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Italian ETR500 in 8-wide
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:24:05 GMT
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When you run out of pieces...well, just don't have the ones you'd like to
build a certain model, you turn to LEGO CAD. MLCAD is just great!
This is a first go at the Italian ETR500 passenger set.
Loads of green. Ugh.
This model is 8-wide.
Tapered nose similar to my 6-wide Acela.
Moderate SNOT about the nose.
It's got CAD tilt, but untried in real-life 8-wide form.
Maybe the pantagraph is interesting?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4814
later,
James Mathis
PS: Gianluca, I hope you like it. Some additional details needed, but I
hope this first version looks fairly close to what you might ride in your
country. It looks like a very nice train set.
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Italian ETR500 in 8-wide
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| Hi James, I am not italian, but also from a country with nice trains running through it. The ETR500 looks good. The nose might deliver some ideas for my "still-in-mind" ICE-3 nose! but it's a shame that you turned to LEGO CAD! I rather prefer "real" (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Italian ETR500 in 8-wide
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| (...) Hi James, very nice model! When I saw your APT design some days ago I immediately thought of how the tilting mechanism would have been great for a model of ETR500. I hope I have enough green bricks to actually build your ETR500, and maybe try (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Italian ETR500 in 8-wide
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| Hi James Very nice work. I like 8 wides of modern trains a lot. Your creation will inspire me to try to model the Swedish X2000. Is it possible that you will post the DAT.file? Regards Mattias (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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