I dug out my half finished Bolshevik armoured train from the back of the garden shed today, the aptly named Comrade Legoripov, to see if I could salvage some bits to make a Chinese Warlord version. I wasn't happy with the size of the carriages that I scratch built, as they looked a bit overscale, but I'm having second thoughts. I quite like the idea of building some new, slightly smaller carriages to use with the existing locomotive and tender but in a design that looks more like the ex-White armoured trains that the various Chinese Warlords acquired. I need to raid the kids Lego collection again!
Has to be worth finishing this, it was looking so good.
ReplyDeleteI ran out of steam with it originally - boom, boom - but it's probably worth another go.
DeleteI’m curious to know what you did to get rid of the connector “bumps”?
ReplyDeleteI just sliced them off underneath which there is a neat round hole, so played them over with plastic card.
DeleteThose look really good. I was pretty happy with how mine turned out using plasti-card but that Lego technique is great and I would have used it if I'd had the bricks. The two gun carriages don't look that long to be honest. Even the longer carriage looks okay as it could be a horse transport with that big central door. I think to make the trains usable on table they need to use a combination of shortish carriages, biggish game tables and probably a reduced number of carriages over the historical trains.
ReplyDeleteThanks Trev. The big door on the troop wagon is exactly that..designed for a mounted unit. The Lego method definately speeds up construction.
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