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I was at the local TRU today and I decided I'd try out one of the new Friends sets; in this case, 3933 . It stayed together as a completed model for about 15 seconds before I ripped it apart to play around with the colors :P. Anyway, here's a crappy spaceship made out of a decent set that was worth buying IMO. :)

Tuning this has been the main reason I have been virtually MOCless on flickr lately. No, this ISN'T the MOC I have planned; only the driving force behind it. I will eventually have the switches and cylinders modified by LPEPower to improve performance several times. :)

*No LDD file because of the lack of pneumatics in LDD

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade; make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
-Cave Johnson

LDD File

*Boredom; thrown together in 15 min :P

The Köf is now available for download, in LDD form.

Well, it's finally finished! For those of you attending Brickworld this year in June, this is exactly how you'll see it.

Description (From RAILBRICKS):

On the 12th January 1956 the LEGO® company
made it’s initial expansion outside Denmark by
opening their first foreign sales wing, LEGO®
Spielwaren GmbH. Spielwaren was run by Axel
Thomsen, who was already a toy manufacturer.
The new company was based in an old railway
hotel in Hohenwestedt, Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany. The company’s aim was to expand the
sales of LEGO® in Germany.
From 1956 until 1963 LEGO®’s series of H0 scale
cars, trees and signs were produced in a small
factory in Hohenwestedt. Over the years the
Hohenwestedt site also grew to become a major
distribution centre.
By Tim David
The factory and warehouses were situated just
east of the railway station on the line between
Heide and Neumünster so it was logical that it
was rail served and in December 1987 a small
shunting (switching) locomotive was purchased
to work the factory sidings.
Kleinlokomotivs
From the 1930s the Deutsche Reichsbahn
introduced small locomotives for use at stations
and goods depots. They were specifically
designed to be driven by shunting staff rather
than higher paid fully qualified drivers and were
also small enough to be loaded onto a flat truck
for movement around the rail network. After
some experimentation two diesel designs were
standardised upon, with differing power ratings.
The class letter K was used to identify them,
followed by a letter indicating the type of engine,
ö for diesel (Öl, i.e. oil). The next letter was the
type of transmission: f for hydraulic transmission
(Flüssigkeitsgetriebe) The four digit numbers
signified the power range, those up to 40 HP
(29 kW) were numbered in the range 0-3999
and while those in above 40 HP were 4000 and
higher.
The locos were originally restricted to 30km/h
because they were only braked by the driver’s
weight on the foot pedal. Many were later fitted
with air brakes and the top speed raised to
45km/h.
LEGO®’s Köf II
LEGO®’s Köf was built by Deutz in 1950 for the
West German railways; Deutche Bundesbahn
(DB) and became their number 6140, signifying
that it was in the higher power range and was
thus a Köf II.
It was painted in the standard scheme of black
under-frame and dark red cab and hood. In 1968
it was renumbered to 321151-3 in line with DB’s
new computerised numbering scheme. In 1973
it was fitted with air brakes and renumbered
again to 324057-9. It was used mainly in the Köln
area.
In 1987 it became surplus to requirements and
was withdrawn. It was purchased by LEGO®
Gmbh, repainted yellow and black and moved
to Hohenwestedt. A LEGO® logo was applied to
each cab and a smaller one on each side of the
nose.
It stayed in Hohenwestedt for the next 15 years,
shunting the vans of LEGO® products around the
site to the various loading bays.
After LEGO®
In 2002 the need for a locomotive diminished
and it was sold to the railway equipment
dealer Mathias Bootz of Bad Nauheim. The
Hohenwestedt site closed entirely at the end of
2005 and the operation was transferred to the
Czech Republic.
After a couple of months at Bootz’s the Köf was
purchased by the railfreight vehicle hire company
VTG Lehnkering AG who sent it to their wagon
workshop in Syke-Barrien. For a while it kept its
yellow colours with the LEGO® logos removed,
however by 2004 it had acquired a bright red
hood with black detailing and by 2006 the whole
loco was bright red with a black under-frame.
In 2004 the loco reverted to its DB number of
324057-9.

*To see the article, check out RAILBRICKS issue 8*