The Little Engine That Could

Hey, you first 100! Thank you thank you thank you! 100 times Thank you!! I made some early mistakes with this project's Ideas page - so there are not as many photos right up front as I would like. But live and learn right? Despite that, I think I can make it to 500 next! I think I can. I think I can!

- DS

A couple more images: two similar but slightly different versions of the main engine. One with the eyes set back as Loren Long illustrated the train. 

More images I rendered. Added some detail to some and (not others - so some inconsistencies). Among the images are a close up of the elephant's car with the toys, a scene with the giraffes' car and the food car with the toys and little builds I wanted to include to make this a really fun group activity. Every kid should have something small to build - even if you have 10 kids working on it. There are also close ups of 2 options for the checkerboard with either 16 1x1 tiles with a 4 pattern checker board on each (on left) or 4 2x2 tiles with a 16 pattern checkerboard (on right).

Even more to images to come. 

Also, need to make a correction from my original post: the illustrators of the version I based this model on (mostly) were  George and Doris Hauman. 

Thanks for all the early support!

- ds