scratchbuilt gondola

[trainboy414]

here is a gondola i built in g scale out of legos including the trucks and couplers.

[trainboy414]

opps forgot the link here it is.

 

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/559602613bmmXFg

[kstrong]

Most excellent! Keep 'em coming!

Later,

K

[altterrain]

Neat project! Legos have certainly come a long way since I was a kid .

 -Brian

[trainboy414]

kstrong i'm working on a new bnsf dash9 out of legos but i have a long way go.

[bigswede073]

Nice work.

It's hard to tell from the pic, how wide is the gondola - 10, 11 or 12 studs?

Don Munsey, Jr

UpperRightCorner of Louisiana 

 

[trainboy414]

Nice work.

It's hard to tell from the pic, how wide is the gondola - 10, 11 or 12 studs?

Don Munsey, Jr

UpperRightCorner of Louisiana 

 

it is 12 studs wide

[vsmith]

opps forgot the link here it is.

 

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/559602613bmmXFg

 

Dont know why this forums format is so picky about how its activated...anyway link activated.

Lego? intersesting....

[ttrigg]

Very interesting.  Very interesting indeed!  Let's see now, where did SWMBO put the kids old toys when she left the house????????????????????  Legos? Legos!  I wonder, Duplo?

[FJ and G]

nice, fun project! (BTW, I checked the price of legos and they are expensive!). Candidate for resin casting?!!

[trainboy414]

Very interesting.  Very interesting indeed!  Let's see now, where did SWMBO put the kids old toys when she left the house????????????????????  Legos? Legos!  I wonder, Duplo?

nope standered size legos

 

[ttrigg]

I know, but was just thinking what could be done with duplos.

[trainboy414]

you might beable to but you couldn't get the detail with duplo

[bigswede073]

 

They're not really that much more expensive than other large scale stuff.  There is a huge following of LEGO trains - most using the LEGO 40 mm gauge track and 6 stud wide locos and rolling stock.  However, there seems to be a growing segment of the LEGO train folks integrating LEGOs into their 45mm gauge garden railway stuff (or it could be there are some garden railway folks athat are including LEGOs in there gardens.  I'm not sure where I fit.  I work at the Community College, where I teach statistics, with LEGO robotics in our youth outreach program.  Anyway, I've got a LEGO critter (loosely inspired by a GE 25 Ton switcher) on the workbench now.  Cab is 12 studs (just under 4 inches) wide, deck is 10 studs wide and hood is 6 studs.  The LEGO super structure sits on top of an AristoCraft L'il Critter powerblock, secured by Velcro.  Film at 10!!

Don