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Re: MOC: BR52 Steam Locomotive
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Date:
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Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:47:41 GMT
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johnneal@SPAMLESSuswest.net
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Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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> I took about a week and a half to make the first version. It was a 6-wide
> design, and had no moving pistons and used standard wheelsets for the drive
> wheels. It always seemed suspiciously small to me, being somewhat dwarfed by
> the minifig engineer, but I wasn't sure until I saw Dave Eaton's Green Line
> train in person ... and realized how much more accurate and detailed the larger
> size could be (ducks potential controversy from such a claim).
LOL Don't feel like you have to apologize;-) You have created an awesome MOC,
Shaun, and you have realized (regardless of any blathering pro or con) for yourself
the merits of building 8 wide (or wider;)
Glad to see you have been bitten pretty hard-- welcome to Eight Wide Utopia! {:^D
-John
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| (...) You take every opportunity to remind us all of how great 8 wide is. We get it. Move on. Some people like it, some don't. Different strokes for different folks but stop prosetylising so hard, even in fun, eh? You're starting to resemble a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Thanks, Jason. I picked the German steam train to fit in with the motif of my other models, primarily, as I tend to lean towards utilitarian workhorse designs. Political ramifications aside, the German industrial boom of the 1930s produced (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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