Excelsior Trolley MOC - Almost complete, need suggestions

[legoman666]

http://i.imgur.com/7807jPJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CQd7lw7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yBQDMUr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/E0Q2HeZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QPVnyJr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WB88ewc.jpg

http://www.flickr.co...tags/excelsior/

I got the inspiration to make this MOC after playing with brick built road plates and realizing that I could embed a straight brick built streetcar track. I searched for an old style streetcar to build and came across the Excelsior trolley. I got some inspiration from this guy: http://www.lugnet.co...c/trolleysEXCEL mainly the fences as gates and the general shape of the front and rear, but I mostly relied on photos of the actual thing.

I got 4 1 x 2 x 3 red train windows coming to replace the brick I have next to the doors, but other than that I'm done. My request for suggestions is in regards of the roof. I don't like the ends of mine. The slope corners I used don't match the slope of the rest of the roof. Are there any better looking options? As you can barely see in one of the photos, the side roof is straight, but the ends are curved. Is there a curved radius piece that'd fit my 8 wide roof?

I also think I built the whole thing a little too tall, but it shouldn't be a big deal to decrease the height by a brick or so.

Ideas?

Edited July 17, 2013 by Fugazi
changed oversized images to links

[eurotrash]

I think a string of a couple of these together would be a great addition to any Lego Town. It looks really good, but as you say may be a bit too tall - perhaps rather than dropping an entire Brick down you might consider just lowering by one or two plates. And maybe cutting out one row from the pinnacle on top as well would improve the lines.

As for the roof - I confess that like the use of a destination board on the original lugnet one.

Oh, and it's always good to see a Metroliner in the background!

[Fugazi]

Legoman666, please resize your pictures to a maximum of 1024 x 768 px for landscape and 768 x 1024 px for portrait images.

[legoman666]

Every other forum I've used in the past 8 years or so automatically resizes large images. I expected this one to too.

[zephyr1934]

Nice build and after seeing just the first shot I was going to say that John Neal had built the same prototype, but then you went on to say that that turned out to be your original inspiration for your subject. The brick built track looks very good too.