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Re: Question on Train Wheel Diameter, Minifig Scale
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:10:49 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Samarth Moray wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote:
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of building a freight car for transporting the Ferrari Truck, I would think
the wheel size would look wrong before the track-width would. Of course you
could model some sort of low profile piggy-back car with smaller diameter
wheels but then whatever locomotive you designed to pull it would not be able
to have wheels that look right.
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The ferarri truck is six wide, IIRC. So an 8-wide car would look best IMO.
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I think you are thinking of
is the set
referred to in this post.
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Alternately you could build a steam locomotive, in which case you can use
larger non-LEGO-train-specific wheels for the drivers. This leads me to my
next question: Has anyone ever considered a way to design larger wheels into
a modern diesel-electric or electric locomotive using some non-train wheels
aesthetically and then hiding the standard train wheels inside some
undercarriage detail just to keep it on the tracks? I’m thinking of the
tricks folks use for steam locomotives.
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You forgot to mention your
hidden power bogie
design which is equally as applicable a principle used with BBB wheels as 6
wheel bogies!
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(This point has already been brought up by ROSCO at JLUG, but I’ll say it
again here.) The small BBB wheels would look good enough for disels/elctrics,
although they are designed to be used on steamers and do have spokes. But the
spokes can be hidden with greebling and details.....
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And some older diesels and electrics do have spoked wheels!
Tim
PS what does IIRC actually stand for? I know what it means.
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| (...) Eeeps! Missed out opportunity for shameless self-plug! :-o (...) I was wondering about that when I had that discussion with ROSCO. Neither of us could think of such a proto, although I know plenty of electrics have the spoked wheels. Care to (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Question on Train Wheel Diameter, Minifig Scale
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| (...) The ferarri truck is six wide, IIRC. So an 8-wide car would look best IMO. (...) (This point has already been brought up by ROSCO at JLUG, but I'll say it again here.) The small BBB wheels would look good enough for disels/elctrics, although (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.trains)
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