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(...) I was interested in doing a "war" train myself and now i see the standard that must be met. I especially like your 88. That gun gave the Allies a heck of a time during the war. When it wasn't shooting down planes, it made an awesome antitank (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Lindsay. I do intend to make a shield for the 88mm gun at some point, I just haven't gotten around to it thus far. However, I have already made one of the 4-pylon mounts[1] for it though, so it can be removed from the flatbed and set up (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks for the compliments, Gary. The camera is my brother-in-law's Canon Powershot S10 Zoom, which has a 2 MegaPixel image capability. It's discontinued now, but may still available if you look around. The pictures are taken in natural (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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Stunning, as usual. Guys like you give me an inferiority complex :). Question: What digital camera do you use? The images are perfect. Later, G (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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(...) said this before)--do you have any plans to put a shield on that gun? I also wonder if the engine doesn't need a meatier cowcatcher. But man! is that nice. So let's see, now we have a boat *and* a train for BrikWars...:D best LFB (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, I concede that I'm trying to sneak an uninformed rendition of a caboose by as European guards' van :). I'd be interested in making it more accurate, though I couldn't track down James' site just now ... I found a post mentioning that he (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.build.military, Shaun Sullivan writes: <snip> Wow! Very nice. The only car I don't think is plausible is the guards van... it looks too US proto. See James Mathis's pages for some possible guards vans... the cupola tended to be a little (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I finally completed my rendition of a German train from WWII. All told, it's over 12.5 feet long (over 3.8 meters - I believe this makes the double entendre in the subject heading perfectly valid :D), and comprises 11 cars: BR52 Steam (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.trains) !!
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shop@home put 480+ bags of 5077 sliding gates and rails up last week. Ideal for train boxcars. By today they had all gone :-( Hope you all got yours. I expect we will see them on ebay soon regards lawrence (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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Yesterday I promised more pictures of the GMLTC layout, here they are. Two buildings, a sand-red and white one by me, and a yellow one by Conan: (URL) need to put some sort of "Hotel" sign on the marquee...) A few of the hotel rooms are detailed and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains) !
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