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In lugnet.loc.us.ma, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.org.us.nelug, David Eaton writes:
> > Well, despite the terrible lighting conditions at my place, I put together
> > some pictures of my green line train that I made mostly over this last
> > weekend (my very first train!):
> >
> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/greenline/greenline.cgi
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> Cool. Now can you do the version where the ends taper inward toward the
> nose? :-)
I thought about this a while, but didn't discover any nice way to do it,
unfortunately :(
Anyone have any ideas?
> I see you went 8 wide. I have struggled and struggled to do these in 6 wide
> but the center articulation has always got the best of me (I was trying to
> do something rotational, you took a sliding approach, which, while not
> prototypical, looks really good).
Yeah, I tried for quite a while to get something rotational done, but try as
I might I either wound up with objectionable gaps, a train that would only
turn in one direction, or both. But when I came up with the sliding
mechanism I was sold-- mostly because it works REALLY smoothly, whereas the
best of the rotational methods would occasionally lock somewhere along those
scraggly edges...
DaveE
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| (...) If you're comfortable with having it be 8 wide, is there any way you can incorporate the new SW 1/4 round eight wide cylinders? The center section can use two of these, one on each side. Both ends of the car can attach to the center section (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) nose? :-) I see you went 8 wide. I have struggled and struggled to do these in 6 wide but the center articulation has always got the best of me (I was trying to do something rotational, you took a sliding approach, which, while not (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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