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Re: New MOC: VW-beetle // Was: - the Swedish high speed train
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Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:06:26 GMT
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Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote:

But the classic beetle has a stunningly long 'nose'. The new one has a
windscreen that leads to a point far above the center of the front wheel,
while the old one had a nearly 90° windscreen and that line prolonged does
not even cross the front wheel.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/Test/compare.jpg

Love this design! Gotta try building one soon, still one of my favorite
VW cars ever, together with the Polo.

Hmmm... maybe I should have a go at the entire VW range over the years,
might be fun. After going from 6- to 8-wide in trains, going to 6-wide
in cars might work just as inspiring (never ever built any 6-wide auto's
yet :D )
--
Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree   | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/
VanReeDotNet IT Solutions    | http://www.vanree.net



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  Re: New MOC: VW-beetle
 
(...) Thanks for the praise, Jan Albert! I have now made up the model in ML-CAD and it is my first CAD model ever: (URL) to Jaco van der Molen, who teached me in Zwolle how to work in ML-CAD. (...) Nice idea. But I fear it will be hard to build a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.nl)

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  Re: New MOC: VW-beetle // Was: - the Swedish high speed train
 
(...) You are right, it is to far back, but a full stud to the front is even worse: I tried that yesterday in the evening.... :-( Maybe a solution with a half stud might work perfectly? Not easy to build, but surly worth to give it a trial. But the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)

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