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(...) Whoops! I didn't pay enough attention the first time around... The baseplates should be lined up with the inside, not with the outside of the tracks, if that makes sense - there's an extra 8 studs of baseplate on the outside of this: (TD (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Show circle? Unless Kevin has some objection, I intend to run that sucker! :) James (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) track segment by itself is the "show circle" for BigRed if Kevin can get those CP stickers ready in the next three weeks... 8-) SRC (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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Here's a close-up of mountain spacing, with the "incline corner-stone reference" highlighted. I moved the "industrial loop" closer in to (URL) mountain because this way the mountain and loop have a 4'x10' table area. Let's the mountain spread out (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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This is the overall view with us in the middle of the whole show... (URL) is a 3D view of the tables, though it's not done yet... (URL) here is a screen shot of the layout so far... (URL) will be adding/changing the town on the far right hand side, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) Woohoo! :) The mountain as it currently stands is here: (URL) is not to say that it can't change, but that's currently got clearance for all the tracks, and the track sections end exactly on the baseplate lines, which will make it easy to move (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) He's still checking on the height (and strength) of the blue barriers, but the overall plan is A-OK. 8-) I will now make a more detailed layout plan and get the town dimensions to James as soon as I can. SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) I'd say a subset of gluing, but what about the electrical tape... :-) SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) It involves cutting but no gluing or painting! How about soldering--is that a fourth deadly sin, a subset of gluing (joining?), or is it just venial? Peter (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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(...) A problem we encountered with wiring was wire length. Because we did not have enough long (Mindstorms) wires we had to place controllers in inconvienent places. If you are not a 100% purist you should consider making some long exteneders. Some (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.ca.nalug)
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