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Re: John Neal: Have you finished this building?
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Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:58:54 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1321993
I was poking through your Brickshelf gallery yesterday and noticed this. I
have long been thinking about a similar approach to the lintels. I am
interested in seeing how it came out. I am not really getting a good idea of
whether or not they are to thick and bulky being 2 wide. Did you have any
thoughts on this?
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Personally, I don’t think that they are too thick and bulky looking. When
creating such a structure, the builders would simply flip up on end the bricks
with which they are building to create the lintel. That pic you’ve selected is
actually a remodel-- I was adding a floor to it and hadn’t taken pics of the
building process before.
HERE, and
HERE you can see it,
although not very well, at the ILTCO Cincy show.
My plan now is to take my large tan building off that end of the layout and
replace it with this dark red one, but it’ll have to be in an “L” shape so as
not to hang over the inside corner like the rectangular tan one did.
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I was thinking about it on the subway ride home last night and figured out a
way to make them 1 wide. I don’t have a camera or MLCAD skills, but, if you
use a headlight brick, sideways, at each side of the top of a 4 wide window
and use 1x2 plates & a couple of tiles going across, (the bottom plate tube
goes in the front hole of the headlight brick) you can get a very similar
effect in 1 wide.
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I think I am envisioning what you are talking about. I wonder if, in the end,
the lintel would appear too petitte. It might depend upon the size of the
building WRT lintel proportions.
Hey, speaking of you and replacing buildings on our layout...
For our Cincy show, we “borrowed” the tan building and our Spamcake Diner™ from
our “subway modules” (HERE is where they normally belong)
Well, I decided that we can’t keep borrowing from Peter to pay Paul forever and
that I would need to build some more buildings. Hence the remodeled dark red
building. Now, to replace the Spamcake Diner™, here was my thought (just last
night in fact), and when I thought of you, my fellow Ashcanner:-)-- to recreate
the diner in Edward Hopper’s
Nighthawks
The trick is to figure out the dimensions of the thing. I read that it actually
existed, but no more. Perhaps I can find some pics online.
JOHN
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| (...) Thanks for those additional links. I understand what you're saying. I am so hungry for dark red bricks in bulk that it is not funny. (...) Hmm, could be. I may experiment with this technique tonight or tomorrow. (...) That will be great! I (...) (19 years ago, 15-Dec-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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