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Re: More Space Trains!
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lugnet.space, lugnet.trains
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Sat, 27 Mar 2004 06:01:49 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Anthony Babington wrote:
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John wrote:
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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 jump right into intermodal:-)
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:-)
Anyway, I haven’t much time to elaborate, so I’ll just provide the link:
S P A C E.......Trains!
JOHN
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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.
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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 of an old 44 Tonner, but super powerful. I envisioned each
truck as some high energy output motor, and really wanted to use the newer round
slopes for something. In fact, I build the motors first and then added the
cabin:-)
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the freight car is really neat too, but apart from the colors, it
doesn’t really match the loco, IMO.
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lol Actually, I built the container car first (actually, I built the
containers first, after having seen
Jakes’s work). Had so much fun with those that I built what I thought to be a
modern version of a Husky Stack car. The whole exercise revolved around
shrouding the wheels to make it look futuristic, but still very utilitarian.
Then I decided I needed an engine to pull it (after deciding not to make the
container car into some sort of “runner loco”. That’s when I started getting
fanciful:-)
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I love how both models wrap down around their wheels, very nifty.
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I am a huge ST:V fan, and some of my favorite episodes revolve around Tom Paris’
holodeck program featuring Captain Proton. I love seeing futuristic visions
from the past that look so.... “corny” isn’t the word... maybe it is. So
although it is a “futuristic” loco, it reaks, as you mentioned, of an old
Streamlined steamer from the 30’s.
Something I also noticed: my loco appears to be a 3vil chipmunk from the side!
8-O
Sorry for rambling on; I had wanted to talk about it earlier but was pressed for
time.
Thanks again for the kind words!
JOHN
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