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(...) Nice job Tim. The improvements I imagine : Colors : replace yellow by tan. The colors must be washed out. When I look the original picture, the first thing which comes to me is the vertical lines, resulting of the rust which flown. I will (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) That even more complicated than I what I did (URL) but it might just work. You will have to make the piston rods long enough to not drop out of the cylinders when thay are int he extended foward position. Tim BTW obviously I had a lot more (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Its getting there but I think you (I?) have set yourself an impossible task. Maybe some grey and bley and brown and brrown combos would help? One small thing tho, its not a freight car, its a loco! Tim (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Sebastian Dyson schreef: (...) Short aswer: I think it has to do with the LGEO-parts which look beautiful but are programmed very complex and are a bit buggy. In some transparant parts these bugs cause a grainy or noisy finish. Long answer: I think (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, Knowing I have an interest in dirty models, Tim David told me to build (URL) this> well kept delight. I'm relatively pleasedish with what I made but would be interested in hearing other peoples ideas on how to improve it as I know it's far (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Ok I think I have something. Each cylinder is free to slide longitudinally on the frame. This movement is constrained by a vertical pin (or 1x1 round brick) on each side of the pilot truck. These pins engage a transverse groove (currently a pair of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Ben, Very neat and I imagine from my past povray animation experiments that it was very time consuming. The one problem I have with it is the sky. It distracts from the train in the first few seconds of the animation. Perhaps a smoother (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Nice and smooth, and I believe I may be stealing those connecting rods. Have you worked out what's making the cab window flicker so? (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, after playing around with nearly all (common) features in POV-Ray - like radiosity, media, fog etc. - I have finally started the latest excurse into working with the clock variable. Here comes my first small animation movie (1.5 MB) of the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Rob. I am not a rtltoronto person but I think some other groups might be interested in these as well. (I know I am!) x-posted to .town & .trains Jonathan (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's quite neat - it hadn't occurred to me to shorten the front truck like that to make room behind. But then I was trying to fit a motor in the front when I did mine. Jason R (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) snip (...) Actually I wouldn't call that cheating at all, I'd call it compromise. And as far as I'm concerned, compromise is fine (even necessary!) in building LEGO models. I would probably do something like Teunis did in his S-class, but (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hello Sebastian, The best I've manage to work out on this is with my 4-8-4 Northern engine as shown at: (URL) In this case, I put the leading wheels forward of the steam cylinders. The cylinders stay attached to the same bogie/truck that drive (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Not sure I can help you much here - I designed my cylinders to be quite flat so they could slide 'twixt motor and soleplate. With small BBB wheels on the front your front truck is lower than a standard motor, but if you say Rosco's are too (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm trying to design an 8-wide 4-8-4 using Big Ben's wheels (CAD only, I'm but a poor student), and want the loco to be able to negotiate standard Lego curves. As the leading truck has an axle each side of the cylinders, I'm finding it hard to keep (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Big Ben Bricks is pleased to announce a new set. Set #172, Train Handcar. (2 URLs) It comes with 39 pieces, including 4 Big Ben Bricks train wheels and two highly flexible minifigs (made using basketball legs with the springs removed). As the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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(...) I like to avoid compression of vehicles, just having compression of a shorter train length depending on the layout, as other model railway enthusiasts do. It's 8mm:1ft scale. I could try 9-wide, but it's more effort - perhaps in the long term (...) (18 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Recently I got the opportunity to get an early copy of Big Ben Bricks' latest offering, a train handcar. I must say that for a small set it has proven to be lots of fun to play with. You can read my review online at the ILTCO web page: (URL) (18 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This station certainly is gorgeous-- ingenious design; total package intensely loaded. Thanks for bring this MOC to attention-- well deserved later, James Mathis. (18 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow, that really is an amazing design. The building has so much texture., and the scene is so well put together. Yes... stealable ideas :) ! Chris (18 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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