This is my Lego Tangara T Set train from Sydney Australia, and how I designed it. Huge thanks to @TazzieTransport for providing the pictures used in this video.
Being from Sydney, these are apart of life. I am not sure if they have the seats that can change, but those trains are the best. Please make a bus or tram model from sydney please :)
Also, LEGO just announced that they will release the one by two cheese slope without slots. This will open up a lot of build opportunities, especially for angled features like you have in the front. My hope is that they will eventually produce transparent colors for that new part.
The math I have used to work out a lego scale has one meter being three studs long or one stud being 33cm long. With that logic, standard gauge is the normal tracks while broad gauge should be rounded up to five studs wide.
Well I did some shoddy maths three years ago and I'm stuck with the repercussions, but the weird scale I've gone with provides a nice level of challenge and differentiates my builds enough from others that I don't see it being too much of an issue. Even then, with the scale you have mentioned, standard gauge comes to just over 4 studs, which is the same gauge I have used here, and broad 1600mm gauge becomes just under 5 studs, which is the same as standard Lego track (between rail heads)
I wasn't taking the width of the rails into account. Maybe living near Sydney (if two hours north counts) has made me want my normal gauge to match with lego but now I can understand both sides of the argument.
I just watched this again, just had a uwation. Could this design be made to fit the standard lego tracks? I need this train so badly! Please make the file public so I can part out all the pieces :)
My 4D design is made for normal Lego tracks, and with a bit on modification it would probably be possible to add the side panels back, but there is no way either design will be able to take R40; you're probably looking at R104 minimum. I'm eventually going to add an interior and fix a few details and when I do I will probably release instructions for it.
