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Re: 7-wide mania continued......
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Fri, 30 May 2003 16:18:50 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
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> > The new
> > waggons do all have a roof made from shovel parts as suggested by James
> > Mathis in this posting (and it took a few week to collect these):
> > http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=19728
Looks great, Ben! Nice how you constructed an alternate attachment method for
the shovels. Looks like you achieved a slight overhanging lip at the edge of the
shovels beyond the sidewall of the car.
> So you won't be needing anymore of those? ;)
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> > Third and forth waggons are the same as the second one, but in green
> > colour and with grey shovels (which are harder to find than the black
> > ones). http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=412997
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> I *LOVE* these cars! Great detailling, the roof looks great, much better
> than I expected after reading James' idea. Hope to see these in action
> really soon!
Nothing like real bricks to showcase the design, style, and physical "feel" of a
construction. I think Ben's detailing and car design outperforms my CAD version
prototype design study.
Wonderful work, Ben.
later,
James Mathis
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| (...) Hi James, that is right: the shovels have an overhanging of a quarter of the height of an plate which is in metric system 1/4 x 3.2 mm = 0.8 mm per each waggon side. This is a very useful side effect, because by doing so I can put plates (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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