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In lugnet.trains, Samarth Moray wrote:
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Next up is a loco that’s a totally new width: 8 studs + 1 tile wide. Check it
out (post mod):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=167966
I was also happy about how my bogies turned out. I must’ve rebuilt them like
a dozen times. The final solution was found by having a signal mast running
the length of the bogie so that the centre wheelset could be left floating. A
1/2 stud offset using 1x2 door rails on either sides holds it in place.
The basic chassis design for both models is the same. It’s done by using
beams to run the length of the model, and 2x2 tiles with the lifting ring
providing anchorage for bogies and underside details.
Comments appreciated.
Legoswami
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I like it!
You have captured the locomotive very well, and it has grown on me the more I
have looked at it.
I would be hard-pressed to call it “beautiful”, though: the prototype feels to
me as something of a freak-showish monster:
An electric
that looks like some of the ugliest of the British diesels,
but even then not so but like something totally of its own kind,
big as an American diesel
and painted in the colors of the American dream,
the pattern of the vents on its sides reminiscent of the broadside of a ...
...
well ...
/Martin
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