"O" gauge trains and LEGO

Ok gang, you gotta check this out.  Someone has designed a Lego replica of the classic tinplate blue comet.

Rebrickable link

Of course its designed for L gauge, but I think it's cool.

I need to check out this thread more often, this is some top quality stuff and it's giving me a few ideas... Especially that gear assembly for a using a lego motor in a locomotive... BRB going to fire up Studio....

Finally got the observation car body don, will post pictures tomorrow.   I need to work out the trucks yet.

So here we go.   The plans were purchased over rebrickable.com and most of the bricks from various vendors on bricklink.com.   Those two shades of blue were definitely not around when I was younger.   

And for comparison,  here is the body sitting with a lionel traditional sized passenger car.

So now I need to work out the truck assemblies.  That will probably take a couple weeks just due to other things going on.

I hope you like it.

@jhz563 posted:

So here we go.   The plans were purchased over rebrickable.com and most of the bricks from various vendors on bricklink.com.   Those two shades of blue were definitely not around when I was younger.   

And for comparison,  here is the body sitting with a lionel traditional sized passenger car.

So now I need to work out the truck assemblies.  That will probably take a couple weeks just due to other things going on.

I hope you like it.

That's incredible!

Scott Smith

That's sweet.  Length is not far off but it does look more massive.  The height doesn't look too much taller,  how's the width?  Are you building "O" Lego trucks or are you going to try to mate some Lionel or MTH trucks to it?  Did you print up decals?

I needed a ship for my underwater salvage operations so...

I built according to the directions so I would see what I had to work with.  I moved the superstructure as far forward as I could and removed most of the dinosaur restraining equipment to gain more deck space to fit as many mini subs and DSRVs as possible on the ship

@coach joe posted:

That's sweet.  Length is not far off but it does look more massive.  The height doesn't look too much taller,  how's the width?  Are you building "O" Lego trucks or are you going to try to mate some Lionel or MTH trucks to it?  Did you print up decals?

The decals came with the purchase of the instructions.   My intent for this project is Lego built trucks with O gauge wheel sets.  The hopper trucks from the last Lego project will be the starting point.

The width is only slightly larger.  I really like the proportions.

I know it's been a while since you posted the link for the plans, did procuring the parts or life cause the delay in the build?

Life, death, economics, etc.  Mostly I decided it was finally time to get A Round Tuit.

I'm attempting a LEGO iPhone controlled crane car for O-Gauge, with a (in theory more useful) grabber instead of the hook, functionality like the TMCC Lionel one I couldn't justify spending 300 on. Could you please like this if you would buy one? I'm an engineering student trying to make grocery money, have fun, and get better at Engg.

@Matthew Davis. I keep trying to play your video without success.   I like where your head is at, but I think you're going to have a hard time beating the function of a tmcc crane with lego for a $300 price point, though I would love for you to prove me wrong!  It will certainly be a challenge to get a battery box a motor for spin, boom elevation,  hook, and grabber all into railroad crane package using lego parts.

I will try you video again later.

Here's a slight modification I made to one of the Lego sets I plan to use when I set up m take on Cape Canaveral.  It always bothered me that the shuttle transport had wheels instead of tracks like the transporter from another set.

I contemplated adding similar tracks to the shuttle transport I would have to build out too far in order for these tracks to clear the transporter frame.  A redesign of the frame would be needed.  Before I dedicated any time to such redesign I came across Lego Technic Snow Groomer set 42148, sorry no picture.  This set was $12.95  and from the photo on the box the track length looked like it may fit the wheel spacing on the transporter so I figured I would give it a try.  I grabbed two and off I went.

The Technic tracks sections were narrower and not as heavy as the gray tracks above but with minimal changes to the transporter the wheels were replaced with tracks in short order.  The snow groomer track length was significantly longer than I thought, what is on the transporter is about 60% of the length intended for the snow groomer.  Full length would have been too long for the length of the transporter and 80% length would require some redesign so I took the easy way out. 

I think that a lot of folks following this post may want to know three things:

1.  Is there a glue that will hold Lego blocks together?

2.  Is there a paint that will stick to Lego blocks.

3.  Is there any easy method for cutting off the cylindrical dots on the top of a Lego brick?  (If you used them to make a wall or trestle pier, then you would want to cut those off on the top bricks.)

Thanks,

Mannyrock

Some input on previous questions:

1 - Any glue that works with plastic is fine though not necessary needed.
2 - Painting - https://sominibricks.com/blogs...-to-paint-your-legos
3 - Not sure you would cut off or place a lego cap on the top brick. See some examples at https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-parts/tile

Custom built LEGO buildings can look great with O scale. I built these two skyscrapers years ago for my LEGO city, but here I've added 1:43 & 1:50 vehicles and 1:43 trees and accessories and in the second photo, an MTH 5 story building. -Duncan