New Hashima City repair shop
I'm excited to be part of the next iteration of the New Hashima City cyberpunk collab, coming to Brickworld Chicago 2023. I started with train cars, but things always escalate with me, so now I'm building a couple of the cubes that make up the foundation of the city. This one actually started as a train car hauling a big engine, but it evolved into a maintenance shop that will serve the spacecraft landing at the docks. The large strut on the front will support one of the landing pads on Alec Doede's cube above. I'll replicate that same structure for my second cube with some little variations. Thankfully I had the foresight to recreate it in stud.io as I built so I don't have to rip it apart to reverse-engineer it.
I took some inspiration from Inthert's excellent Repair Yard build for the scene inside, and while I made a deliberate effort to make mine very different, particularly with the grittier cyberpunk vibe, that's what got my gears turning.
The engine has one of my most outlandish parts usages ever, although you'd never know by glancing at it. The brown band around just in front of the exhaust nozzle is an old Fabuland table.
I've only been able to estimate the parts count on my MOC's when asked, and always wondered if I was overestimating. Building the digital model of the strut I discovered that I'm probably not, as that alone has almost 1,500 parts.
Disclaimer: the broken reddish brown tiles I used for the fence all broke by natural causes, most while working on one of my train cars.
New Hashima City repair shop
I'm excited to be part of the next iteration of the New Hashima City cyberpunk collab, coming to Brickworld Chicago 2023. I started with train cars, but things always escalate with me, so now I'm building a couple of the cubes that make up the foundation of the city. This one actually started as a train car hauling a big engine, but it evolved into a maintenance shop that will serve the spacecraft landing at the docks. The large strut on the front will support one of the landing pads on Alec Doede's cube above. I'll replicate that same structure for my second cube with some little variations. Thankfully I had the foresight to recreate it in stud.io as I built so I don't have to rip it apart to reverse-engineer it.
I took some inspiration from Inthert's excellent Repair Yard build for the scene inside, and while I made a deliberate effort to make mine very different, particularly with the grittier cyberpunk vibe, that's what got my gears turning.
The engine has one of my most outlandish parts usages ever, although you'd never know by glancing at it. The brown band around just in front of the exhaust nozzle is an old Fabuland table.
I've only been able to estimate the parts count on my MOC's when asked, and always wondered if I was overestimating. Building the digital model of the strut I discovered that I'm probably not, as that alone has almost 1,500 parts.
Disclaimer: the broken reddish brown tiles I used for the fence all broke by natural causes, most while working on one of my train cars.