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(...) I love the loco Ross (John). Just remember that to be included in the contest you need to submit it to the Gallery on Save 9v Trains. Here are the (URL) Rules and Instructions.> As a quick update the "Rolling Stock" and "Diesel/Electric" (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I guess it's easy to forget that the piece count goes up vaguely cubically. Since (8/6)^3=2.37 is about 1000/400=2.50 I guess the trains fit nicely to that rule. I suspect that in eight-wide you use less small plates as a fraction of the train (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Surely you have to pay in sweet and tears as well as the aforementioned blood to design in LDD. Mmmm... sweet LDraw converter :-) Nice loco, pity you can't get very good images off LDD to show it off better. (Another) Tim (My (four wheeled) (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, between 8 wide and schleiming, the piece count tends to creep north... (...) So you don't have to sell blood to afford your hobby? I see what you mean;-) JOHN BTW, it doesn't cost anything to virtually build 8 wide.... (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Steve, Following the provided link ;) I find 1067 parts and I assume there are no spare since it's Factory on demand. John, Can one engine really have 1067 parts? Do all your engines have about 1000 parts? That is huge! I think my three car (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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What is the piece count? How many extra elements do you get? SteveB (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Oops, sorry about the crosspost to these groups-- wasn't intentional. JOHN (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(URL) Built by my son, Ross. Portable. I lost my queen in our first game because I couldn't tell the pieces apart. He didn't care;-) Enjoy, JOHN (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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My son Ross was messing around in the LEGO factory, and I encouraged him to submit his efforts to the contest, so here it is: (URL) It is based loosely on his (URL) GP50> The color scheme is by necessity, not by prototype. Could be CP though. The (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) For further detail regarding my engine, feel free to stop by the MOCPage I made for it: (URL) (18 years ago, 28-May-06, to lugnet.trains)
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