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(...) I 100% disagree. John Neal's 8 wide trains are lovely creations indeed, but I'll put some of my 6 wide stuff up against anything I've seen yet. I built a Milwaukee Road Diesel, you can see the nose of it here: (URL) built it from a picture on (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) About 4x5 foot minus about 6 inches around the edge where the line starts its climb. The line will enter the mountain via a tunnel after going half way around it. I plan to have access under the mountain and the foamboard construction makes it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) *Those* dudes are awesome and the exception, not the rule. I stand corrected for my blanket characterization of MRs:-) (...) ^^^...^^^(Most) (...) I hope folks don't think that I am fighting. Just a fun DOO [1]. Actually, I wouldn't force 8 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Just a minor disagreement/clarification... (...) This is mildly incorrect. There are a lot of old school modelers who detail everything, INside and out. Right down to roofs that come off the buildings so you can see the details, very very tiny (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, John Neal (<38A0EF13.EBC9F60A@...west.net>) wrote at 04:38:22 (...) This is my point, really. It may just be that I've read things incorrectly, but it appears that many people want to do scale models with LEGO proportions (ie. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I would pay $10-$12 for a good set of instructions. Russell Clark (URL) 39423705 (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The track they sell has a 12.5" radius. (Radius is measured from the center point of a circle to the point midway between the inside and outside rails) My track has been running curves on a 22.5" radius. (If I did the math correctly, I thought (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I would qualify that by saying one can't if one uses set designs rather than MOCs (or maybe that is what you mean here). (...) I disagree, or maybe I'm not getting your point. Even when I build 8 wide, I am not striving for perfect model (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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IMHO you have a choice of throwing out the minifig scale and create a nice "relatively" scale model of rolling stock (as per TLGs modelers) ((and forget about running it on the track)) or create a nice looking model in minifig "scale" and enjoy (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Howdy again, Well, I certainly didn't mean to create quite a stir but it made for entertaining reading. Thanks for the welcome! For the record, my trains are 6 wide... :-D Carrie (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Mike Poindexter (<FpMJo1.HDw@lugnet.com>) wrote at 18:38:12 (...) This is quite a good argument for six wide. The fundamental difficulty with trying to make scale model trains in LEGO *is* the scale problem. Because there is no (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message news:FpMrHI.Jr4@lugnet.com... (...) many (...) This (...) aspects (...) train (...) price (...) be 56 (...) As a matter of fact, Legoland uses selective compression on their large models. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL)I hashed over the issue a bit. If you go with 5 studs being the gauge, then (...) (sorry about repeating the post, I didn't know how to do the link, now I do...) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps in P:48 :) There is no functional difference between 2mm(Fine Scale, UK), S4 (note, not P4, which has manufacturing tolerances, but S4 does not),P:87, P:48, ScaleSeven. None, except the actual size of each model, and the fiddlyness of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A Lugnet search for insectoid train shows up one of Ben's posts as the 2nd item (after this post it may show up as the 3rd item, since the post I'm responding to shows up as the first). But the real reason for this post: I have been keeping a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nick, if you look at Trains / 3843 (type in 3843 in the search for trains, and it should pop up...sorry, I don't know how to get it to give me the html blue link thingy!) I hashed over the issue a bit. If you go with 5 studs being the gauge, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This will eat your bricks! Has anyone practised 'selective compression'. This is where you build something to scale but 'selectively compress' some aspects or items to reduce space/cost/bricks etc. In most cases this applies to train and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The theoretical helix is really a rounded off (...) The "helix" (...) 1 (...) INSIDE a mountain! That's a big mountain - I hope you have built in a hatch for access (were you inspired by 'Close Encounters' ?). There are alternatives to raising (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nick- Remember that scale and gauge (track width) are two different things. In a particular scale, you can have different track gauges (standard and narrow for instance). 8 wide approximates O scale because 1) minifigs are about the same (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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