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Hi I'm new in this forum (well, actually I have been reading here for a year) so I'll do something myself. Here I am presenting my Lego Thomas and Friends range that I have designed totally in LDD. It took me about 1 year till now (or even longer) to design all the engines. First we start with Thomas Then Edward, I designed the driving wheels higher as I would use Big Ben Bricks medium drivers for that model. Henry follows Then Gordon the Express Engine Duck the Great Western Oliver Arthur Molly Stanley Annie and Clarabel to go with Thomas The red coaches A well wagon Bulgy Maithwaite Station (not finished) And finally non-Thomas related stuff A narrow gauge train layout with the existing lego track A big train station And at last a GNR C1 Atlantic engine. That is the only engine that I actually have in real bricks, however the LDD model is a little bit different - I don't have green wheels and am planning to buy the XL Big Ben Bricks drivers which should look better. I built the model out of 2 Emerald Nights, however I don't have actual pictures for the real version. I hope you enjoyed it! ScotNick P.S.: I actually wanted to upload my Thomas model on Cuusoo, but as someone else made a (not the best) Thomas model before me they didn't allow me to. P.P.: Sorry, I tried to upload the pictures here but it didn't work so I put just the link there. Edit: Found out how to post the pictures directly.
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I've done a few steam engines recently, my 4-6-2 engine and my twin 0-6-0 pannier tank engines (which now look even better with proper connecting rods, thanks to zephyr1934!) being my most recent. All my previous trains were done in 6-wide, but I've found that a bit too restrictive recently - it's very hard to get a proper 'round' look for the boiler in that scale, so I thought I'd try 7-wide this time and see what it looked like. I also wanted to do a different class of engine, and 2-8-0 seemed sufficiently different to anything I've done :) I based the design on the British LMS (London, Midland and Scottish Railway) Stanier Class 8F, built between 1935 and 1946. On the outbreak of the Second World War, the design was chosen to become the country's standard freight design, reprising the role the GCR Class 8K had in the First World War. The War Department had 208 8Fs built and requisitioned 51 more.[ref] This is the engine I based it on, but I chose to do it in black rather than dark red. It's not perfect - the chimney is a bit too far back, and the hoses I've used on the sides curve upwards a bit, but overall I'm pretty pleased with it. The tender is built to take Power Functions too, although it doesn't currently have them in there. More (and larger) photos are on my flickr.
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(Please excuse the low quality of the photos, my camera's in the shop so all I'm able to use is my phone ) I really like German Steam quite a lot, although one of the main problems with it is that many of the engines I'd like to build are too big both for my apartment and my budget (Looking at you, DRG 03 ), so I decided to put together one of my favorite German steamers: the BR 24. It's small enough that it'll look nice on standard Lego curves and not dwarf my current rolling stock. As one may be able to notice, the design is pretty much "Ben" Beneke's BR 24 with some modifications, including BBB medium drivers in place of the 12V large train wheels, functioning siderods via Zephyr, and a few other replacements/substitutions for older out of print parts. Other than that it's mainly based on his design for the most part. I'm considering redesigning the tender so I can fit a 9V motor in there so the engine is powered. To complement the BR 24, I designed a pair of Donnerbuchsen (Thunderbox) for the engine to pull. They were originally used for light commuter traffic and were fairly common during 1930s/40s Germany. I haven't figured out an interior design I'm happy with yet, so I'm holding off from posting it here. I'm not sure if I like how the black stripe breaks up the sides, but it is prototypical to some of the coaches. The 6-wide body and 7-wide roof really gives that overhang looks, which looks pretty nice in person. I'm working on a design for a baggage car to complete the set, but I'm tinkering with 9V and PF motors to see how much I can fit in while keeping it fast enough to push/pull it all. The two-car set still looks fine though! Let me know what you guys think!
