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Re: A french BB 62400
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 31 May 2005 19:27:37 GMT
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Hello,
Thank you to all contributors for the feed-back.
In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
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That is great. I like the view from the minifig perspective, but I am
left wondering, what is happening on top of the model :)
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Chris, well... the top is quite desert :) Because I have no idea from the
pictures I could get what was happening up there. From the side drawing obtained
from the web site I mentioned earlier I can only guess that there should be the
exhaust pipe in the middle of the engine and some thicker “thing” in front of
the locomotive. See that drawing for the same guess :
By the way, I finally ended-up with the same BB62400 in 6 studs wide but with
its yellow & grey livery. The shape is roughly the same as the blue one, but I
got some problems to render the bicolor front on the engine. Here is the result.
Comments are welcome.
James, about the side windows trick, as already mentioned the solution was
provided by Erik Amzallag. I will forward your congratulations to him. Thanks
again.
Jan-Albert, I have quite few informations about this locomotive, I think there
was only one version of the blue one, and the yellow&grey is much more frequent.
I also remember that French SNCF bought back these engines from Dutch railways
to operate on freight trains. These locomotives seems to be very longlasting on
duty.
As you can notice, I also tried to improve a little bit the colors of the
pictures, thanks to software treatment since I won’t invest in a professional
imaging equipment :). I’d rather put my money to buy bricks !
Cheers,
Philippe “frogleap” Label, FreeLUG member
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 | | Re: A french BB 62400
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| (...) Looks like fans on the left end, and the exhaust in the middle. You have taken such care on details, Philippe-- why squish it to 6 wide? From the proto pics, it appears the the body "wants" to be 8 wide, and the nose 5 wide. There are quite (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: A french BB 62400
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| Philippe "frogleap" Label schreef: (...) Hi Philippe, First of all: great model! About the roof: I had a try on the same loc some time ago (please don't laugh: (URL) and your assumptions on the roof are right; chimney just in front of the cab and 2 (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: A french BB 62400
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| (...) Philippe, the model looks great, I even like the yellow and grey better then the blue one. Those windows kick booty. 6wide is fine by me, saves on brick and it'll fit on any layout. Although I would concider moving the handrails out a bit, (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) [snip] (...) That is great. I like the view from the minifig perspective, but I am left wondering, what is happening on top of the model :) (...) Thanks for the LDRAWing of that technique. It is a really neat technique. Also, I am glad you (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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