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Something New in the Making
The moment I saw those motor side frames in dark brown I knew that some day I would make use of it on an old, rusted, abandoned engine.
I have played around with this truck design based on LEGO's new train wheels for quite a while now (which you can tell from all the dust on it if you zoom in) and kept refining it, especially brake cylinders and tubes. It survived some accidental drop tests and at some point even got lifted off the rails by the Force so that I think the time has come for it to be integrated in a real model.
Now that the building process hast started, I thought I'd share this little teaser. Bright and fresh colors are not to be expected for the model that I have in mind, so get ready for all sorts of brown, old dark grey and tan. I know that LEGO weathering is a difficult and risky terrain; it'll certainly take some time to get the color combos right, and I'm far from having figured it out yet.
It's a lot of try and error, and I'm doing it in the bricks, not LDD, to see how the color tones match in real light. As an example, the long stretch of tan shown above (a 2x16 plate) has already been replaced by a mix of tan, dark tan and reddish brown plates. It seemed fine in LDD, but in real bricks it just didn't look realistic.
And -- who knows? -- at the end maybe I'll switch themes from trains to SW and use the chassis for a Java sandcrawler or some other worn-down vehicle from Tatooine instead š¤
Something New in the Making
The moment I saw those motor side frames in dark brown I knew that some day I would make use of it on an old, rusted, abandoned engine.
I have played around with this truck design based on LEGO's new train wheels for quite a while now (which you can tell from all the dust on it if you zoom in) and kept refining it, especially brake cylinders and tubes. It survived some accidental drop tests and at some point even got lifted off the rails by the Force so that I think the time has come for it to be integrated in a real model.
Now that the building process hast started, I thought I'd share this little teaser. Bright and fresh colors are not to be expected for the model that I have in mind, so get ready for all sorts of brown, old dark grey and tan. I know that LEGO weathering is a difficult and risky terrain; it'll certainly take some time to get the color combos right, and I'm far from having figured it out yet.
It's a lot of try and error, and I'm doing it in the bricks, not LDD, to see how the color tones match in real light. As an example, the long stretch of tan shown above (a 2x16 plate) has already been replaced by a mix of tan, dark tan and reddish brown plates. It seemed fine in LDD, but in real bricks it just didn't look realistic.
And -- who knows? -- at the end maybe I'll switch themes from trains to SW and use the chassis for a Java sandcrawler or some other worn-down vehicle from Tatooine instead š¤