 | | NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | As most of you know, it was my end of the 24 Hour Build Challenge deal to build a Ghan in 8 wide. So here it is: (URL) Gallery after mod: (URL) (Ignore the Playboy bunny on the side. It's a trick of the light and Tim R0x0r for teh renderz.) I'm (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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| | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | (...) Excellent work! Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. The Ghan logos do seem to have lost something in the rendering - have you built in real life? Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | (...) Thank you Community Member Richie Dulin for spotlighting my post! Your warm services to the embracing community are much appreciated, as always. (...) Alas, CM Richie my greatest apologies to you if you find the renders below community (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Peter Parsons
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| | | | | | (...) Hi me Peter again I forgot to add in my last post also that I find the "Post Heading" very offensive "NR-75 The Ghan (The way it should have been done)" Now I know you smiled at the end of it but I feel that Tim Gould posted the original Ghan (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | (...) Hi Peter, Thanks for the defense but don't worry about the heading. It was a joke between Samarth and myself. I was actually the other end of the 24hr build challenge and we've been having a mini scale war off Lugnet for a while. Of course the (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Peter Parsons
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Sorry to you both I didn't know what was happening and I thought it sounded rather "course" obviously stuck my foot in it please delete last posting Cheers To All Peter (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) No offense on my behalf. If you didn't know the history it's an easy mistake to make. Tim (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | | | (...) Scaling is sooo complicated. It's hard stuff for me to understand. So I skip all the fancy measurements (or rather use them only as guidelines) and use my eyes to judge how big a model should be or where so-and-so grille should be placed in (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | (...) Gee, I'm sorry you found it offensive. As Tim has already explained, this is a bit of an inside joke, and I can see how the heading can come off as offensive to anyone not in the know. Apologies. Legoswami (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | (...) Nice work Swami and better late than never :P. I don't know what happened to the logo but something went wrong... As for minifigs, everyone knows they are tall and broad, not short. That's why trains should be six-wide. Sheesh!!! Tim (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Mark Bellis
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| | | | | | (...) If you said 6-wide represents an 8ft wide coach body, a minifig is 41mm / 48mm x 8ft = 6'10" tall and 16mm / 48mm x 8ft = 2'8" wide at the waist (standard minifig with hair but no rucksack). If 6-wide represents a 10ft wide body for American (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | | (...) Looks quite good, although it's always hard to judge a model purely on a POVRAY/LDRAW picture (ie get off your lazy *&^ and start building ;) ) About height, the model indeed looks a bit "stretched" although I'm not familiar with the original. (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Peter Parsons
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| | | | | | | (...) Hi All I have to put my 20 cents worth in here as I have built the 6 wide NR 75 with many thanks to Tim for his help with prototyping issues and use of his instructions. 8 wide looks awfull but that is only my opinion far too out of scale no (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | | --SNIP-- (...) To be fair to Swami, that was more my fault than his. I was rushing his renders and didn't have time to learn Lsynth to add the flextube. Thanks too for the compliments but my version took a lot longer than 24hrs to design and was (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | | | (...) ^^ What he said. (...) It's quite ok to think that 8 wide looks awful; that's just an opinion, but I must correct the second part of your statement. There are loads of ways you can make long bogies work: Sliding wheelsets, rubberband-bound (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | (...) How wuuuude! :-P I was actually taking a break from real world building. In fact, this is my first displayed CAD model in over a year. It would've been impossible for me to pull this thing off in 24 hours if I was making it in the brick! (...) (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Peter Parsons
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| | | | | | (...) Samarth Appologies for any misunderstanding Tim Emailed me about it :)) That is the best photo of the Ghan I have seen and I have seen them all that one as well a good shot of NR74 and NR75 in trail. There are only 3 locomotives that pull that (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Lester Witter
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| | | | | This is a great model. I may build it if I can find the parts: I have a suggestion. Put your name in the file as the author. If I build this I would want to be able to tell someone who designed the engine. I would probably forget whose model it is (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | (...) Very nice, but (URL) is the way it should've been rendered ;) Allister (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | (...) W00t, Thanks a lot Al! It looks excellent! (Parts of quoted text have been modified for effect) Legoswami (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Well, I wasn't quite satisfied with that render, so I had another go. (URL)(click the pic) a (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Peter Parsons
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| | | | | | | (...) Well it looks great in render but a few small inaccuracies. The NR75 is actually named after Steve Irwin and has the name above the NR75 number. On the port side facing forward just back between the cab and the start of the Radiator canopy a (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | | (...) I gotta hand it to you, the renders look great! Thanks for sharring! I'll also have to thank the good people of Jchat for their inputs and beneficial modifications to the overall design. Thanks to teh ~ROSCOhead for doing 'THE GHAN' Decals, (...) (19 years ago, 30-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Allister McLaren
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| | | | (...) I was aware of that, but was too lazy to include it. It took two days to render so I'm in no hurry to repeat it for the sake of a sticker. (...) How do you know it isn't there? You can't see that side. ;) Actually it isn't there, but (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) ) —Peter Parsons
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| | | | (...) "2 days" you can build it quicker than that!! "Decals" not stickers are really what bring out the actual livery even on the real things. (...) I took a good guess!!! (...) "Mere Trains" bit of an insult from someone who doesn't want to build (...) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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