Gt 2 x 4-4 - K.Bay.St.B.- - BR 96 - DRG

[zephyr1934]

Wow, that is a very nice looking MOC, reminiscent of Bricktrix's and BMW's style of building. There are a lot of neat little details in there and your model highlights just how much that non-lego element can add to a mostly lego model, e.g., the reversing gear above the engineer's runningboard.

As for the comments that this is not "lego", it is all in the eye of the beholder. Some would argue that anything non-set is non interesting. Others would say the opposite. Even the trains found at legoland parks use: painted elements, non-lego track and motors, glued pieces, etc.. Of course there is nothing wrong with being purist about one's own work, it is a real challenge to build something realistic out of unmodified bricks.

[monai]

Many thanks for your comment, I agree for the references, in fact I loved the works of Brictrick's, and those of Ulimy too (http://http://www.br...ery.cgi?m=ulimy

I also agree that, in playing with Lego, the purpose justify the means (as Machiavelli said). Perhaps there is room also for static railway modelling in the community, after all a real Mallet design has the first boogie fixed. (We say "the world is beautiful because is different").

Edited October 9, 2015 by monai

[Barduck]

for me it's not that you've painted parts, it's that you've painted parts that exist in the color you painted it in. I've no problem with the first, sometimes you just can't get around it and if and when LEGO finally makes that part in the needed color you can always replace. But painting parts that do exist in the color you're painting it in is just lazy. Sorry but just my 2c

For the rest, beautifull moc and some very interesting techniques used to solve some building problems. 9 wide it is? What made you go on that road? And that's not a negative comment, just a question on what you had in mind. Did you start in 9 wide from the start or did it evolve in to that?

edit for typo's

Edited October 11, 2015 by Barduck

[monai]

for me it's not that you've painted parts, it's that you've painted parts that exist in the color you painted it in. I've no problem with with the first, sometimes you just can't get around it and if and when LEGO finally makes that part in the needed color you can always replace. But painting parts tha do exist in the color you're painting it in is just lazy. Sorry but just my 2c

For the rest, beautifull moc and some very interesting techniques used to solve some building problems. 9 wide it is? What made you go on that road? And that's not a negative comment, just a question on what you had in mind. Did you start in 9 wide from the start or did it evolve in to that?

thanks for the appreciation, well the variety of parts involved in such a project is so great that I should have put so many different orders only to get few small pieces that the timescale would explode (and my conto too..), it took 2 years to complete it (I'm doing other things in the meantime like working... ) so I decided to use (really very few) pieces I had in different color and paint them, as you said when I get the exact color the change will always be possible..

9 studs are the exact scale 1:38 with the loco original width. Since the very beginning the goal was to make an exact scale model, everything was conceived to this, also the maximum velocity (36sm/sec)x 38=50km/h.

[jkj1909]

Very impressive work, nice to see that some people not are "slaved" to TLG limitations on available bricks and colours

Edited October 25, 2015 by jkj1909

[monai]

Very impressive work, nice to see that some people not are "slaved" to TLG limitations on available bricks and colours

Thanks a lot, I felt somehow "heretic" for some comments on the comunity. I only wished to replicate a beautifull locomotive by means of a tremendously versatile toy, but it's impossible to make everything for Lego too. I wonder if someone has tried to use metal train wheels from the (gauge1) model railway world in Lego to solve the deep flange trouble.