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    New 8-wide fright cars —Holger Matthes
   Hi all, just some days BEFORE Lego® announced the new S@H train car, especially the tank-car, I build two MOC-tank cars: (URL) are also some pictures of a red and brown fright car using the offset - less than 1/2 stud - walls which Gianluca Morelli (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: New 8-wide fright cars —James Mathis
     (...) Beautiful. Simply beautiful. The custom "HoMa Chemical" sticker is a well done accent. later, James Mathis (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: New 8-wide fright cars —Gianluca Morelli
     Excellent creations,HoMa! I just want brown parts enough to convert to this color my freight wagons!! (...) Yes,I think I was the beginner...it's 1/5 stud. (...) Yes,because many brains work better than one,and ideas sharing is a great,positive (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: New 8-wide fright cars —Holger Matthes
      (...) Thanks, I used 2,5 bags of brown 1x2 from S@H mainly, the rest is collected from Star Wars. (...) Congratulations, a very very cool way of building stufff unusual! sinp "the great things" (...) They are all grey, but I just own 2 Droid Escape (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: New 8-wide fright cars —Shaun Sullivan
      How is that "1/5" offset accomplished? I must have missed the original posting about it - but I love it! What's the secret? -s (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: New 8-wide fright cars —Holger Matthes
      (...) posting (...) Hi Shaun, check (URL) for details. That's a scrabble of Gianluca, showing the technic. But there is another slightly different one, I used that one... Regards, Holger (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
     
          Re: New 8-wide fright cars —James Mathis
      (...) Did you use this design? (URL) was inspired by Gianluca's original design for the odd offset, but ended up with a different construction. I'm not sure my solution is "1/5" offset. There was some discussion of the fractio, but I've since (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
     
          Re: New 8-wide fright cars —Holger Matthes
       (...) Ahh, YES, that's the exact way I did it. Sorry, I really forgot, that James was the one, who made the Version 2 of Gianluca's offset style. I saw it in real at some of Andreas Buegels 8-wide train cars at a little meeting in May. (Pictures (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: New 8-wide fright cars —John Neal
     Yeah, they are so cool that it's scary;-) <g,d,r> All seriousness aside, I think these are awesome MOCs HoMa! Very creative and inspiring! Keep up the (8wide) good work:-) -John (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: New 8-wide fright cars —Kevin Maynes
   (...) Nice work! Quite the collection of brown bits in that one car, and nice job on the red car - I'm glad I'm not the only one who builds 'em loooooong! :) It took me a while to notice that the brown one only runs two axles, much to my surprise (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
 

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