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Subject: 
 DSNY Streetsweeper
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Date: 
 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:30:44 GMT
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I was recently inspired to take a closer look at a DSNY Street sweeper and this
is what I have come up with:

<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=196247>

Thanks to Sid Dinsay for sending me the two missing slope elements.

Here is a picture of the real thing:

<http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/about/equipment_street-sweeper.shtml>

There are two special pictures in the folder as well:

1 from NMRA in Philly recently.  (Thanks, Lar!)

And,

1 with my first version (my first MOC afer getting back into the hobby)

Thoughts and comments?


Thanks,

Jonathan



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: DSNY Streetsweeper
 
(...) Once again some lovely work, Jonathan. All those angles are very nicely executed to give it a highly realistic look. Tim (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
  Re: DSNY Streetsweeper
 
(...) Outstanding! Great solution for the brushes. About the only thing missing are the mirrors - how about a (URL) frying pan> stuck in a headlight brick on the left and a 1x2 tile jammed into a (URL) clip> on the right? Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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