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 Tech Forums, Sérgio Batista showed us what you can do if you go a little bit bigger, by presenting his 1:20 Siemens CP4700 in Medway Livery. And with “a little bit” I mean more than doubling the size to 16-wide compared to 8-wide, and more than 2.5 times the width when compared to the 6-wide trains by TLC! And yes, you can definately see that.

When it comes to this size, it’s mostly the numbers that say it all, so I leave that to Sérgio himself:

“1:20 scale replica (16wide, 128 studs long) more than 5000 parts.”

By the way, this isn’t the first time that Sérgio made this loco. In fact, the Medway version of the CP4700 is ‘nothing more’ than a reskin of his previous incarnation, when Medway was still owned by CP, the National Railways of Portugal, and named CP Carga. In my opinion this is an even better loco, and it’s a shame that Medway decided on this absolutely boring livery, but hey, it did give Sérgio a chance go build this beauty, so I guess that’s something.

So, the obvious question now is: Will he ever build this black beauty IRL? Well, chances are pretty big, since the CP Carga version was already!

Two fun facts: The wheels of this beast are Motorcycle rims! And for extra craziness: Yes, in the Iberian peninsula they use Iberian Broad Gauge of 1668mm compared to Standard Gauge of 1435mm, which makes this loco even more special than it already was.