I'm building Thomas the Tank Engine trains, and I'm looking for techniques to build realistic faces. I'd like the trains be able to run on standard LEGO rails, so I'm targeting 8-wide engines. This series has been visualized a number of different ways over the years. In terms of style, I'd prefer to stick as close as possible to the live action models:
This leads me to the following requirements:
- Faces must be no more than 6 wide
- No stickers or non-LEGO elements
- Faces should enhance the recognizably of these models as Thomas trains
- Faces should generally be cute from a child's point of view
There have been many attempts to create Thomas models at LEGO scale. Here's one of the best examples that I've seen:
That's a larger scale than I need, but hopefully it helps provide context. I've tried emulating these techniques at smaller scale using 1x1 round eye pieces, and my attempts look a bit off. What approaches could be used to create appropriate faces at this scale?
