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LLBillund Train Piece Question
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:16:49 GMT
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Please take a look at the stack on this LEGOLAND Billund steam locomotive.
I am wondering how the red and white circular stripes were constructed.

The stack appears to be 4 studs diameter.
The stud pattern on the circumference leads me to think "macaroni" bricks.
Yet, the apparent height of the stack is composed in layers of red, white,
and black do not appear to be 1 brick tall, respectively.

How is this achieved?
- Is there a 4 stud diamter curved plate?
- Are red/white official LEGO(R) element rubber bands stretched around the
stack?  Perhaps the resolution, clarity, and distance of the picture can not
resolve the thickness of the rubber bands?  For it seems to me that there is
no addition increase in the stack diameter at the levels of the red/white
stripes.
- Is it tape used to make the red/white stripes?

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=246439

Thanks for looking.

later,
James Mathis



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: LLBillund Train Piece Question
 
Oh sure, those are macaroni plates; red, white, and black! Don't you have a baggie full of those? ;) SteveB (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
  Fenders for Light Shrouds (was: Re: LLBillund Train Piece Question)
 
Check out the use of town vehicle fenders used for the headlamp shrouds on this red loc: (URL) clever! later, James Mathis (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: LLBillund Train Piece Question
 
Just to explain what these colours are. Danish steam engines had chimney-bands (skorstensbånd), which marked whom it belonged to. The one we see here is the state railways (red-white-red, Danish flag) DSB, but also other state-related railways used (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: LLBillund Train Piece Question
 
It's interesting to note the 1x2 bricks that form the walls of the circular depression in which the train sits. They are bent to form a curve in the same manner that Daniel Siskind 'discovered' with his boat hulls. Seth. (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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