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New Cowcatcher Design
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:57:48 GMT
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Well, here she is:
In working on my latest steam engine, I needed to find a cowcatcher design.
After a day or two or working almost exclusively on that problem, I finally
came up with something that I am happy with. I've been holding off the
announcement until Brickfest, since I want to unviel it there, but here are a
bunch of pictures of the 6-wide version that I made as a prototype:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=21720
John, you can rest assured that this is just a *scale* prototype; the one used
on my new engine is significantly larger. Although the engine started out at 8
wide (and in fact, the boiler still is 8 wide), fellow NELUGgers convinced me
that my new engine is, indeed, 10-wide. Pictures of that are forthcoming ...
Please LMKWYT
-s
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) Very clever, Shaun-- I can hardly wait for the rest of the engine! But 10 wide??? It's bad enough to have scale drivers for 6 wide let alone 8! We really need some drivers that are the size of the 5571 hubs IMO. I look forward to your (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New Cowcatcher Design
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| (...) impressed with the "non-standard" usage of the robot arm piece! I am also cross-posting this to lugnet.inst, as I'm sure the folks over there will enjoy! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - BI Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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