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Re: City blocks
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lugnet.town
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Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:32:55 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Chris Leach writes:
> > Chris Leach wrote in message ...
> > > Kevin ,what is your thinking then just a block being 1 32x32 baseplate • wide?
> > > That seems to small.I have seen alot of train show pics and it seems most
> > > clubs put at least 2 30" tables together
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> > It seems to me better to have a small module which can be joined and
> > arranged in many different ways, than a large monolithic module. If your
> > basic module is 32x32 you can make an arrangement as large as you like
> > (including 2x3 baseplates with roads all round :-) ), but the reverse is
> > not true.
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> Hmmmm that's true....I was just tring come up with a stadard "block size"
> which is still possible if you build modules that are able to go
> together.Let's just say then the max could be the 2x3 32x32 plate size and
> no bigger which will allow for a row of "blocks" that are symmetrical. Now
> we need to settle on some standards for conections.that should be easy:-)
2x3 being the largest blocks? Uh oh. I'm building my blocks as 2x4s with the
8-wide alley running down the middle. I have some more buildings finished and
hopefully will have a sample block to bring to the next meeting.
David Kohrman
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| (...) Hmmmm that's true....I was just tring come up with a stadard "block size" which is still possible if you build modules that are able to go together.Let's just say then the max could be the 2x3 32x32 plate size and no bigger which will allow (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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