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Re: The Next GATS
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Sat, 28 Jul 2001 03:31:46 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Peter Guenther writes:
> New McDonald's is 99.8% complete. I need one door and it's finished. Some
> people may not like it because it's a little bit smaller; really it's not
> much smaller but because of the Play Place the restaurant space is really
> cut down. I like it a lot, tho--Play Place looks sweet.
Sounds cool....
> City Hall is about half done (the LDMI shipment arrived today!) The three
> main stories are finished except for a few windows which I don't have yet.
> The roof and clock tower will be future work. (The clock dial will be 8-wide
> hovertron disks; overall size is 2 baseplates--62 studs wide by 22-24 deep
> in places.) Like Jason, I'm pumped about this; I'll have photos up as soon
> as I can get my hands on a real digital camera.
Looking forward to them.
> IHOP is holding steady--need roof parts! I'll finish that soon after I get
> back into town.
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> Regarding Chief Wawatam--I have some good reference photos and have ordered
> some brickplates for it. The original could hold 20 cars on 4 tracks; I was
> planning on 2 tracks inside it, and of course we may want Steve's cars in
> there, so I was planning on building it on 12x24 brickplates, with a final
> size of about 26x100. This doesn't lend itself to Larry's idea of it
> scuttling around on hidden wheels... what do people think? With two tracks
> inside it would have to be at least 18 studs wide, and I'd like to leave a
> little space in there and make the length proportionate to its width... LMKWYT.
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> Talking with Steve R. last night when I went to pick up my buildings, I
> passed on what an old-timer at the show said to me about our display--"It's
> good, but not enough motion." As we expand the size of our display--and
> from what I've seen so far since the last show, I think we can expand
> significantly--we're going to move beyond two loops and a monorail. One
> thing Steve and I talked about was a downtown trolley loop--whether we run
> PCCs on it, trolleys, cable cars, whatever--on regular rail. We need more
> movement spread across our display to keep it truly interesting. I'd
> encourage everyone to think about how they could motorize stuff--even
> details like Chris' radar. Thoughts?
Me likes my battery boxes.I am all for making more things move weather it be
monorail different or what.A trolly downtown sounds good.
> I will be out of town for the next 11 days and will catch up on posts when I
> come back. Try not to have any flame wars while I'm away--I don't want to
> have to wade through them. Oh wait! We're in the #2 spot for traffic in
> the past 7 days. If we have a flame war we can overtake .trains--go for it
What fun would it be if we don't have one every couple of days.
> Peter
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