My Chuggington train project

I have decided to build a train layout for my toddlers pleasure.

So I am making a Chuggington/Wilson train to pass through a number of themed towns (so sesame street, gabba land, mickey's playhouse etc... )

Here is the start of the train (building trains doesn't come naturally to me... nothing ever looks right, hopefully when complete it looks like Chuggington (well Wilson but my toddler just refers to him as Chuggington).

Maybe if I didn't try to give it a talking mouth I might have had more success





Note: It will be long like a train (I have only done his face so far), the Chuggington ute is a little top heavy

Thats coming along nicely

Can't wait to see the rest of this trainee.

Had a dream mothers day... listening to Kate Miller-Heidke really loud and playing Lego... what could be better.

And I finished Chuggington/Wilson.





Now I can start building sesame street

(although I just realised that Wilson should be one window longer... I might change that another day).

The kids and I are very impressed !!
Well done.

Thanks Taz,

I think I am going to hang up my vehicle building hat... they are too hard (mine end up too boxy). Buildings can be boxy, so much better suited to me.

Absolutely brilliant Anita.

Your toddler will love it.

Great looking finished product

That's really quite nice. Don't give up your train building too quickly, many space builders have accused train builders of building boxes on wheels, trains tend to be a bit boxy. I really like the mouth on this, and I'm jealous of your red windshield.

I have some small suggestions for improvement; the red round plate on the side looks too large, I'd do some thing similar to the grey grill in the middle maybe with 2 1x1 round plates in red. Also I'd get a chrome air horn for the roof, (the upper light looks wrong) and try and embed the lower light into the hood a bit.

Thanks for that feedback Peterab.

I will try making a few of those changes and I will post the differences. I think they will make a good difference.

Wilson looks great AnitaE!! Keep up the great work!

Nice! Thomas and Firends is better though.... and his eyes are a little small. But the little one wouldn't notice that!