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Re: Need advice on building a town
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:17:18 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Chris Leach writes:
Opps here is link to track designer http://www.ngltc.org/train_depot/
track designer link is on the left.
> > I have always been more of a collector and have only built stand-alone sets.
> > I am looking to build a whole town/city with cities, trains, harbour and
> > airport, and would like to seek some advice on the following:
> > (1) what should be involved in the planning process? eg. sketches, CAD etc...
> > (2) do most people use used sets or new sets. I must say using new sets
> > must be awefully expensive, though collecting all the used nad rare is not
> First,do you plan to use baseplates?If so track designer is a great way to
> design a town whether you actually put a train layout in it or not.The
> program has most of the baseplates produced in the last 20 years so you are
> able to design a city layout.
> As for sets ,my city has mostly MOCs with a dusting of actual sets.Good Luck!
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| (...) Good idea. I have'nt even got to the stage of getting myself base plates yet. I guess there will be a lot to learn on the building process. I 've noticed an old message called 'Millennium City', but does not seem to be able to locate the url. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) First,do you plan to use baseplates?If so track designer is a great way to design a town whether you actually put a train layout in it or not.The program has most of the baseplates produced in the last 20 years so you are able to design a city (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.town)
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