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Well, despite the terrible lighting conditions at my place, I put together
some pictures of my green line train that I made mostly over this last
weekend (my very first train!):
http://www.suave.net/~dave/greenline/greenline.cgi
It's based off of the green line of the Boston subway, in particular, the
cars shown here:
http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/mbta-green-cleveland03.jpg
http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/mbta-green-cleveland04.jpg
There are a couple other variations (with the green stripe on the door,
'stacked' headlights instead of side-by-side, more grey panelling on the
side, etc) that can be seen here:
http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/
The toughest part of course being the fact that each car bends in the
middle, forcing it to strech and compress the walls (and the roof!) when
turning a corner. I posted a couple images trying to show how my solution
works for this (using techinc rubber bands and sliding walls), but there are
still some gaps way down low as well as on the roof.
And of course the next step is putting in a detailed interior... :)
For now it's 100% Lego, but thanks to the wonderful impression Tom Duggan's
stuff gave me for the LAST train show, I plan to put some stickers on it:
- a bilboard, perhaps an ad for the Construction Site?
- the "T" logo
- numbering on the front
- the destination & rail letter on the front and sides of the train
Comments? Suggestions?
DaveE
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| (...) square but after looking at this picture: (URL) decided that your interpretation of that variation of Greenline car worked real well. Of course it is 8 wide but considering some of the detailing "challenges" that modeling in LEGO provides I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Looks really nice, Dave:-) Those subway cars are just screaming to be modeled in LEGO-- thanks for heeding the call;-) One suggestion-- seems to me that the doors are a dead ringer to be modeled using the 1x2x3 white train window (stacked, 4 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Wow, great model. The "my first model" announcements are getting better and better; this one is definitely great! Only comment Isn't it a bit tall, or does it look just fine with minifigs? It is "minifig scale", right? Comments about comments (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) nose? :-) I see you went 8 wide. I have struggled and struggled to do these in 6 wide but the center articulation has always got the best of me (I was trying to do something rotational, you took a sliding approach, which, while not (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) be bringing the green line train to the train show, I'd better have some stats on it, since I didn't think it was to scale with minifigs or the rest of our trains that we'll be displaying.... The train I built is based off of the "Boeing LRV" (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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