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Subject: 
Re: A4 British Locomotive
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
Date: 
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 04:38:16 GMT
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Doug Glasnapp wrote:
Im not sure i get your drift when you say horizontal...
The LDraw render of it is a preliminary idea of what i wanted to do,
then the pics are what it is currently,except for the functionality of
the wheels/drivers.

Well, I noticed that the top of the boiler in teh LDraw pic is
horizontal, and the same height as the firebox top, and in the model as
built the firebox is a plate higher than th eboiler top, and there is a
step in the boiler top about halfway along. It looked a bit odd to me
and I wondered if you had built it originally the way the LDraw pic is,
and it didn't look right that way.

OK, now I have to go check my books and loook at pics of streamlined
A4's...

Hmmm, yes, the cab top, firebox top and the back half of the boiler top
are all the same height, then tehre's a slight slope down to the chimney
in the front half of the boiler.

Kevin



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  Re: A4 British Locomotive
 
(...) Ahh, I see what you mean now. Yep, i did build it flat on the top previously, but im not sure how i felt about the look of it. As of right now, i only have two pics to work from, and they are 3/4s views, and not side views. I think i decided (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

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  Re: A4 British Locomotive
 
(...) Im not sure i get your drift when you say horizontal... The LDraw render of it is a preliminary idea of what i wanted to do, then the pics are what it is currently,except for the functionality of the wheels/drivers. If you didnt find the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

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