edsmith0075 Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Greetings crew, So I have taken on construction/building an 8 wide version of the 6 wide Maersk GP40. I would like to make mine into an SD 40 but for now I stuck with the front and back slopes/nose. I am trying to line up the slopes even, 3 on each side. The problem Im having is constructing this evenly with little ( 1 to 2 plates ) between the rear vents and the back of the nose. That sounds confusing when I read it back to myself so I apologize. Here are some pics... 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr 8 Wide Maersk SD40 by Ed Smith, on Flickr Below is the most recent 8 wide model I have been working on. I want to have a similar distance in the rear on my Maersk model, like this one. Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr I can provide additional pics or angles if that helps. I'm kinda stuck on this right now and am hoping the community here can provide some insight or experience to this 8 wide newbie. Ed Quote
legoman666 Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 If I'm understanding the problem right, you need some half plate offsets. Mount some of the cheese to 1x1 brick with 1 stud, and mount others to head light bricks. But it looks like you're already doing that, so what exactly is your question? I've similar cheese work on my 7 wide diesels. See here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=107900 Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 Have you already red this topic: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=55815 about the same locomotive you're building? I think that Ralph_S' work can help you! Quote
davidzq Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 If I understand correctly, you want to get rid of the three SNOTed plates between the vent tiles and the cheese slopes, or at least two of them (leaving one to hold the slopes). You can do this in two ways. First is the obvious; remove the two plates! You will need to replace headlight bricks with 1x1 bricks with stud (and vice versa), and move them one stud back to connect the middle 4 cheese slopes. The other option is to move the cheese slopes out by an additional half plate. Remove the two plates, and replace them with 1x1 bricks with stud (not SNOTed), allowing you to place another vent tile. Quote
edsmith0075 Posted June 5, 2015 Author Posted June 5, 2015 Thank you all for the advice. David I think your the closest to what Im trying to describe. I will give all these options a try. I am aware of the headlight and cheese slope technique but that leaves me this a stud stick out on the side and that won't work for me. If you notice on the Black 8 wide I pictured in the original post the distance between the rear vents and the start of the rear nose angle is very minimal. That is what I am trying to do here with the Maersk, but with cheese slopes instead of large angle bricks. I am trying to keep a lot of the original Maersk Train design in building this 8 wide hence the reason for wanting to use the cheese slopes. I am looking for insight into how to build the front nose as well... Any opinions here will be appreciated. Quote
edsmith0075 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) Update! I have been working on this train as time permits and alot of progress has been made. I am struggling with the rear nose. I have been able to get the cheese slopes to work evenly but am encountering a problem having it all line up with the roof. I have attached pics. The main problem is the thin gap at the top between the nose and the roof. I am trying to have a gapless top and clean this up. Maersk Blue cheese slopes are not available in 1x1 only 2x1. Help.... Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Untitled by Ed Smith, on Flickr Edited July 31, 2015 by edsmith0075 Images too big. Please re-size before deeplinking again. Thanks. Quote
IronFish Posted July 31, 2015 Posted July 31, 2015 Update! I have been working on this train as time permits and alot of progress has been made. I am struggling with the rear nose. I have been able to get the cheese slopes to work evenly but am encountering a problem having it all line up with the roof. I have attached pics. The main problem is the thin gap at the top between the nose and the roof. I am trying to have a gapless top and clean this up. Maersk Blue cheese slopes are not available in 1x1 only 2x1. Help.... the "nuclear" option if you couldn't figure out a solution would be to replace all the Maersk blue parts with parts that are in a color very similar to the Maersk blue color, but has 1x1 cheese slopes. Quote
edsmith0075 Posted July 31, 2015 Author Posted July 31, 2015 I would like to keep the original Maersk blue. I still have the decals from the original 6 wide and want to use those on the 8 wide. The rear nose is the only part right now giving me a problem. My apologies for the pics being to big. I hope the edited ones I rep[laced them with are more appropriate. Ed Quote
davidzq Posted July 31, 2015 Posted July 31, 2015 It looks like you should be able to stick a 1x4 tile on the bracket, right below the 4x4 turntable. Quote
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