 | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | (...) With engines I always try to build to scale as far as possible, with coaches this usually isn't possible due to length vs curve radius and a few other practical limitations. Around 50-60 studs would be the max for length of any rail vehicle. (...) (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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| | | | (...) I think it all boils down to what PURPOSE you want your train MOC to have. Whether you want it to be just a beautiful display piece, to run on a layout, or hey, even a mixture of the two. A good example of the former would be this model (IMO) (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Agreed, those models aren't built primarily for their running qualities. (...) Except that I found out (second hand, I wasn't there, I was in S'pore) that it's not as good a runner as I had hoped. Needs tuning on a big layout... Sigh. I agree (...) (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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| | | | | | (...) Seems to me you have a lot of problem(s) running LOL! ;-) Legoswami Highly subtle one, 50/50 chance you'll get it, IMO. (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Compressionism (D&RGW coach set) —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | (...) I usually want it to do both... My Gls box cars & all my engines are pretty much uncompressed. If I look at (URL) , by Ludger Havighorst, I also see true-to-scale trains which run fine. It's just a matter of picking out a model which lends (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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