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David Eaton wrote:
> Well, despite the terrible lighting conditions at my place, I put together
> some pictures of my green line train that I made mostly over this last
> weekend (my very first train!):
>
> http://www.suave.net/~dave/greenline/greenline.cgi
>
> It's based off of the green line of the Boston subway, in particular, the
> cars shown here:
>
> http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/mbta-green-cleveland03.jpg
> http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/mbta-green-cleveland04.jpg
>
> There are a couple other variations (with the green stripe on the door,
> 'stacked' headlights instead of side-by-side, more grey panelling on the
> side, etc) that can be seen here:
>
> http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/green/
>
> The toughest part of course being the fact that each car bends in the
> middle, forcing it to strech and compress the walls (and the roof!) when
> turning a corner. I posted a couple images trying to show how my solution
> works for this (using techinc rubber bands and sliding walls), but there are
> still some gaps way down low as well as on the roof.
>
> And of course the next step is putting in a detailed interior... :)
>
> For now it's 100% Lego, but thanks to the wonderful impression Tom Duggan's
> stuff gave me for the LAST train show, I plan to put some stickers on it:
> - a bilboard, perhaps an ad for the Construction Site?
> - the "T" logo
> - numbering on the front
> - the destination & rail letter on the front and sides of the train
>
> Comments? Suggestions?
Looks really nice, Dave:-) Those subway cars are just screaming to be modeled
in LEGO-- thanks for heeding the call;-) One suggestion-- seems to me that the
doors are a dead ringer to be modeled using the 1x2x3 white train window
(stacked, 4 total for each door). They are even fairly common now that they
have appeared in a soccer set or two...
Very nice work for a first attempt! Welcome to the addictive world of train
modeling;-)
-John
>
>
> DaveE
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| (...) Have those appeared in any other soccer sets besides 3408? (URL) looks like there are only 2 in the set which means you would need 12*30 or $360 retail just for the doors. Ouch!. Of course we can all do better waiting for sales but still... I (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Yeah, that'd be great looks-wise, although it would unfortunately make the doors a little too wide for the current model size... Actually, what I really wanted to use were the 1x4x3 train windows in white for the regular windows, and use the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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