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Second cut at a Bus Eireann - liveries still to be added

Here's a tunnel I recently built that I mentioned to Dfenz at yesterday's meeting. It's built on a 48x48 baseplate with the "outer" track 8 studs in from the edge of the baseplate, with a clearing of 12 studs between each track. The archways are 10 studs wide so even 8 wide trains can pass through easily.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sjd/Trains/Tunnel/sdc11672.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sjd/Trains/Tunnel/sdc11673.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sjd/Trains/Tunnel/sdc11674.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sjd/Trains/Tunnel/sdc11675.jpg

Hi all.
Sketching out my first project and wondering is it acceptable to use any glues and do any of you ever cut base plates to shape i.e. circles or are fully studded circular base plates available.
Im finding bricklink a bit complicated to find pieces.
Thanks in advance

I saw this on breakingnews.ie today.

Hugely impressive

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/400000-lego-bricks-12-months-of-work-and-a-lot-of-late-nights-586887.html

I worked on this virtual model I last weekend. It's a single-decker bus based on the GAC-Bombardier KC class that were in use in throughout the '80s and '90s in Dublin and on regional services in other parts of the country. Pictures will soon be available in my Brickshelf Gallery.

Some of the photos on the following web page were used as reference material.
http://www.dublinbus.cc/kcmonth.htm

Here's a castle MOC I made back in 2006:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=512622

Trying to get this designed for an absolute age, it appears I'm still quicker proofing something in real bricks than LDD... Thought I'd throw up some photos as I started trying to get it done... I'm awaiting a fairly hefty bricklink order for the right colour bits.

Spent this evening trying to get the most important bit roughed out - the front corner:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83785904@N07/7671953708/in/photostream

Seeing as its 32x32, should I go to the hassle of making it modular? Would need to get a lot of white tiles!

my remake of the metroliner,not enough of original bricks to rebuild,so i used red bricks....