How to attach ballasted curved Lego train tracks to a baseplate.
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Lets #build a better world. This video is to show the best way to #ballast lego #train track
and also show how to #attach it to a base plate.
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Another video from you that delivers real value. I implemented version 2 and tweaked it a little to my own needs. Thanks a lot! 👍
Your welcome and dont forget to check out penn lug website as they have a lot of good guides also
You have now talked me into adding a train to my city
@@BevinsBricksWorld now I have to buy all the parts. More track and more train cars. I called the bank for a second mortgage
@@BevinsBricksWorld I love lego trains!
Wow more great info buddy. Never even though of using a turntable to attach curves to a base plate. Thanks for sharing.
Another great video! I love how simple you make it look. You are a very talented LEGO builder. Thanks for sharing more tips and secrets with us!
This video is extremely helpful and a great series of videos.
Very helpful, thanks
Brilliant! Thanx Darrell.
Thanks So much for these videos! Was looking for just such content on ballast tracks and yours were excellent! Made it so easy and really like that you show the step by step approach with ALL the necessary pieces. Still looking forward to your video on how to do the MILS plate system incorporating the new road plates. Hopefully you will get to that soon.
Spent $400+ today on bricklink. Probably be another $300 to finish ballasting all of my city. But I'm excited. Thanks for the incite.
We want long lego city updates please is awesome🤩
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Simple but effective. Love it!
Thanks again for an informative video. Pinning those turns can be a pain in the butt. I know a lot of people ask about this in various Lego groups I am in on Facebook. Now I can point them in your direction so they can see this video and choose the method best suited for them next time someone asks. I have so far gone for the third option in my western town, but I haven't ballasted the tracks yet (that is the next step) so I have only used jumper plates for now, but will use the tiles as well when I place them permanently.
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Thank you.
Thanks for watching
Very nice and good ideas!! Thank you Daryl!!😁😁
Thank you so much for this. This will be extremely helpful for some of the stuff I'm planning for my city going forward.
Another great tutorial!
Thank you for delivering helpfull videos!
Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for sharing! You explained it really well! I’ll be coming back to these videos when I get to this point in my city!
Lego looks so easy with your tips 👍
If I do a double track with the second track a bigger radius then I’d have to work out how to even out the second track so both tracks are even. I use Trix Brix because of the extra options it get. They also make diamond crossings, crossovers, double slips and many others.
They do make some great products
I have been planning to make a new stop motion film and seeing this I can finally secure the tracks. As always great video and it is very high quality!
Those are very good ideas thank you 🙏🏼
Thanks bro awesome videos enjoy watching them from all the way in NZ, now you've got me trying to convince my missus why it's a good idea as well as building MILS plates but to build ballast for our set 60197.
Great tips, thanks again
Thank you!
Amazing. Thanks.
Another great video. Much appreciated for sharing. I will definitely be incorporating your technique
Thanks for correcting me:)
Thx it's a very easy way to learn me how to do.im building my city and I'm happy that I know now how to make my ballast track to the base plate that it not move anymore..I juse method 3 it costs a bit but it look now beautiful I juse Braun Wood looking 1x4 .now it look like a real train track...thx a lot and I hope to learn also how to do my switch ...I make them already electric with a servo motor .I hope you will learn us how to lock the switch.thx thx thx
Great video and valuable tips and tricks... I have to Mills plate my entire city which is 12 large 48 x48 base plates. Since I started doing the city before mills I'm going to finish
Building it and then Mills plate so a huge job lol... I do have a underground Subway so these curved sections will be ballasted better using your method...I wish I could send you pictures of what I'm working on so you can offer me any suggestions you may have...
Hey there BB with the Track Videos you have done its what ive been looking for ... like since i first started my lego city all i got to do now is find the money to get the parts i need lol
Thanks for the Tutorial! :)
Jeff Goldblum. Love the voice
Lol thanks, get that a lot 🤣
You mentioned you would be using yellow plats in the centre for support do you mean yellow tiles? Great Video. Thanks Heaps
Yes tiles, look in the description of the video for the link to penn lug, they have the instructions free to download.
great stuff!
