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LEGO 5972 Olton Hall / Hogwarts Express
Here it is finally, my Hogwarts Express complete with lighting detail.
This model features:
Power Function drive from motor on tender!
Power Function lamps on the front!
Power Function lamp on the rear!
Power Function firebox light!
So lots of Power Functions :P, took me a little while to sort this out, as you can see by the mess of wires connecting the loco and tender.
How this was achieved.
I stared experimenting after I found out it was incredibly easy to give this loco powered front lamps, I thought to myself 'wow these wires are really long, there is quite a length to spare', and that thought got me thinking about if it was possible to have another set of lights power both the rear lamp and the fire light.
So then I took apart my old front lamp and tried to see if it would stretch to fit both light sockets, which it did! located in between the rear drive wheels are the two blocks that are on the wires for the lights. one faces forward and the other back so I had an extra 2.5 brick length to get from the loco to the tender. As you can see the wires needed to come round from the wheels so that is where I implemented the technic spacers in the wheels to allow the wires access around the brick.
The wheel set was made hollow and the fire light actually has a long length of wire hidden inside the gap in between the wheels. The second light was fed up through the gap in front of the wheels where the original drive wire came from the underneath motor. Like the wire from the motor it was fed down the side of the panel walls to access the back of the tender, at the moment the light pushes the rear lamp out a bit but this is going to be fixed with the use of a fibre optic flex bar to be ordered along with the few parts I need to finish the cab controls.
Well here it is, with only about 7 pieces to add to it I have finally completed this locomotive. Started in January 2010 and finished after three and a half years! Enjoy :)
LEGO 5972 Olton Hall / Hogwarts Express
Here it is finally, my Hogwarts Express complete with lighting detail.
This model features:
Power Function drive from motor on tender!
Power Function lamps on the front!
Power Function lamp on the rear!
Power Function firebox light!
So lots of Power Functions :P, took me a little while to sort this out, as you can see by the mess of wires connecting the loco and tender.
How this was achieved.
I stared experimenting after I found out it was incredibly easy to give this loco powered front lamps, I thought to myself 'wow these wires are really long, there is quite a length to spare', and that thought got me thinking about if it was possible to have another set of lights power both the rear lamp and the fire light.
So then I took apart my old front lamp and tried to see if it would stretch to fit both light sockets, which it did! located in between the rear drive wheels are the two blocks that are on the wires for the lights. one faces forward and the other back so I had an extra 2.5 brick length to get from the loco to the tender. As you can see the wires needed to come round from the wheels so that is where I implemented the technic spacers in the wheels to allow the wires access around the brick.
The wheel set was made hollow and the fire light actually has a long length of wire hidden inside the gap in between the wheels. The second light was fed up through the gap in front of the wheels where the original drive wire came from the underneath motor. Like the wire from the motor it was fed down the side of the panel walls to access the back of the tender, at the moment the light pushes the rear lamp out a bit but this is going to be fixed with the use of a fibre optic flex bar to be ordered along with the few parts I need to finish the cab controls.
Well here it is, with only about 7 pieces to add to it I have finally completed this locomotive. Started in January 2010 and finished after three and a half years! Enjoy :)