[moc] Alco/MLW C424 British Columbia Rail

[SteamSewnEmpire]

Pretty sure there isn't enough Olive Green - let alone Flame Yellow - in the world to do this, but oh well. Would require some stickers.

[deraven]

Agreed that it may never be seen in real bricks, but that is beautifully done!  

[SteamSewnEmpire]

5 minutes ago, deraven said:

Agreed that it may never be seen in real bricks, but that is beautifully done!  

Thanks man.

[Phil B]

How would it look like in Cool Yellow instead of Flame Orangish Yellow? The Fiat 500 color basically. Might make it look more weathered and better fitting with the olive green ....

[SteamSewnEmpire]

7 minutes ago, Phil B said:

How would it look like in Cool Yellow instead of Flame Orangish Yellow? The Fiat 500 color basically. Might make it look more weathered and better fitting with the olive green ....

Is cool yellow more plentiful?

[Phil B]

Just now, SteamSewnEmpire said:

Is cool yellow more plentiful?

I’d think so, after the release of the Fiat .... Cool Yellow also features in a few Friends sets.

[SteamSewnEmpire]

1 minute ago, Phil B said:

I’d think so, after the release of the Fiat .... Cool Yellow also features in a few Friends sets.

Hmm. When I finish eating, I'll poke around on Bricklink and see how out of reach either color is. 

[SteamSewnEmpire]

21 minutes ago, Phil B said:

I’d think so, after the release of the Fiat .... Cool Yellow also features in a few Friends sets.

It appears as if the clips (like 4085) are available in neither flame yellow or cool yellow. :P

1) How would regular yellow look? Like, how 'off' would that be, in your opinion.

2) Similarly, do you think the underframe should be DBG instead of black?

[Shiva]

Looks very nice :)

Part 30161 will cause you problems tho. Unless you paint it.

Canadian Pacific Railway colouring could be an option too? for mods.

[SteamSewnEmpire]

9 minutes ago, Shiva said:

Part 30161 will cause you problems tho. Unless you paint it.

That or wrap stickers around it.

[Shiva]

Or that :)

It looks as a removable piece on those locomotives?

[SteamSewnEmpire]

1 hour ago, Shiva said:

Or that :)

It looks as a removable piece on those locomotives?

It's a sunshade. Almost all of them had them. I want to say that they were an aftermarket addition made by the railroads, but I could be wrong. 

[RubbrDukky]

Could the sand green pieces work as a compromise for the lighter shade of green? Or would you be running into the same issue with many parts not existing in that colour? Regardless, the colour scheme is very nice and it's a shame the palette here is limited. 

[SD100]

Having passed the 2454 on the main at track speed, that hits close to home! Awesome build.

[Jeffinslaw]

Very nice! I'm not very well versed in LEGO's official names of colors but I would use Bright Light Orange. There is a good amount of parts available in BLO.

-Jeffinslaw

[SteamSewnEmpire]

1 hour ago, Jeffinslaw said:

Very nice! I'm not very well versed in LEGO's official names of colors but I would use Bright Light Orange. There is a good amount of parts available in BLO.

-Jeffinslaw

Yeah, it's called Flame Orange or something like that in LDD. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as if the clips (the things that would hold, say, the railings on the sides of the locomotive) come in any variant of yellow other than the traditional color. For such a common part, it's actually rather shocking to see how few colors it has ever been offered in down through the years. 

So, again with the question: is standard yellow sufficient? (I truly cannot tell). And would dark bluish grey be better for the undercarriage than the current black?

[Pdaitabird]

That's a great looking locomotive! I think regular yellow would work fine. Back in my day, that was the only shade of yellow we had!

[Jeffinslaw]

1 hour ago, SteamSewnEmpire said:

Yeah, it's called Flame Orange or something like that in LDD. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as if the clips (the things that would hold, say, the railings on the sides of the locomotive) come in any variant of yellow other than the traditional color. For such a common part, it's actually rather shocking to see how few colors it has ever been offered in down through the years. 

So, again with the question: is standard yellow sufficient? (I truly cannot tell). And would dark bluish grey be better for the undercarriage than the current black?

What about using part 60478? That part comes in BLO and then for the hand rails, use some BLO minfig hands pushed into some BLO tubing. The tubing can easily be had on LEGO BaP while the minifig hands can be found on BL. They won't line up perfectly straight but I think it would be acceptable. And then in the front use part 30241b in place of the 2x 1x1 plate + 1x1 plate modified with clip.

-Jeffinslaw

Edited July 7, 2020 by Jeffinslaw

[SteamSewnEmpire]

39 minutes ago, Jeffinslaw said:

What about using part 60478? That part comes in BLO and then for the hand rails, use some BLO minfig hands pushed into some BLO tubing. The tubing can easily be had on LEGO BaP while the minifig hands can be found on BL. They won't line up perfectly straight but I think it would be acceptable. And then in the front use part 30241b in place of the 2x 1x1 plate + 1x1 plate modified with clip.

-Jeffinslaw

That would work, but I started parting it out, and pretty much every piece currently in BLO is unavailable in that color - steps, the rounded parts for the snowplow, the SNOT bricks, etc. It's just not a common color.

It's fine. Regular yellow doesn't look horrid:

Ultimately, though, attractive as the BC Rail color scheme really is, I don't believe it can be done. There are parts problems with olive green (AND sand green - which isn't right at all). Were I to do this loco, I would almost certainly have to be CP... which is a shame. I love CP, but this ^ is the better look. 

Edited July 7, 2020 by SteamSewnEmpire