Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Lego Style Bricks MOC Product Spotlight
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2022
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Just in time for Black Friday, we have this incredible UP 4014 Big Boy MOC from LetBricks. This is an advanced MOC with lights and working motors that are controlled with a wireless remote control.
It took us just over 30 hours to build and it was a lot of fun! Find out for yourself in this episode of Product Spotlight.
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Hi MorningStrumer here, (the designer)
To get the electronics to work:
-Use the short extension cable to connect the front and rear motor together. Then connect the rear stack onto the receiver, L-shaped box with a wire and 2 spots for connecting these plugs right above the wire. Make sure to keep the 2 plugs stacked.
-Connect the long extension wire to both the receiver's cable and the led cable on one end. Then route the other end of the extension to the battery box in the tender, according to the instructions.
-On both the controller and the receiver there is a 4 point switch labeled 1 through 4. Set them both to the same number. (These are different infrared frequencies lego uses, so you can use up to 4 receivers (8 functions) without interference)
-When you turn on the battery box the light should turn on as well, then you can use the controller to control the speed of the motors.
I do have to mention that this locomotive was designed with the original lego motors in mind. The motors I had gotten from Letbricks have a slightly shorter cable then the lego ones, this prevents me from connecting the rear motor to the receiver, you might face the same issue.
This locomotive was indeed designed towards advanced lego builders. They would purchase only the instructions from me and then source their own lego bricks to build it.
However Letbricks reached out to me to turn my design into a set for anyone to purchase. This, combined with my lack of experience on making instructions for absolute beginners, have lead to the lack of information and difficulty you have seen in the instructions.
Luckily the instructions come digitally, so we have been slowly making improvements to them. Currently there is a revision simplifying the entire build.(from 137 pages to 229) Even though these new instructions are easier to follow they are definitely (by my design) not to the same level of ease as official lego sets. With all this said, I will definitely be adding more beginner friendly, and kit specific, information in future revisions of the instructions. So thank you for bringing these issues up.
Lastly I do have to give you some credit.
For being someone with no experience building lego sets, and these instructions being difficult even for experienced lego builders, I was very pleased to see you where able to follow them and fully build this model.👍
If you have any more questions feel free to ask them, or if you like to get the latest instructions or some more in depth assistance contact me over on facebook, there I'm able to go a lot more in depth with images, video's and downloads.
-Marti
Thanks very much for your comment here. You did an amazing job designing that model!
Ah searching the pieces...like the old days
There are A LOT of LEGO train clubs. Some just run standard LEGO trains from across the decades, but many run their own MOCs, including historical buildings, vehicles, rolling stock, and locomotives. The detail and attention that goes into them is quite outstanding. There's even third parties that provide different radius curve tracks so running the larger locomotives isn't so janky.
Welcome to Lego model railroading! Thanks for covering this niche of the hobby showing it to more people.
My pleasure! We had a lot of fun building it. I'd seriously consider doing another similar build now that I understand the process better. (hint hint LetBricks).
There are many MOCs from different people, some even being made into actual products! If you look around online, I'm sure you'll find some more.
There's always a way to test the electronics! You could temporarily wire the motor directly to the battery, you then take each driver assembly and do the same. You can introduce the receiver into the circuit so that it goes from battery to receiver to motor and test the remote. They both must be on the same channel. This could be done even before installing these power function components into the build. Once both driver assemblies are installed into the frame, you and everything wired up, you can test run everything one last time. Lastly, make sure the drivers on each side of the driver assembly are "quartered" from one another so it won't lock up. This is common practice on real steam engines, models and toys. I'm not sure if the kit comes with some track, but if not, I would also order a small amount of straights to make sure it all works when assembled.
That still looks like it would be an Extremely Fun Build!!!!
It was a lot of fun!
Only the building is *PAINFUL OF PLACING THE WRONG BRICK*
We can get you a Blunami for that!
I am really looking forward to the garden scale Blunami! I have a Fn3 Climax that needs to run!
