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Subject:	Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au
Date:	Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:48:49 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:

In lugnet.announce.moc, Samarth Moray wrote:

As most of you know, it was my end of the 24 Hour Build Challenge deal to build a Ghan in 8 wide. So here it is: I’m pretty happy with the overall design; Tim says it’s not as high as it should be, but I figured figs are short to begin with so that was okay. LMK what you all think.

Looks quite good, although it’s always hard to judge a model purely on a POVRAY/LDRAW picture (ie get off your lazy *&^ and start building ;) )

Hi All I have to put my 20 cents worth in here as I have built the 6 wide NR 75 with many thanks to Tim for his help with prototyping issues and use of his instructions.

8 wide looks awfull but that is only my opinion far too out of scale no matter what figures you trow at me about height and width it just looks too “gawky”. It will never run for real on a good track layout as it is too long in the bogies and will not make it round corners. (someone build it and prove me wrong) Mine ran during the Gold Coast Train Show with BLTG and ran great got a lot of looks and comments from the general train community nothing about being “out of scale”

Question to Swammi Mate where are the handrails you can’t just have “staunchions” sticking up in the air they really are dangerous and need a rail along the top.

I will stick with the original model by Tim any day but well done for trying to reproduce a great loco.

Tim you can post the pics of my build if you like as I still don’t have them on Brickshelf you have done yourself proud with doing up those instructions as everyone is trying copy it now cheers mate.

Sorry All My views only Peter Parsons

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		Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
--SNIP-- (...) To be fair to Swami, that was more my fault than his. I was rushing his renders and didn't have time to learn Lsynth to add the flextube. Thanks too for the compliments but my version took a lot longer than 24hrs to design and was (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

		Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
(...) ^^ What he said. (...) It's quite ok to think that 8 wide looks awful; that's just an opinion, but I must correct the second part of your statement. There are loads of ways you can make long bogies work: Sliding wheelsets, rubberband-bound (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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		Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
(...) Looks quite good, although it's always hard to judge a model purely on a POVRAY/LDRAW picture (ie get off your lazy *&^ and start building ;) ) About height, the model indeed looks a bit "stretched" although I'm not familiar with the original. (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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