[MOC] Eurostar British Rail Class 374

[beyre83]

Hi all i am new to Eurobricks and have recently started getting back into Lego & Lego Trains..

Looking at some awesome moc's here i have started to get to grips with Lego Studio and have started to make my Moc

Of the Eurostar British Rail Class 374 please have a look at the front wagon and please be gentle lol as it's my first Moc

and tell me what you all think of the WIP so far

Many Thanks

Ben

Edited April 13 by beyre83
fixing images

[beyre83]

I have made a vast improvement to the look of the train and fleshed out passenger wagons and added another end to the train

been having some issues with Lego Studio but that can simply be user error XD anyway ill try and get the image to embed properly this time

Thanks for looking any comments or feedback much appreciated

Ben

 

Edited April 13 by beyre83
fixing photos

[XG BC]

honestly looks fairly good for your first moc. things id change/add is make the cars be closer together and have something on the undercarrige. also make the raised roof on the cars less tall, that makes them seem a bit too stubby (i guess you looked at the lenght of the lego Set where you got the nosepiece from?). i see the german version of the e320 almost daily, so yeah. another thing to work on is the alignment of some of the pieces, its just off, some stuff is inside other stuff, happens to everyone sometimes.

Edited April 13 by XG BC

[beyre83]

7 minutes ago, XG BC said:

honestly looks fairly good for your first moc. things id change/add is make the cars be closer together and have something on the undercarrige. also make the raised roof on the cars less tall, that makes them seem a bit too stubby (i guess you looked at the lenght of the lego Set where you got the nosepiece from?). i see the german version of the e320 almost daily, so yeah.

Thank you so much for your ideas i do currently have a small undercarriage built into the model but it might be hard to see and i agree it needs to be more pronounced heh also i have changed the windows on the train body to fit more windows in trying to replicate the actual carriage more

 

Also i have done a small redesign of the raised roof portion as i too was unhappy with the blockyness of it might still not be enough to so ill have to look at it some more i think

i still need to work on changing the windows on the engine part of the car but that's the progress I've made so far

 

Thanks again for your comments and let me know what you think to the current design 

Ben

[beyre83]

There i have now changed the windows in the front carriage to smaller windows as well and added a black connecting ring on the back of the carriages to create the illusion of them being closer together

Although i will be able to adjust the closeness just by moving the bogies further back in the model as well just don't want them to be to close as then they could touch and cause a derail when going around a corner XD

Let me know what you all think to the updates i have made to my MOC thanks

 

Ben

[Feuer Zug]

Not a bad color scheme and setup. The more gradual stepping up for the roofline works better. Take a look at set 60197 for some thoughts as well. https://brickset.com/sets/60197-1/Passenger-Train This set is a close start to what you're trying to do. It might help, especially with getting some filler under the floor of the carriages.

[FGMatt]

Is it worth considering sharing the bogies between carriages? I think that's how the real ones work?

[beyre83]

I have made some major revisions since my last update i think this update is looking pretty good and more close to the actual thing

I will still have some revisions to make to it im sure but for now Enjoy

Ben

[XG BC]

9 hours ago, FGMatt said:

Is it worth considering sharing the bogies between carriages? I think that's how the real ones work?

no. the real e320 doesnt have jacobs bogies no. they are seperate ones.