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Re: Micro Steam Engine
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lugnet.build.microscale
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Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:13:26 GMT
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As Marc mentioned, the track is made up of door rail pieces with tiles on
top, fit snugly into the space between the wall of a 1 x 2 panel and an
adjacent brick. See the picture below.
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Wow, that is even more complicated than I first realised. I hadn’t noticed the
studs up section between the rails, and didn’t realise what the gauge was.
In my head I was visualising a full-snot solution something like:
(This is a slightly wider gauge, but that can be adjusted easily)
Of course, Once you’d hit upon the basic idea of using the door rails as actual
rails there are probably myriad ways of putting it into practice.
If you ha a deep enough base if hide the necessary substructure it might be
possible to approximate curves using the “1x2 plate with door rail” and a
complex set of hinges and wedges.
Tim.
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| In lugnet.build.microscale, Tim McSweeney wrote: <snip> (...) Yeah, I had quite a few variations for the track construction, a full snot one as you've illustrated among them. I opted for the studs up style to give the impression of gravel between (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Micro Steam Engine
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| (...) Thanks for the comments Nathan! As Marc mentioned, the track is made up of door rail pieces with tiles on top, fit snugly into the space between the wall of a 1 x 2 panel and an adjacent brick. See the picture below. (URL) I actually used (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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