Celeste Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 Absolutely love the interior engine detail on that red shunter! So cute, but still packed full of detail. Also, very much appreciating the associated stories, history, and nicknames that you came up with for all your locos. Makes them feel like a cohesive whole and its quite fun to read about! Quote
FlammerFime Posted November 25, 2024 Author Posted November 25, 2024 (edited) Good evening once again! Since space is still not in my convinience, the Intercity train will be delayed (how ironic, since IC trains in Poland constantly run late kek) So instead I'll be posting my other small locos for now, leaving the big ones for later --- Clasified locomotives:EP12 IntercityST34 Wiener Dog SU49 Colorado BugST16 Holger SR33 Fixer EN50 StinkyPU103 Kettle PP106 Pepe SU50 Gagarin EM49 4.5VET48 The BoxSD90 CargoRailway Visiting from AmericaBig Boi Murica Atom Streamline --- Today I'm bringing to the table first of my steamers! the rather small PU103, cutely nicknamed a "Kettle" It is a small steam locomotive meant to haul light cargo or short distance passenger trains. Built in 1926 in Germany, later brought over here in 1946, as part of war reparations, functional till present day. It doesn't really resemble any real-life model. It is... rather oddly shaped. It was meant to be an experiment: adding a small tender to a locomotive, that would originally be a tank locomotive, to extend its travel distance and make it more independent on longer lines. Therefore it is the only existing locomotive of its type. It is build atop the rarer red 12V motor, one of two I have (wait for PP106 for the other one). Tho this motor is damaged, as one wheel definitely sticks down a bit, making it wobbly when it runs (was VERY cheap for a red motor tho). In the design I decided to make it similar to 12V lego steamers. Using slope bricks as the boiler more squared and vintage looking. But I did use some modern parts too, for more detail! Made the smokestack form a technic part, as I wanted it to be quite narrow and tall. I also used flex tubes, inspired by the loco from set 7727. At the back there are small doors, to access the tenders storage. And talking about the tender, here it is. It is quite tiny, but still has two compartments. One to store fuel (the locomotive runs on wood at the moment, as I wanted to use something different, than black coal in a black tender), and the other compartment further back is a water tank. Both can be accesed for refilling from the top. Interesting fact about this build: the whole wheels assembly is offset by half a stud, so they are in the middle of the tenders length. One last thing I would like to share is the cab detail, as I think I managed to make it exceptionally detailed for its size (makes it a bit fragile to handle tho). There are two gauges, made of clock 1x1 round tiles, there are some valves, a throttle lever, and even a water level indicator! The firebox is opened, showing a flaming fire inside. The one piece of wood on the floor would be put into minifigs hand for display. So that's the Kettle. It is one of my favorite locos I built, it's so adorable! Hopefully will one day find a space to display it properly... As for now, grab a small scene of water refilling i photographed a few months ago: And of cores LDD file is right here:https://files.catbox.moe/yij4ag.lxf Good night yall! --- 17 hours ago, Celeste said: Also, very much appreciating the associated stories, history, and nicknames that you came up with for all your locos. Makes them feel like a cohesive whole and its quite fun to read about! Yeah I am trying ^^ have those little backstories for almost all of them written down. I like thing to make sense in-universe Edited November 25, 2024 by FlammerFime Quote
idlemarvel Posted November 26, 2024 Posted November 26, 2024 I love the Kettle very detailed and a nice back-story for the design. In fact I love all your models. Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted December 1, 2024 Posted December 1, 2024 The little tender looks fantastic! Another beautiful model! Quote
Pastajensen Posted December 13, 2024 Posted December 13, 2024 (edited) The amount of details in your MOC's @FlammerFimeare excellent, simple and detailed at the same time. I love the tender you made. Edited December 13, 2024 by Pastajensen Forgot a line... hitting post to quickly. Quote
Sebeus I Posted January 5 Posted January 5 On 11/21/2024 at 12:18 AM, FlammerFime said: I really think those printed 24246pb001 elements (which are not very common to find unfortunately), are quite perfect for cylinder cover detail in a combustion engine. (I was salso going to use then in my ST34, but finding 24 of them in a reasonable price was unreal). Such attention to detail. That is a beautiful collection of 12V trains! Quote
