 | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) Can't speak for anyone else, but I see it as just about mandatory to do anything useable, and still have bricks left over. Replicating every window, every seat, every rivet is just not possible, so leave some out, as long as the feeling is (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Tim David
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| | | | | (...) Just a thought, brought on by you mentioning leaving windows out. Some European HO manufacturers compress the length of long coaches in HO. They do this by having the basic scale of 1:87 but having the length modelled to 1:100. this means that (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Less windows, in my view. Typically, most modelers feel compression works better by having less of a repeating element instead of making the element smaller (you could do some searching of back issues of model railroad magazines for articles (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | (...) Agreed. Part of the skill (and fun) in building anything real in Lego is to leave in what is essential to the character and leave out what you can get away with to ensure functionality. So, the skill required is beyond simply making something (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Please. Are you implying that you wouldn't have literally 100,000s of bricks "left over"? Or are you speaking for anyone else? :-) (...) (URL) THESE> evoke the feeling of passenger cars as well, so what is the point? Are you about "evoking (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Eggliners (was Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set)) —Tim David
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| | | | | (...) Now they ARE cool! Tim (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Eggliners (was Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set)) —John Neal
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| | | | | | | (...) I like mine sunny side up;-) JOHN (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Eggliners (was Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set)) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Eggliners are a good joke... But to me, they do NOT capture the essence of a train car. There is a place you have to know where to stop compressing and they went TOO far. That is why in my ATSF project, I made the cars LONGER than Lego chose (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | (...) LMAO! Those are cute! I HATE it when I walk in late on an interesting thread and everthing I want to say has been said already :-( (I hope I don't offend anyone by posting these links, but IMO, these are examples where selective compression (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —David Koudys
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| | | | | In lugnet.trains, Samarth Moray wrote: <snip> (...) Then you get this-- (URL) I have bookmarked and still go there every so often to have a boo at the wonderfulness that is 6 wide... Dave K (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Scott E. Sanburn
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| | | | To All, Interesting discussion. Anyhow, (...) Just to clarify on a few things - this is Stefan Garcia's creation, and IIRC, he was trying to get a DTI engine with all of his available orange, and this was the result. Stefan has done some remarkable (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | (...) LOL, I know its Stefan's, I talk to him online. (I hope he doesn't hold my posting that link against me o_o) But I was unaware of the story behind the diesel, thanks for it. I am also aware that he has a big collection, the lucky devil. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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