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Re: City blocks
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lugnet.town
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Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:33:03 GMT
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Chris,
I think this is a great idea. What about the Train Show this summer in
Toronto or at Brickfest 2003? At the moment, I have a couple other things
I am interested in building. But I would enjoy building a "town module".
So what is the exact parameter on it? The space one is easy, largely (I
assume) a x-tra large grey baseplate. It would be very nice to get a
unified town/train standard "block" going.
Ben
In lugnet.town, Chris Leach writes:
> Ok peoples we all know how great this whole space moonbase mods are(I myself
> am a classic space fan and am in the process of making one myself).
> Now what I'm thinking which is we town folks can do something like this.At
> our last train show(MichLTC) we did a layout with 8 "city blocks"
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=209787 in this pic you see
> most of the 8(including steve bliss in the background) These blocks are 2x3
> standard green baseplates full of buildings with roadplates going around
> them.In this pic you can see 2 of my blocks and the roadplates going around
> them. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=203221
> Now I think people can build these 2x3 blocks with at least some of the road
> plates that go around them then place them together for several square
> blocks of a downtown(this would work great at meetings and things like
> brickfest IMO) LMKWYT
> Chris MichLTC
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| (...) The trouble with this is that it can't fit on a 30" or 45" wide table. For some train clubs, it's important to be able to reach all parts of the layout. So I am against any standard that requires buildlings to be very big. But see below... I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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| Ok peoples we all know how great this whole space moonbase mods are(I myself am a classic space fan and am in the process of making one myself). Now what I'm thinking which is we town folks can do something like this.At our last train show(MichLTC) (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.town) !
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