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Re: Minifig Train Ride
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:39:54 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chemSTOPSPAMMERS.tulane.edu
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Andrew Reynolds wrote:
> 
> Has any one tried to give the Minifigs a miniature train ride, take a look
> at this.
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=48586
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4893
> 
> I took two N scale freight cars cut the roofs and set the minifigs down in
> chairs. On the floor of the car I Hot glued (gasp!!!!) a 2x3 plate to put
> the chair on.  The minifigs fit perfectly.  For track I used Kato Unitrack
> mostly because of the way it is made it will lie flat on the LEGO plates and
> not move around.  Unfortunately this layout has been dismantled due to us
> buying a new house :(
> 
> LMKWYT
> 
> (Shameless plug)
> L. Andrew Reynolds
> CMLUG Central Midwest Lego User Group
> Lugnet Member 375
> Home: landrewr@home.com
> Work: andrew_reynolds@uhc.com
> My Lego Pages:
> http://www.geocities.com/landrewriv/Andrew/andrew.htm
> http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/?m=375
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=landrewr

That is cool. Now, all you have to do with N-scale is what John Neal did with
the HO scale. Build N-scale LEGO trains on N-scale bogies and motors ;) That
will bring the 2-wide LEGO model train building art to its ultimate conclusion:
LEGO model trains for minifigs!

Chris
--
See some of my LEGO creations at http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/



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(...) My son has already made some 2 widers; here are some pics (along with an N scale box car for comparison): (URL) (help me out, here) made some really cool Large scale LEGO train set trains that were 2 wide-- I couldn't find the site, however. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)

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  Minifig Train Ride
 
Has any one tried to give the Minifigs a miniature train ride, take a look at this. (URL) took two N scale freight cars cut the roofs and set the minifigs down in chairs. On the floor of the car I Hot glued (gasp!!!!) a 2x3 plate to put the chair (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)

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