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Re: Minifig What scale are they??
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lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town
Date: 
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:49:32 GMT
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Ralph Hempel wrote:

The classic LEGO scale (1 door = 3 bricks high) used by LEGO from 1955-1972 is
in almost perfect HO train scale.

This fact was hammered home after I did a couple of thinkgs on the weekend.

1. Played with my kids and build another 4-stud wide big rig. Small, realistic,
   high vroomability factor.

2. Started sorting my kids LEGO and found selection of Classic windows and
   doors in red and yellow.

3. Had a brainstorm and took out a section of old HO track and a boxcar and noticed
   that the boxcar was almost exactly 4 studs wide.

This got me to thinking about how neat it would be to hack a cheap loco and
attack it to a 4stud wide plate and make a LEGO train that runs on standard
HO track......

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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Ralph, I am creating my Classic scale LEGO town with an HO Train and track.  My old
yellow train station originally had a 3 track covered train shed (on my website).  The
shed opening originally had 1x8x2 yellow arches for the train and tracks.  Then I
(finally) got enough of the rare yellow 1x5x4 half arches (12) to rebuild it with a
larger opening for the trains.  And since LEGO classic metal wheeled cars are so
expensive, I have about 3 dozen German model cars (Viking and Herpa).  Although lately,
I did get some ESSO, Shell, and other classic metal wheeled cars and trucks.  And
minifigs are out of the question in the classic scale.

Actually one of the things that I want to do, is to build all of the LEGO Town Plans
from 1957-68.  That involves 3 different LEGO boards (one early European, one
European/American, one UK).  The total number of different Town Plans shown on the Town
Plan kits (#700/#725/#810) and other old LEGO boxes will make for about 10 different
Town Plan layouts.  When I finally get this all together, I will be taking pictures of
all the completed projects, which will including LEGO cars/trucks, old road signs, old
sign beams, classic trees & bushes, old street lights, and Esso Service sign/pumps, old
LEGO cyclists and motorcyclists, and the very rare LEGO policemen/traffic light.  This
will take me about 1 year to do.

Gary Istok
http://my.voyager.net/lar/gistok.html



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(...) This fact was hammered home after I did a couple of thinkgs on the weekend. 1. Played with my kids and build another 4-stud wide big rig. Small, realistic, high vroomability factor. 2. Started sorting my kids LEGO and found selection of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)

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