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Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:51:08 GMT
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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? ...

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 to add greebles (that train had a lot of boiler detailing). However on the right sort of prototype such as yours or this one it is really effective.


There is nothing new under the sun.

I just discovered the following, without looking for it. So it seems to be destiny that I should share it:

Pony-ear-SNOTted macaroni boiler from 1966

That page also shows some micro-scale trains, one in 1-wide scale, which I guess still today would have to be classed as avant garde...

/Martin



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(...) Hey look - on that same page is Larry's (URL) Center Flat Car with Transformer>, in the same colors even. Cool! -Matt :) (19 years ago, 21-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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(...) 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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