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raised wrote a new post 4 years, 8 months ago
Now that it turns out that TLC has officially phased out the Li-Po battery packs for PF, I’m wondering how we as a community are going to power our PF motors from now on. The ‘easiest’ way would obviously be to […]
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raised wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
As promised, this is a follow-up to the post by BigDaedy and me about how the both of us designed our Bombardier Traxx’es.
The people who know me, know that most of my Lego projects can take weeks, months, […]
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raised wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
In the last 5 years, me and BigDaedy have been desiging our own takes on the Bombardier Traxx in 1:45 scale. The Traxx runs both in the Netherlands and in Germany, and is, together with the Siemens Vectron, one […]
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raised wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
Even though the most beloved scale of BMR is somewhere in the lines of 1:45 (Europe) or 1:48 (US), that doesn’t mean we don’t try go give some love to other scales as well. Today, over at the Eurobricks Train […]
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raised wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
Every now and then our readers themselves get so excited with BMR that they send in their own articles. This is of course something we really appreciate, so please keep them coming! Today it’s Enrico Lussi’s […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years ago
About two year ago, I started a three-parter series about designing and building an European railcar, more specifically the SDGGMRS type of trailer railcars, meant to transport trailers over rail. Due to reasons […]
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Interesting Article! I could see these cars serving as a basis for American Intermodular Cars (If you’re into that sort of thing…)
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
As some of you might know by now, I’m one of the few Contributors (the only?) of BMR that lives on the other side of the pond, ie. in Europe and more specifically in The Netherlands. Compared to the US, some […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 2 months ago
It seems that lately TLC is really trying to release train sets outside of the Lego City theme and by doing so, trying to tap in more different categories of kids that come into contact with Lego trains. All of […]
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Not bad…
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 3 months ago
A short intermezzo, just to get you guys started to build again!
A while ago I have been experimenting with curved slopes to try to recreate the “perfect” roof. Ofcourse, the perfect roof doesn’t exist, but […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 4 months ago
Good news! It took a bit longer than expected from our side (and we again apologize for this), but we can finally reveal the winners of this years OcTRAINber!
First, let us again say that we really enjoyed all […]
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raised commented on the post, OcTRAINber 2018: The Round-up 5 years, 4 months ago
Hi all, just a short message from us at BMR regarding the final judgement of OcTRAINber 2018: We are currently finishing up the results, hopefully we will be able to post them sometime this weekend! Thanks again […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago
Now that OcTRAINber 2018: The Foreign Challenge is officially over, we first would like to thank all the participants who made this such a great month again. It was amazing to see all the WIP stories showing up on […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago
Now that the last weekend of October is (almost) over, it’s time for a preliminary recap post.
First of all, we have already seen a lot of great entries and some awesome WIP stories. Great to see everybody […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
As promised in the first part of this three-part article of OcTRAINber 2018 prizes, we would go out with a bang, and what a bang to go out with! Here at BMR we have always been enthusiastic about the PFx Brick, […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
After the announcement about our first prizes for OcTRAINber, generously sponsored by Lego, including one of the Grand Prizes, 60198, we promised you that we had more awesome stuff coming. So today we can reveal […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
Now that OcTRAINber is in full swing and the first entries are coming in we would like to take this opportunity to at least show you all the prizes you are contesting for. We are very glad to announce that three […]
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raised wrote a new post 5 years, 6 months ago
As we announced a bit over a week ago, this year BMR will again run the OcTRAINber contest. Just like last year we have chosen a subject that will hopefully get as many of our fellow trainheads out of their […]
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raised commented on the post, OcTRAINber 2018: The Second Challenge! 5 years, 6 months ago
To answer your questions:
1. Unfortunately no, prototypes set in fictional universes aren’t allowed to be entered. As said: We are limiting entries to those based in reality. I.E., an entry should be a model o […]
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raised commented on the post, OcTRAINber 2018: The Second Challenge! 5 years, 6 months ago
Reimagation of a Lego set could work, but only if it connects with a prototype, like for example how the Maersk locomotive was reimagined by Ralph Savelsberg […]
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raised wrote a new post 6 years, 2 months ago
Even though we unfortunately can be almost 100% sure that Monorail will never make a comeback and even though the parts haven’t been produced in 20 years (luckily at least one 3rd party retailer have taken up t […]
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Who are these “Well Known Clone Friends” you speak of? Lepin?