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Re: Dave's TGV train
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 18 May 1999 14:49:52 GMT
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johnneal@uswest!spamless!.net
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> David VinZant wrote:
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> > I am very happy with the design of the train and the colors. I was some what
> > forced to have the red just because I never got a metro liner so I never got
> > any gray train plates.
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> Nice model. I've brought this up before.. I feel the train plates are
> too confining and I hardly ever use them.
Not if you go 8 studs wide;-) At 6 wide, Lar, you are correct, Sir [1], but at 8
one can skirt the wagonplate and reap the benefits a wagonplate provides-- a
large integrated plate with holes-- town junior gone good;-)
> I do agree that they give a
> skirted look but the freedom I get to make any length I want and even to
> include various non rectangular shapes is just too important.
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> My doodlebug is way longer than any of the train plates and has a
> rounded corner front. Never would have been buildable with wagon plates.
see above
> On my PCC car, version two, finished last nite, I have a central stair
> cutout, and both ends taper down to 4 for one stud to support use of
> macaroni brick rounded corners.
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> GMLTCers will see my PCC cars versions 1 and 2 tomorrow nite
can hardly wait:-°
> and if one
> of them brings a digital camera, maybe the rest of you will too. :-) I
> REALLY need to get a replacement. Sigh. Too slothful to do more than
> complain about it.
-John
[1] a la Phil Hartmann doing Ed McMahon:-)
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>
> --
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