A couple of antique/vintage building toys are digitalized. You will find a brief description of those toys and some re-creations.
See:
Toys collection
3D models on SketchFab.
Builds & remakes.
How to use in LeoCAD.
Eisenbahnbau SpielNieuw!
Eisenbahnbau Spiel ("Construction of a Railway-line") is a building set with grooved wooden pillars and printed cardboard panels, built for a railway layout: a station and some railway buildings. The lid shows a train in front of a station hall with three gables. It works exactly like French cousin Construction Villageoise: the cardboard slides into […]
Construction Villageoise – N.K. AtlasNieuw!
Construction Villageoise is a French building set from N.K. Atlas, Paris (series N 81, according to the lid). Square wooden pillars with grooves hold printed cardboard panels, together they form a small village with five buildings. It uses the same principle as the German Eisenbahnbau Spiel: pillars with grooves and panels in between. Here the […]
Mobaco with round towers
When I first knew about Mobaco, I was dreaming about creating big castle's, with towers and gates. But how to add these elements gently into the Mobaco ecosystem? Mobaco is having floor plates with square hole patterns, fitting columns and wall panels. So basically only retangular type buildings + tower segments could be created. It's […]
LeoCAD: Assemblies, reference models & parts...
The LDraw system uses a hierarchical structure where files reference one another to build complexity. So creating a single (large) object, like a big building, this system works well. Depending on complexity, 'sub models' could be used for different reasons: For the most objects this works well. But how to create an assembly, containing: Method […]
Showing 3D models online, created by LeoCAD...
Would be great to export 3D models from LeoCAD and show them on online platform(s). I did investigate already some different online platforms and SketchFab seems to be best for now. So let's test a relative big LeoCAD building: Mobaco construction toy library (v1.5), instruction Set 5-C: While exporting the model, the next features are […]
** Collection Overview **
Collection of all digitalized vintage toys, listed by set.Read more about how this all started… Click on the set name for detailed information. Set: Period: Manufacturer: Status: (ADO – Trucks) 1922-1962 Ko Verzuu, Bilthoven &ADO, The Netherlands Trucks: 2 (American building blocks) 1940s~1970s 1) Halsam Products Company, Chicago.2) Elgo Plastics Inc.3) Playskool n/a Anker Steinbaukästen ~1880-today […]
L'Edifice - Reproduction
Encouraged by fellow L'Edifice enthusiasts, it's time (May 2025) to re-created some wooden parts. Basically half of the 'A - Tenons de soubassement' are missing and/or broken, same issue with the 'J- Faîtières'... Also want those M4/M5 stairs and still missing some panels... It's time for replacement parts! The system The basic building system consists […]
Mobaco - Doors & Gates
It's still funny to see what the boys are creating with Mobaco. The doors & gates are always used. Somehow they like this simple addition. So after a request for new wall pannels, it's also time updating the gates: The wooden parts from the left 2 buildings were already made. Main concern: "The double doors […]
Installation LeoCAD Library
Building with the released vintage toys could be done with LeoCAD. (LeoCAD works on Windows, Linux & macOS.) For using the vintage toys library, the 'standard' LeoCAD library basically needs to be replaced with this vintage toys library. That's what this article is about. 1. Download LeoCAD LeoCAD installation should be downloaded here: LeoCAD.org/downloads Choose […]
LeoCAD: using multiple libraries
If you only want to add one vintage toys library to LeoCAD, read this article. It's also possible to mix the Mobaco library with Lego like parts or other vintage toys libraries.Now 2 things will change: 1. Expected folder structure Since we cannot select multiple zip files inside LeoCAD, a folder structure needs to be […]