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Re: Train Factory palette
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:04:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jake McKee wrote:
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In general, I’d love to open this conversation up to the community at
large. We’ve had quite a bit of conversation (as SteveB can attest) with
the Signal group about what parts are the “core” parts that are needed to
make trains. We have an initial palette, and I may be able to share that
later. But before I do that, I’d really like to hear from the greater
community. What do you think? What parts (not necessarily “train” parts)
are needed to create the widest variety of trains possible?
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Here’s another go with
some parts ideas to
support building trains.
Fun discussion!
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Ooh, I like your V2... it has lots of parts that non trainies would like too
(they can trade off the few train specific things like wheels...)
Some nits to pick
I think I’d go with more large windows than small, maybe 2:1? Have to agree
on the colors, earth tones are where it’s at.
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i agree on the ratio 2:1 but for the colors i would rather see all of the green
parts as dark green. now yes dark green is more valuble which would make a good
excuse in its self but the real reason is dark green is more valuble to
prototyping. everything from euro steam to pullmans are closer to the dark green
than bright.
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I think I’d dump the straight wagon plates, those are easy to come by in
regular sets. Replace with more drop centers perhaps, in different colors
(red and yellow come to mind, or even brown!)
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i dissagree, while not very usefull to alot of adult train builders they are
still usefull to the kids. the other thing is that they are large enough that
they could be a seperate item instead of bagged with additional parts. as for
colors i agree that brown would be cool but probably not universal enough to be
usefull. basic black and perhaps darkstone gray would be more universal in there
usefullness.
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I think I’d lose any part that has click hinges, as I said before... the
superliner windows in particular are icky clicky...
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agreed icky clicky
my nit pick:
where is the dark stone grey train wheels?
ondrew
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Those are nits, if I got your assortment I’d be 96% happy!
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| (...) Now that I think more on the click hinges, there is a click hinge frame and windscreen that I've wished to try to build into a German DB high-speed ICE-3 train. But, I haven't discovered the frame element in color white. (2 URLs) (...) Agreed, (...) (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Ya, good catch. Dark green is a sweet color and replacing everything green in JM's proposal with dark green is the way to go. (...) I guess I come at this from, is this going to replace all the other service packs out there, all the other sets (...) (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Train Factory palette
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| (...) Ooh, I like your V2... it has lots of parts that non trainies would like too (they can trade off the few train specific things like wheels...) Some nits to pick I think I'd go with more large windows than small, maybe 2:1? Have to agree on the (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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