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Sven J
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The Swedish saga continues...
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Hi all, For the video I’ve yet to make featuring my Swedish Litt. S1 locomotive, I felt some background decoration was needed. So I chose to build a Swedish vintage truck in 1/33 scale: a Scania-Vabis 355, one of the first cab-over-engine trucks (though not a true one, as the engine remained directly behind the front axle and the driver had to squeeze in beside/behind it). Some parts of the model are a bit fragile, so I didn’t want to turn it over after completion. A render image has to suffice to show the bottom side … Thanks for your interest! Best regards, Sven
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Thanks a lot, @zephyr1934 !
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Thank you @Hod Carrier and @Shiva! In fact it’s almost Speed Champions size… Indeed, it's that one that inspired me. Yes, that’s right. It might have been possible to use mudguard parts, but I didn’t want to do that, because they have that protruding „lip“ which looks pretty inappropriate for that kind of car (in my opinion, that is). Besides, it would then have been very difficult to combine the 7-wide wheel arches with the 6-wide body. So the slightly-too-large wheel arches are of course a compromise, but I think they look quite okay. Clever idea with the gear wheels and the tires - thank you! I’ll have to look if I have some of these tires left somewhere. I can send you a PM with my email address, if that’s okay for you. Or simply post it here – I’m absolutely fine with showing other folks’ modifications of my model in this thread.
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Hi Davide, I've uploaded the .io file and building instructions to Rebrickable. Feel free to use them and to modify the model! Best regards, Sven
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Thank you all for your positive feedback! I suspect there aren't many options... The PV 831 was almost exclusively used as a taxi, so most of them were black. I actually made a (digital) taxi version, but it doesn't look very good as I couldn't find appropriate wheels - all LEGO wheels are either too small or too big/wide. Oh yes! And there is an endless number of other such vehicles... maybe a new theme for me when I've finally run out of space for locomotive models? It's gauge 1 track (45 mm).
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Thanks a lot for your kind words, Emanuele! I'm happy that you like my odd little Swede. However, I won't participate in the OcTRAINber contest this year. Maybe next year again...
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Hi all, during research for my SJ Litt. S1 engine, I stumbled across a rather odd vehicle – a 1953 Volvo PV 831 taxi converted to a railroad inspection car. And as I like oddities, I decided to include it in my little 1/32 scale „Swedish series“… so here it is: The model is driven by a Circuit Cube motor with Bluetooth battery. The wheels are MS disc wheels from Bricks-on-Rails. I also made a short video clip, which illustrates what I’d really appreciate: It would be great if the guys behind the Circuit Cube could come up with a higher-revving motor – speed is rather sedate… And a bit less noise would be nice, too. Thanks for stopping by! Best regards, Sven
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Lovely little thing! Amazing that you even managed to fit lights in this tiny locomotive.
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Ok, that's a bit difficult. Since these are no SJ locomotives, they aren't listed in "Särtryck 262". I just looked up in my book about TGOJ rolling stock (Sundström/Frederiksson: TGOJ lok och vagnar, Stenvalls förlag 2016), but there also aren't any drawings of M3b or M3t. You might try to search in the "Järnvägshistoriskt forum", I found the drawings for my M3a there years ago.
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Thank you too, @Paperinik77pk and @Man with a hat! At the moment, I'm tinkering with another "complementary thing", this time a Volvo ... stay tuned. Just for fun, I've made a side-by-side comparison of my two Swedish steam locomotives. It's obvious how especially the valve gear design has significantly improved over the past 6 years ... But the S1 is also much more advanced in terms of building techniques (e.g. the SNOT-work for the rear tank with its curved edges) and chassis design. And, of course, the S1 is the much more elegant engine.
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Thank you @Shiva! That's different, depending on the specific prototype. Sometimes, especially for German prototypes, it's just sufficient to take a book from my collection and look up drawings and dimensions there. For Swedish locomotives, the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle has digitalized large parts of its collections and made them publicly available on the web; this includes data sheets of steam locomotives as well: http://samlingsportalen.se/digitalt_arkiv/jvm/rullande_materiel/sj_sartryck_262/sj_sartryck_262_1955_web.pdf Similar webpages exist for Italian locomotives: https://www.archiviofondazionefs.it/en/Archivio-Servizio-Materiale-e-Trazione/rs/dc645a1f203c2dd8b95ad43be5177b1c1ebf93a0/rsDataSource And then there's the digital archive of the magazine "Die Lokomotive", a real treasure chest: https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=lok But sometimes, you simply have to search the web for hours and hours until you find something...
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Thank you for your kind comments, @Kai NRG, @samsz_3, @LEGO Train 12 Volts, @firefabric and @Andy Glascott! Emanuele, you're too kind. That makes me blush ... It's 45 mm gauge 1 track from Märklin. Regarding minifig scale - well, I don't think 1/32.5 would fit into that definition. Unless you're accepting the minifigure to represent an adult person as "tall" as 130 cm (4*32.5), that is ... Edit: Thank you too, @Asper! Seems you posted your comment the very same moment when I wrote the sentences above.
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