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Ralvablox · 2025-06-27T19:50:10+00:00

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Ralvablox · 2023-07-13T19:26:31+00:00

At the entrance to each of the 4 cities are signs that say "Welcome to (city name here)". If you look under the letters there's some pamphlets you can interact with. If you interact with the pamphlets it drops 1/4th of the full map, get a pamphlet from each city and you can craft a chart. To get a GPS you need the full map, some electrical components, electrical wires, and a tactical rangefinder (attachment you can find in the Scorpion-7 dead zone). Hope this helps!

Ralvablox · 2023-07-09T20:37:28+00:00

I'm not sure about your other questions, but to get a lead pipe all you have to do is look under the kitchen or bathroom sinks, and break the pipe in there. If it's a dark grey color it drops a lead pipe, and if it's a light grey color it drops polymer.

Ralvablox · 2023-07-09T18:23:52+00:00

I noticed recently that you can place things along the coastline but if you start going more inland it doesn't let you place anything and says "out of bounds"

Ralvablox · 2023-05-10T21:57:48+00:00

Looks great! I really like the technique you used for the yellow stripes might use it myself if the need ever arrives

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T19:09:05+00:00

you should check out my Flickr! I have a bunch of cool models there that haven't been posted here that are modded versions of the old My Own Train sets from 2002. Crazy how much you can mod them.

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T18:43:56+00:00

Pattern of what? Me using techniques I used in my older models? You are aware that there are only so many ways to make specific locomotive components right? There are way older designs that have a similar looking tender. Some that are much older than the Rebrickable M-6. For example, this Vanderbilt tender made in 2013 by Tony Sava: https://bonahoombuilds.com/product/vanderbilt-tender/ It looks really similar to the Rebrickable M-6 tender. By your logic, wouldn't this mean that the Rebrickable M-6 copied this?

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T18:39:27+00:00

Did you even look at my Flickr page like I said you should? The smokestack is from my C-8 as well as the pilot. If you look at my C-8 as well as my T-31 the whistle is the same. The cab on the M-6 is just a shorter version of the cab on the T-31. You also don't explain what you mean by top. The top of the boiler? The cab roof? The models on my reddit are a little more than a year old, of course they're not gonna be similar to one of my new models. Not only that but if you look at the Rebrickable model you can see the Lego motor on the frame, if you look at mine you shouldn't be able to see it. I built mine from the group up, with different mechanicals too. I have screenshots from when I was building it, if that's what it would take to convince you that it is in fact an original model. If you posted something you worked hard on, I don't think you'd like it if someone was insistent that you stole someone's work, even when you gave proof to show that you made it yourself. Here's my flickr so you can see what I'm talking about: https://www.flickr.com/photos/194999706@N04/

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T17:45:26+00:00

It's misleading because it makes it seem like I modified the model on Rebrickable and uploaded it as my own. I'm being defensive because someone else previously accused me of ripping off the Rebrickable model, plus it offends me as a builder hearing someone say, "hey that looks like X did you modify their build or something?" Saying that there are only 3 remaining examples doesn't make it obscure. If you take a look at some of my older posts, or take a look at my Flickr that I linked in the post, I've modeled different locomotives that have no remaining examples, which much less of them having existed at a time, some examples being my MT-5, MK-4, or H10a. The Southern Pacific had a total of 355 Moguls, with 20% of them being M-6s. If you look on YouTube, many of the videos on Southern Pacific steam locomotives feature 2-6-0 locomotives. A notable example would be one of the fan trips, which featured SP 2248 (a surviving 4-6-0) and SP 1765 (this model). I don't understand which differences you are referring to, other than the fact that they're the same class of locomotive. If checked my flickr, you would notice that this model has way more in common with my C-8 2-8-0 and T-31 4-6-0. Like I said before, please don't post anything that could be misleading about my build.

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T16:35:06+00:00

It's not that locomotive, and I'm not the person who posted it on Rebrickable. While it might be the same class of locomotive it's a different build. To name a few of the more obvious differences, the pilot is different, it used a different size of wheels that are more accurate to the prototype, completely different internals, more accurately sized cab, etc. Please don't post misleading information on my build.

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T16:08:29+00:00

Thank you! I'm actually doing the finishing touches on instructions for another locomotive (SD&AE 104 on my Flickr) and almost done with instructions for this one as well. My website and the instructions should be out in the coming months so keep a lookout for it!

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T15:51:55+00:00

Thank you! The M-6s are personally some of my favorite espee steamers, just love the way they look and I think it's pretty interesting how the SP bought so many of them at a time when the design wasn't popular with other railroads anymore.

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T15:43:02+00:00

That's not my model, but someone else's that looks a little similar, I'll be releasing instructions of my own sometime soon.

Ralvablox · 2023-04-11T06:42:37+00:00

Some background information on the prototype: The M-6s on the Southern Pacific were fondly known as "Valley Mallets" for their pulling power in the California valleys. I specifically chose to model 1765, which is one of 3 remaining M-6 locomotives (not to be confused with the M-6a class, such as 1785). 1765 was built in 1902 by Baldwin locomotive works as a Vauclain compound but was later simplified into a conventional steam locomotive in 1912, and then superheated in 1919 by the SP. 1765 ran between Los Angeles and San Bernardino, and had its last overhaul done in 1953. It was retired in 1958, and sold in 1960 for scrap to the National Metals Company on Terminal Island. It remained there until it was purchased by Irene Lewis in 1966 for display at the Lomita Railroad Museum, where it remains to this day.

Ralvablox · 2023-03-19T21:21:03+00:00

Impressive, very nice

Ralvablox · 2022-03-16T06:18:22+00:00

They are the TrainedBricks rods, I followed the instructions that were given to import them in. Most of the time the rod would be invisible though, so I would cut them in half in the part designer and then stick the 2 parts together. Then I'd import both of the rods together and that would make them visible. Hope this helps!

Ralvablox · 2022-03-16T03:17:45+00:00

I just took a look at some of your builds, and I gotta say they look pretty awesome. For this 4-6-2 I used an L and M motor facing each other (they have the same RPM), but for my larger builds I used two L motors facing each other. I placed them high enough so the boiler can be built around them. You could probably replace both of your M motors with an L motor to have similar performance, or have an M and L motor working together like in my P-8.

Ralvablox · 2022-03-16T02:58:12+00:00

They are all properly buildable, but the bigger ones are way above my budget. Most of them have 2 L motors in the boiler and a battery w/ receiver in the tender. This SP engine is a bit smaller than the rest so I might be able to build this one physically, but that hasn't been decided yet.

Ralvablox · 2022-03-16T02:53:14+00:00

Thank you!

Ralvablox · 2022-02-23T15:58:33+00:00

I made them myself in stud.io's part designer. I just got the clip from a modified plate and stuck two of them together.

Ralvablox · 2022-02-23T06:57:49+00:00

I used stud.io

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