Reply To: BC1-1908 Homework – Burn Arakiss

Looks fantastic! The engineer in me would like to see you modify the braking mechanism in your model to be more like it is in the reference photo, sort of like this:

The lower pivot could be lowered to mount underneath the carriage. The part where there’s the slight bend in the bar between pivot points should actually be a pivot.  Where that bar attaches to the drivers brake handle should not be attached to the side of the carriage. The drivers brake handle is only attached down near the lower pivot . As a static model it looks fine, and if you have no plans of animating it there’s really no need to make any changes, the form reads as if it was a working mechanism and often times that’s more than good enough!

I look forward to seeing this textured!