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Re: Proposed building areas - land grab time!!
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Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:57:50 GMT
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Bryan Wong wrote:
> Just to let you guys know, I have a reasonable supply of curved, straight,
> T- and cross road green baseplates (listed in decreasing order).  I have
> none in grey.

Good. the cross and T plates are the most useful because none of us have a lot of them. Stick your name on the back and
bring 'em along.

> Am I correct in assuming that the baseplates at 103-105 will be the airport
> runway?

Keeerect

> I've been looking at the building plan and comparing it to "Building
> Layout.jpg."  I'd love to build a mountain, but looking at the jpg, it
> appears that the mountain will span 3 green baseplates.  So am I to whip out
> 3 baseplates, and start building?  Also, it will have the monorail cutting
> through it.  Now the problem is, how do I build a mountain without knowing
> what space to leave for the monorail?

Good question. Give that man a peanut :-)
Seriously, do you have any monorail track that you can lay in place and see where it will be? Are you  near enough
anyone who does to get some? (Robin?). There's also a slight questionmark over the layout there: Robin suggested a while
back that we run the road into the mountain (a tunnel mouth) and that would give us an extra baseplate for building
room. I'll do that on a TD layout and try and jpeg it too (not a single-step simple process unfortunately, it's grab two
screens and paste together).

> I'd also like to take a shot a building the monorail station + airport
> (Fine, I'll open my MISB Century Skyway)... But one baseplate seems small!
> Once again, how do I fit in the monorail tracks?

It's two baseplates really - the airport terminal and monorail stn are one building, with the stn inside the upper level
at one end, with a glass wall to the north and west side (so teh audience can see it) and an opening on the E side big
enough for a hand to reach in and switch the reverser switch on the monorail. The monorail has to be 1 large support
girder plus 2 bricks high for train clearance. AGain, to do that you really need the monorail track in hand so that you
can build it in.

> Another question, how big are Dean's oil tanks?

Dunno. Dean?

> Building X is not too difficult.  But building X, and requiring X to fit
> with Y and Z is difficult when you don't have Y and Z there with you!
> Argh, this is tougher than I thought.  But we'll figure something out!

Hehe. You noticed!

> I think we might need a few "dress-rehearsals" before the Saturday we set
> up.  If we try to fit everything together on Saturday, that might be too late.

We're planning to meet Fri night before the Sat, at the usual place, and have a dry run. Especially concentrating on
tables (eg fitting Dean's table legs onto your folding table), track (train and monorail) and buildings which have to
fit over/round tracks. That gives us Sat morning and Sat evening for frantic building to fill gaps or refit stuff :-)

Kevin
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(...) I've written to Robin privately, asking where he lives. Hopefully he can lend me a few pieces of track so I can see how to fit them in (I've never seen a piece of track in person!). Also, how will I know WHERE to put the track? (i.e. top of (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)

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