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Re: Train catalogs
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 3 Sep 2005 19:00:32 GMT
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David Graham wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Bryan Kinkel wrote:
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> > What if I want to see European engines & stock? Who are the major
> > manufacturers?
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> I like LGB catalogues. They contain American & European trains.
> The pictures tend to be big so good to work from.
The only problem is that LGB is officially narrow-gauge, however several of
their models are normal gauge, making for bad scale. And they do loads of
selective compression (specially length-wise) , so I'd grab a good drawing
of the real thing before building it to avoid proportion mistakes.
--
Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/
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| (...) Normally Lego models have selective compression. Very few people build to scale. Look at MiniLand at Legoland, the Santa Fe Train Cars etc. David (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I like LGB catalogues. They contain American & European trains. The pictures tend to be big so good to work from. David (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains)
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