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Re: GE 44-Tonner
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:16:22 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > It's an interesting MOC but it doesn't say "44 Tonner" to me.
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> Would it help if I told him to shave off 2 studs in width? ;-)
Naaa... the #1 place to shave studs is off the hoods, he has them going
right out to the very end but there ought to be end walkways/steps... So
shave a stud or two off the hood length.
I know that getting him to build 6 wide would be like convincing the Kellogg
heirs to stop eating Rice Krispies so I won't bother. He's no doubt
thoroughly corrupted at this point.
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> > The shape is
> > too rectangular. See the loco Bob Hayes did, he nailed the slopes (the hoods
> > slope down, and the end hoods are not vertical either) much better.
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> Looks pretty rectangular to me
> (http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/usmc152408.jpg), and although I agree
> that the front slopes forward, I would venture to guess that the 1x2x3 extreme
> slope is *too* angled, but I wouldn't know cuz I didn't build it, but I'll >pass along the comments to him.
See, that's the thing about selective compression and about using the power
of suggestion. The hoods slope only a tiny bit, but the eye sees "slope"
instead of "parallel". The hood ends, again, slope less than what a 1x2x3
extreme slope does. Way more vertical. Yet, again, the way Bob did it evokes
a 44 tonner better (to me anyway) even though his slope is farther away from
correct (farther from the real slope in the other direction) than the
vertical that Ross used.
Exaggerated features sometimes evoke better than 100% accurate ones. That's
the modelers craft. When to exaggerate, when to omit, when to approximate,
it's all part of the art.
I'll repeat what I said before so it doesn't go unnoticed, though.
> > Still, it's great work. And you gotta love that color scheme.
Ross is to be encouraged and commended, feedback offered is in the spirit of
improvement not criticism.
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| (...) Would it help if I told him to shave off 2 studs in width? ;-) (...) Looks pretty rectangular to me ((URL) and although I agree that the front slopes forward, I would venture to guess that the 1x2x3 extreme slope is *too* angled, but I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains)
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