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Hi all,
My latest MOC, a ZiL 158
series bus. It is fully buildable although the yellow arches cost a small
fortune.
BS
FlickR
Tim
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Very nice. Tim!
The impression of the shape and the colouring really fits the original bus.
It is time, that you render a larger scenery with some russian vehicles and
trains...:-)
Andreas
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In lugnet.town, Andreas Weissenburg wrote:
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Very nice. Tim!
The impression of the shape and the colouring really fits the original bus.
It is time, that you render a larger scenery with some russian vehicles and
trains...:-)
Andreas
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Hi Andreas,
Well... I was actually reserving the Russian stuff for a real life diorama. I
have ideas how to do it but now need to track down more parts for it and more
pictures (although Flickr has helped me immensely in this). That said I might do
a little virtual suburban moscow diorama out near the ends of the metro lines.
Tim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote:
I love it. I am constantly amazed by the things you do with the brick.
I like the approach of using the 2x2 clear slope underneath the yellow arch. It
obviously isn’t perfect, but it works and it works just fine. The point is
clearly made with the available parts. The limited parts pallets is actually a
part of the hobby that I have grown to embrace and now actually endear. I still
get frustrated now and then, but working with what is available has become part
of the challenge for me.
Excellent.
6 wide too. Perfect for many towns.
Best,
Jonathan
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote:
I love it. I am constantly amazed by the things you do with the brick.
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Thanks very much. Of course I steal a lot of the tricks from our German building
friends so 1000steine is really the source of it.
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I like the approach of using the 2x2 clear slope underneath the yellow arch.
It obviously isn’t perfect, but it works and it works just fine. The point
is clearly made with the available parts. The limited parts pallets is
actually a part of the hobby that I have grown to embrace and now actually
endear. I still get frustrated now and then, but working with what is
available has become part of the challenge for me.
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That’s precisely why I like working with the constrained pallette of Lego rather
than full kitbashing (well, that and the fact that my hands vibrate like an old
washing machine). It forces you to use different parts of your brain to get
around difficulties. Sometimes a mechanical solution such as building massive
SNOT buttresses will work but other times you just have to accept a slight
“error” in order to maintain the “look” if not the accuracy.
The main time I get frustrated is when a useful part isn’t available in a common
colour (such as the yellow arch in this which exists but was never released in
sets). This seems to be particularly true for green which somehow has a much
more limited pallette than the other basic colours.
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Excellent.
6 wide too. Perfect for many towns.
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I like to keep my vehicles in scale with my trains. Seeing what people can do
with six-wide cars does tempt me sometimes but I guess I’m a sucker for small.
Thanks for your kind words.
Tim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote:
With thanks to Tim David and William Howard I managed to get one of these built.
Thanks to the masses of SNOT and some choices I had to make to do with available
bricks the bus weighs a tonne... which is probably prototypical.
and the rest will be in the same
BS gallery as before
once it’s modded.
Tim
PS. It has been suggested to me that maybe I should post more often with pics of
real builds (if only to prove I do them ;) ) so I’m trying it out. If you
consider this post forum spam let me know and I won’t repeat it.
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote:
With thanks to Tim David and William Howard I managed to get one of these
built. Thanks to the masses of SNOT and some choices I had to make to do with
available bricks the bus weighs a tonne... which is probably prototypical.
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Looks great! I do miss the sand green 1x1 tile on the headlight brick towards
the rear though. Regardless of what it represented, I think it added some nice
texture there. I really want to build on of these for myself. I just love the
look of it with the slopes and all. I am actually working on a trolley with
similar lines and sloping rear end that was heavily inspired by this.
Based on these that I found in Brooklyn:
http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=933468
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PS. It has been suggested to me that maybe I should post more often with pics
of real builds (if only to prove I do them ;) ) so I’m trying it out. If you
consider this post forum spam let me know and I won’t repeat it.
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I know I don’t consider this spam. I’d love to see more!
Best,
Jonathan
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote:
With thanks to Tim David and William Howard I managed to get one of these
built. Thanks to the masses of SNOT and some choices I had to make to do
with available bricks the bus weighs a tonne... which is probably
prototypical.
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Looks great! I do miss the sand green 1x1 tile on the headlight brick
towards the rear though.
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I miss it too. When I get a sand green headlight brick I’ll put it back but I’m
trying to steer clear of BL for the time being ;)
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I really want to build on of these for myself. I
just love the look of it with the slopes and all. I am actually working on a
trolley with similar lines and sloping rear end that was heavily inspired by
this.
Based on these that I found in Brooklyn:
http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=933468
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Very nice proto. I have to strongly recommend looking at
this (and more after
clicking up) and this
too. I stole a lot conceptually from both vehicles.
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PS. It has been suggested to me that maybe I should post more often with
pics of real builds (if only to prove I do them ;) ) so I’m trying it out.
If you consider this post forum spam let me know and I won’t repeat it.
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I know I don’t consider this spam. I’d love to see more!
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Thanks. I’ll try to do it more in future.
Tim
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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With thanks to Tim David and William Howard I managed to get one of these
built. Thanks to the masses of SNOT and some choices I had to make to do
with available bricks the bus weighs a tonne... which is probably
prototypical.
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Looks great! I do miss the sand green 1x1 tile on the headlight brick
towards the rear though.
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I miss it too. When I get a sand green headlight brick I’ll put it back but
I’m trying to steer clear of BL for the time being ;)
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I hear you. I need to take a break myself.
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I really want to build on of these for myself. I
just love the look of it with the slopes and all. I am actually working on
a trolley with similar lines and sloping rear end that was heavily inspired
by this.
Based on these that I found in Brooklyn:
http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=933468
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Very nice proto. I have to strongly recommend looking at
this (and more after
clicking up) and this too. I stole a lot conceptually from both vehicles.
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Thanks for pointing those out. The rear end of the roof of my trolley is quite
similar to that of the greyhound bus. One of these buses will be appearing on
my layout at some point. That is fantastic!
Jonathan
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