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Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:54:50 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Looks great, Tim. I think the smaller models require more clever bits to be
convincing such as the use of the 1x6 arches. 7-wide is beginning to grow on
me too!
Jon
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for your comments. I agree about smaller models being more fun. I love
having to find ways around problems that would be so simple to solve in
eight-wide or larger.
But... don’t get into seven-wide!!! Seven-wide is pretty much doomed if we
don’t keep getting the 9V stock. That said, if I can I’m going to cut the
baseplate off the battery pack and see what I can do if I’m forced to.
I try to use it only for wide prototypes like Russian and Indian, partially
because I like using the standard train plates and partially because I
consider myself a six-wider. I see seven-wide as wide six-wide. This one was
an accident as I thought it was wide gauge from the first pics I saw and by
then had decided on my plan.
Tim
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I’ve enough 9v stuff to keep me going for a bit but I take your point regarding
the IR trains - difficult but not impossible in 7-wide.
I also look on 7-wide as a wide 6-wide. I’ve seen some very convincing MOC
examples and note that you can get away with the same loco/wagon length as the
6-wide models, or at least very close to it. Some wagons would remain 6-wide as
they are prototypically narrower as would be my tube train.
Apart for the visual appeal of the additional width, it would have been a lot
easier to build my class 08 shunter...
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=2683
...with that extra sud width!
Jon
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| (...) Hi Jon, Thanks for your comments. I agree about smaller models being more fun. I love having to find ways around problems that would be so simple to solve in eight-wide or larger. But... don't get into seven-wide!!! Seven-wide is pretty much (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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