The Red Armoured Train 'Comrade Legoripov' (WIP)

[Boggler]

I've started another armoured train construction project for the Back of Beyond:

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-red-armoured-train-comrade-legoripov.html

I'm hoping to make some more progress over the net few days.

 

Cheers

Jim

[fastolfrus]

Are you going to cut all the knobs off the top?

[YPU]

Are you going to cut all the knobs off the top?

That is no way to talk about our glorious leaders!   

Interesting build. I have been looking to get some usefull lego bits for converting mecha myself, I have to custom order them though, I can't get myself to use the old lego I still have.

[Boggler]

Yep, all the nobbly bits will either be covered over or sliced off and sanded down.

[carlos marighela]

Just think of 'em as oversized rivets. Interesting project!

[Boggler]

First of the wagons now done (sort of). I think it needs some more detailing with something to make the over scale thickness door look less over scale?:

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/red-armoured-train-troop-wagon.html

[carlos marighela]

That's fantastic and a bloody good use of Perry/Renedra bases by the looks of it.

[Silent Invader]

That's fantastic and a bloody good use of Perry/Renedra bases by the looks of it.

Carlos sums it up.

Most cool. 

[sukhe_bator]

I agree about the inspired use of bases for armour cladding but surely its a bit of an expensive option to go for?
I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you to the NSPCL - cutting all the knobs off (really!)

[sukhe_bator]

I do hope you have not been using the Kragle 

[Boggler]

A few tweaks added to beef up the armour and hide the thickness of the side doors.

The plastic bases were surplus from the numerous boxes of 28mm plastic figures I have stockpiled, so were going spare as I use mdf bases and coins for my figures.

I also used some plastic card Peter Pig bases which are pre-cut to useful sizes, plus some plastic strip and rod which is really useful stuff for this sort of thing.

 

[tin shed gamer]

An interesting project.
It's seems a little over engineered. I  love the inventive use of Lego as an aid to scaling and proportions.Its got to have bumped the weight. It looks like a labour love,and I'm looking forward to seeing how you progress.
Mark.

[Boggler]

I started on the machine gun turret armed wagon tonight, but not very much done just yet:

[YPU]

I too have to agree your use of lego and bases which many of us have lying around is genius. Are those bogies lego or some other make?

[Boggler]

Thanks.

The bogies are from a toy train set that I got a couple of in a post Xmas sale at Robert Dyas. I think they were about a tenner or so for each set which included a loco and tender and two tanker wagons. I have enough bogies for five wagons and about six foot of plastic track to run them up and down on, assuming I keep one tender and loco to use as an unarmoured version  

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/runaway-train.html