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Re: Pictures of 8mm:1ft scale trains
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:58:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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As a British lego/train enthusiast I can see that Mark’s models have captured
the look of the real thing very well. The
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=334101 Peak and the Hymek
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are superb but all of them are instantly recognisable, the coaches are the
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weak point if anything. I will also be looking hard at the
broken-back tankers
Tim
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The Mk3 coaches were a bit thrown together as I needed a passenger train
quickly. They date from before my first exhibition alongside other scales and
gauges in October 2000. The bogies have been rebuilt several times as the trim
kept falling off! I meant to lengthen the coaches and have 5-long windows, all
tiled in black, but my list of train building jobs is long!
Still, the doors will open with the flat hinges and the corridors have yellow
ends with a tail lamp. I need to get the black roof bricks to replace the red
and move the Intercity stripe now that I’ve got more red plates.
Hmmm... sounds like starting again from scratch!
The PCA cement tankers are ‘sculpted’ using a lot of grey roof bricks. the
underneath ones in the middle are the double sided ones with a footprint of 4x4
(from Model team fuel tanks). Since support is required inside for the middle
of the roof anyway, it might as well rest on the other raised side of these
pieces.
The solebar is 7-wide, using a lot of jumper plates. The wheels swivel to get
round the surves at 15’ wheelbase. This uses the small white belts to spring
the wheels back to the middle. The 7-wide base was convenient for the unloading
pipework as it’s all connected sideways underneath.
I enjoyed the result of the Peak’s grilles as it’s something that’s difficult to
do in OO scale. The green engines ae the result of buying two extra dragons.
I’ve built a Co-Bo since the pictures were taken.
The Hymek has a yellow slot for a face to be inserted as “Bear” in the Thomas
books is a Hymek (D7101, one more than the real series of numbers).
The Hogwarts Express in the station is built as a Hall engine and has lights in
the firebox as well as 2 train and 2 Technic motors. The coach on that one is
to the proper standard :-) and has the Harry Potter characters in the windows
(for the kids to spot at exhibitions). I might build another coach now that I
have some more red windows, though the station platform will need redesigning to
accommodate it.
I finally succumbed to building a Thomas, even though I don’t have any blue 24mm
pulleys - do you know where I could get some?
Mark
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