marbleman Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 Terrific design of the drum-shaped coaches. And I also like the color scheme of engine. Quote
Vilhelm22 Posted March 5, 2021 Posted March 5, 2021 Congratulations @zephyr1934 on your regional win with the coaches in Brick Train Awards 2021!!! Quote
zephyr1934 Posted March 7, 2021 Author Posted March 7, 2021 Thank you, I think every year an Amfleet MOC has taken home a Brick Train Award (or to put it another way, this is the second year in a row). I do not envy the job of the BTA judges, there were some really amazing builds and I cannot imagine having to pick just one per region from them all. Quote
CMOS Posted June 14 Posted June 14 On 2/21/2021 at 10:12 AM, zephyr1934 said: Thank you. And I've been slowly working on instructions for the Superliners, so who knows, you might be able to have a set of your own someday (but definitely not before summer) @zephyr1934 are you still working on instructions for the Superliners? I hope to add some of these to my collection someday. These look great! Quote
zephyr1934 Posted June 14 Author Posted June 14 14 hours ago, CMOS said: @zephyr1934 are you still working on instructions for the Superliners? I hope to add some of these to my collection someday. These look great! Yeah, still slowly working away at them. Fortunately, because BDP requires complete instructions with any submission I've become somewhat adept at working with that tool. I also need to figure out Rebrickable, can't be too hard, but I will probably start with something less ambitious first. You have my permission to nudge me every few months via PM... of course you'll need to get up to 10 posts on eurobricks before you can PM Quote
Cheeseyfeet and Oreo Posted June 17 Posted June 17 I know that most forums frown on threadomancy but seeing as this got bumped... Holy moley those cars are a work of art! I love the shaping you have achieved on them and as a consist the whole thing looks A1. It's always fascinating to me, how when working with brick it is necessary to draw a compromise in scale and proportion to end up with a finished model that looks right. You could have gone wider with the cars but then to have them look right you would end up with 60/70 stud long units that would look wrong on anything but huge curves. I have been working on a little slope back steam switcher using the old PF system and beside the obvious packaging problem (fitting the PF gubbins in the model) the thing that took the longest to get right was the x-y-z jiggling to get the right 'feel' at the end. That's why this place is great, every post is a learning experience. So many great builders here to learn from Quote
zephyr1934 Posted June 17 Author Posted June 17 @Cheeseyfeet and Oreo thank you kindly! I'm still partial to 6 wide trains, I just like the size, but I am envious of all the extra detail you can get in on 8 wide. Whether 6 or 8 (or even 10) you have such a small resolution to work with. One of my friends once put it that Lego trains are just doing anti-aliasing in three dimensions. Quote
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