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Re: Train catalogs
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:04:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, David Graham wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> > David Graham wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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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
True, but I think its useful to have the correct proportions to create your own
selective compression from, otherwise it ends up doubly selectively compressed!
Tim
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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 (21 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains)
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