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Re: New 8-wide fright cars
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:22:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Holger Matthes writes:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5192


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 considering how long it is. I see you've got the axles "bogied" and
strung down with elastics - does this arrangement track well? (I'd imagine it
does or it would've been designed differently, but I have to ask..)
Looking at the tankers, I see there's a slight "swayback" look (particularly in
tanker_02.jpg) - very realistic! If I may ask, how did you accomplish that?
Great work with the stickers too, very clever.

Cheers,
KMaynes



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  New 8-wide fright cars
 
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)

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