| |
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Mike Poindexter wrote:
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Is there some reason to put 20 levels of bricks other than to use up all those
> > bricks in colors nobody likes?
>
> There are two competing philosophies here...
>
> PNLTC has tables. They put their tables together and they build the
> layout "from scratch" each time, putting track together and buildings
> down, etc. onto a brown or green colored table. At least that is what I
> understand (especially since I have seen a video of them setting up).
> This makes for a highly flexible, but long time to set up, layout. Every
> show is different! It can take all day to set up and 1/2 day to tear
> down
>
> GMLTC has modules. Each module is a completely scenicked environment and
> the track is permanently affixed to the lego below. Only the very large
> buildings that otherwise would make the module too tall to transport
> effectively are removed, and they always go back in the same place.
> GMLTC modules are more like model railroad modules in that they are
> pre-built.
>
> This makes for a fairly rigid (you can vary the number of modules you
> bring, and the order in which you arrange them, but a module has what it
> has on it unless you tear down and build again, something that N-trak
> can't do as easily, LOL) but fast to set up. Modules are brought in on
> wheeled racks, out of the custom trailer, deployed onto the folddown
One nit of clarification-- the module is designed to *remain* on the plywood table,
and it is transported as one unit. You *could* pick up a module free of support,
but that's dicey business, given how long it takes to put them together in the
first place. So the modules and the tables remain as one. A piece of trim is put
around the edging just high enough to prevent the module from slipping off the
table.
>
> tables, and you're up and running in 1/2 hour, and you can tear down in
> about the same time.
>
> Now, you COULD make modules out of something else than Lego and just
> affix the track via nails or whatever.
>
> But given that they are Lego, and given that they are 30 to 50 or so
> inches wide, you NEED to be 15 bricks high. Think about what a 30 inch
> wide, 45 inch long 5 brick high module would be like. It would be too
> fragile to live without a sheet of plywood always underneath it. These
> modules can be lifted up, flipped over, stacked on top of each other,
> etc.
But <gasp> never are:-)
> Now, as it turns out, the modules DO live in wooden carriers that have
> power strips on them etc. once they are done, but during construction
> they do not.
>
> Given that they have to mostly be 15 bricks high for structural
> integrity, that has been taken advantage of. There IS a subway in one
> module, and the features such as the Ore Dock and some of the bridges
> are built in at track level instead of elevated.
>
> PNLTC approach is much much cheaper. GMLTC is much much more purist.
> GMLTC is lucky to have a fanatic such as Conan who has millions of
> bricks to build modules with. He is the entire reason the club exists.
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
> FDIC Know your Customer is wounded, thanks to you, but not dead...
> See http://www.defendyourprivacy.com for details
> For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
> - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
> - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
> - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Train tables
|
| (...) There are two competing philosophies here... PNLTC has tables. They put their tables together and they build the layout "from scratch" each time, putting track together and buildings down, etc. onto a brown or green colored table. At least (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
|
19 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
