Posted April 3, 20159 yr I thought I'd share my previous train project. The "Blue Horizon". A mod of Horizon Express with a couple minor changes because of the orange diagonal panel. A closeup of 1 engine and 1 passenger car:
April 4, 20159 yr I would buy this. What set did the large blue slope pieces that feature at the front of the train come from?
April 4, 20159 yr Author I would buy this. What set did the large blue slope pieces that feature at the front of the train come from? Thanks. The pieces (part# 32084) came in the Railway Express (set 4560), however I just bought them from Bricklink. They were only $0.20 each or so. I don't think those pieces are used very much.
April 4, 20159 yr This looks fantastic. The centre jakobs bogey and squared off undercarriage finishes it nicely.
April 5, 20159 yr Very Nice!! I just checked the orange parts inventory on the HE and the 6x8 wedge and the 6x28 train base are the only unusually piece. The base only comes in blue, orange, black and dark-blue grey. The wedge comes in Dark Brown, Green, Red, White and Yellow. Any of those colors (especially green or yellow) would also look really snazzy (with a black base). Also love the blue HE in your signature block. Any chance you can explain in detail how you accomplished that?
April 6, 20159 yr Author Very Nice!! I just checked the orange parts inventory on the HE and the 6x8 wedge and the 6x28 train base are the only unusually piece. The base only comes in blue, orange, black and dark-blue grey. The wedge comes in Dark Brown, Green, Red, White and Yellow. Any of those colors (especially green or yellow) would also look really snazzy (with a black base). Also love the blue HE in your signature block. Any chance you can explain in detail how you accomplished that? The panel with the orange/black diagonal pattern was my biggest issue and the slope 75 and inverse slope piece replacement caused the black section to increase in height just a little. Once past that issue, the wedge and the Train base is pretty much the only strange pieces. There are multiple part numbers for the Train Base 6 x 28 which increases the color selection with Red, Yellow, Light Gray, and Dark Gray. Although the yellow is so expensive and rare that it mostly removes it from the options. I'm in process of building a red version although it's now so different than the HE, that it's really a MOC slightly inspired by the HE (and a couple other TGV trains on flickr). I hope to have that finished by next month. For the signature block, I loaded the standard HE model sig files and changed the orange to blue in paint and then for the double inter-modal piece, took half of the picture, flipped it and over layed it on the other half.
October 24, 20159 yr This looks very good, nice work. Now I got to buy my own HE set, altough I wont be able to have it in blue color. Keep up the great stuff :)
October 25, 20159 yr Greetings new friend, while indeed there are all sorts of interesting bits in old threads like this, please do not bump an old topic just to add a small comment or ask a quick question. Few of the readers will remember the original discussion and it just becomes confusing for the regular readers. If you have questions for the original poster you can try sending them a private message. You can also start a new thread if you have a related topic that is not a direct continuation. Of course if you do have a substantial follow up to an old thread it is sometimes appropriate to do a bump like this, e.g., "I finally built this and found...."
October 30, 20159 yr Yeah, another blue horizon express....I´ve built mine last December, after I finished my UAAI 839... It´s so cool in blue. But unfortunately I have only one half of the blue one. Perhaps some day, I will have a full blue Horizon! Regards René
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