kaipi89
BNSF GP38-2 (ex-BN)
My second GP38-2. Designed and built in March/April, now finally dressed up and photographed.
Same back story as her sister: Built mainly out of parts I salvaged from my old 6w fleet. The whole build is mainly inspired by the works of Alex Broccolo and Aaron Burnett and several other EMD builds I found on the internet. An endless, fun and highly productive discussion with Chris Stone, where we together worked out all sorts of ideas and details, finally led to the design I have today.
Very happy with the finished model, glad I can finally show you. Pulls nicely, too.
It was designed in Bricklink studio, where the fairly recent "reference image" feature was highly useful in getting all the proportions as close as possible. All you have to do is load up a scale drawing (trainiax.net is an awesome resource for that), scale it correctly to the stud dimensions you have calculated beforehand and then work your way forward from there. Great fun.
This one is supposed to run in a 9V powered lashup with BNSF 2332. It's amazing what those 20-30 year old 9V train motors can still do - even one of those engines alone can pull all of my current rolling stock with ease. I still have a lot of those motors in my stash, so I'll probably make more 9V powered engines in the near future. One of them is already designed and ready to be built. I'm also considering making more GP38-2/GP40-2 builds, but battery-powered and with correctly-proportioned trucks and wheels, using internal motors in the engine body. The whole truck/wheel situation here is a bit on the small side, but there's nothing you can do about it when using 9V motors.
The dynamic brake section is removable to access the inside, in case I want to implement working head/ditch lights in the future. I'm not great at soldering and tinkering with electrics, so I don't really want to go through the hassle right now.
I used some black sticky vinyl to get a fully clean ex-BN paint scheme - mainly at the back of the hood, nose and the blower housing. In color and texture those are a perfect match with Lego, so it's hard to notice there's a sticker in the first place. All of the stickers are designed by me and self printed.
Hope you like it! More pictures at my photo stream.
BNSF GP38-2 (ex-BN)
My second GP38-2. Designed and built in March/April, now finally dressed up and photographed.
Same back story as her sister: Built mainly out of parts I salvaged from my old 6w fleet. The whole build is mainly inspired by the works of Alex Broccolo and Aaron Burnett and several other EMD builds I found on the internet. An endless, fun and highly productive discussion with Chris Stone, where we together worked out all sorts of ideas and details, finally led to the design I have today.
Very happy with the finished model, glad I can finally show you. Pulls nicely, too.
It was designed in Bricklink studio, where the fairly recent "reference image" feature was highly useful in getting all the proportions as close as possible. All you have to do is load up a scale drawing (trainiax.net is an awesome resource for that), scale it correctly to the stud dimensions you have calculated beforehand and then work your way forward from there. Great fun.
This one is supposed to run in a 9V powered lashup with BNSF 2332. It's amazing what those 20-30 year old 9V train motors can still do - even one of those engines alone can pull all of my current rolling stock with ease. I still have a lot of those motors in my stash, so I'll probably make more 9V powered engines in the near future. One of them is already designed and ready to be built. I'm also considering making more GP38-2/GP40-2 builds, but battery-powered and with correctly-proportioned trucks and wheels, using internal motors in the engine body. The whole truck/wheel situation here is a bit on the small side, but there's nothing you can do about it when using 9V motors.
The dynamic brake section is removable to access the inside, in case I want to implement working head/ditch lights in the future. I'm not great at soldering and tinkering with electrics, so I don't really want to go through the hassle right now.
I used some black sticky vinyl to get a fully clean ex-BN paint scheme - mainly at the back of the hood, nose and the blower housing. In color and texture those are a perfect match with Lego, so it's hard to notice there's a sticker in the first place. All of the stickers are designed by me and self printed.
Hope you like it! More pictures at my photo stream.