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Re: Which two customised trains should I buy?
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Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:55:11 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David Graham writes:
> I thought of buying the two trains with tenders and then making the ones
> without tenders - but I don't think it will work.
Yes, it will.
> So if I buy say, the large train & tender and the small train, from the
> parts will I be able to build the other two styles.
Yes.
> Also could I do it the other way round?
Yes.
> Thanks for your advice.
Don't Mention it.
> David
The train kit contains the following boxed or bagged items:
Boxed, 1 of: 3740 (small engine) or 3741 (large engine), with general
sticker sheet and dual instructions.
Boxed, optional: 3742 (tender), with instructions.
Bagged, 1 of: 3743 (blue colour kit), 3744 (green), 3745 (black), 3746
(brown) or 3747 (dark grey)
(Note: The colour kit also includes some black parts common to all
combinations of engine or engine + tender)
The small or large engine kit, together with parts from the colour kit,
makes the small or large engine repectively. This can be either closed at
the back or open (open and closed instructions are provided in the engine box).
Now, if you build the open-backed one, there are more pieces left over from
the colour kit. You then combine these with what's in the tender box to
build the tender. Look closely at the two types of engine - the ones with
tenders have fewer coloured bricks on the main engine, to save some for the
tender.
So, to build all four designs of train you only need a large and a small
engine, one of which has a tender (doesn't matter which, but for some reason
the large one with tender is a slightly cheaper option). This will give you
all the bricks and instructions you will need.
I was originally concerned that the small engine without tender in the
photographs didn't show a front buffer. The actual kit and instructions do.
But then, it's built from the same pile of pieces as the one with a tender
anyway.
The engine instructions show how to motorise either type of engine (open or
closed), but not how to add the light. Lighting instructions come in the
special lighting kit.
You replace the round funnel with a lighting brick, a plain black 2x1 brick
behind it, and the 2x2 round plate on top. This sits on top of a 20cm cable
which runs along the boiler (in place of the clipped-on side rod), in
through a window and down through the baseplate (large or small) to the
motor. A silver reflector goes over the light, and some black stickers go
on the side of the light brick.
Jason J Railton
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