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Re: MOC: Union Station - Kansas City, MO
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lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan
Date: 
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:53:26 GMT
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Mark Chan wrote:

After 3 years of planning and 6 months of building, I am pleased to announce
the completion of the main section of Union Station, modeled after the real
building in Kansas City, MO.

Congratulations, Mark!  You have created a very pleasing and innovative MOC
here!  Well done!  Among your original techniques I noticed and enjoyed the most
is your method of compression.

I know that when constructing large buildings in the minilands, TLC will start
off with 1:20 on the ground level, but switch to MF scale on successive floors.
You appear to have completely compressed the station to HO scale (about 1/2 MF
scale), and yet make it work for MF scale!  So, at the same time the model can
appear compressed or uncompressed, depending upon the presence of MFs.  Very
creative:-)

-John





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  Re: MOC: Union Station - Kansas City, MO
 
Mark, Perfect station! Awesome. Brings back a flood of memories for me. This is the place that I fell in love with trains. 3 and 4 years old I was, took the Amtrak from Union Station to Texas when I was 3. Then, at age 4, took Amtrak's Chief (not (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)
  Re: MOC: Union Station - Kansas City, MO
 
(...) Compression was one of the more challenging constraints. One of the most endearing traits of TLC official sets (to me) is their ability to suggest an actual structure without actually needing to model all of it in scale. (Their old passenger (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)

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  MOC: Union Station - Kansas City, MO
 
After 3 years of planning and 6 months of building, I am pleased to announce the completion of the main section of Union Station, modeled after the real building in Kansas City, MO. This is also my entry for the 2002 Town Building Contest C (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan) !! 

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