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Re: My first boxcar
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Date: 
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:34:52 GMT
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Simple and effective, it works well. Those 1x1+1x1 brackets are very useful but not as common as they could be. I like the way you have used the larger than one stud dimension of them to make your design work, thats the bit that always annoys me! However I would say the POV images don’t show the design as well as they could (nothing wrong with the images, its just the working parts are a bit hidden/in shadow) I might have to steal that idea for something!

Tim



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  My first boxcar
 
Here's my first finished attempt at any sort of rolling stock for a train. I wanted a six-wide boxcar with working doors. I managed to keep the doors 1 plate thick by using 1x1 - 1x1 brackets on the back. The brackets stick out from the plate just (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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