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Re: CABR buildings and your opinions
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:16:49 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
> > hey all,
> >
> > i updated my gallery with some buildings i'm working on as well as a couple
> > pics of my trains from nwbc. anyway i would love to here your thoughts on the
> > buildings as well as how my CABR project is going in general. i really do
> > want to make this layout as realistic and intersting as possible so let me
> > have it. tell me what you think.
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> > <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=109777>
> >
> > ondrew
> >
> > p.s. yes i know the buildings are not color matched yet. i figured it would
> > be better to get the shape, then buy the parts verses getting the parts and
> > finding out it doesn't work.
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> I too have been following your progress with interest. To my mind what you are
> attemting to do takes Lego scenery modelling to the next level, you seem to have
> recognised that the world isn't nice and square and is in fact full of odd
> angles and little bits left over.
> I also like the sense of continuity of scale, the river, for example, is a wide
> as many seen on train layouts, but is scaled to be a small to medium sized river
> flowing through a town rather than a navigation capable of supporting
> supertankers.
I commented in another post about the hardscape but thank you for noticing. It
has taken forever to get it where it is now. I’m about 14 months into the
project.
True! The super tanker river is planned for 2007, ok probably =). The truth of
the river really is me trying to emulate a bridge in one town and a small river
dam in another. This is why the dam isn’t a straight line. The real dam by me
was actually built in sweeping arcs to make it look more natural; it works well
in Lego I think. I’ll get pics of the real dam someday.
> I think the buildings fit in well with the overall aesthetic, nothing flashy,
> just well observed ordinary places, I think if you get the human (OK minifig)
> element as realistic you are on to a winner.
> Critisms? Its going to take you forever! Mind you it would take me longer. :-(
Unfortunately minifigs aren’t my strong suit but I have Tim Courtney as my
neighbor so I should be pretty well set. The cars are what I’m really worried
about. I hate building in 6 wide. Then again I’m not fond of 4 wide cars either
so I’ll have to figure something out.
Ondrew
> Tim
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| --SNIP-- (...) You could try five-wide cars. If you use the wider wheel plate (part 6157) and regular small size wheels they come out at almost exactly five wide. I find that odd number also let you easily do things like 'angle' the car in to a (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I too have been following your progress with interest. To my mind what you are attemting to do takes Lego scenery modelling to the next level, you seem to have recognised that the world isn't nice and square and is in fact full of odd angles (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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