FlammerFime Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 (edited) Good evening everyone! After a long break, I am back to give more 12V content to the world ^^ In other news, I've been slacking off with the passenger trains... But now my train station is almost done, which will allow me to take some nice pictures of them! And probably gonna make a whole another post about the station itself. But now! I would like to show something... a bit different! First of my locomotives, that come from over the ocean! From the great US of A! Clasified locomotives:EP12 IntercityST34 Wiener Dog SU49 Colorado BugST16 Holger SR33 Fixer EN50 StinkyPU103 Kettle PP106 Pepe SU50 Gagarin EM49 4.5VET48 The BoxSD90 CargoRailway Visiting from AmericaBig Boi MuricaAtom Streamline --- This is gonna be a long one! So hold on everybody! X-13, the marvel of engineering! The rail transport of the tomorrow-land! The (almost) impossible locomotive able to run day and night all year long without ever needing to refuel! The NUCLEAR engine! Inspired by the a short documentary about a concept locomotive from the 50's, called the X-12 (https://files.catbox.moe/s8ev3z.jpeg). I decided to take my own interpretation of the idea, and design a fully detailed loco, powered by a nuclear reactor. It has two motors, making it one of my most powerfull locos (as it should be). And is a whopping 72 studs long! the "X-13" is both a parody of the originals name, a reference to the fact the whole locomotive has an impressive 13 axles... and the fact that I find it funny, that a nuclear loco would be signed by a number 13, considered to be very unlucky LoL. Whole locomotive consist of the fist half, containing the crew cabin, the reactor, and the generator room. While the second half is a huge cooling tower, needed to cool a nuclear reactor. Let's start with the second part, as it is objectively more boring.. It's just a box, with an array of coolers on the side, and 6 fans on the top, to push air thru. There is an access hatch at the back, but there is not much of an interior, as there really shouldn't be... air needs to move freely after all. There are also hoses running to the cooling tower. They are attached only from the first cars side, and can freely move in the second car, that way the train can take corners freely. But let's focus on the first car now! Here you can see the whole insides, with walls partially disassembled for easy viewing. In the front, there is the crew cab. The locomotive must be operated by two minifigs. A driver, and a reactor controller. The Drivers seat is atop a small ladder, overlooking the rails from above. There are levers for throttle, breaks, and a few other gauges. You will also find those red SCRAM buttons scattered around, for emergency reactor shutoff. The reactor controller seats below, in the nose of the locomotive. He has the full monitoring setup, for reactors status, temperature, water cycling, and all the other. With all the gauges and controls, providing a safe operation (probably). There is also this small valve and gauges panel at the back of the cab. Behind the cab, and shielded all around with thick metal walls, sits the reactor itself! Supported from both sides and taking all the vertical space avilable. It might just look like a cylinder of gray metal... but it holds the UNLIMITED power! I also wanted to include fore details, even those that won't be visible almost at all. So if you would take the shielding off, there is the core! With nuclear fuel rods, as well as the control rods sticking form below.... (yeah they really should be sticking form above to drop gravitationally in case of an emergency... but who cares really?! What can possibly go wrong?! Also I wanted to take a nice picture of it... But for some reason the photo always comes out weirdly fuzzy and unclear... And I don't know what to do about it... Lastly, there is the generator room. Hot steam comes from above, into the turbine, spinning the shaft which powers the big generator in the back, providing electrical power to traction motors. The steam then leaves via the lower pipe to the cooling car. You can also see the emergency pressure valve on the bottom. The whole thing should really have at least two separate water circuits, one contained inside the reactor, heating up a heat exchanger, to warm the second circuit, to power the turbine... But I didn't have that much space, so I just didn't bother... And that is probably all I have to say about this quite unusual engine. I hope You enjoyed! And of cores as always, there is the LDD file of the whole thing:https://files.catbox.moe/qer5ll.lxf Have a nice evening, and see You later! Edited January 10 by FlammerFime Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 (edited) Yay! Another Nuclear loco! That's three after @Electricsteam 's one and my own. Love the humor in the above post too, and the fuzzy picture of the reactor is the icing on the yellow cake (Uranium)! This MOC is positively glowing with positive vibes, and why not? It's an awesome model, and has totally blown me away. Keep up the good work @FlammerFime! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to SCRAM. Edited January 10 by Murdoch17 Quote
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