 | | Seven wide Koef Shunter —Timothy Gould
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| | | Hi all, Just sneaking an MOC in here between all the discussions on the new release sets. It's a little Koef shunter (switcher) which I built at seven-wide thinking at first it was a wide gauge train. (2 URLs) BS gallery> The trick on this is the (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.de, FTX) !
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| | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Ondrew Hartigan
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| | | | | (...) hey tim, very very well done! there are tons of details as there should be, and the 1x6 arch solution is something that would have probably taken me a month to think of. very cool. i'm wondering if you could post the ldraw file for this moc. (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | --SNIP-- (...) Hi Ondrew, Thanks for your comments. Here is the (URL). I'll make some instructions some time soon. Tim (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | (...) Looks great, Tim. I think the smaller models require more clever bits to be convincing such as the use of the 1x6 arches. 7-wide is beginning to grow on me too! Jon (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | (...) Hi Jon, Thanks for your comments. I agree about smaller models being more fun. I love having to find ways around problems that would be so simple to solve in eight-wide or larger. But... don't get into seven-wide!!! Seven-wide is pretty much (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | | (...) I've enough 9v stuff to keep me going for a bit but I take your point regarding the IR trains - difficult but not impossible in 7-wide. I also look on 7-wide as a wide 6-wide. I've seen some very convincing MOC examples and note that you can (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | (...) Tim, I've got to say, even though it has alread been said, great shunter. Chris (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter —Timothy Gould
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| | | | (...) It has been brought to my attention that sadly the arches won't work. It seems that the electric train motor DAT is very incorrect (the wheels are too small and the hooks are too low). So if anyone was going to try it, please don't bother. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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