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Greetings from a different desert, where I wish we had such a cool train!
Not only in real life, but also your LEGO version!
Well built, HoMa.
You have capture details of the train very well.
I like the sliding door application.
But, perhaps the most interesting tid bit is the catus! :-) Very clever
thought.
The build style really captures the bulk of the appearance of the real life
model.
Very smart design.
later,
James Mathis
In lugnet.trains, Holger Matthes writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> X-MAs is just waiting outside - a good time to see what'S going on in the
> desert: Over the last weeks I build a model of "Namibia's unique railway
> experience" - THE DESERT EXPRESS.
>
> A black and white picture was shown in my local newspaper and I thought: "Taht
> might be a great project for LEGO!" After very nice e-mail contact with the
> Desert Express Management I finally recieved some colored pictures by Michael
> Obert. The blue was LEGO blue, the yellow seems to be LEGO yellow and the • white
> is LEGO white - so were is the problem?
>
> I decided to build it 8-wide! (So what you think John?) Make up your own mind
> by comparing the real pictures and my model at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2385
>
> The real Desert Express has 8 passenger cars and 1 luggage car and operates
> from Windhoek to Swakopmund in Namibia / Africa. It's a luxuary train for
> tourists and it stops in the evening to see the sun set in the desert.
>
> The LEGO DX just have 3 cars (each 46 studs long) and a huge engine! The
> luggage car door's where build by an idea from James Mathis - Many Thanks on
> this way to James!!!
>
> So what do YOU think?? Anything else you want to now???
>
> Kind regards and MERRY CHRISTMAS
>
> Holger ...from Germany
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Hi James,
> You have capture details of the train very well.
> I like the sliding door application.
That was your idea! I just transfered it inside the sidewalls!
> But, perhaps the most interesting tid bit is the catus! :-) Very clever
> thought.
;-)) My collegue thought these funny things were Mars-Antennas! Probably she
reads to much sience fiction about green Mars men???
So which color should the top mini-antenna should have. I would like to use
green ones, but I haven't seen any so far... There aren't any round 2x2x1
bricks in green either ;-((
Many greetings out of the LDX into your desert!!!
HoMa
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