>>9341446>Especially when they only want the "model" part Most lego creations are a model of something. A car, a building, a boat, even a fictional spaceship. The level of detail is up to the builder, you can have your creation look like it was built in the 1990s or you can have it look like it was built yesterday. At the end of the day they're still Lego models.
>the actual physical limitations of legoI agree with you when it comes to cutting/bending pieces in order to better resemble something, but custom train wheels never hurt anybody. Keep in mind that prior to the Emerald Night, your only official option for feasible steam locomotive drivers were either a piece that only appeared in a single set released in Europe during the early 80s in a single color or large technic gears, and the latter barely even works properly on lego rails. (Here's a pic I pulled from a brickshelf page dating 2005 that utilizes both). I'm fine with making specialized elements such as larger/smaller wheels or more track variants cause history's shown Lego is never going to make a curve larger than the mold they've been using for like 30 years now.
>Just get an electric railway at that pointIn several cases it's far cheaper to build a train out of Lego than it is to acquire a scale model train of the same type. Sure $200 to get all the parts to build a German steam locomotive out of Lego via Bricklink sounds expensive, but it sure as hell beats spending $400 for an HO model of the same train that's half the size.
