Work In Progress: New custom LEGO passenger train MOC

everybody this is a quick look at a very
very very incomplete very new work-in-progress will custom passenger
train that I started working on just because I randomly got inspiration that
popped into my head to work on another passenger train I’ve been wanting to do
something that looked a little bit slower than my others for some time
possibly something flat-fronted but I didn’t want to get too boring and basic
with it this is not based on anything that’s not intended to be a replica of
anything I did not base this off any reference materials whatsoever I just
went to my multiple drawers full of windscreen pieces and especially the
larger ones both six wide and four wide and brought out as many of them as has
appeared to be decent candidates for win screens for this for the front of the
the canopy of a a passenger train and I went through all of them and this is the
the best-looking one for me that I came up with for just my own personal
interests so I’m using it for now but this is like I said just a work in
progress I’ve only worked on this for two building sessions so far so
absolutely everything is subject to change absolutely everything should be
considered completely a temporary the next time you see it I’m sure there will
be many things different but then maybe I’ll just be happy with my progress up
to this point and won’t change too many things we’ll just have to see this is a
two car DM you will be permanently coupled with a Jacobs bogie in between
I’ve got to figure out something to do for the wheel pants back here because
they just they need a lot of room to go through turns and especially inside
turns like that I don’t think there’s enough space there to to let that
actually work out so I’ll probably need to have even more of a gap unfortunately
I’m really not looking forward to having a gap there possibly I can decrease the
vertical gap a bit but that may actually look worse if if I do like half of a
plate less vertical gap and then have to have a longer horizontal gap and I try
to do something back here maybe you turn this
in or turn it out or something to allow that room but it’s just it’s just
difficult because of the scale of things and I don’t know I just I just don’t
know it at this point but like I said it’s it’s a new project so maybe I’ll
come up with something interesting maybe I won’t this used some tricky building
techniques for some of the stuff at the front actually it’s been simplified down
quite significantly since my first attempt at this at this front I had all
sorts of headlight bricks attached rotated and 90 degrees on two axes and
you know stuff moving all around in different directions and its really been
simplified down quite a lot I don’t like this right here I might try to fill that
in from the top or something but it’s not too bad I mean you know things look
much worse on on camera up close in HD than they do in person when you’re
looking at little stuff I’m going to have some form of humps on the on the
roof not sure if they’re going to be shaped exactly like this that’s
something I’m continuing to iterate on not sure about this little dip right
here I’ve done a number of different attempts of different things with the
edges of the doors and the doors themselves and might I would like to do
something better for that but when you look at the the scale of it the doors
actually go up to here you see I’m using that the one and a half wide plates up
here to make up some of the space but scale wise yeah I’d like to have a
little bit a little bit more height there but it does need to to come up to
my station platforms which are at exactly this height for sake of
compatibility with my other trains you know everything has to go together
everything is interdependent so it’s not just as simple as making it look exactly
how you think it it should if it was real life you know gotta compromise a
little bit for the actual Lego stuff in the scale but that’s pretty much all
there is to to show at this point is really not all that much going on with
the whole thing a little bit of detail on the top kind of needs interior
obvious we’ll have a operator Oh it’ll be double
ended and mirrored so the other the other I recall that train plate at the
back will be identical it’ll just be facing towards the rear completely
identical I’ll probably even put a nine volt motor back there as well even
though it it won’t need it at both ends just to have the consistency of the
metal wheels which I think look really really good they they kind of look to me
like the thing has disc brakes you know like like a real one would and I like
that look so it might be a little bit of a waste of a 9-volt and in the sense of
you know a 9-volt motor in the sense of how much power is required but I think
it’s I think it’ll be worth it so yeah work in progress very incomplete just
wanted to show what I’ve done up to this point after just two building sessions
hopefully things will get much better from here and obviously it needs a lot
more detail on the inside things need to be mirrored left to right I’m only
showing you one side the other side is at a different stage you know as I go
along I’ll make changes on one side and then
I’m happy with something then I’ll copy them to the other and then maybe I’ll
work from that side a little bit just to kind of change up my brain a little bit
keep from getting locked into one one view you know looking at it from one
side versus the other so yeah I go back and forth and then eventually try to get
it all consistent and sometimes I miss something and that’s just how it is
anyway just want to show that up to this point and I’ll show you more progress as
more becomes available thanks for watching tactic in sir