#LDCad

The cover of the LEGO Train Ideas Book (7777). It features the iconic yellow-red Passenger Train (7740), the steam locomotive of the Goods Train (7730) towing passenger coaches and a draisine at a custom built train station with two tracks that are connected via a passenger bridge.

I've once started to create a 3D version of the cover of the famous #LEGO Trains Ideas Book (7777). I've used #LDCad for modeling, #LDrawImport to import it into #Blender and #fSpy for perspective matching. It's still WIP and probably will be forever given […]

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A 3D rendering of the dumper of LEGO set 387. It’s built out of simple bricks in yellow and red and has a pivot steering.

This is the second model of #LEGO set 387. Like the first one it was modelled in #LDCad and rendered #Blender with the default environment of the importer plugin.

https://social.tchncs.de/@cgudrian/114989500694888806

A rendered image of the excavator of the LEGO set 387. The excavator is built of simple bricks with a yellow upper and a red lower half. It is equipped with a yellow front and back bucket (each attached to a red arm) and runs on black caterpillar tracks. The arm of the front bucket shows a rendering defect: a black triangle.

I believe that #LEGO set 387 (from the year 1976) is my first one ever. I’ve rebuilt the excavator from that set using #LDCad and rendered it with #Blender. As you can see there’s a rendering defect at the front bucket arm probably due to overlapping […]

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