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snipped (...) Odd you should say this. I really like the look of the blue water cascading down the mountain and the way the light reflects off the sloped bricks. It's going to take a tall, tall mountain to really justify a snow cap. Wouldn't you (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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Thanks to everyone for the kind remarks on the mountain. To answer a few questions: I don't know if I was going for scale compression as much as I was just going for artistic expression. It does give you the impression of some distance from front to (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) A pretty obvious design, but I don't recall anyone doing it!. Everyone got hung up on the digger buckets (URL) As with wagons, I think steam-age carriages need to have some underframe detail, (...) The best truss rod design i have seen, will (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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A couple members of our club, the SCLTC, are investigating DCC. One member, Ted has picked up a Super Chief system from Digitrax. An I've just purchased a Zephyr system. I also picked up a DH163, and a DN123 decocoders. My gear should arrive today. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Brian, That's a great mountain & layout. I can see kids' eyes popping and jaws dropping. It looks like you used some scale compression on the mountain slopes to make it appear taller - is that right? Try taking some pics from a kid's approximate eye (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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