Topic: Trains, Trains, Trains
For a movie I am going to make, I need a train. What tips do you have about making a train. 
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For a movie I am going to make, I need a train. What tips do you have about making a train.
Freight? Subway? Passenger?
Yeah, you MIGHT be able to make one, but if you want a really nice one, just buy it
I was thinking an elevated train, similare to the one in Batman Begins.
Find the Lego Spiderman Train set and buy it.
I want to make it custom. and 5 cars long.
Be creative and build it. Don't drop it on us.
There's tonnes of train MOCs all over the internet. Take some initiative and check those out for inspiration.
thanks, but any tips on building?
It would probably look better if you just bought.
You should probably buy one.
I have a train in the film I'm working on. I built one car, but for long shots the rest will be computer-generated.
I did consider building a full-scale train, but I simply don't have the pieces or room to film it.
~ Amanda
Ah, good to see that not much has changed in the time I've been away. People still love to ask questions they should really be researching for themselves, and others still like giving less than helpful (and sometimes repetitive) advice.
That being said, brickfilming forums really are not the ideal place to look for this sort of help. The LEGO train community is one of the bigger online communities out there, and they have plenty of specialized forums where you might find more help. Eurobricks for example has the LEGO Trains & Town forum, and they recently added the Train Tech sub-forum, which is all trains, all the time.
Speaking of all trains all the time, the aptly named Railbricks has downloadable instructions as well as .PDF versions of their magazine available, all for free. I would especially recommend Issue 1 of Railbricks, for the New York layout alone.
Since "just buying one" may not be the most practical solution due to budgetary constraints—the current sets for sale go for around $90-150, and the Spiderman set previously alluded to goes for the same price or more these days on Bricklink—you should instead look at what sort of information you can get about these sets instead. LEGO Customer Service has a very handy search form where you can download building instructions for a wide variety of sets, whether currently in or out of production. It's very easy to get hold of the .PDF instruction book for the Spiderman train set for instance, merely by entering the set number (which is quite easily found by consulting the Bricklink Catalog page for Spiderman sets.
You now have a plethora of links to investigate, go and do your research, and build your train. Good luck on the build, and the filming.
thanks, but any tips on building?
To build something out of Lego you need to connect the studs on the top of bricks to the bottom of other bricks. That, combined with a few other techniques is how to build a Lego model.
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