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Re: TCLTC Style Track Details
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:03:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mathew Clayson wrote:

   I’ve been playing with as well, but I use a slightly differnt meathode for the curves. I’ll have to check out what you’ve done when I get home, thanks for posting. I agree about the speckling, although I’m using gray and very light grey combined with the dark gray, no black or white. But using only dark gray only was very tempting.

I agree that black and white have no place in speckling. If one is to only speckle regular LEGO track, then using gray and light gray is a good solution IMO. I wanted to alter the tie frequency of the LEGO track, and so that is why I chose to go with dark gray only. Sounds too monochromatic, but in reality, slight shadowing of the plates adds just enough variation to my eye (see below)



I love that section between the tracks:-d

JOHN



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(...) Have you tried adding tan in places where you use more light grey than dark grey? See next to the red & yellow loco here: (URL) Tan has a similar brightness to light grey, so it can break up the monotony of the colour. My research into real (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Re: TCLTC Style Track Details
 
(...) John, I've been playing with as well, but I use a slightly differnt meathode for the curves. I'll have to check out what you've done when I get home, thanks for posting. I agree about the speckling, although I'm using gray and very light grey (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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