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Re: DSNY Streetsweeper
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Date: 
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:51 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
   I was recently inspired to take a closer look at a DSNY Street sweeper and this is what I have come up with:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=196247

Thanks to Sid Dinsay for sending me the two missing slope elements.

Here is a picture of the real thing:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/about/equipment_street-sweeper.shtml

There are two special pictures in the folder as well:

1 from NMRA in Philly recently. (Thanks, Lar!)

And,

1 with my first version (my first MOC afer getting back into the hobby)

Thoughts and comments?


Thanks,

Jonathan

Outstanding! Great solution for the brushes.

About the only thing missing are the mirrors - how about a frying pan stuck in a headlight brick on the left and a 1x2 tile jammed into a clip on the right?

Marc Nelson Jr.

Marc’s Creations



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(...) Thanks! I had thought about the mirrors but hadn't tried anything. I was concerned it would look silly with something there in place for them. But, I guess I won't know unless I try. I like your suggestions and will give them a shot. Thanks (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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I was recently inspired to take a closer look at a DSNY Street sweeper and this is what I have come up with: (URL) Thanks to Sid Dinsay for sending me the two missing slope elements. Here is a picture of the real thing: (URL) There are two special (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) ! 

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