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Re: Hey, Joe. What doors do you use on your caboose
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Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:33:23 GMT
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Well, I generally like Joe's work but I have to take a contrary view. I
feel there is a line between "successfully selectively compressed" and
"too small" and I feel this particular caboose is well over that line.
It's so short that it is disproportionately tall compared to length.
This makes it look toylike. Not the look I go for. Within the selective
compression limitations, I go for a beefy look that suggests much larger
equipment.
Contrast with mine, which is significantly longer (but also uses red
town doors and 2x2 windows). Admittedly I'm biased but I think mine
better captures the spirit of a caboose than Joe's or the Steve Barile
Chessie caboose (which suffers even more since it only has 2 axles. Very
unprototypical.) which are the other well known cabeese out there.
On the decal question, these are neither. They are decals. A decal is a
thin film that is floated off its backing paper by long (60-120 second)
immersion in water, applied, while still wet, to the surface, and
allowed to dry. Dry transfers are pressed off, and stickers are peeled
off, respectively, from their backing paper.
Wet decals are superior to either other technology for detailed
decoration, especially when adhesion to irregular surfaces is required
(a chemical, tradenamed "solvaset" can be applied while the decal is
wet, or after it dries to stretch them to allow conformance).
Decals in model railroading are typically oversprayed with a dull finish
clear paint to strengthen them as they are quite fragile and should not
be subjected to any handling. In the Lego application, this overspray is
not practical, really, due to the effect it can have on the plastic.
(decals are most typically applied to painted surfaces, prior to
weathering chalks being applied to simulate dirt)
Christopher Masi wrote:
> PS. Are Micro-scale decal sheets removeable stickers or are they semipermanent
> rub on decals?
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 | | Re: Hey, Joe. What doors do you use on your caboose
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| Here's my two cents, not that anyone cares. I like the proportions and interior detailing of Larry's red caboose. But, I like the black roof and decals on Joe's. I think the decals make all the difference in the world between the two models. Picture (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Hey, Joe. What doors do you use on your caboose
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| (...) As everyone knows I am not a real modeler [1], so the realness or the toyness of the model does not change my opinion usually. The toy factor might even make it more appealing to me. It has a cuteness to it while still resembling a real (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Hey, Joe. What doors do you use on your caboose
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| (...) I did make the caboose shorter to look more proportional to the shorter stock cars that pull it around. All cabooses I have seen are shorter than the cars. I just looked up Larry's caboose. I like it. Much more 'Lego' than mine. Love the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Hey, Joe. What doors do you use on your caboose
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| Hi Larry, Sorry to be adding this so late but I just joined the newsgroup...I have had a lot of success with Microscale decals and the Microset that is applied over them...Great results! Much better than (well, at least different than) the dry (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Hey, Joe. What doors do you use on your caboose
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| Joe, Thanks for the pictures and the comments. I haven't got around to copying your caboose yet, but when I do copy it I might try one of the larger 4x3 windows instead of the small 2x2. It probably won't look right with the bigger window. Did you (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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