![]() ![]() ![]() He has a short picture tutorial online which you can see at his Brickshelf. Nowadays he isn’t active anymore as far as we know, but his tracks were shown several times in 2007-2008. However, he didn’t only build his own straight and curved track, but also had a go at building his own switches, which he designed himself. For his flex track he was inspired (as far as I can remember) by Kenn Rice. The second one is Grunneger, a Dutch builder. I have never seen these tracks in action online, but since Kenn is part of WAMALUG, it could be that they were once shown at one of their WAMALUG or WAMALTC events. The dimensions of O-Gauge track actually come pretty close to the dimensions of Lego Rails so it makes sense using them. For this tutorial he used Atlas O-Gauge Flex track. He posted a DIY tutorial in the begin of 2005. Flextrack by Kenn Riceįirst up is Kenn Rice, how, as far as I can remember, is the pioneer in Lego Flextrack. Due to this being Flextrack, this is obviously slightly more and slightly less at some times. Both of the also try to stay within the L-Gauge system, meaning sleepers of 2×8 spaced approximately 2 studs apart. Interesting enough, both of them use model railroad rails and both use sanded down plates for connection. Both had a same type of approach but a different end result, due to different decisions within the design phase, they actually look pretty different. One from the US, one from the Netherlands. Lego in fact almost got it right in the prototype phase (unfortunately I wasn’t able to trace back those pictures), but due to some internal design changes, we ended up the version with the ugly check rails that we have now.Īround the same time (the 9v era was still in full swing) two builders were looking into possibilities to make actual flextrack. Nowadays, with Flextracks we mostly mean the cursed little brother of the straight and curved track which you find in every box of tracks that you buy, but before that, it was an actual dream for a lot of us Lego Train Heads. Before all us were buying our R88 and R104 tracks, we actually had the dream of introducing one of the most versatile types of track from the Model RR hobby: Flextrack. So, if you have any additions, feel free to add them in the comments.įirst of all, let me start with the former holy grail of Lego tracks: The Flextrack. Seeing how much there is out there nowadays, I’m sure this is not an exhaustive list. In any way, it shows our community is far more versatile and creative than one might sometimes think, even back in the days when the 9V system limited us to 1 radius, 1 type of switch and 1 type of straights. Some if it is from before the ME Models era, some of it actually is a bit younger. After Glenn Holland showed the types of curved tracks that are currently available on the aftermarket and what can be expected, I thought it could be interesting as well to tell about the ways how to make your own track.
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