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Re: Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:27:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> Some time ago I said that I didn't think that adding the ribbing details--a la
> the 1/5 stud offset--was worth the extra bricks that it would cost me.[1] I
> guess I was extrapolating from my own tries at a 1/2 stud offset (which were
> less than satisfactory). The conversation about 1/5 stud offsets the other day
> got me thinking about them. When I looked at the details of the 1/5 stud offset
> construction, I though that it did not look that expensive special part wise. In
> fact the only special parts that have to be the right colors are the tiles. The
> technic stuff can be any color. So, to make a short story long, I decided to
> give it a try. I built one side of a box car, and I must to say, if you haven't
> tried a 1/5 stud offset go home an do it tonight!
Interestingly, I was toying with this yesterday. I was actually trying to
see if I could get a similar method to work, but in a 4 or 6 wide config.
Does anyone have a .dat file that shows how this method work?
Jake
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Jake McKee
AFOL
LUGNET Member #211
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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| (...) Jake, I found the message James Mathis asked... 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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| (...) No .dat file, but Gianluca Morelli does an amazing job of demonstrating his technique with a pencil. His solution does this very nicely in 6-wide. I had the privilege of seeing the ITLUG car in the flesh at PNLTC's Guinness World Record (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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| Some time ago I said that I didn't think that adding the ribbing details--a la the 1/5 stud offset--was worth the extra bricks that it would cost me.[1] I guess I was extrapolating from my own tries at a 1/2 stud offset (which were less than (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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