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Here is my first attept at making a steam engine, the more-or-less famous Blue
Train (cars still to come):
More info & pics of the original engine and the model can be found at
MOCpages
Cheers,
Matija
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
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Here is my first attept at making a steam engine, the more-or-less famous
Blue Train (cars still to come):
More info & pics of the original engine and the model can be found at
MOCpages
Cheers,
Matija
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Great job, though I wish there were more and closer pictures of it, it looks
like you used some great techniques. How did you do the white walls of the
drivers? Paint? Any chance you could take a close up of both the drivers and
small wheels with the white walls? I’ve been wanting to add white walls to a
few of my own steam engines, but I’ve been debating on how to actually do it.
I’ll be looking forward to more.
--Tony
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
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Here is my first attept at making a steam engine, the more-or-less famous
Blue Train (cars still to come):
More info & pics of the original engine and the model can be found at
MOCpages
Cheers,
Matija
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I’m really liking this also...lots of detail and nice building techniques,
inparticluar the main boiler shape. The whole thing reminds me of the 9F I’ve
just built in many ways.
Carl
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In lugnet.trains, Carl Greatrix wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
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Here is my first attept at making a steam engine, the more-or-less famous
Blue Train (cars still to come):
More info & pics of the original engine and the model can be found at
MOCpages
Cheers,
Matija
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I’m really liking this also...lots of detail and nice building techniques,
inparticluar the main boiler shape. The whole thing reminds me of the 9F I’ve
just built in many ways.
Carl
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This is a great MOC and I love the colors. As others have mentioned, the white
on the drivers really sets them off. Was that paint, white-out, white ink,
other? I like the way you shrouded the rear wheels. A very nice touch. The
boiler design is something I haven’t seen before. Very interesting. Are the
rubber bands there for any support function or are they just being used as
decoration? Again, great work. For a first attempt at a steam engine, I’d say
you absolutely nailed it. You definitely have some talent for building
steamies. I can’t wait to see your future work.
Best Regards,
Dave
ToT-LUG
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Sterling wrote:
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This is a great MOC and I love the colors. As others have mentioned, the
white on the drivers really sets them off. Was that paint, white-out, white
ink, other? I like the way you shrouded the rear wheels. A very nice touch.
The boiler design is something I haven’t seen before. Very interesting. Are
the rubber bands there for any support function or are they just being used
as decoration? Again, great work. For a first attempt at a steam engine,
I’d say you absolutely nailed it. You definitely have some talent for
building steamies. I can’t wait to see your future work.
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Thanks to everyone for the comments. I’ve now uploaded more pictures of the
engine and cars (both original cars and the model) to
MOCpages. The lights are now also
installed (the white LEDs are powerful), powered by a LokSound decoder (I love
the chuff chuff it makes!)
To answer some questions.
The white paint is actually a Pilot marker (I’ve heard that an Uni Posca
would work as well or even better). I tried the correcting fluid as well,
but the result wasn’t as good.
The boiler is a bit clumsy and hard to keep straight, but I’m quite happy
with the result. It consists of a lot of 1x1 bricks with studs on 4 sides
(at a 30° angle towards each other), and plates to get the distance. Very
tight in there, indeed.
The rubber bands are just for decoration, although they do help making sure
things don’t fall apart :) I’d prefer them to be the same color as the
original, but we can’t have all we want...
Cheers,
Matija
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Sterling wrote:
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This is a great MOC and I love the colors. As others have mentioned, the
white on the drivers really sets them off. Was that paint, white-out, white
ink, other? I like the way you shrouded the rear wheels. A very nice
touch. The boiler design is something I haven’t seen before. Very
interesting. Are the rubber bands there for any support function or are
they just being used as decoration? Again, great work. For a first attempt
at a steam engine, I’d say you absolutely nailed it. You definitely have
some talent for building steamies. I can’t wait to see your future work.
|
Thanks to everyone for the comments. I’ve now uploaded more pictures of the
engine and cars (both original cars and the model) to
MOCpages. The lights are now also
installed (the white LEDs are powerful), powered by a LokSound decoder (I
love the chuff chuff it makes!)
To answer some questions.
The white paint is actually a Pilot marker (I’ve heard that an Uni Posca
would work as well or even better). I tried the correcting fluid as well,
but the result wasn’t as good.
The boiler is a bit clumsy and hard to keep straight, but I’m quite happy
with the result. It consists of a lot of 1x1 bricks with studs on 4 sides
(at a 30° angle towards each other), and plates to get the distance. Very
tight in there, indeed.
The rubber bands are just for decoration, although they do help making sure
things don’t fall apart :) I’d prefer them to be the same color as the
original, but we can’t have all we want...
Cheers,
Matija
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The pictures are great and so are the coaches :)
Thats interesting about the pilot marker, only this week have I been
experimenting with one for the wheels of the Flying Scotsman I’m currently
building and found it to get rubbed off very quickly by the connecting rods (and
paint did too)......have you not had this trouble yet?
Is this DCC equiped if your using a decoder?
Carl
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In lugnet.trains, Carl Greatrix wrote:
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Thats interesting about the pilot marker, only this week have I been
experimenting with one for the wheels of the Flying Scotsman I’m currently
building and found it to get rubbed off very quickly by the connecting rods
(and paint did too)......have you not had this trouble yet?
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I had it while building, but then I was doing a lot around the wheels.
I must say I haven’t run the train a lot since it was done (and new paint
put), but so far there is no problem.
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Is this DCC equiped if your using a decoder?
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Yes, LokSound is a DCC decoder (and a good one in my opinion, albeit not the
cheapest).
Cheers,
Matija
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
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Here is my first attept at making a steam engine, the more-or-less famous
Blue Train (cars still to come):
More info & pics of the original engine and the model can be found at
MOCpages
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Just a short followup - a video of the train in its full glory (running,
with lights, sound and steam) can be found
here.
Cheers,
Matija
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