Moving vehicles in a Lego city (100% Lego solution)

[ER0L]

HI all,

since there'll be another exhibition soon I'm actually revamping a lot of builds. This is some stuff which has been reactivated and properly modularized on an actual R66 plate (see below). I've combined it with the PF monorail (which in fact is much larger and also has a second train, however it gets quite difficult already to control all the moving stuff, that's why I try to keep things easy to navigate).

Looking at this I get the impression that it's a good idea not only to have some moving stuff on a Lego layout but also to illuminate what can be illuminated, trains included. However, it should be done at an early building state, otherwise it might be difficult to be implemented.

Regarding the actual R66 modules:

One MDF board (3x4 baseplates, 19 mm) with roads, baseplates and railroad tracks + one foldable table (can be omitted if there are suitable tables at the location) + one 60x40 eurobox with buildings, vehicles, minifigs and all other stuff needed on this special module = one R66 module.

Thanks for looking!

 

 

[Mrlikeslegothings]

On 9/22/2024 at 12:45 PM, ER0L said:

HI all,

since there'll be another exhibition soon I'm actually revamping a lot of builds. This is some stuff which has been reactivated and properly modularized on an actual R66 plate (see below). I've combined it with the PF monorail (which in fact is much larger and also has a second train, however it gets quite difficult already to control all the moving stuff, that's why I try to keep things easy to navigate).

Looking at this I get the impression that it's a good idea not only to have some moving stuff on a Lego layout but also to illuminate what can be illuminated, trains included. However, it should be done at an early building state, otherwise it might be difficult to be implemented.

Regarding the actual R66 modules:

One MDF board (3x4 baseplates, 19 mm) with roads, baseplates and railroad tracks + one foldable table (can be omitted if there are suitable tables at the location) + one 60x40 eurobox with buildings, vehicles, minifigs and all other stuff needed on this special module = one R66 module.

Thanks for looking!

 

 

Yeah, I was thinking and I was going to do mils road as well.

[ER0L]

On 9/25/2024 at 12:40 AM, Mrlikeslegothings said:

Yeah, I was thinking and I was going to do mils road as well.

OK, but what is "mils roads"? Is there already a road system with moving vehicles? I'd obviously be quite interested in that. 

Here you can see the 2nd Lenkwerk layout consisting of 3 modules plus a small Monorail setup. I can say that it was quite a success and will hopefully be continued in the future. The idea is to add another feature or even module at every event. 

 

Here you can see the module setup without buildings, vehicles and stuff. This makes it quite easy to set up a layout in no time.

Thanks for looking!

 

Edited October 1, 2024 by ER0L

[Mrlikeslegothings]

On 10/1/2024 at 11:07 AM, ER0L said:

OK, but what is "mils roads"? Is there already a road system with moving vehicles? I'd obviously be quite interested in that. 

Here you can see the 2nd Lenkwerk layout consisting of 3 modules plus a small Monorail setup. I can say that it was quite a success and will hopefully be continued in the future. The idea is to add another feature or even module at every event. 

 

Here you can see the module setup without buildings, vehicles and stuff. This makes it quite easy to set up a layout in no time.

Thanks for looking!

 

Surprised you don't know what mils stands for.

[imvanya]

It’s Modular Integrated Landscaping System: https://www.abellon.net/MILS/ The Town subforum has a bunch of topics for all kinds off MILS plates.

I don’t know much about it but moving vehicles don’t seem to be an integral part of the system. However, the MILS plates are built so maybe your solutions for slot cars could be adapted to fit MILS.

Edited October 3, 2024 by imvanya

[ER0L]

 

On 10/3/2024 at 10:24 AM, imvanya said:

It’s Modular Integrated Landscaping System: https://www.abellon.net/MILS/ The Town subforum has a bunch of topics for all kinds off MILS plates.

I don’t know much about it but moving vehicles don’t seem to be an integral part of the system. However, the MILS plates are built so maybe your solutions for slot cars could be adapted to fit MILS.

Thanks a lot imvanya, I remember I've seen this before. However, as far as I can see via your link MILS roads are tiled, so my system won't work there.

In my experience SNOT roads and pavements offer a lot of possibilities in Town related, vehicle-based layouts (e. g. you get nice curves and thin road markings, also the exact positioning of buildings is much easier than with baseplates, last but not least you can easily install streetlights with cables underneath a hollow pavement) whereas MILS seems to be a great thing when you're focussed on large train layouts with rather demanding landscaping requirements. 

Edited October 8, 2024 by ER0L