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Re: John Neal: Have you finished this building?
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:26:30 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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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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.
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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.
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Hmm, could be. I may experiment with this technique tonight or tomorrow.
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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.
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That will be great! I think it will fit in very nicely with your other
buildings. I’ll do some digging around as well for photos. I am quite sure I
saw one somewhere that had more detail.
Best,
Jonathan
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