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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> I think I saw in one of the GATS or other American train shows that someone
> had built some oil storage tanks in the Octan colour scheme of mostly white
> with red and green stripes. So I decided an excellent way to make use of
> hard to build in space would be to make some 16x16 round tanks too-they
> looked so neat in the Brickshelf photos I had to try them out myself.
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> When Iain came by, I showed him my bucket of green, which I never build
> with, just sort out green pieces into. Well, tonight for the first time in
> my entire life-I built with green bricks. It's absolutely weird. Another
> new thing to me is building round objects. So I built one layer first to
> see how to approximate a curve.
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> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/nglcl/octantanks.jpg
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> Calum
I really think they are very neat and very large....ohhh that will be an
interesting piece of your layout...if you do decide to include it.
The only thing negative about it is that despite the nice "curve" design,
it is a little too choppy (too many edges...) <my own opinion>
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| (...) Unfortunately I can't take credit for the idea :) (URL) is probably where I saw it first. It's a great design, theirs is much taller and rounder. (...) Yeah, I think you can make it a little rounder if you increased the diameter by another (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| I think I saw in one of the GATS or other American train shows that someone had built some oil storage tanks in the Octan colour scheme of mostly white with red and green stripes. So I decided an excellent way to make use of hard to build in space (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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