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Dallas DART light rail
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:45:50 GMT
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Here is a first-go at the
Dallas DART light rail
commuter train.
The goal for this set was to implement a half-plate thick black line across the
side of the train to better match the
livery of the DART.
While I think I do have the half-plate black line, I didn’t achieve completely
flat sides. Just below the half-plate black line are SNOTted 1x8 and 1x4 yellow
tiles-- they stick out by one-tenth of a stud.
There is no roof for minifigures to sit in chairs inside due to the SNOT
brackets on the interior floor.
The roof is placed studs-down.
The stud sticking out to the side of the car near the vestibule is a consequence
of inverting the new yellow 1x1 slope just above the coupler.
Thanks for checking it out. I don’t have any break-outs of the construction.
It’s just a mix-mash in MLCad right now.
I had thought of using a bunch of 1x2 hinge bricks. Steve Barile and Jason
Railton, and I tossed about some
thin-striping concepts a
while back.
I guess I had forgotten that I found some time ago
nearly the same
thin-stripe solution as I re-discovered for the DART build, and this one may
work with minifigs in chairs. Now I think I need to revisit DART to see if I
can make this work better. The trick is the inset 2-wide and 4-wide doors, I
think. The prototype wagon didn’t have any dicernable doors.
later,
James Mathis
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