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Subject:	New hoppers and other wagons, using bricks obtained in the 1Kg from LEGOLand Windsor
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk
Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:29:46 GMT
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Following the Red Letter Day at LEGOLand Windsor (read all about it in lugnet.loc.uk and see http://www.btinternet.com/~hmillington/legofest10day2/) I have been busy using some of the rare and otherwise unobtainable bricks obtained in the 1Kg of LEGO we were given on the day in new train creations. Some of you may remember my green diesel http://www.brickset.com/huwhomepage/moc/trains/locos/index.html I was able to acquire the necessary curved bricks in blue thus making it possible to make it blue, which was the colour of all British Rail diesels in the 1970's and '80's.: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158385 Note the light (Maersk) blue stripe and metallic grey tile nameplate. I have also used the 1x4x1.33 curved bricks to improve the look of the 4536 hopper, and also given it a light blue stripe: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158386 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158387 Next up is a grey hopper, typical of British 4 wheel designs: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158388 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158389 This also uses the 1x4x1.33 sloped bricks, this time in grey. Also in this gallery, http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=15767, are a few older designs, including a container flat for carrying containers that would otherwise be out of gauge, http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158390 a bogie van that uses the ITLUG 1/6th brick width technique http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158391 an engineering ballast hopper http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158392 a bogie covered hopper http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158393 yet another 4 wheel hopper http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=158394 As ever LMKWYT. Huw

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		Re: New hoppers and other wagons, using bricks obtained in the 1Kg from LEGOLand Windsor
Stripes in light blue? Is that all you can do? :-) I think they're really good. The diesel looks better now with more yellow at the front, and those curved-top bricks really make the hopper something special. Those other wagons look the part too. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)

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