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Started as a joke idea but then it struck me to find out if I can have a cooling tower and other infrastructure on MILS modules. It’s not as nice as Nancy’s amazing cooling tower but I may end up using this MILS project as background art for my digital nuclear train renders, after I sculpturally refine this brick build tower. Also want to do a MILS styled Steel Mill background art for my industrial trains too. LOL
Come to think it it, might try slope pieces on sideways construction to get the curve and the strength.
For what it’s worth, here is a photo of a LEGO cooling tower, (and containment building breach,) I took at Brickfest 2005 on the George Mason campus in Fairfax VA.
Thanks, that’s really helpful in picturing the vertical loft sections needed to capture the conical curve shape in brick form. Fortunately, I have built my studio model as sub components so I can make a change to a quarter section or smaller and it’ll update the whole thing as I try to get that parabolic curve improved. XD
I’m sure @willmcdine has his Lego hazmat team on the ready for a Class 7 containment breach. 🙂
Found some time to tinker on that MILS idea for a nuclear power plant for rendering as a backdrop to my nuclear themed trains. Now it’s not just a cooling tower but a reactor and turbine building. Here’s the four MILS modules with my 1954 Lead Lined Diesel and a yet unbuilt KUA waste transport for scale.
I should a ocean inlet module while I’m at it as some stations shed heat in those waters. I grew up in Florida and as it turned out, the manatees used the ocean inlets to stay warm during the winter and after decades of doing so, it’s part of their survival instinct to go to those particular inlets.
Started work on a Nuclear Waste Storage Facility on MILS plates as another one of my digital backdrops. So atomic power plants have these little structures in an array to hold spent fuel waste on the premises before it’s eventually transported by rail to designated containment sites out west. They feature two rows of chain link fences and plenty of light poles for security and safety. Now if they get Fushion breeder reactors going at the same industrial scale for power generation, then this would no longer be waste per se but fuel for that.
Model features a lot of sub components for easy modeling.
Updated and featuring some of my STEM trains, including the nuclear waste flask car. For some reason, there’s a Delorean at the visitor parking spot.
And a spider at a leaky containment tank.For the fun of it, working on a MILS module display of HAARP. It’s a facility in Alaska that sends electromagnetic energy into the ionosphere for experiments. That causes a faint glow like the northern lights. It’s much bigger and doesn’t have a train line in real life but as an educational digital backdrop, I can include one to show some of my STEM trains that might help such a scientific facility, like something to carry in new generators or transformers.
Started work on a Nuclear Waste Storage Facility on MILS plates as another one of my digital backdrops.
Nicely done. Very industrial. Watch out for those radioactive spiders!
Nice work! You’ve become one of the more prolific LUG builders!
The image reminds me that I tried making a layout of this size in LEGO Digital Designer (ancestor of LEGO Studio) and the program crashed soon after I put on the MILS baseplates. 😀
Thanks. I’m currently building my 50th train project (not counting the bridge). It’s an 0-6-2 No.29 Lambton for my lil bro. I may be prolific but hey, that means more educational trains for the LUG to use at exhibits. 🙂
Even in Studio, files of this size can bog down the system. There are tricks in studio like copy/pasting grouped components of assemblies so I don’t have to model every antenna tower, just one and the rest are referenced. Still once you go past 5k parts, the program gets slower. LOL
Now working on a Mayan temple ruin for a South American jungle diorama since my family’s been watching “Ancient Aliens” which features them often. It’s all on 3×3 32stud MILS plates and uses subcomponents so I’m building a quarter of the temple and even then it’s made of smaller subcomponents on the retaining walls and stairs at 3 and 9 bricks. Since the whole thing is modular and adaptable to different sized structures, I’m planning on a complex of temple ruins with a brave jungle expedition setting up rails to make the site accessible for future archeologists. Some regions in South America use standard gauge so maybe my Mountain train, which was built to handle the Pennsylvania terrain. Then render it as an educational diorama of trains used in STEM.
Like my other stuff, it’s designed to be buildable in case I ever get the means to build them IRL or if the LUG wanted to do something. (Not that every digital design is perfect prior to building IRL but I try.)
Final 4k Renders of the Mayan Ruins expedition with the Mountain Class locomotive. It’s over 20000 pieces in Studio, featuring my train MOCs in a jungle setting.
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