Irish Rail Class 141 Loco

[Andy Glascott]

This weekend the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland are relaunching their Class 141 loco B142 after an overhaul (details here if you're interested, and more on the loco itself here), so I figured it was time to share my rendition of it. 

As with all my 12v stock it's 6 wide, which limits the detail that can be included! I had figured out a way to brick build the curved lines on the front, but that would have left a very flat front of the cab - Irish diesels have an awful lot of flat planes to the cab ends so the compromise was to use some slopes but keep the orange and white lines straight. I'm getting more used to stickers, and am reasonably happy with how the stickers on the 2x2x6 windscreens came out to give the three front windows. Overall, I'm really happy with how it turned out even if the details I did get in don't accurately match the original. Anyway, here are the pics, starting with my main reference image.

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Side view:

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The doors on the real thing are the diagonal panel on the back of the cab, 1 stud wide slopes on my model, so I created doors on the side while staying as true to the design as possible - a minifig has to be able to fit through the door!

Front view:

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And the classic 3/4 view:

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The pics were all taken on a stored module of my bigger layout, hence the wooden sky in one or two of them!

Lastly, a short video of it running on a temporary loop recently:

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Hope you all enjoy it. 

 

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

I'll start by saying that I've a soft spot for the 12 Volt so my opinion is perhaps biased ...I love your interpretation (perfectly successful) of this locomotive.

I didn't know this model, but I like both the lines and the strong contrasting colors!

[Andy Glascott]

2 hours ago, LEGO Train 12 Volts said:

I'll start by saying that I've a soft spot for the 12 Volt so my opinion is perhaps biased ...I love your interpretation (perfectly successful) of this locomotive.

I didn't know this model, but I like both the lines and the strong contrasting colors!

Thank you. I didn’t know this livery existed until earlier this year but when I saw it knew I could come up with a reasonable rendition of the colour scheme, this one is from the 1960s. Later Irish locos have more orange and more curves in the paintwork, much harder to do in 6 wide!

[Feuer Zug]

Good looking build, especially atop the 12v engine.