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Re: Four 'European' (O.K., British) Short Wheelbase Wagons
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 9 May 2005 20:34:03 GMT
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I designed the body of one of these in 7 wide a couple of years ago with some design
similarities such as the door-rail rib around the top. Spookily I was just
thinking about finishing it off recently! I might have to steal your
underframe detailing. The question is, what colour should it be, the
unfitted ones might have been painted grey but they mostly looked like
this!
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That’s not exactly what I was basing mine on, but I can’t find the pictures
at the moment.
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There’s lots of different body designs, I can picture the type you have made in
my head but can’t remember the reasons for the details differences. I know they
got rebuilt with a different rib design but which is which, nope its gone!
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I can see yours uses SNOT to make the ribs. Can you actually
build it?
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I built half of
it (1) this evening to see if I could! It does work but like many of my virtual
designs is a bit fragile. I also think that the necessity of using lots of small
elements detracts from the smoothness of the sides. I have to say yours looks a
lot better really.
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Is the lower ribbing done with 1x6 tiles anchored internally?
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The lower ribbing is 2x2 tiles held by one stud, its actually not as weak as it
sounds. I can’t remember the rational behind some of the design decisions, it
made me wonder when I was building
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And are those inverted slopes between the ribs or SNOTted facet bricks?
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SNOTted facet bricks and 3x3 wings
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Mine is mostly 5-wide so the ribs and door rails extend out to 6-wide. I
presume yours is 6-wide in the body? It’s a little taller too, but the
building techniques would adapt to something smaller. I quite like it
actually, and may have a go at a 6-wide SNOT type.
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Its 7-wide in the body so 8-wide over the ribs. I think I might have another go
with a 6-wide body, I like some of the design features (especially the interface
of the SNOT body with the stud up lower end) but not it as a whole. It also has
problem I find with a lot of my designs, it uses lots of the same parts, for
example it uses 16 of the 3x3 wings. If I made it six wide I could use the 6x3
double version.
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It’s just a bit of a shame I don’t have the bits to build several of these.
I’ve done two of each of the others.
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Yes, i think you need at least ten to get the right impression, I think the
average train was 22!
Sorry for hijacking your thread a bit
Tim
(1) sorry for the crap picture quality, Microsoft Photo Editor does a ribbush
job of resizing
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