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This is my project to make an armored train, yes this is related to my rail gun project but that has been put on hold for now. Now to the train.












The green engine is just a place holder until the actual engine is built. Now for the individual cars.

Ram




The ram car runs at the front of the train to clear the tracks of anything blocking it, vehicles, barricades, even other trains.

Cannon car




The cannon car is mounted with a remotely controlled double barrelled turret.

Flat car


Not really anything to say.

Fuel Tender



The train ussually pulls a fuel tender to allow it to travel long distances without having to refuel.

AA car



A version of the Cannon car mounted with a radar guided AA turret.

Vehicle launcher car




This car(yes it's a single car) is designed to launch assault cycles that can protect the train.

There are more cars I'll post later, and if you have any suggestions I'd like to hear them. Oh, and I need a good name for the train(steel serpent?).

OMG i can't imagine the time that took, i can barely last 10 seconds on LDD, if i could add anything it would be a car that launches jet fighters and a helicopter car, as for the name maybe iron conda?

In comes a jeep with a spike on the front, or a very quick tank or..
This is real bricks would make my millennia, this on the designer made my week.

you know i have two emotions right now the first one tell me i should hug you for making such a cool thing i mean armored train SWEET! then the second one tell me to kill you for not using legos. I think i shall follow the more violent of the two in Brik War fashion

It is awesome. It is the Serpentonator.

i think this is the only forum where train-heads and spacers are together in union.

tahthing wrote:I think this is the only forum where train-heads and spacers are together in union.

Well let's see, Eurobricks, Classic space(a futureistic "moon train"), and two of the three mono-rail sets were space.

james+burgundy wrote:you know I have two emotions right now the first one tell me I should hug you for making such a cool thing I mean armored train SWEET! then the second one tell me to kill you for not using legos. I think I shall follow the more violent of the two in Brik War fashion

I think I'm going to start ignoring your comments on my stuff. I intend to make every thing I design in LDD when ever I get enough money to either get the parts from bricklink or PaB. The reason I use LDD is because I don't have that many brick of a single color usually so it's easier to make it in LDD then make a rainbow thing and have to guess what all the colors of each part should so I could order it from bricklink.

Oh, and I hope you don't live near train tracks.

major_sephiroth wrote:In comes a jeep with a spike on the front, or a very quick tank or..
This is real bricks would make my millennia, this on the designer made my week.

Well consider your millenia made in a short time. When I get the money the first thing I intend to do is buy the RC cargo train, then the Emerald Night, then start working on making en engine worthy of pulling this thing. All this is after I get $100 to fix my Xbox360 which is broke, again, 2nd time, and strangely neither time has been Red Ring of Death.

dilanski wrote:OMG I can't imagine the time that took, I can barely last 10 seconds on LDD, if I could add anything it would be a car that launches jet fighters and a helicopter car, as for the name maybe iron conda?

Well I started working on it near the begining of the year, I think, or that may have been project Gustav II. A full jet fighter is probably not possable, however I do have plan for somthing that launches little airspeeder things. A helicopter might be possable.

I'm reminded of that one Starfox 64 level

PsyberianHusky wrote:I'm reminded of that one Starfox 64 level

I totally need a killer robot butterfly-ish thing on my train . And cars that drop huge boulders. A crazy sector X robot would be cool to, or mamey the Titania(?) monster, you don't know how many awesome memories you just made me remember.

look's good, but completely unuseable for most brikwars due to longness, unless it was parked of course, but it would be considerably less awesome then.

Yeah, i have to agree, its somewhat lacking in practicality. Luckily, it makes up for it with sheer coolness. I mean, look at it. I've never seen so many railguns, plus, it launches what looks like a harley davidson on steroids. Lets see Thomas the goddamned tank engine do that.

How I think I'm going to use it will requiere a new set of rules for totally moving brikwar. What I mean is there will be two sides, those attacking the train and those defending it, the attackers will try to attack and board the train while it's moving. However due to lack of the massive amout of room needed It won't actually move, instead, stuff that falls on the groud is moved backwards from where it was. and occaisionally objects like rocks will move through the feild at some speed starting at the front and moving to the back. This is the best way I've come up with so far. It can also act as the base in certain scenarios.

piltogg wrote:look's good, but completely unuseable for most brikwars due to longness, unless it was parked of course, but it would be considerably less awesome then.

Wot? Never watched those WWII movies were they derail the German Train packed with cool looking Flak Guns and Tanks and shit or the Western Movies were they ambush the Mexican Federalies on the train with a Gatling Gun and some TNT. That would so make an awesome Brikwar event. Ok, it wouldn't make for a unit itself but as something to battle over... wow.

Bluehawk2000 wrote:How I think I'm going to use it will requiere a new set of rules for totally moving brikwar.

This has been done a bunch of times before, usually worked pretty good - the best example was the PARV game; BLOC's Wild West Train Battle was another good example.