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Re: Roundy Roundy
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:59:53 GMT
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> There's been an argument going on about this on our own club site. My side of
> it was that if you want to model a specific length of line to your own
> satisfaction, then do it and forget about detailing the end loops.
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> But, when it comes to a display, hitch your line up to someone else's, and that
> to someone else's, and let someone who wants to build the loops on the end as a
> visible running area do it. Run the track around a castle, or lake, or
> fairground, or something, but don't hide it.
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> Does anyone seriously think the viewing public are fooled by this huge 6" square
> covered area where trains magically seem to enter in one direction and come out
> travelling the other way?!?!? Because that's what you're expecting of them.
> All you do is force people into a narrow angle from which to view the layout.
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> I'm all for diverse and separate sections along a display too, but too many high
> dividers just inconvenience people. I'd love to just slot a Classic Space scene
> in the middle of one of our runs, with the trains going straight through
> moonbases and stuff, but I know a few club members who'd have a fit if I
> suggested it. :-)
For exhibition layouts I would say I have to agree with everything youy say
above. Lego IS a toy and if you want trains to go through a moon-base so what?
Loops allow for continuous movement with less operator effort. My comment about
the exhibition layouts is more due to the fact that that is what I have seen the
most pics of. However there are people with pics of their personal layouts on
Brickshelf and they seem to follow the same pattern, although smaller.
> I did build a single table-top shunting layout, with just enough ramp to have
> two curved sidings pass one under the other. It was great to have running
> trains on our smaller displays, but it was tedious as hell to operate all day.
I remember you mentioning that at the Brickish AGM and thought it was
interesting. It sounds exactly the sort of thing I'd like to build FOR MYSELF so
that I could do complicated shunting when I wanted (but not all day!) Did it
work well, ie was it practical to operate or did it need intervention from 'the
great hand in the sky' a lot?
Tim
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| (...) Here's the track plan: (URL) I don't have any pictures of the finished module, but I think there might be some from the club events pictures. The siding in the very bottom-left started on a pier at the front of the table. That went under a (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) There's been an argument going on about this on our own club site. My side of it was that if you want to model a specific length of line to your own satisfaction, then do it and forget about detailing the end loops. But, when it comes to a (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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