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Re: A4 British Locomotive
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:06:10 GMT
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
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> Hi Doug,
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> Looks like a good start! Did you build it with the boiler top horizontal
> to begin with? Does the stepped top in the photos look better?
Im not sure i get your drift when you say horizontal...
The LDraw render of it is a preliminary idea of what i wanted to do,
then the pics are what it is currently,except for the functionality of
the wheels/drivers.
If you didnt find the actual pics, click on the text above the thumbnail
pic with the dragon.
(I guess i should make that pic part of the link)
> Re the wheels: I built a 4-6-0 GC steamer a few months ago using Technic
> pulley/wheels for the drivers and put the train motor in the tender. The
> train motor wheels are way too small to ever look right as drivers on a
> loco that size, I think. Here are pics of it, including the chassis
> construction of you scroll down far enough.
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/trains.html
Saw that one, very nice. As I said, Im still in the process of finding
the way I like the wheels, so it may end up like that, who knows.
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> Kevin
Any other questions, suggestions, and/or comments are always welcome.
-Doug
Ps-sorry i took so long to reply!
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| (...) Well, I noticed that the top of the boiler in teh LDraw pic is horizontal, and the same height as the firebox top, and in the model as built the firebox is a plate higher than th eboiler top, and there is a step in the boiler top about halfway (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| Hi Doug, Looks like a good start! Did you build it with the boiler top horizontal to begin with? Does the stepped top in the photos look better? Re the wheels: I built a 4-6-0 GC steamer a few months ago using Technic pulley/wheels for the drivers (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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