Quote: "The train is a lot better in proportion if its meant to be some sort of a toy or cartoonish train but you seem to be using a lot of basic primitives (box, sphere, cylinder) in place of actually deforming the mesh into a new shape"
about that, the train is customizable , every part is for itself as a limb.
plus when i created it , i did it as one part , but then i noticed that if i wand a cylinder at the front , then its * 8 or *6 triangles just for the "hood",altough im taking what you said in more of , "ok next time i will manipulate it so it wont look so primitive" it can do the trick i think.
yeah the train is not finished neigther the car
and yeah the train can downgrade to about 3000 triangles and still look the same. i'll work on it