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(...) Almost as elusive as pictures of Tim using proper bricks! Thanks for the compliment though. Most of the pictures I have on-line at the moment are (URL) here> and (URL) here>. The UK stuff I tend to build doen't have steps down to the ground, (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hmm, a 0.133 stud offset. I thought 0.1 - 0.9 was clever, but now you should be able to do three times that precision. Jason R (19 years ago, 23-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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--SNIP-- (...) Hi Bob, (URL) Try a fence> ;) It should solve your problem. Tim (19 years ago, 23-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Tim, I agree with you about the doors. On the prototype the large door in the front car is for the railway post office. It is a sliding door and is just slightly indented. The passenger doors are flush and open outward. I tried it with the (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Bob, I really love the shape you've managed to get in this train. It really captures the tapered teardrop of older streamlining. My one nitpick is the doors. They don't quite seem right to me but I can't quite put my finger on why. Perhaps (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Color Photos of M-10000 Model
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I have posted a couple of color pictures of my M-10000 on Brickshelf - (URL) a look and let me know what you think. Bob (19 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I've decided to upload some of the MPDs for my trains to Brickshelf. I don't have all the trains in there. Some are missing because they need tidying or I was too lazy to add them and others because they have full instructions. (URL) try to (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, just a small update from the color frontier: A 10027 set which I boght last weekend has been full with blay parts. A 1000steine member found a blay version of Santa Fe engine 10020! ***...*** The level crossing 10128 appeared in a mixture of (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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(...) Certainly a tried and true technique but doesn't easily make stairs that go into the carriage (the hard bit). There are numerous other parts that are handy, one notable one being the 1x2 plate with rail (part 32028) but it all depends on how (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Here's my suggestion for stairs. Black or grey these: (URL) SNOT'ed so the open top points out. Either a single vertical row creating an L, or horizonatal pairs for a shape. Remember that other than photos and show-n-tells, few people are (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Anthony- Here are a couple of styles of built in stairs in train cars I have built. I'm not the first to do any of these, but they can work well, especially the one in the passenger car: (2 URLs) There several other creative methods that have (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I'd recommend just searching Brickshelf for steam train pictures. Some people (like me) are lazy and don't add anything but there are plenty of good examples out there. (...) These are almost impossible to do (that should bring some designs (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) No, typically passenger cars have equipment(blowers, compressors, heaters, coolers, etc), tanks (air, water, fuel, waste), and other things underneath the floors. As you move forward in time, the amount of stuff increases. (an 1860s wire truss (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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I never thought I'd have to ask this question, but hey details are details, right? Is it common for there to be very little between the bogies underneath a passenger wagon? I've been studying the Lionel toy version of the Polar Express, and thats (...) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I picked up 300mm x 3mm rod just in a local hobby shop (URL) (19 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Most likely never existed but.. Large flatbed car carrying a Shuttle SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) or some other form of rocket I have an HO gauge short hopper/container/flatbed (? - flatbed car with short walls) car full of rusty old train (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ooh, I forgot about Steel Coil cars! I had several when I was into HO. The coil would be hard to do justice to. Perhaps the stiff plastic from the technic mars rover, or a catalog rolled up... AMS (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Jordan spreader Rail Grinder (these are not really suitable for trains as they are MoW) Schnaebel and big load (been done but just a cool car) Pickle car (early 19th century so it uses the vertical vats) Coil Steel car with one cover drawn (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I would agree with everyone that the long hood is too short for the train, but at least in person, it feels proptionally too long compared to the Cab/nose. But from what I've been told, building it as a 6-axle SD would be much harder. So I (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | SCLTC Brings the Island of Sodor to LEGOLAND California
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SCLTC will bring the Island of Sodor to the first ever Thomas The Tank Engine/Bob the Builder weekend at LEGOLAND California this coming Saturday March 25 and Sunday March 26. Fans of Thomas and His Friends will see Thomas, Percy, Toby and other (...) (19 years ago, 20-Mar-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.town, lugnet.legoland.california, FTX) !!
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