Building 7777

[AFOL7777]

On 5/24/2019 at 10:56 AM, Paperinik77pk said:

It's a long time since I wrote on this thread - I see things have improved!!! :)

The refinery is one of my darkest desires!!! Many thanks for sharing!!!

 

You're welcome! I'm glad you like the refinery and the 7777 big locomotive in yellow!!

LEGO: The Fun Just Keeps Building

[duifkelego]

I've decided to take the 7777 ideas book off of my build bucket list the "hard" way. I had already started building small things in the past already but now I took it up a notch.  Below you can find some pictures of the bulk transfer building of pages 8 and 9. I regret to say they wee not built into a nice scene. But I could sell the build rather quickly so I did that and didn't think of picture easthetics before it was too late , a shame really.

For me the fun is in the building and hunting parts rather then having the model....  and I do not have the room for such scenes permanently.

The guy who bought the build also expressed a high interest in the scene of pages 30 and 31. So then i went ahead and build those models for him as well.   By then i was comitted (to myself and the bucket list... )  So I went ahead and built the railway station of pages 42 and 43. This time the scene was properly finished with minifigs, lights, a train and more... I'll post some pictures below but there is more on my bricksafe : https://bricksafe.com/pages/duifkelego.

 

 

 

 

[SDLgo9]

Here are a couple of my attempts to reverse-engineer models seen in 7777, from pages 62-65: the breakdown train, and the signalbox.

 

Has anyone tried to do something similar with the earlier ideas books 240 and 241? I came across one very impressive reconstruction of the big layout in 241, but compared to 7777 they seem to have a much lower profile online.

[Paperinik77pk]

17 hours ago, SDLgo9 said:

Here are a couple of my attempts to reverse-engineer models seen in 7777, from pages 62-65: the breakdown train, and the signalbox.

 

Has anyone tried to do something similar with the earlier ideas books 240 and 241? I came across one very impressive reconstruction of the big layout in 241, but compared to 7777 they seem to have a much lower profile online.

Hi and welcome!

Personally I've tried several times to rebuild old 241 and 242 models, in order to get the "blue era" feeling and to replicate it in some MOCs.

Buildings are more complex than it seems to rebuild, some trains are simple modifications of already existing official models.  Some creations are really difficult to reverse engineer since photos are too small or not so defined. There are some buildings (e.g a bridge made with rails) introducing other ways to connect bricks and plates - the early beginning of SNOT technique. The great thing about 241 and 242 books is the amount of good ideas spread here and there.

The fact that online there's less blue era related stuff is probably due to the fact that the Lego train system had a boom in its "gray era" of the 80s. The blue era 12v system was somehow at the beginning, introducing electric points, but nothing more. 12v system of the 80s was improved and surely more appealing, introducing some features similar to real modelling scales (H0, O , G) .

Nonetheless, blue era is fascinating - and still possible to be "rebuilt" (paying attention to all the specific parts of the era). 

Ciao!

Davide

 

 

[zephyr1934]

@SDLgo9 If you are a fan of 7777 you definitely want to check out this thread with a massive gray era 12v layout

[cozzie4d]

A bit late to the party, but how does the yellow shed that folds, actually works to turn the train around?

[Murdoch17]

1 hour ago, cozzie4d said:

A bit late to the party, but how does the yellow shed that folds, actually works to turn the train around?

It doesn't @cozzie4d. You would need a loop, a wye, or turntable for that. (I'm pretty sure you can't do 12v or 9v powered track with any of those, but I could be wrong. Battery trains have no issues with them, though!)

Edited April 7, 2024 by Murdoch17

[cozzie4d]

Thanks @Murdoch17. I wonder then why you can turn half of the shed, with cables. In the book it looks like they let a locomotive drive into the 2nd part of the shed, stop it, then manually rotate the 2nd half of the shed and connector it to the other rails. So it’s basically turned around but on a different track.

[Murdoch17]

1 hour ago, cozzie4d said:

Thanks @Murdoch17. I wonder then why you can turn half of the shed, with cables. In the book it looks like they let a locomotive drive into the 2nd part of the shed, stop it, then manually rotate the 2nd half of the shed and connector it to the other rails. So it’s basically turned around but on a different track.

I didn't know it showed that, and I must admit, that's just plain odd... I've never seen or heard of that before now! I thought you were asking if (normally) train sheds could turn engines around... which I guess, now they can. 

Edited April 8, 2024 by Murdoch17

[cozzie4d]

Here's some creative copy/pasting to show you what I mean:

http://www.sierracosworth.nl/img/7777-shed-turning.jpg

[zephyr1934]

I think the implication is that you could have the shed open or closed when you put it in the layout (being careful to put the track in accordingly) but that when it is in the layout it is static and the track will not change. Oh, and to link to your picture in the thread, literally just paste the url of the jpg in your message...