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Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 26 Dec 2004 00:25:41 GMT
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A builder can always change the color scheme. The more important thing is
your design, which, as always, is excellent.
"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message
news:I96rsI.xuD@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Mike Walsh wrote:
>
> > Actually a Club Car would be old grey. The production run ended before
> > the
> > color change and they are not producing more. So if you can find one
> > (S@H
> > has been sold out for a while) it will be old grey.
>
> This was a troubling issue during my development of the Hi-Level cars.
> The grey colour change and the disappearance of the Club Car gave me
> months of
> pause. I stopped working on the design. I finally decided to pick it
> back up
> and finish it out. I thought it was a decent enough project.
>
> This is one of the reasons I have become hesitant to invest more time
> toward
> printing the book. These cars are grey...grey...grey. So much turmoil
> surrounds grey right now, I don't know if these are buildable in any
> reasonable
> assemblage of current sets; meaning, if one tried to find all of the parts
> new,
> could it even be done with a consistent grey?
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> I wish the Club Car were still available...or at least that one could
> order only
> the grey baseplate from S@H from the train accessories offerings.
>
> later,
>
> James Mathis
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 | | Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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| (...) True but changing the color scheme will make the cars NOT be Santa Fe Cars. I think a blue would look very nice but then when you pull them with the Grey Santa Fe Engine it will not look right. =( -AHui (19 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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| (...) This was a troubling issue during my development of the Hi-Level cars. The grey colour change and the disappearance of the Club Car gave me months of pause. I stopped working on the design. I finally decided to pick it back up and finish it (...) (19 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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