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Does anyone have anything I could use for a locomotives train wheels? Those red spoked wheels I keep seeing on peoples locomotives are nice. Are they in fact Lego pieces? If your not sure what I'm talking about click on the link below, then on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Stickers
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Hi Steve, The model railroader magazine had an article on making your own stickers in the (I believe) June 1999 issue. The author used the Alp printer because it could print in white as well as brass and silver! If you want more details let me know (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train Stickers
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Steve, Thanks for your comments. Lego is such a creative medium for making toy trains. There are only so many elements and I am continually amazed how people find new ways to combine them and capture the essence of real-life prototypes (great (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Michel, Thanks! The large red wheels have "tires" made from grey electrical tape. Incidentally, you may wonder how the William Crooks negociates Lego curves without the pilot wheels hitting the cylinders or side rods. The pilot axels are connected (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: FOTW: Blimps for a Buck!!
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Dave- "Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club" Although we are currently experiencing some difficulty with our web site (gmltc.org), here is a place to check out some of our work from the GMLUG (Greater Midwest LEGO Users Group's web site hosted by Paul (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Train Stickers
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Fantastic work. Great attention to detail. It is amazing how a little strip of silver really highlights certain parts of the trains. The white "spokes" for the small wheels was a stroke of genius! With respect to the large red spoked wheels on the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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You mentioned an Alps printer. Does it print in white (white ink)? We had an earlier thread about custom logo printing and it seems to be a drag if you have white in your logo, your kind of stuck. BTW As I said in my direct mail. Your models are (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Doug, All the photographs were shot using an Olympus D300-L (one of the first megapixel cameras) and a three point lighting set-up. This camera tends to give pictures a bluish cast so much digital color-correction was neccesary. Today most premium (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Simply spectacular modeling. My hat is off to you. Your models have clean lines, elegant in proportion and pleasing to the eye. Thanks for sharing. Ben Fleskes PNLTC (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I bet some of us are also wondering how you got the pictures looking that good! Digital or 35mm? What type of lighting? What film speed? The pictures look incredible! I love Kathryn and the Mobile tank car. -Doug G +---...---+ Douglas M (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Interesting (old) Editorial
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(...) Its not that harsh, this is from one of the more serious model railway mag's at the time, with a fair amount of 4mm finescale. It is more that they are a good toy, poor model type statement than anything else, and they do at least credit lego (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thats A wonderfull model for lego Brian .. wow im in love! Im trying to model a 2 - 3 - 3 - 0 steamer in cad with the 12 v engine parts... now I got some Ideas LOL (locomotive museum anyone?) -T Burger (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Everyone, Several people have inquired about the stickers used on some the cars that I posted pictures of last week. Here are four more cars plus the original pics with updated descriptions... "(URL) An old-time Austrian beer car lettered for the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Interesting (old) Editorial
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James Powell wrote in message ... (...) gone (...) may (...) really up (...) That's harsh! 1983 had some fantastic Lego train sets. I could onyl imagine what they would write about today's crop of sets if they disliked the 1983 sets. (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pantograph suggestions ?
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The shoe is the hard part. Getting to the shoe seems pretty straightforward. Look at how the croc or metroliner does it. (URL) shows the croc pretty clearly. (wasn't there an alternate model for this set???) All those parts except the shoe (top (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Container grabber
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(...) Bite your tongue. But glue it to the roof of your mouth first so that it really hurts. Infidel. (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: De-lurk
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Welcome Alan! Sounds like you have a great *starter* set-up;-) So you say you are not on the dark side yet, but I say give it a try. Start out with a box car. Kitbash your sliding doors from one of your boxcars and see what you can do. Basically, I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Glue? Chris Just couldn't resist. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Pantograph suggestions ?
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Hello, I am trying to make a pantograph, but none of my attempts have been satisfying so far. Any suggestions ? Gilles (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Abandoned Tracks (Was: Oops(was De-lurk))
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(...) which I thought was an excellent touch... (...) Those are Wonderfull ideas for abandoned tracks, a good addition could be remains of posts (a 2 x 2 brick along side?) or extra ties so each section has 4 ties rather then 2, break up some ties, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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