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Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:11:08 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes: • [snip]
> > > 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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> 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 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.
I'm quite sure it has been from the ISCC - in the train theme:
http://www.1000steine.de/themen/bauwettbewerb/eisenbahn.htm
Always 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 disapointed that these entries
"flopped" in the voting. Same happened to Larry's wonderful western story with
trains.
People seem to be fed up with trains nowadays. So much buyonickels on
brickshelf instead. (For sure I am simply too old for that...)
The Waggon with the rounded base should be this one by "CAL":
http://www.1000steine.de/themen/bauwettbewerb/121/121.htm
great piece of work too.
> 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 ;-)
grin!
> > The Starlight train has
> > been a wonderful piece of work, that I even tried to copy after I saw it
> > for the first time.
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> I remember that! So long ago that seems.
Yes we are Methusalems in the days of the www. My copy of the Starlight engine
is still intact, but it might be my oldest MOC at the moment (only the town
hall is nearly as old like that and stil built up). I have lost any interest
in all the older MOCs sooner or later. Looking back they look so dissapiontion
primitive. I never torn a model down because need of bricks: it is just need of
space, since loose parts are better to be stored than MOCs.
If you just take a look at my "Schapen" train station on my homepage. On that
site there are lots of my buildings from 1999 (my homepage got lounched that
year on April the first) till today in chronological order. I often ask myself
how this might look in one year. Will the level of quality continue like that?
The Starlight copy is suffering under that effect too: it took over a year till
I had windows enough for 2 waggons + 1 black clubcar. When the train was
finished at last, it was too "boring" to display it at any further show.
Getting now sentimental instead of sarcastic...
Building a new MOC might help. ;-)
Ben
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| (...) Considering the overall quality level of the ISCC entries (which was stunning, just stunning, don't you agree?) I don't consider my placement as a "flop", by any means. That entire entry was thrown together in 2.5 days of furious building just (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish (sarcasm warning!)
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| (...) Not for sale from me. I only have two of these parts. (...) Nor mine. ;-) But, just trying to "keep it simple" to see what happens. (...) I have seen a green old-fashion passenger car built with 1x4x1.3 quarter-curved bricks in just this (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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