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all very nice, but where are the miniland figs? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Train Contest - 1st Place Prize Winner
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(...) lol to you both Chris and Rick. Just to let people know-- nobody is throwing around a charged word like "nazi" lightly; they are making reference to a classic "Seinfeld" episode. I don't know why I felt compelled to explain this, but I did. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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(...) Interestingly, I was toying with this yesterday. I was actually trying to see if I could get a similar method to work, but in a 4 or 6 wide config. Does anyone have a .dat file that shows how this method work? Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Some time ago I said that I didn't think that adding the ribbing details--a la the 1/5 stud offset--was worth the extra bricks that it would cost me.[1] I guess I was extrapolating from my own tries at a 1/2 stud offset (which were less than (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Train Contest - 1st Place Prize Winner
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(...) I guess he will just have to go home and make his own soup ;) Chris (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Train Contest - 1st Place Prize Winner
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(...) Wow, very cool. That is something I never even would have considered doing! It looks so cool. Chris (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My 8-wides have a page
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(...) I saw it in a few model train magazines, so i had to build on, I'm also building a white one. Josh (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Un-powered replacement for train motor
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(...) I agree. A bogus motor that's one plate too high is all very well for a four-wheeled engine, but not for a bogey. (...) Interesting. Does that take a standard technic pin? I always thought the hole was smaller. (...) try and MLCAD it this (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Dummy truck (was Re: Un-powered replacement for train motor
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(...) all external dimensions matched. The dummy truck that I use in MTW 2001, 3001 and 3002, for example, is not one plate taller than the regular motor, it's the same height. (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Un-powered replacement for train motor
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(...) Looks good, but I find the truck arrangement used in set 4564 to be pretty good, if you fill in the spaces between the wheels with 1x4 and 2x4 bricks. I use this arrangement on my v188 double-diesel. -Harvey (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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