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Over the weekend, I designed a LEGO train station somewhat evocative of grand
European stations using LEGO Digital Designer. The station has a rounded glass
canopy and is large enough for a fairly tall (~12 bricks high) train to clear.
The interior has two platforms sized for 6-wide trains (but easily adapted to
8-wide).
I wanted this station to be distinctive and grand in scale, as compared to some
of the more recent train stations from TLC. Grand in scale, it is. It occupies
approximately a 48x64 area. It also makes use of rarer elements - the columns
holding up the canopy are done in DarkRed. The interior is austere and is left
to the builder to finish and customize. The station is built using all Factory
bricks and can be ordered from Shop @ Home.
A second reason for doing this is the limitations imposed by LDD on huge models.
LDD serves its primary purpose - younger builders wanting to make a .all set of
their own design - very well. Larger creations can prove cumbersome to
manipulate with the user interface and, more importantly, the program runs much
more slowly when large numbers of elements are involved. This was the case
here, with some 1200+ elements. Almost literally, it was hard to add much more
to this model on my computer (admittedly somewhat antiquated, at 1200 Mhz, 1GB
RAM).
In any case, I wanted to present my model and welcome your comments.
For scale reference, the station with another Factory MOC, an Amtrak AEM-7
locomotive.
Links to the full-size pictures on Brickshelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=219107
Thanks!
Jordan
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| That's really great. I like the technique you used for the roof! I love when talented builders like you give us new ways to use the relatively limited pallette of LDD. Thanks for sharing! (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) SNIP (...) Hi Jordan, This looks really cool and impressive. I tried to find it in your gallery on factory.lego.com (username jbschwarz) but I didn't see it there. I normally like to download LDD MOCs so I can spin them around in LDD and check (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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