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Here is my own design for a baggage car to add to my emerald night train.

Lego MOC Baggage Car for EN set

Lego MOC Baggage Car for EN set

Lego MOC Baggage Car for EN set

Lego MOC Baggage Car for EN set

Lego MOC Baggage Car for EN set

Feedback is always welcome. Sorry for the fuzzy first couple pics.

Nice. That's a good idea. And in the same style as the EN, so an easy addidtion.

What is the reason for a single bagage door? Maybe a double door would look better or an extra small window.

Looks nice, I need something like this to finish off my train, what's the part numbers for those sliding doors?

I think it's pretty solid if you're aiming for the same level of detail as an official Lego set... but your pictures are definitely not doing it justice. Use more light! Go outside!

Pics are bad very blury.

Comments would be it does lack a bit of detail. I think the doors are wrong the idea is right but gray doors dont go with the tan and brown. I would try and make up a brick sliding door in the same colors.

I can see a lot of small bricks used also a good amount of 1x2. i would change to 1x6, less brick out lines and less chance to notice the brick fade.

Nice V1.0 but i would go back to it a keep working on it. very few on my designs are close to what i made in the first Moc

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Good advice everyone! I did not add too much detail as I was trying to keep to the official Lego detail and want the car to blend in. I agree about the doors and have been trying to come up with a double door design. I like how this is v1.0 so with the advice I will have to tweak the design. Thanks again, new pics to come when I get the chance

If you want a door that blends in, Just make a solid door on a half stud inside offset. It would look like a door, while maintaining color consistency. Though you do loose the function.

I agree with most of what people have said, although I would not want to grumble about your photos as mine are far from perfect most of the time. It could do with a bit more E/N detailing on the sides, maybe one or two passenger windows. (Perhaps just one as it is not that long.) In my experience of British trains of this sort the baggage car is (Or was.) Rarely just a baggage car and was at least partly given over to passengers, sometimes just four or six seats.

I agree that the doors in DBG are not that accurate but then again we are limited to what colours are available. When I built my baggage car for my main passenger train (In Green.) I used two of those doors on each side, at least then it gives the functionality of a double opening sliding door which reduces the effect of it being the wrong colour somewhat at least i think it does. Admittedly there is not a lot of room (My carriages i did this on were 40 odd studs long.) on yours, but I do think it would look better myself.

One other thing that I have noticed with British trains of the era is that sometimes although the carriages were often of the same type or style and in the same livery they often had different coloured roofs, you would get a train with say all the cars having light grey roofs and one that had a black roof. The observation comes from a childhood spent standing a top railway tunnels watching them going through. If possible to give a better effect it may be a good idea to give your baggage car a black roof. It would still fit in with the train but mark it out as slightly different. I think it was simply that many of the post war carriages on BR trains were maintained over many many years sometimes in different batches and so these odd little things crept in.

I know that sometimes it is hard to build these details and can be costly to get all the bits, but it can be worth the while even if you only get them a bit at a time. It makes for a very nice train. But you have made a very good start with your's so nothing to worry about. I expect that it looks pretty good running around with the other coaches behind your E/N?

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