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Hi All! Joe Comeau and I have spent the last two weeks collaborating on a little project, and we are now proud to present … The Handcar! (URL) overall gallery can be seen here (after moderation): (URL) are movie clips of the car in action, (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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(...) Way cool! (Pretty humorous too) I'm really impressed with the size. You were a little disappointed with the overall size, but for what it does, it's a very clever MOCs. It's also the first one that I've seen that works on a layout using (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Shaun and Joe, Thank you for making me laugh until my stomach hurt. I've watched the video about 20 times! I will try to build one for the next WAMALTC train show. Great! Bob (...) [snip] (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Bob! Glad you enjoyed it! The entire folder's been approved now, and there are 4 other movie clips. In the clips I uploaded I had the train running very slowly, but they're even more frantic when you turn up the juice on the track :) I (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Very cool! Don't worry about it being oversized though. You should see an O-gauge handcar! :^P The little guys with the Studio heads are a great touch. and the basketball legs are a stroke of genius, I must say. I can't understand why you need three (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) Thanks Joe. Actually, I'm very happy with the size...the first prototype was 15 studs long! The handcar litterally got better each time Shaun and I went "back and forth" with the design. Looking back, it seems that Shaun's (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Stefan! Actually, the extra set of small train wheels is just to balance out the look. Personally, I think it looks fine either way. If we could have used just one drive wheel instead of needing them on each side, we would have ended up (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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