Thought Fox
2016
My final project for my Foundation course was designing and making a scale model of my interpretation of a train from Philip Reeve's book Railhead. My intention was to design the piece as if for a film adaption. I based the style on 30s and 40s style streamliner trains, but on a much larger scale - up to 6 meters wide. I built a 1:76 scale model, the same size as most standard train sets, of the locomotive with a cutaway section on one side. I decided that due to the width of the train it would run on 4 tracks to spread the load, so used standard train set tracks side by side for the base.
The body of the train was made from laser cut sections to build a skeleton, and then a vac formed covering with banding and rivet details added afterwards.
I wired lights into the body of the train to illuminate the front headlights and a flickering LED to create a scene with a figure welding in the cutaway section.
Acrylic, styrene, MDF, LEDs, model train set figures
The body of the train was made from laser cut sections to build a skeleton, and then a vac formed covering with banding and rivet details added afterwards.
I wired lights into the body of the train to illuminate the front headlights and a flickering LED to create a scene with a figure welding in the cutaway section.
Acrylic, styrene, MDF, LEDs, model train set figures
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