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Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish (sarcasm warning!)
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Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:24:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
> > Lonely shapes sit in my box of train-specific parts.
> > What to do with the train yellow nose and black cab parts from set 4559?
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> Hi James
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> maybe somebody around is willing to buy them? But those parts are in fact
> "quite" useless and you are for sure not the only one to have too much of
> them....
Not for sale from me. I only have two of these parts.
> > Now, for nothing completely different.
> > British Rail HST InterCity 125 set:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=15998
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> It fits in colour scheme, but to be honest: this is not a favorite Mathis model
> of mine...
Nor mine. ;-) But, just trying to "keep it simple" to see what happens.
> In my eyes the main character of that train (except from the special front end)
> is the rounded waggon base. I think one can't do that in 6-wide, but maybe
> you should give 7-wide a try? (hint hint) ;-)
I have seen a green old-fashion passenger car built with 1x4x1.3
quarter-curved bricks in just this construction. It looked to be 7 or 8
wide. Fuzzy memory; over on the German group pages, I think. Beautiful
model that is.
7-wide...maybe, but your real challenge to me as I read it, is to
6-wide...if you say it can't be done. ;-)
<snip comments on big pieces>
<snip melting-down>
> But I hope to see further James Mathis trains like the Acela, the ICE III or
> the APT soon. Those are outstanding passenger trains.
I felt very "retro" while even thinking about the IC125 using the 4559 nose.
Like I've de-evolved.... Maybe I'm the one who is melting ;-)
> The Starlight train has
> been a wonderful piece of work, that I even tried to copy after I saw it
> for the first time.
I remember that! So long ago that seems. The days of laying the model on a
flatbed scanner to get the image onto the web. That model is still half-way
together-- had to scavenge some parts here and there. Is yours still together?
later,
James Mathis
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| (...) [snip] (...) end) (...) I'm quite sure it has been from the ISCC - in the train theme: (URL) worth to take a closer look at.... My favorites in the train part have been the entry of John Neal and the "General Purpose" of Dieter. I was a little (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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