Roni
Member
Hi,
Something from my pandemic hobby (since September 2020)...
In honour of what would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday I built a model of an ÖBB / NÖSBB class 999.0 rack railway steam engine. Her birthplace Puchberg am Schneeberg is the starting point of the Schneebergbahn leading up to 1795 m (5890 ft) Hochschneeberg summit. On the same plateau, you can also find the Empress Elisabeth Memorial Church - named just like my grandmother.
The brick-built model is powered by two large Mould King motors and a Kazi manually operated battery box. In order to avoid compromising the looks, I designed one side of the loco as a static display model, while the other side is a simplified Technic demonstrator. As I am now usually doing, I did not design anything virtually - only basic dimensions are taken from diagrams and images - the whole model is built spontaneously by hand. Name and number plates can of course be exchanged for real-life versions. I was lucky to have visited the railway in the first year I had a DSLR - 2004 - when there still were proper steam operations with multiple engines, so decals are based on photos taken by me. Nowadays only a single steam train operates on summer weekends.
For the evening, I designed a makeshift freight elevator featuring a simple automated reversing/stopping function still needing some refining. (I know, its freight are not proper "Nikolo"s, but Santa Clauses - it was the only thing i had on hand at the moment
)
As for the other stuff you see in the video... I am in the process of building whole worlds around it. Proper videos with storytelling about to come. :0)
Something from my pandemic hobby (since September 2020)...
In honour of what would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday I built a model of an ÖBB / NÖSBB class 999.0 rack railway steam engine. Her birthplace Puchberg am Schneeberg is the starting point of the Schneebergbahn leading up to 1795 m (5890 ft) Hochschneeberg summit. On the same plateau, you can also find the Empress Elisabeth Memorial Church - named just like my grandmother.
The brick-built model is powered by two large Mould King motors and a Kazi manually operated battery box. In order to avoid compromising the looks, I designed one side of the loco as a static display model, while the other side is a simplified Technic demonstrator. As I am now usually doing, I did not design anything virtually - only basic dimensions are taken from diagrams and images - the whole model is built spontaneously by hand. Name and number plates can of course be exchanged for real-life versions. I was lucky to have visited the railway in the first year I had a DSLR - 2004 - when there still were proper steam operations with multiple engines, so decals are based on photos taken by me. Nowadays only a single steam train operates on summer weekends.
For the evening, I designed a makeshift freight elevator featuring a simple automated reversing/stopping function still needing some refining. (I know, its freight are not proper "Nikolo"s, but Santa Clauses - it was the only thing i had on hand at the moment
)As for the other stuff you see in the video... I am in the process of building whole worlds around it. Proper videos with storytelling about to come. :0)
