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Re: More Space Trains!
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lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
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Sat, 27 Mar 2004 04:12:56 GMT
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John wrote:
> I became inspired by Jake's intermodal warehouse, and specifically by the idea
> of trains riding around on the Moonbase project transporting containers. I had
> left BrickFest PDX thinking that I would build some 8 wide ore cars, but now I
> decided to jump right into intermodal:-)
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> I whipped up this Space loco and container car, along with some containers that
> fit to the "standard" Jake set. It was a lot of fun designing the containers--
> among the color schemes I used: Spamcake, Blacktron, and Maersk:-)
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> Anyway, I haven't much time to elaborate, so I'll just provide the link:
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=185<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/J-2/8wide/thumb/000010spacetrain1.jpg_thumb.jpg>>
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> S P A C E.......Trains!
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> [JOHN]
that locomotive positively rocks! it'd probably be too tall for the
moonbase (or very close), but it positively oozes style (like an old
streamliner), I love it.
the freight car is really neat too, but apart from the colors, it
doesn't really match the loco, IMO.
I love how both models wrap down around their wheels, very nifty.
-Anthony
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| (...) Hey, thanks! Yeah, I really got carried away with the design. It had even been shortened already by 1 full brick height:-) I'm not used to building from fantasy, and so things just took off. I had in the back of my mind the utilitarian nature (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| I became inspired by Jake's intermodal warehouse, and specifically by the idea of trains riding around on the Moonbase project transporting containers. I had left BrickFest PDX thinking that I would build some 8 wide ore cars, but now I decided to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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