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Subject:	Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:56:25 GMT
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Hi Mark,

Now I see what’s wrong with you eight-widers. You try to make things look accurate instead of doing things that are fun. :P

Of course a square carriage would have been fine and looked just as accurate if not more so but adding that curve was too much of a challenge to pass up.

Tim

Is that just super-affluence of red curved slopes or was the carriage affected by a passing dementor? :-)

I don’t but CAD does. I figure those parts are appearing everywhere now so it’s only a matter of time before Brickilink reflects their true value.

Anyway, to compare notes, here’s a link to my 8mm scale Hogwarts Express, a scale model of the Hall class engine (5972 Olton Hall) used in the films (Oh for some larger BBB blind drivers!). I believe the coaches were also red rather than dark red in the films, so I haven’t waited to accumulate lots of dark red pieces! Isn’t this just as much fun in a larger scale?

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=90774

Carriages look good although I don’t like the gears too much. Have you thought about using part 2903 with a 32065 across it to fit the drive rods?

I have Harry and friends in the windows and lights in the firebox! I took pictures of real coaches at preserved railways in order to get the proportions right, including the positions of the battery boxes and vacuum brake cylinder underneath :-)

Far too much work for me ;)

I intend to build more coaches soon, with the brake coach having a different layout. I might stick with 3 coaches rather than 4 though, as the length of platforms on the layout becomes a limiting factor!

Mark

I made the IR coach into a sort of brake coach/baggage coach. Just made up the internals as films are rarely consistent anyway.

Tim

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		Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
(...) Sadly those wheels are too big, being 8ft diameter to scale. I did consider the wheels from the bar code truck (part 6595), though I have them only in white and light bley so far. I've also experimented with model team wheels with tyres. The (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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		Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
(...) Is that just super-affluence of red curved slopes or was the carriage affected by a passing dementor? :-) Anyway, to compare notes, here's a link to my 8mm scale Hogwarts Express, a scale model of the Hall class engine (5972 Olton Hall) used (...) (19 years ago, 22-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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