As flattered as I am by having three of my Lego wagon designs laboriously reverse engineered, reproduced and spotlighted on this forum; I would have preferred to have been asked first. I support fair-use efforts to create derivative works from others; however, these three wagons you see here are not simply derivative, they are direct copies. I don't mind people copying my creations to build for themselves--the reason we share our MOCs on flickr is to inspire and to learn from others. I do draw the line at selling or deriving commercial benefit from my works. Its similar to open source software--depending on the license, we are free to copy/modify/make derivative works; but often we are not permitted to derive commercial benefit. I would invite other folks to visit my flickr pages and judge for yourself whether these wagon designs are derivative variations, or simply copies...
Hopper wagon : British Rail HEA wagon :
Open wagon : British Rail OBA wagon : LDD render :
Open wagon : British Rail OBA wagon : Brick build :
Brake van : British Rail ZUV Shark, engineers ballast plough :
(incidentally, the brake van version you see represented on this page in grey/red never did exist in the prototype. The plough brake van was exclusively used by BR engineering works for ballast and track maintenance. Therefore, the liveries worn by this wagon include either bauxite brown, olive green, grey, grey+yellow band, and in later years, Load/Haul black/orange, and EWS. Rail grey/red was the livery used for Railfreight rolling stock)
