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Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
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Date: 
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:38:12 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
   Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago James contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in working on a preliminary design of a Hogwarts engine he had made. It was good timing since I was getting rather bored with no new projects so I started.

Heh, why did I have this feeling when I was working on my 4 studs wide macaroni boiler, that I had to hurry up or else I’d be beaten to it by somebody else? ...

I like the wagons the best, with their curved undersides; that’s what English wagons look like. The whole thing is actually pretty nice: there’s not much that could be done to make it look more like the prototype.

The reason that an “actually” crept into the previous sentence is that (and now some gentle criticisms, or rather suggestions, will follow) it’s hard to rest one’s eyes on the renders as the luminosity of the red (a warning color, after all) is far too bright. And maybe the roof of the locomotive cab should be black after all. Lastly, why haven’t you added a side rod to the big ben wheels of the locomotive, it ought to work with that design.

Cheers,

Martin



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  Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
 
(...) It was funny to see your post as I had James' boiler design sitting in my inbox from a couple of weeks ago. It's also similar to an idea I considered for my Russian L class steamer but decided against for the reason that it would be too hard (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
 
(...) As usual, I knew I'd forget stuff. PPS. Now cross-posted to .harrypotter and .announce.moc PPPS. I'd like to thanks James for asking me to work on this PPPPS. Now Martin Nilsson knows why I was teasing him about macaronis PPPPPS. And the (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.harrypotter, FTX)  

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