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New Loco MOC
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Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:33:09 GMT
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Hi,
I’m pleased to announce my new loco MOC. It’s a BB72000, a very common french
locomotive.
Of course it’s a 8-wide loco :-)
I used the 4 differents gray (light-gray, light-bluish-gray, dark-gray and
dark-bluish-gray). As a curiosity, the height of the Loco without the boggies
and the top, is 23.5 plates i.e. 7.83 Bricks, because I used bracket parts all
the long of the loco (the thickness of a bracket is a half plate height). The
use of these brackets was necessarly because the front of the loco is designed
with 3 bricks SNOT, and you know that 2 SNOT brick = 5 plates height, so the
third SNOT brick generated a half plate shift.
You can see the bracket technic I used on the brickwiki here (below the title
“SNOT mounted 1x2-2x2 bracket (Alban Nanty)”):
http://brickwiki.zapto.org/index.php/Micro_striping_techniques
This loco is a symetrical locomotive, i.e. the front and the back of the loco
are identical. That way the loco can move in both direction, avoiding the use of
U-turns, which simplify the maneuvers. The symmetry of this loco obliged me to
design a non-motorised boggie that looks like a 9V train motor. You can read (in
french, but there’s a building instruction) the article I wrote on this boggie
on the Freelug website here:
http://www.freelug.org/article.php3?id_article=435
I hope you like it, and of course feel free to make any comment.
The BS gallery is here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=152867
Bye.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: New Loco MOC
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| (...) That is a very impressive loco and very detailed. The front end is cleverly done, and I expect it would be difficult to do in 6 wide :) Congrats. (18 years ago, 7-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New Loco MOC
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| (...) Alban, I was inspired by your SNOT work on the windscreen to try to use the new 1x1x2/3 slope in replacement of the 1x2 45-deg slope that is either-side of the front windscreen. In CAD, it looks like this: (URL) Notice the 1/2-plate offset (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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