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Request for “Builder for Hire” as I am open to commissions around my specialties of trains and related nuclear science interests.
Anyone here with trains, beside me? It’s that time of the year again with the Brick Train Awards. Go to their website and submit photos or renders of your MOCs. I’d like to see Steel City LUG being represented in the entries from trains, wagons, cabooses, etc
@amplef0rth @schu54321 @rcgrier3406 @joshhall @gabevistica please tag anyone that might be interested.
And I’ve added a Type 35 race car to go with it. And a little Mr. Bugatti in his signature black suit and bowler hat. If everything goes to plan, these and my other built Bugattis would be at the base of my planned LED lit Eiffel Tower at TUBS to do a Parisian Concours d’ Automobile, along with my fleet of exotic and obscure supercars. Oddly enough, the Espada hotrod IRL was done by a French custom car shop, that I modeled in Lego.
@joshhall I gave the updated version a whirl and managed to get about half of the proposed double footprint layout replicated in the program. It’s looking good.
One thing to note is that the large corner track modules don’t allow the placement of baseplates within its corners. Like in real life, you can fit a 2×2 array of 32 baseplates in the corners since the large track is on just some baseplates.
Other than that, it is working much more smoothly. Thank you for doing the updates.
Last question for now is there a way to add an infinite mils track modules not in inventory, as a separate category that we can check and see if other LUG members might have some in their personal stock or use that separate category to create a wish list to discuss with BuffaLUG and RocLUG about their possibly bringing some of their inventory?
Also looking at your ravine bridge as that with the two bascule bridges would make three bridge super structures on the layout. Very exciting from a visitor’s perspective. 🙂
Thanks, @joshhall and @gabevistica for looking into it and for making updates. I will gladly give it another try as I believe this will be helpful for the giant TUBS double footprint layout I’m working on and it’s potential for multi-lug collaboration. Seriously, thanks. I’ll let you know how it goes on my end.
Still having issues. Objects won’t snap next to each other. I am adjusting snap tolerances but to no avail. Won’t realign neatly with grid. DSR rails seem to pop off and snap wildly elsewhere on the grid. They seem to have extra space on the right per the outline. The R104 R120 corners have trouble lining up too. Don’t know if I should just start over or if it’s inherent.
I am on a state of the art gamer laptop (i9 64gb ram 4090 gpu) running Win11 pro and using chrome. It was easier building a 1/8 scale model of the entire layout in Bricklink Studio. For the time being, I will probably stick to planning out TUBS 2027 on Microsoft Excel spreadsheet like in previous shows and then manually running figures. But will sub to this thread as I’m willing to try any new updates that make it PC friendly.
You’re more than welcome to continue your proposal, if you like. From what I read and understood in Nancy’s email to them introducing us, we would be submitting multiple designs since they only mentioned the height requirement so there’s a lot of different ways to make a MOC of it.
If not, that’s fine too. Not sure how long it takes for them to review everything, but if I am selected, I’ll be documenting the process to help future commission requests for the LUG.
@rcgrier3406 thanks. i made the bulb out of a series of calculated overlapping brick and slopes and put in some internal half rings for structure. I will have some leeway and room for tweaking if needed but overall, structure analysis and diagraming seems quite stable, even when the model is split apart in half for showing the internal equipment. I submitted a design proposal to them last Thursday along with estimates and a gnatt chart of scheduled work per my day job as a project manager.
I might have put in a small Lego snail on the chart where time is shown waiting for Lego parts orders to come by mail, but that’s my little sense of humor in the proposal. If selected, the mail snail will not be part of the final model. But I may upload just that snail here for LUG members to have fun with. 🙂
Thanks. I may build it IRL next after I finish my Bugatti Veyrons currently in the works. XD
You’re very welcome, Nancy.
Josh has something via hinge and plate balloon method and I’m working from another angle of build to get that lightbulb shape down. I will keep you CC on the emails when we send our proposals to Westinghouse contact.@rcgrier3406, any tips or pointers on commission work? The TL:DR of the project scope is an 18″ to 24″ tall model of the atom smasher for Westinghouse to display.
I am taking a look at the scope and trying a few ideas in Studio. With Josh and I both highly interested in the project, there is no shortage of talent available for the project. You can tell Westinghouse about Phoenix Train Works and my proclivity and passion for nuclear energy themed train builds.
Welcome to the LUG. Kopaka is the best toa, because he’s the COOLEST toa. hehehehe 🙂
Don’t know if you saw it on FB, Dale but here’s the video of it in action. It’s in black and white like an old 1950s film, as most of my footage of trains being tested are in black and white.
Here’s two photos of the finished build from the planned unveiling on July 4th on my Phoenix Train Works Page.
Hi Nancy. I have family in town that weekend so I can’t. But I will be sure to stop by and check out the table when we do visit the Grand Prix as part of the planned family activities.
Since the inside of the locomotive is filled with four motors, two battery boxes, differentials, etc., been working on a standalone diagrammatic model of the nuclear powered electric motor propulsion to go alongside the train.
Welcome to the LUG. 🙂
Hi Michael. I’m Michael. LOLOL
Seriously, welcome to the club. I’m also a Michael but I’m known as the Lego train guy for the club. You’re more than welcome to check out the upcoming exhibits Gabe mentioned. Our city layouts are modular so feel free to join the displays with yours. 🙂
As far as I can gather from other modelers in other train scales, yes. I’m familiar with the front half as work cabooses with tool boxes are a thing. The water barrel on the back is new to me as well.
Congrats! It’s a favorite movie of my cousin, whose name is also Eddie. hehehehe
Hey, if you can only make it for sometime on the weekend that’s fine. The formal shifts are related to cup credit (ask Josh Hall about that) and making sure that at least someone is staffing the tables. Just be sure to introduce yourself to whoever is keeping the trains running. Personally, I’m there for a few weekend shifts and wouldn’t mind the visit and checking out your trains. I have a motorized Behemoth Bascule Bridge on the layout if you want to see that working with the trains. I also like to make video tours of the LUG’s train layout so the more trains that get featured, the better. 🙂
Hey, if you want, you could sign up for one shift during the week and show up with your trains for that shift. We had someone do that last year as he could only make it one Saturday but he really wanted to run his Pensy train on the layout with us.
Awesome!
Welcome to the LUG. If you like trains, we’ll be displaying a lot of them at the HG show in early March.
I go by Phoenix Train Works on FB if you like to see some unusual STEM themed trains as Lego MOCs.
