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Re: 7 wide locomotive - Feedback would be appreciated
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:26:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Kollross wrote:
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As a challenge I rebuilt one of my 6 wide MOCs in 7 wide. It was a lot of fun
to build and the 7 wide geometry lead to some interesting challenges.
Centering the trucks and weight bricks were fairly easy as long as your supply
of jumper plates doesn’t run out anyone have extra in blue :0) . The vents
in the rear are made using 2x4 modified plate with grills and some grill tile.
I haven’t seen that done before. The triple sloped piece on the nose is a new
piece for me to use and I think it works quite well.
The MOC is here:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/2191?r=1669829211
PLMKWYT
Mike
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Another 7 wide convert! (its working Ben!)
Some really nice details on this model, the grill using
 is an original use for a fairly
useless part and looks good. I think the triple sloped piece on the nose also
works well as you say and I wouldn’t worry about the colour.
I was interested
that the bogies (trucks) aren’t the same, but then the loco isn’t symmetrical.
It captures the massiveness that even a fairly small US loco possesses better
than your six wide version, I do like the hazard striped plow on that tho.
Tim
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 | | Re: 7 wide locomotive - Feedback would be appreciated
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| (...) Thanks for the feedback Tim. and I'm definitely a convert. I've already built a passenger car 56 studs in VIA rail colors. and converted my stock car to 7 wide (44 studs) and both look great. I'll post pics once I get a few vital parts in the (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| As a challenge I rebuilt one of my 6 wide MOCs in 7 wide. It was a lot of fun to build and the 7 wide geometry lead to some interesting challenges. Centering the trucks and weight bricks were fairly easy as long as your supply of jumper plates (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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