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Re: 2008 Perth ,Hobby Train Show
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Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:08:21 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Braith Garden wrote:
In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
- The longest single span Lego bridge in the Southern Hemisphere

Oooh, them's fighting words! I foresee a rash of even longer single span
Lego bridges breaking out across the Southern Hemisphere :-)
Seriously, how long is it?

The bridge is a little over 6 metres long.  It's now in pieces but we took
plenty of photos and video of it.  The crowds loved it and we had many retired
engineers studying the construction closely.

But, seriously,  the layout sounds fabulous. We look forward to the happy
snaps!

Kerry

Thanks Kerry, well I'm proud to say we won most popular exhibit at the show!  I
think we had over 9000 people through and our display was lined with kids and
adults every day.  Congratulations and thanks to everyone who helped out.

Lots of pics coming very soon.

Cheers,
Braith.

Here's a link to a bunch of pics I took over the long weekend...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=322346

Enjoy,

Braith.


Subject: 
Re: 2008 Perth ,Hobby Train Show
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Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:14:21 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Braith Garden wrote:
  
Here’s a link to a bunch of pics I took over the long weekend...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=322346

Enjoy,

Braith.

Perth Model Railway Show 2008 - Most Popular Exhibit as voted by the public. You can’t do much better than that!

Great work, Braith and co.

Cross-posted to .trains, who I’m sure will be impressed!

Spotlighted!


Cheers

Richie Dulin
CO Legeaux


Subject: 
Re: 2008 Perth ,Hobby Train Show
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Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:51:13 GMT
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That’s a big display, how many peoples collections when into it? And while I’m asking how long did it take to setup?

The bridge was awesome (as was the ship), please give us more details. Number of peices, build time? But as much as I love Kylie the tank factory was better.

Terrific job, post more photo’s.


Subject: 
Re: 2008 Perth Hobby Train Show
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Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:58:51 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter Edwards wrote:
That's a big display, how many peoples collections when into it?
And while I'm asking how long did it take to setup?

The ship and concert stage belong to Aaron Gibson while the rest is from the
Tidman Brother's collection, mainly David I believe.  The display was started
last September and added to every weekend when we could.  It was a full day to
set-up, a few hours to tear down.


The bridge was awesome (as was the ship), please give us more details. Number
of peices, build time? But as much as I love Kylie the tank factory was
better.

Terrific job, post more photo's.

Piece count? Not sure on a total number, but I do know though that there are
roughly 900 1x16 technic beams in the bridge.  That's all I have a figure for
unfortunately.

I found some more pics on Brickshelf...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=322005

Enjoy,
Braith.


Subject: 
Re: 2008 Perth Hobby Train Show
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Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:03:58 GMT
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The display was started
last September and added to every weekend when we could.  It was a full day to
set-up, a few hours to tear down.
It shows. I know how much time goes into the SLTC layout, and you have truely
shown that a big commitment leads to a big result.
Can you tell us what the longest span lego bridge is/was ? Im in the process of
a 3m span for the SLTC.

but I do know though that there are
roughly 900 1x16 technic beams in the bridge.

That explains the lack of those beams on Bricklink. Ha !

Well done. An awesome layout.

Steve


Subject: 
Re: 2008 Perth Hobby Train Show
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Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:38 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Stump Dunn wrote:
The display was started
last September and added to every weekend when we could.  It was a full day to
set-up, a few hours to tear down.
It shows. I know how much time goes into the SLTC layout, and you have truely
shown that a big commitment leads to a big result.
Can you tell us what the longest span lego bridge is/was ? Im in the process of
a 3m span for the SLTC.

I'm not sure what the longest bridge was, maybe Rosco's harbour bridge at around
4m.  We couldn't find any examples of a bigger one south o' the equator so we
claimed us a record.


but I do know though that there are
roughly 900 1x16 technic beams in the bridge.

That explains the lack of those beams on Bricklink. Ha !

Well done. An awesome layout.

Steve

Cheers mate.  Bigger and better next year.


Subject: 
Re: 2008 Perth Hobby Train Show
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Date: 
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:24:58 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Braith Garden wrote:
In lugnet.loc.au, Peter Edwards wrote:
That's a big display, how many peoples collections when into it?
And while I'm asking how long did it take to setup?

The ship and concert stage belong to Aaron Gibson while the rest is from the
Tidman Brother's collection, mainly David I believe.  The display was started
last September and added to every weekend when we could.  It was a full day to
set-up, a few hours to tear down.


The bridge was awesome (as was the ship), please give us more details. Number
of peices, build time? But as much as I love Kylie the tank factory was
better.

Terrific job, post more photo's.

Piece count? Not sure on a total number, but I do know though that there are
roughly 900 1x16 technic beams in the bridge.  That's all I have a figure for
unfortunately.

I found some more pics on Brickshelf...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=322005

Enjoy,
Braith.

Here are a couple of links to video taken at the show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxlHUbptYk

- Lego display starts at 2:15 in, till 3:10 (bridge side)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_6sAsTB3Fg

- Lego display starts at 3:07 in, till 4:22 (city side)

Cheers,

Braith.


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