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Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
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Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:15:27 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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Hi train fans,
the possible(?) end of 9V trains, the blay desaster and the too high demands
of myself against my MOCs have lead to a kind of frustration in my hobby. Due
to all this and more, I lost a lot of the fun that LEGO meant to me in the
past, but nevertheless here comes a new MOC of mine.
This engine has been introduced in 1919 for the Prussian railway (named as
P10 at that time) but most engines made it into the later national railway
company “Deutsche Reichsbahn” - then numbered as type Baureihe 39 (BR39).
It has 1620 horsepower and a weight of 162 tons. It made a maximum speed of
110 km/h. 260 engines have been ordered and the last of them went out of duty
in the seventies, with the general end of the steam traction. Most engines
have been in use to pull passenger trains.
The engine is not my personal masterpiece, but still it features a few new
inventions and building tricks.
The boiler is wider than usual:
The BBB-wheels (thanks to Ben Fleskes!!) are grouped 4+4 with a
gearwheel connecting
both groups to synchronize them. The two short connecting rods look (nearly)
like one when they are in motion.
The tender includes lots of SNOT techniques to show rounded corners and even
“rivets” on the sides. Personally I like the trucks underneath most. These
look very lightweighted like the real ones do (most oldfashioned designs look
like that and I tried to catch that impression). The slim red line (all
tiles!) beneath the boxy main part of the tender was quite tricky to attach
as well.
And the detail which cost most time to build (because I built at least 10
different desigs before it seemed to be ok), were the smoke leading plates.
Their bottom line clearly needed SNOT tecchnique, since that is a angle of
slightly less than 45°. But on the top end, there are quarter circles needed
to give the rounded effect. It took hours and hours till I found a solution I
could accept myself.....
So here is the full engine again from the other side:
The full gallery is
to be found here when moderated. The MPD-File for the engine is available as
well as some pictures of the building process and the brick built model.
Hope you enjoy + Leg Godt!
See more pictures of my models at www.brickshelf.com
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Fantastic engine, Ben! I’ve been wanting to do one of these German (European?)
style steam locomotovies for a while, but I’ve been putting it off for more
American style designs I’m familiar with. The amount of detail you’ve put in is
just superb.
I have two questions, though: First, why did you go for the seperated sections
of drivers? Did you not have any blind drivers, or did you not want the
locomotive to swing so much over the tracks during turns? Or is there some
other reason? I’m not criticising, I’m just curious.
Second, what combination of parts did you use for the smokestack? (or whatever
it’s called, I’m terrible with vocabulary). I love the look of it, and I’d like
to see if I couldn’t put it on my Polar Express (currently the smokestack is a
2x2 round brick), but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. I can see it’s
two tires, but I can’t tell if there are hubs involved, or what holds the stack
of tires to the locomotive.
Anyway... great job!
--Anthony
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| (...) Dear Anthony, thanks to you (and all others) for the overwhelming positive feedback! I myself still think the model needs a few more details and structures like a black minifig hand here and there or some space tools.... The smokestack (I have (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi train fans, the possible(?) end of 9V trains, the blay desaster and the too high demands of myself against my MOCs have lead to a kind of frustration in my hobby. Due to all this and more, I lost a lot of the fun that LEGO meant to me in the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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