This is very helpful. I don’t have mils plates but like watching your how to videos, maybe someday i will have mil plates 🤪
What a great informative video! Massive help, thank you so much. Now to work out how to do my wonky track shapes from splits 😬🤣
I plan to do a video on the switch tracks at some point.
Thanks a lot. Super useful. I hope to recreate something similar in a not to distant future. 😁
Thank you, for the cool video! :)
This video will get a lot of views in time.
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Great info, thank you. And you´re an good entertainer.....wiggle it.....just a little bit...yeah !!!
My apologies for the late viewing of your video Daryl. My free time is at an all time low. Excellent video on ballasting curved track. I've learned alot about this from your videos. When you said you gota wiggle it, i laughed, all I could this was that phrase, that's what she said. Lol
On to switches!
Hi mate, great video, but can you ballast a flexi track? please reply or show in another video.
Not very well and only straights that I've ever done. I'll try and do a video on it.
So cooooool
Find this very helpful. What pieces and how many of each part are used within the second model, it looks like a very helpful model I'd like to use within my first major moc. Watching this video all the way from New Zealand
I really recommend checking out in Penn Lug website. That is where I learned this particular method and they have free downloadable instructions.
l-gauge.org/wiki/index.php/Reference_Instructions
Thanks for this, this set of instructions is gonna come in handy building my mountain moc
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I watch and rewatch you’re videos. It’s all about getting familiar with the bricks, but man you’re right; mils plates eat bricks! And that’s not even saying enough! It’s hard to find many of the same color and I tried Brick link and it seems too good to be true. You’re telling me I can find $15.00 minifigure sets for $0.01 Penny? And buy 50x of them if a seller has that many from Singapore?
Any tips on making snow covered Train track? I thought the wood tiles would’ve looked good white but it’s not panning out the right way.
Just an FYI, I bought some new 48x48 plates and new curved track parts and the first method does not line up.
Look in my community tabs for help with connecting it should be the most recent post.
What are those spinners called in the first example
Hey Bevin,
Great stuff. Just wondering, if you were to ballast the rail curves, and attach them on the baseplate with the technique that you are using in the last part of the video, that also means you need to raise your straight rails by one tile?
@@BevinsBricksWorld perfect i'll try that very helpful vids you have !
Daryl .... I have a question for you ... In the future (When I'm retired .... 2 yrs & Have space & time to build it ) Would it be shameful to use NON Lego baseplates for a city ?? - Just the Baseplates .... ?
You didn't ask my opinion, but FWIW, I exclusively use non-lego baseplates. I use Brickyard Building Blocks brand which makes full 32x32 plates (stackable, regular plate thickness, so you can click things into the underside). I think I recently saw a video where Daryl mentions he uses that exact same brand too. They work great. Watch for a sale on Amazon and scoop up a bunch of them. I have dozens and dozens of the gray ones.
hey bevin, i forgot to ask if you build on mils plates for your buildings, how do you make sure that you can't see the bricks under your mils plate if the curves are attached directly on the baseplate. The same question for straights too. Do you mils plate or raise the straight tracks 3 plates high as well?
The tracks when it comes to a road are raised to meet the level of the road yes but you can also keep them down and tile them in as well
@@BevinsBricksWorld ahhh okay, my only concern is to make sure that the 2x2 bricks for the mils plate doesnt remain visible :). So what I actually did was especially at the curves, and since i use a 48 x 48, i created a mini elevation of 1 plate increment. This only applies to landscapes tho, if they are builds, then no issues :)
Jesus Christ!
As if baliasting isn’t parts intensive enough!! 🤣🤣
Now I have to tile under everything as well!?
I have about 50 straight tracks and 16 curves.
Why am I tiling under?
Help!!
Everything I do is part intensive and the only way for a track to lay flate with a curve is to tile. You can just lay it over the studs and float also.
@@BevinsBricksWorld I get that…however, if I tile my curves then one HAS to tile the straights as well for height uniformity, no?
would method 1 still work on a 32x32 base plate?
Train roll on...
How can I ballast switch tracks?
@@BevinsBricksWorld Cool
I just put 1x1 plates at the bottem
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