6-wide.....since my trucks are all 6-wide and when building an Excavator to scale with those, they should have the same width. On the Scania there are no black stickers.....I assume you mean the black plates on the roof ? They consist of 2pcs black hinge plate 1x2, to hold the hinge bar for rear mirrors, and in the middle just an ordinary black plate 1x2. Sorry about the size of pictures, I'll bare that in mind. Since I don't know how to make multiple answers, here are some comments to the "arm". Yes, it has indeed a modified technic arm on pictures. As mentioned I don't do much in Technic lego, nor do I have many technic parts. Upon studying the Volvo brochure I realized such a bent technic arm would "do the job". So I made an "experiment" with bending the technic arm in boiling water. The purpose was more to get something to continue my trial design with. I was pleased to see I managed to get the functionality I was looking for in my very first attempt. So I continued and built the rest of the machine and took some photos and shared as per above. Bottomline: As a second phase I will try to modify the arm to: - buy some more Technic lego and use only original parts. - try to make it more sleek and with improved colours to enhance the overall look. - yet keeping the good functionality from the first attempt. It'll be exciting to see if those three factors are possible to combine.

Below my attempt to re-create in 6-wide a Volvo excavator. In Sweden this model with wheels (not a "crawler") is quite common. As my speciality isn't exactly Technic Lego, the arm has room for improvements, but still it is fully functional and possible to tilt in three ways. Excavator is busy loading a 6-wide Scania lorry in DkRed colour scheme. UPDATE: I deleted some of the big pictures...and added three new small WITH the new arm completely built with original parts. I made a display with a construction site, for this weekend's Swebrick meeting. A separate post will follow..... Any comments would be appreciated. Visit My Website

Really interesting interview Good initiative to have this kind of things on the forum. Thanks again

Well who knows....so far I've concidered it as too modern, i like the older engines better. Also a problem with X2000 is the streamline shape which is harder to copy in Lego. Did you see my Swedish DA engine as well ? Visit My Website