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In lugnet.trains, Carl Watson writes:
> Hello fellow lugnetters,
>
> I have just built the Fabuland Express mkI
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1544
>
> It is built on a 4.5v motor, with a Technic axle.
> It is 8 studs wide.
> The wheels are brown. (What other colors do those round bricks come in?)
> I have used mainly Basic + Fabuland pieces & 1 Duplo piece for the chimney.
> It is just a start for now.
>
> Train people:
> What are the proportions like? How can I improve?
For starters, don't call it a train. It so far is a locomotive, without a
tender. Good start though. Reminds me of those street trams gussied up to look
like trains (Bournemouth has some which I saw on my walkabout this morning).
> Fabuland people:
> How can I make it more Fabulandish?
This conflicts with the above. If you make the proportions more trainlike (and
looking at some train pictures would be a good start to understand what trains
look like, try www.nmra.org for starters... the boiler is too small for the
gauge, the cab is too big for the boiler, there are no rods, etc etc...) you
may well make it less Fabulandish.
My take on Fabuland is that the proportions are all wrong on most things,
details are omitted, structures are flimsy and cariactured and would never
stand up to a light breeze in the real world. But that is what gives it the
unique charm. Fabuland always has sunny days and happy inhabitants.
We go round and round on what correct proportions for minifig "scale" things
(as if scale had meaning) ought to be... :-) imagine if you started trying to
analyse a fabuland fig to derive proportions of things. Putting aside the fact
that dogs don't walk on two legs and wear hats for a moment, the heads are way
too big for the torsos which are too big for the legs. So what? It's Fabuland.
The figs can barely fit their hats through some of the doors but that's OK.
So anyway, rant over, I would say make the cab look flimsier and do a tender
and some cars to go with the loco.
But don't sweat the proportions all that much in an effort to make it look
more trainlike, that misses the point.
Hope that helps.
++Lar
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