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Re: More Loops at shows...
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:23:37 GMT
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Great point John, we totally agree. We use the generic term "eye-candy".
SteveB
In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile writes:
> > Yard (round house, linear/turn-table): There is some disagreement on this
> > one but I think of a yard as mainly a static display.
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> Minor nit: Just because you don't have trains moving doesn't mean it has to
> be a 'static' display. Other animations are crowd-pleasers, too! In our
> previous layout, people would comment on how the windmill on the farm scene
> was turning. I didn't have the heart to tell them it took me about five
> minutes to design and build!
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> Don't forget lights, too. A flashing 9volt light and some fiber-optic cable
> can make a nice welding torch, or campfire, or ???
>
> JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) Yes. And even static things can be eye candy... Little jokes like the landspeeder parked at the info booth, and little more somber tableax like the firemans funeral, or the pirate skeleton below the lighthouse rocks are all crowd pleasers. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) Minor nit: Just because you don't have trains moving doesn't mean it has to be a 'static' display. Other animations are crowd-pleasers, too! In our previous layout, people would comment on how the windmill on the farm scene was turning. I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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