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Subject:	Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.harrypotter
Followup-To:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:34:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:

Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago James contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in working on a preliminary design of a Hogwarts engine he had made. It was good timing since I was getting rather bored with no new projects so I started.

Firstly I completed James’ engine design with a few modifications and new touches. I also added a tender to it and did up some instructions.

After that James and I passed back and forth some carriage designs which slowly got more SNOTted as we added new concepts. I was determined to get some internals in too which made life a little more difficult. Since this is meant to be a toy train (albeit an expensive one with current BL prices), we wanted to make it IR compatible which meant making a special carriage based around the baseplate. Anyway, end result (version 4 for the interested) has instructions too.

As usual, I did a wallpaper render too. The whole gallery is found here.

It was an extremely satisfying process and I’ve learnt a lot from it. It was really fun working with someone whose work I admire so much and from whom I have ‘liberated’ so many techniques. I hope you like the end result.

Tim

PS. The wheels in the engine are all Big Ben’s Bricks wheels

As usual, I knew I’d forget stuff.

PPS. Now cross-posted to .harrypotter and .announce.moc

PPPS. I’d like to thanks James for asking me to work on this

PPPPS. Now Martin Nilsson knows why I was teasing him about macaronis

PPPPPS. And the carriages are seven-wide to those interested

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		Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
(...) Heh, why did I have this feeling when I was working on my 4 studs wide macaroni boiler, that I had to hurry up or else I'd be beaten to it by somebody else? ... I like the wagons the best, with their curved undersides; that's what English (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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		Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
Hi all, A couple of weeks ago James contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in working on a preliminary design of a Hogwarts engine he had made. It was good timing since I was getting rather bored with no new projects so I started. Firstly I (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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