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Re: The Blue Train
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:23:27 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Sterling wrote:
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This is a great MOC and I love the colors. As others have mentioned, the
white on the drivers really sets them off. Was that paint, white-out, white
ink, other? I like the way you shrouded the rear wheels. A very nice
touch. The boiler design is something I haven’t seen before. Very
interesting. Are the rubber bands there for any support function or are
they just being used as decoration? Again, great work. For a first attempt
at a steam engine, I’d say you absolutely nailed it. You definitely have
some talent for building steamies. I can’t wait to see your future work.
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Thanks to everyone for the comments. I’ve now uploaded more pictures of the
engine and cars (both original cars and the model) to
MOCpages. The lights are now also
installed (the white LEDs are powerful), powered by a LokSound decoder (I
love the chuff chuff it makes!)
To answer some questions.
The white paint is actually a Pilot marker (I’ve heard that an Uni Posca
would work as well or even better). I tried the correcting fluid as well,
but the result wasn’t as good.
The boiler is a bit clumsy and hard to keep straight, but I’m quite happy
with the result. It consists of a lot of 1x1 bricks with studs on 4 sides
(at a 30° angle towards each other), and plates to get the distance. Very
tight in there, indeed.
The rubber bands are just for decoration, although they do help making sure
things don’t fall apart :) I’d prefer them to be the same color as the
original, but we can’t have all we want...
Cheers,
Matija
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The pictures are great and so are the coaches :)
Thats interesting about the pilot marker, only this week have I been
experimenting with one for the wheels of the Flying Scotsman I’m currently
building and found it to get rubbed off very quickly by the connecting rods (and
paint did too)......have you not had this trouble yet?
Is this DCC equiped if your using a decoder?
Carl
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| (...) I had it while building, but then I was doing a lot around the wheels. I must say I haven't run the train a lot since it was done (and new paint put), but so far there is no problem. (...) Yes, LokSound is a DCC decoder (and a good one in my (...) (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks to everyone for the comments. I've now uploaded more pictures of the engine and cars (both original cars and the model) to (URL) MOCpages>. The lights are now also installed (the white LEDs are powerful), powered by a LokSound decoder (...) (16 years ago, 14-Oct-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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