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Bravo, Mike! {:^D
You beat me to the punch-- I had intended to build an 8 wide version of Lar's
Hopper as well! It looks great! Don't you think the proportions look a lot
better? I especially like the way an 8 wide is wider than its trucks-- which is
the way it's supposed to be. My only suggestions would be to forsake the
eurotrash buffers and use the 2x3 rounded end plate with a hole element for your
couplers, and to space your wheels apart at least 1 stud (I have found for my 8
wide box cars that the proper spacing proportionally speaking is 2). As you
can attest, holding such a model in one's hand is niiiice-- heavy, like a Model
Team set-- very seductive;-)
I look forward to your Warbonnet. I am in the process of building a Soo GP-9,
and a Milwaukee Road Atlantic 4-4-2 to pull my Hiawatha cars. Also on the
docket is a 1500 Switcher and some other odds and ends.
Welcome to the "Dark Side [1]"
-John
[1] In reality, the correct side;-)
Mike Poindexter wrote:
> I am assuming John Neal is completely interested in this:
>
> I have just finished my first 8 wide train car. It is an adaption of Larry
> P's custom hopper. I widened it to 8 studs, added 5 plates height to it and
> lengthened it quite a bit. I might need to cut down the size of it, but I
> don't have anything other than the original car to check my ratios with. I
> mainly lengthened it to allow 2 sets of discharge doors on the bottom.
>
> The pictures didn't come out very well, as black is hard to photo with a
> digital camera. I will take better ones when I get around to making my Lego
> web page this summer.
>
> Here is a picture of my big hopper, followed by Larry's 6 wide version,
> followed by Lego's itty bitty blue one.
>
> http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/3hoppers.jpg
>
> I also have a close-up of the top of my big hopper showing the two sets of
> doors. (The shiny areas are the doors with 1x6 tiles on them) Between the
> doors is a 6x6x3 sloped area made of roof bricks.
>
> http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/hoppertop.jpg
>
> Finally, I took a pic of the front of the line of hoppers.
>
> http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/hopperfront.jpg
>
> It now uses 1x10 plates for the ribs and has 10 on each side. Unfortunately,
> it now takes 40 of the stud/pins and technic 1x2 bricks per hopper.
>
> I have now tasted the 8-wide dark side. I am not addicted yet, but I think I
> will be once I convert my SantaFe Warbonnet Loco to an 8 wide.
>
> Mike Poindexter
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