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With the advent of the new "Yoda" brown, a decent color finally exists to model the 2 cars Thomas the Tank Engine always pulls: Annie and Claribel. After scouring Bricklink for dozens of necessary 1x1s and the like (thanks, guys!), I present a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yea, yea! You may have posted yours first, but I bet I built mine first! :p (URL) LEGO Reference (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) enough Yoda brown (which is almost dead-on correct for color matching them) to build mine. As far as I know, the 1x1, 1x6, and 1x8 burnt orange brick didn't even come out until the recently released Privet Drive set. So start pounding the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yup, they are brown. I built them as a last minute thing for our GATS show. I just used what was available at the time. I had enough kids at the show recognize them to make it worth just keeping them the way they are. For me its just the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You know, the actual faces on Annie and Claribel are pretty simplistic-- just black marks for their faces and nothing more (no relief as for Thomas). I was going to create some detailed ones and print them out on clear stickers. I'll have to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Some time ago I posited a rule of thumb... "Every show layout needs a Thomas"... I'm wondering if it's time to extend it? :-) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:H5sDBL.Lyz@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) and (...) What I actually said was "I have a pile of Yoda rust colored bricks on my table waiting to be made into Annie and Clarabel". ;-) I too have (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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