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(...) Sheesh, would it hurt to be less condescending? :roll: ;-) (...) Legoswami (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Dutch 1851 - by Joep Klazen
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(...) Hi Joep, Seems that trains is very busy with new posts at the moment. I am curious why you decided to change to eight-wide. It seems to me that this train is not gaining anything much from it but perhaps you see future trains as having greater (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Wonderful Show in St. Paul
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GMLTC had a very successful show in St. Paul this last weekend as part of the "World's Greatest Hobby on Tour" show. ( (URL) ) We had people packed in shoulder to shoulder and about three deep for pretty much then entire show. We were about a half (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | State Courthouse, Columbus OH
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My latest addition to the Columbus downtown is the courthouse(click on picture to go to brickshelf folder): (URL) I'm pretty happy with how close I could get it, as the scale (1:100) was pre-defined by the surrounding buildings already exisiting. (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Graffiti
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(...) (URL) Here's a great example of graffiti>, beautiful in its simplicity (almost completely studs-to-the-left). If you don't remember having seen that image before, please check out the (URL) whole gallery>, it' s the most superb urban landscape (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Graffiti
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(...) Depending how detailed you want it, plate resolution can get some reasonable results: (URL) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There have been a few good colourful ones in town scenes of various shows, but I can't find any on Brickshelf at the moment. Reducing the resolution of a real image doesn't work for anything but mosaics. Try building it up layer by layer. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Graffiti
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(...) Please. It'll give me an idea on how to arrange the SOT and SNOT :) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I did some very simple graffiti for my NY Subway scene and I can send you the MPD if you like. The basic principle I worked on was using colours to 'spray' out from the letters. I also think that pastel colours (like sand green/blue, medium (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi all. Seeing as a lot of you tend to do large town scenes for layouts (and I couldn't find a group any more relevant :), can anyone give any suggestions on how to do graffiti on a wall? I have a large (64 studs x 12 bricks) wall in plain grey and (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I need advice on how to transport models to a Con?
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(...) If you're traveling by car, I suggest lots of styrofoam peanuts and large plastic bins. I moved (URL) castle> to Brickfest '05 using that method, which you can see here: (URL) However, if you're traveling by plane, that's a different matter. I (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.storage, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ChMe2 Russian switcher
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(...) Thanks John, I'm alway pleased if I can fool someone. I have actually debuted one MOC in .trains from the brickbuild. (...) I think the proto is Ruusian broad gauge but it should probably be seven-wide to fit in with my vague six-wide scale. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ChMe2 Russian switcher
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(...) Geez, Tim, your renders are getting so good that, from the thumbnails, I actually thought you'd built something IRL! (that's actually meant as a real compliment-- tweaking aside:-) Now I'm thinking that if you are modeling a narrow gauge, then (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | I need advice on how to transport models to a Con?
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I've got several Moonbases (mostly giant endcaps) and many ships and rovers that I'm taking to a sci-fi con. I need serious, and immediate advice on how to move these safely and easily. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." Thanks, Aaron (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.storage, lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, Just a (URL) little switcher>. I thought it was cute and relatively challenging but not too much so it was perfect for a quick build to procrastinate on my main projects. (2 URLs) BS gallery> Please comment whether good or bad. Tim (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.ru, FTX)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) A few tips to make things a little safer; I use the blade of a miniature penknife to do my gouging, not a scalpel. Always cut towards the central frame of the wheelset, then flick the debris out - do it in one go for the smoothest result. You (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Dutch 1851 - by Joep Klazen
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Posted on behalf of Joep Klazen (legojoepie). He would like feedback from non-Dutch trainheads on his work but does not have a Lugnet accound. This is A Dutch locomotive, build by Joep Klazen, who is just started to make all of his Dutch-Trains in (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New Loco MOC
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(...) Hi, I've finally finished the modification on my BB7200 loco, and took the time to make some pictures. So I updated my BS galery ((URL)) , here is an exemple of the new version : (URL) One more time, thanks James Mathis and Gianluca Morelli (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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(...) In the illustrations from the original Awdry books, Thomas has his front lamp on top of the smokebox when pulling a passenger train such as Annie and Clarabel. This indicates a stopping passenger train, class 2. Gordon, on the other hand, has (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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Hehe, guess I'm not used to seein' humor in Lugnet posts nowadays. :p Apologies, Ben. :) -Stefan- (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) You didn't waste my time Anthony. I've got the Super Chief with bad wheel sets sitting on a counter top at my office. I never did the repair and never ran the set because of it. Reading this thread just may give me the impetus to either do my (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) Don't worry about it Ben, I never thought you were being harsh at all. I recognized the sarcasm. But I'm beginning to think I've wasted everyone's time. I've visited all the links you've pointed me to, and when I dug out my Santa Fe out of (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) Dear Anthony, I never had the intention to be in any way "harsh" to you. If you felt like that I have to apologize. I just feel still bad with the "new" MEGA-Blok like colors. And I got warned never ever to mention these in LUGNET trains (or I (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) Thanks for all the info Ben! I apologize if this question had been discussed ad naseum already, but I've done several unsuccessful searches for the info. I've been a castle fan my entire AFOL career, but I've always been interested in trains, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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--SNIP-- (...) Apology accepted in advance ;) (...) Thanks for your compliments. Of course mostly working virtually means I don't have to worry about the colour change although I did set up bley to render properly for some of my stuff which was a (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) Yeah, I thought that was the case . I'm not famous for my tact. Thanks for understanding us on the color issue and letting us talk! :) And apologies in case the tears short circuit your keyboard. ;-) BTW, your recent train mocs have been (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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--SNIP-- (...) I knew that but I was being tactful ;) I have no problem with the colour change and the subject bores me to tears but I have nothing against arguments raging on in .trains, .colour or anywhere else for that matter. Tim --SNIP-- (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) I caught that irony, Ben. It wasn't harshness at all, and it wasn't directed at Anthony. It was partly directed at TLC, but I think it was mostly directed at the LUGNET community, who seem to want absolutely all color talk banished to (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) I don't think Ben was being harsh on Anthony, I think it was directed at TLC in the main. Tim (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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(...) Not sure why Ben was so overly harsh on you there Sava, but any replacement wheels are bound to be new gray (which thankfully isn't as bad as the shift between the dk gray), since they're made for the BNSF Loco in that color. And I don't think (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote: Dear Anthony, you are asking a lot of questions and not all of them can be anwered, but I will try with some of the most important. (...) