German Passenger Wagons

[XG BC]

Today i built some n-wagons, also called silberlinge (silverlings) due to their brushed stainless steel original appearance. anyways here are the models:

the most current livery, red and white (these are rare nowadays to see

from newest to oldest livery.

the original cab car, these didnt have a lot of space for the driver (also called hasenkasten, or rabbits cage) and werent very safe in a crash (zero crumple zone). they were quickly converted to these:

these are called Karlsruher kopf, due to being converted and concieved in the city of Karlsruhe. the front is inspired by the 6w model on open l gauge, as well as the door handles there is another one called wittenberger Kopf, which is the newest, but i havent built that yet.

Edited December 30, 2024 by XG BC

[zephyr1934]

Very nice!

Interesting that they would take low maintenance stainless and convert it to painted (which is extra hard to maintain) but I guess that's a discussion for the marketing department. I can totally understand why the original operator's compartment would be called a rabbit cage. But enough questioning reality.

You've chosen a mundane prototype and hides the subtle detailing put in to pull it all off (similar to the way that a well done landscape never gets appreciated because it looks so "normal" even if it took 5 million hours to build). The directional transitions of the build add a lot of hard to miss complexity. Are you thinking of building these in real life? If so, which livery?

[XG BC]

2 hours ago, zephyr1934 said:

Very nice!

Interesting that they would take low maintenance stainless and convert it to painted (which is extra hard to maintain) but I guess that's a discussion for the marketing department. I can totally understand why the original operator's compartment would be called a rabbit cage. But enough questioning reality.

You've chosen a mundane prototype and hides the subtle detailing put in to pull it all off (similar to the way that a well done landscape never gets appreciated because it looks so "normal" even if it took 5 million hours to build). The directional transitions of the build add a lot of hard to miss complexity. Are you thinking of building these in real life? If so, which livery?

Thanks for the compliment, yeah these are kind of a mundane thing, i have done whackier builds in the past, but given how widespread these were and are in my home country, i just had to do it. I am not going to be building these irl probably, dont really have the time, i did attempt to build a red one as a kid, of course much worse in quality. these werent crazy difficult to build, i started with my twindexx emu, and then made that single floor and of course added the correct windows and details, the most difficult thing was building the fronts, and the mint green livery. especially this one was difficult to pull off:

had to play a bit of tetris in some areas to get the gaps to dissapear. and the mint version was kinda meh, because the front slopes arent made in the mint color i need.

these are the last cab car they made, and the one that was common the longest, usually with double decker cars behind them (common until like 2018 or so where i live)

Edited December 22, 2024 by XG BC

[XG BC]

now i have started another "series" of cars: the tee train ones (yes there is a dome car, havent done that yet)

Basic design is the same as the n wagons, just modded to represent the differences, the right one is the Basic one, the left one is first class only seating.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Wow those windows are crazy...it's so 60's Lego IMO!

[XG BC]

thank you! well, its the easiest way to make windows that are exactly the size you need, the normal train Windows would have looked kinda stupid, so i went that route. combining modern elements with some more retro ones (although the snot stuff wouldnt have been a thing back then).

[XG BC]

and now the entire train is complete with all types, including the dining car with the pantograph to keep the kitchen powered if there is no locomotive and the famous dome car.