DalaGStanator's Customs, Mods and Experiments

Thought I should use LEGO for this one to ensure stability, precision and reliable components. I came up with the simplest and most obvious way to power the upper axles on a scratch built Ashima or any other X class (not necessarily for Plarail). One chassis design is more faithful but less functional, while the other is shorter in length and works better.



The main problem with this version is only one set of the upper wheels can be driven, while the other doesn't engage. It could be the band was too big or not stretched enough. To rectify this, I rebuilt the chassis with only three axles connected and a different band. It operates equally both forwards and backwards and would be easier to adapt to Plarail or similar.



These rubber bands look similar to official LEGO ones, but are actually not. No idea how effective this would be for electric systems, though it should be alright for toy ones. Gear assistance may cause it to jam because of different rotation speeds (like Theo's cogs in Journey Beyond Sodor). Quick demo of version 1 here.

Also gave Skarloey the overlapping bufferbeam and sandboxes and improved some of the detail on him.