Cyberpunk Box Car
My 3rd completed cyberpunk train car, to be running around the docks of the New Hashima City collab at Brickworld 2023. While it is a box car, it has earned the nickname the Chicken Car due to its cargo of live chickens. I originally intended to have the molded chicken elements inside. However, I gave the completed train cars a test run at a LUG show and the chickens didn't arrive on time. Rather than be defeated, I brick-built some very funky chickens. That was really tricky, because they had to fit inside the cages built for the tiny molded chickens. Once I had them in there, though, I decided that something about another century of selective breeding making chickens even bigger and weirder felt very cyberpunk, so I left them.
This car is a BEAST, heavier even than the engine with its battery pack for the headlights. The patterns of dark tan, teal, and light/dark bley are deceptively complicated full of strange offsets and angles, and the amount of brick required to hold it all together is significant. On top of that, it required a brick-built frame because while the car is 8-10 studs wide depending on where you measure, the bottom edge is pinched down to about 5 studs, making a standard lightweight train base unusable. Moreover, with the length of the car, the ridges along the train bases do you give the bogies enough range of motion to make the required turning radius. All that adds up to a quite a lot of weight.
Cyberpunk Box Car
My 3rd completed cyberpunk train car, to be running around the docks of the New Hashima City collab at Brickworld 2023. While it is a box car, it has earned the nickname the Chicken Car due to its cargo of live chickens. I originally intended to have the molded chicken elements inside. However, I gave the completed train cars a test run at a LUG show and the chickens didn't arrive on time. Rather than be defeated, I brick-built some very funky chickens. That was really tricky, because they had to fit inside the cages built for the tiny molded chickens. Once I had them in there, though, I decided that something about another century of selective breeding making chickens even bigger and weirder felt very cyberpunk, so I left them.
This car is a BEAST, heavier even than the engine with its battery pack for the headlights. The patterns of dark tan, teal, and light/dark bley are deceptively complicated full of strange offsets and angles, and the amount of brick required to hold it all together is significant. On top of that, it required a brick-built frame because while the car is 8-10 studs wide depending on where you measure, the bottom edge is pinched down to about 5 studs, making a standard lightweight train base unusable. Moreover, with the length of the car, the ridges along the train bases do you give the bogies enough range of motion to make the required turning radius. All that adds up to a quite a lot of weight.