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Re: A few Norwegian MOCs & a DCC-question
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Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:36:32 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
   Hello there,

so, after a lot of time of being passive, I finally decided to break the ice :)

First, a few local MOCs (train & town):

BM-71 (Flytoget, the Oslo airport train)

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This was my first train MOC, made a year ago. I was struggling a lot with the nose, but managed somehow to get it right-ish... I’m still not quite satisfied with it, though. Droid arms & lightsabres were used for the sliding doors (I would love to give credit to the person I stole the idea from, but I just couldn’t find the Brickshelf-folder again).

The train is clearly “a bit” long, but it still manages to do the curves nicely (although it needs a bit of space on both sides of the tracks). Being that long, it gives a nice sliding effect while changing track on a switch ;) Heavy it is also, but rolls quite smoothly. The original idea was anyway to just have it standing there and looking nice, but the temptation was too strong.

And yes, I’m aware of the fact that it is too high and too narrow :) I might consider doing an 8-wide version (or a lower one, if I change the nose), but we’ll see.

Here is a short “LEGO-friendly” version (made only digitally, though):

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T-bane (Oslo underground, 1. series)

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This was is my second MOC. A very simplified version of an already simple model, which is soon to be obsoleted and replaced by a new fancy type. The roof can be taken off and I tried to make the interior as accurately as I could in the minifig scale (no pictures of the interior yet :/).

I ended up with the 8-wide version, since it is the closest to the original proportions... the 6-wide might fit better into LEGO-layouts, but the 8-wide is much nicer:

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I made a small 4-wide version (1:100) as part of a model that’s permanently exhibited in the Department of informatics in Oslo (but that’s another topic :) ). I had to cheat a little bit and do bad things (I’ll go and punish myself!), but it was worth:

image <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2253308 image

Wooden houses ------------- These are typical Norwegian wooden houses, usually found in dark red, dark yellow, white and dark blue. Sometimes they are built in a row, so I decided to make such a row myself. There is a lot of room for details, but I haven’t had time since the exhibition at that time was only a few days away:

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   Cheers :) Matija

FuT lugnet.trains

Hi Matija,

I’ve admired all these models since you first posted them. I particularly like the way you vary each of them to different scales and sizes (I have a love for length-compressed six-wides). The nose design on the Flytoget is absolute genius.

I’ve also long admired your wooden houses. Wonderful simple looks hiding complex design :)

In response to the third point of your shunter thread: would it be adding insult to injury if I said that I only got the idea to do a Norwegian loco after seeing your excellent models? ;)

Tim

PS. Out of interest is this the door? LUGNET post



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Hello there, so, after a lot of time of being passive, I finally decided to break the ice :) First, a few local MOCs (train & town): BM-71 (Flytoget, the Oslo airport train) (URL) This was my first train MOC, made a year ago. I was struggling a lot (...) (17 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) ! 

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