I recently purchased this model. I took about two evenings to sort all the parts into probably a dozen different tubs and a muffin tin for small parts! I’ve only gotten the tender done so far!
Sounds like a great start!
Hi John,
My local hobby shop sponsors a train show in August. At our 2022 show Ark Lug was there( Arkansas Lego Users Group).
Some Ark Lig builders entered their pieces in our modeling contest.
For our 2023 show, we are struggling how do we judge these models.
Comparing them to say a highly detailed HO scale model.
We had a short discussion about it recently.
We have not come to a consensus yet.
The Lego models are accurate, run well and look good.
The challenge to judge them will be interesting.
May all your rails be crooked.
Happy highballing!
At last year’s show we judged them like any other model.
I imagine you will find Lego Users Group near you. They probably could help you get that Big Boy running.
I enjoyed the video.
Seems like you and your TSA had fun building the model too.
Did you move away? I just had a memory pop up on FB from when we met at the train show in Richmond about 4 years ago!
@@tsgmultimedia Yes, we moved to Little Rock AR.
I connected to some model railroaders at the Rail and Sprue Hobbies shop in Jacksonville AR..
Daryl has three HO layouts in the shop.
The Moon Southern, featured in Model Railroader magazine in 1986. Not sure which month. This past July the Tuscarora Lumber company(the hobby shop group) brought the Gaither Mountain down from Harrison.
Both these layouts are important to Daryl Connor as he made many friend when operating on these layouts. Finally the Tuscarora is an HO narrow gauge layout set up across from the MS and GM.
Mondays we work on the Gaither Mountain.
I joined a modular club. It’s called the Crooked Rails Modular Railroad club.
We will be setting up at the Laman Library next week.
In February there is the Bentonville Train show. Then in August Daryl will sponsor the train show in Conway Arkansas.
I met John Swanson who built a 2000 square foot layout. Fully sceneced.
He calls it the Missouri Texas Railroad. The MT for short ( get it? Empty).
I am enjoying all of it.
Here is the link to the hobby shop and the crooked rails club
www.railandsprue.com/
www.crooked-rails.org
Also there is the Pine Bluff railroad museum
arkansasrailroadmuseum.org/
Happy highballing on your crooked rails.
The motors are connected to the infrared controller. That in turn is connected to battery box
The instructions do not explain anything about how any of it works. It was a real bummer to spend that much time only to have the model not run.
so did you contact them and ask about the electronic part?
I did not. If I had intended to operate it, I would have done that for sure. As you can see from the comments here, the person who designed the build explained how it is supposed to be connected. How cool is that?
I may make you feel better (but probably won't) but actual LEGO brand instructions aren't terribly much better than the knock off ones, they're a lot like Ikea instructions in that they show you pictures of what to do but don't use any words so they don't have to make instructions for each language. That said this isn't a direct rip off of a LEGO product so it's not a direct rip off of a LEGO instruction manual either My kid only has one lego train, but if memory serves there should be an IR receiver that connects to the battery that connects to the motor, the instructions SHOULD show you how it connects up in picture format although being as this isn't a straight rip off of LEGO since they don't have anything like this, maybe not.
Now that all said, you absolutely can test everything before you build it, hook the battery to a motor and try to get it to spin that way and you can play around with things like what connects to what to see how it works before it gets crammed inside that fake lego tomb. It could be the battery doesn't hold charge for nothing, maybe you had the controller set to a different channel, could be the gearing got goofed and it's binding up, or could be that the tolerances for the connectors are just subpar and it's not making contact with the motors.
You should check out PNW steam shop. Jeff does amazing work, and his Lego big boy is better designed than this one IMO. He also has Nickel Plate Road/ C&O / Pere Marquette Berkshire kits that are absolutely lights out, and many neat instruction and decal kits. Otherwise I'm happy to see lego trains gaining popularity, and being shown in this channel. Keep up the good work fellas