MOC: Imperial Troop Train

[dr_spock]

Greetings.

Our LUG was invited to Star Wars Days at the local LEGO Discovery Center. I built a Star Wars Imperial Troop Train for the event. It was inspired by amoured trains of the previous century. My MOC is armed with turbolasers and missiles and blasters.

Imperial Troop Train par dr_spock_888, sur Flickr

Here is a video of the train running at the event. The place was very kid noisy.

More photos on BrickShelf (when moderated) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=542298

[nils]

dr_spock,

Fantastic!!!

I had something like this in my mind for several months, but you convinced me.

If you do'nt mind I wiil borrow some details of you.

Nils.

[kieran]

Nice work, very unusual but looks great

[Sérgio]

What a Beauty!!!

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Very unusual and very funny! ;-)

Great work!

[Hrw-Amen]

Have been thinking of an armoured train for some time, but never had the exact idea of what I wanted to make. A very nice and character driven train though, very Star Wars'ish. Perhaps it could do with a passenger wagon or two just for tranporting troops and nothing else?

[dr_spock]

Thank you gentlemen.

If you do'nt mind I wiil borrow some details of you.

No problem to borrow and improve.

Have been thinking of an armoured train for some time, but never had the exact idea of what I wanted to make. A very nice and character driven train though, very Star Wars'ish. Perhaps it could do with a passenger wagon or two just for tranporting troops and nothing else?

I may have made my Star Wars troop train too kid playable. The kids at the LDC kept wanting to touch and play with it. I lost a snow trooper. He may have been KID-napped. Probably should have enclosed the wagons.

missing trooper par dr_spock_888, sur Flickr

[zephyr1934]

Make it an aircraft a spacecraft carrier and add a car with three of the smaller tie fighters.

[Wolfcraft]

Great use of tiles! I've never thought about making a Star Wars-themed train! Hmm, now that I think about it I've never even seen a train themed before. :P

[dr_spock]

Make it an aircraft a spacecraft carrier and add a car with three of the smaller tie fighters.

That is an idea to extend the train. Hmm, how to make 6 wide tie fighers?

Great use of tiles! I've never thought about making a Star Wars-themed train! Hmm, now that I think about it I've never even seen a train themed before. :P

Thanks. My LUG was invited to display at Star Wars days at the LEGOLAND Discovery Center and I like trains. I had a crazy thought to combine the two for the event.

[zephyr1934]

That is an idea to extend the train. Hmm, how to make 6 wide tie fighers?

Not to be a bad influence on you or anything, but here's a thought, and another, and another, and another, and another, and with a little digging you can get to the minifig scale one in this set too. I'm sure the instructions are available at lego customer service and you'd have to do some modifications though.