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Re: 8 wide? was Re: Box Cars
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:56:51 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.^ihatespam^net
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Very gracious of you to say so, Lar.  Thank you...I think.  All of this
talk about the dark side makes me feel like Darth Wider or a Girth Maul;-)

BTW Lar, what is keeping your pants up these days?  You left your
suspenders on my train layout! {:^D  I'm using them to support my train
bridge, though;-)

-John

Larry Pieniazek wrote:

I hereby do admit that 8 wide CAN look good. John showed me a boxcar he
has been working on, it has a FRED in the end, integrated grab iron
ladders, sliding doors, separated roofwalk, and a whole bunch of other
details.

It looked really good. It also reminded me a lot of a G scale boxcar.
Really very nice work.

However... they are just not practical as 8 wide does not scale well
with minifig scale. This is the same reason I build my cars 4 wide even
though only one minifig can sit in each row.

So don't go in the 8 wide direction. The dark side can be deceptive.

John Neal wrote:

"Thomas P. Rafert" wrote:

8 wide !!!  The idea has crossed my mind, do I dare crossover?
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  Re: 8 wide? was Re: Box Cars
 
I never thought I'd live long enough to hear that. But the other thing I wonder if I'll ever see is John's site displaying the said boxcar. ;-) -Tom McD. when replying, most postmen will not deliver to a house with a spamcake guarding the porch. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: 8 wide? was Re: Box Cars
 
(...) Technically those are braces (they have buttonholes instead of clips). Better mail them to me or no macaroni. :-) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: 8 wide? was Re: Box Cars
 
(...) I just caught those, guess I didn't brace myself very well, did I? (...) We won't go into why that was but suffice it to say it had to do with tiles. And bathrooms. (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.pun)

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  8 wide? was Re: Box Cars
 
I hereby do admit that 8 wide CAN look good. John showed me a boxcar he has been working on, it has a FRED in the end, integrated grab iron ladders, sliding doors, separated roofwalk, and a whole bunch of other details. It looked really good. It (...) (25 years ago, 12-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)

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