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Re: MOCs: 6-wide New York City busses
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:08:15 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Sean Kenney writes:
> two New York
> City MTA busses.
Sean,
These are beautiful! I especially like the one with all the gray ridged
bricks. That one has a great color scheme. I'm not as fond of the color
scheme on the other, but I suppose I should take that up with NYC's public
transportation department. :) One question, on that first one, why did you
do the back two wheels using your backwards technique (as you just showed
with your Fed Ex truck) while the front wheel looks like it's using the
normal axel technique?
> http://www.brickapple.com
> The Brick Apple - New York City in Lego
I didn't reallize until seeing this post that you were the Brick Apple guy.
That's an amazing site you've got! These buses, and the Fed Ex truck you
showed earlier, fit great with all of your cityscapes.
Bruce
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| (...) Well, I've noticed that most trucks and busses have a slightly different type of hub on their front wheels. I'm not sure why, perhaps it has to do with steering. (Any die-hard truck guys out there know why?) The hub on rear wheels is usually (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.town)
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| All: Hello again, I've been busy. Yesterday and today I created two New York City MTA busses. The first is a GMC city bus, with 2 sets of doors (front and rear) and a lower profile. These are used as crosstown locals here in Manhattan. (URL) second (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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