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Hi All, Well I have been meaning to re-photograph my train MOC collection and I'm finally done. So if anyone is interested in a bunch of train MOC photos... I have 3 new folders on BrickShelf with some new and old train MOCs. Some are long sorted (...) (16 years ago, 27-Oct-08, to lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: building 6-wide cars
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(...) I outlined a few of my thoughts in a post awhile back (I just found it - wow, that was more than three years ago!) Most of it still seems relevant. However the newer specialized car pieces such as the fender arches and hoods have altered my (...) (16 years ago, 24-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Australian Worker's Cottage
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(...) We had one of those clotheslines when I was a kid - very fun to play with - so spinny...dad was always having to straighten out the bars for some reason ;^) (...) Katrina (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: Australian Worker's Cottage
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(...) I needed the (URL) wikipedia entry> to figure out what kind of contraption that was. A nice model, it also reminds me to the kind of houses of wich so many were destroyed by the "Catrina" floodings (and partly also by the subsequent real (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | TexLUG at Maker Faire Austin 2008
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TexLUG was invited to participate at Maker Faire 2008 in Austin, Texas this past weekend. We're not the first LUG to display at Maker Faire, but this was our first time, and we walked away with not one but two "Editor's Choice" awards for our (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, FTX)
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| | Re: Australian Worker's Cottage
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote: -- snip! -- (...) Onya Tim! Love it! My missus also highly approves! The Hills Hoist in the background is *awesome* - all it needs is a kid swinging off the hoist! :-P I'm actually working on a new town module (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Australian Worker's Cottage
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(URL) Hi all, Thought I'd break with my recent lazy tradition and actually announce an MOC. The above is a fairly simply designed Australian worker's cottage: a style of house quite common in certain suburbs of Australian cities. As some people know (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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| | Re: building 6-wide cars
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(...) Or even better (though probably too complex to make en masse) try (URL) misterzumbi>. Of course my main suggestion is to make them five-wide. Tim (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: building 6-wide cars
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(...) I'd start here for inspiration and ideas: (URL) There any many others that have really refined the scale nicely as well that I routinely look at for inspiration and ideas. I had a great amount of difficulty building in this scale myself, but (...) (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | building 6-wide cars
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Our train group is going up to 6-wide cars (and 8 wide trains) for the next layout. Anyone got any advice or tips on how to make them (and how to make them look good)? I am good at making 4-wide cars but not so much at making 6-wide. (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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