Mod: Emerald Night to Flying Scotsman

[Lazarus]

Tryed a few diffrent ideas brick making them and other windows but none of them looked as good as what was there already. It will still look ok in black it would look worse with any other type to big compared to the real loco.

Good idea about the window pains but dont like the look but smart idea

[Lazarus]

Ok so i have the loco made bar missing one lot of bits that are about a week out.

I managed to get Pov ray working so here is a render on the loco

[escortmad79]

Any chance of posting the LXF files for this?

[kieran]

Ok so i have the loco made bar missing one lot of bits that are about a week out.

I managed to get Pov ray working so here is a render on the loco

Now that is a thing of beauty, really like the look of that, very nice work

[Lazarus]

Sorry dint give out my plans but i do put them on my bricklink for a small fee once i have ironed out any issues.

This will also be at a local lego show 1/2/3 June in Henderson auckland Nz

Edited May 16, 2013 by Lazarus

[Lazarus]

Loco is all made and made its first test run.

Have come across derailing issues on tight bends am working on fixing this.

Until i get the kinks worked out i wont have a complete plan to sell.

Edited June 4, 2013 by Lazarus

[ScotNick]

Looks really great! Only the coaches are missing. Will the engine be powered?

[Lazarus]

trying to avoid powering the loco and have the coaches push the train. If i fail at it this way i will need to switch to PF what i really want to avoid. I have been unable to make the tender 4 wheel with a 9v motor so that option out. So only way to power the loco is with a motor in the cab to keep the look how i want and i dont think one motor could pull four of my coaches due to brick count and size.

Edited June 4, 2013 by Lazarus

[zephyr1934]

The loco looks great and the layout has some nice details (I like the sweeping curve up the viaduct, spotted a low rise turntable, and other bits too)

[Lazarus]

Sorry for bring up one of my old topics but the tenders on my FS have been nagging me for a while.

Ok so issue is powering this loco, I can push from the coaches behind the loco but it tends to have some issue with the dual tender. Yes i wanted to get it dual but have now dropped the 2nd tender and made it single tender but powered.

Now the hard bit the EN tender is two short to put in a motor and 2 wheel so there is 4 wheels in the tend the FS needs to have. So this needed to be extended to 20 studs long, what i find over all it looks better with the longer tender with the loco being 8 wide.

SO this is what i came up with powered rear tender so now the loco can move on its own. If i need more power to pull coaches they can be added into them.

Edited December 21, 2013 by Lazarus

[Paperballpark]

It looks good, but surely the tender won't go around corners now, with having 4 axles on the same 'bogie', as it were?

[Lazarus]

Yes it will :-) the wheels at ether end can move.

[zephyr1934]

Looks good, though my only suggestion is that if you do find that you need more power (second motor) perhaps add the second tender back in for it instead of stashing the motor under a coach. You might even be able to power it off of the same battery and IR receiver... though at that point you could probably stash both motors under a single tender.

[Lazarus]

I run 9V so dont need to worry about battery.

The main issue was the coaches pushing the loco and to tenders it did not work right. This should fix it, not sure about two tenders now with the extra lenth on the tender.

I will find this out soon just waiting on a few parts to finish up then i will have a look.

Will look at two motors but i dont think they will fit.

[zephyr1934]

Ah, if you are doing 9v, I'm pretty sure you should be able to fit two motors under a 24 long baseplate (I think I did so here, with the train baseplate, which is more limiting than simply plates), maybe even a 22 long base. But as you said, you might only need one motor.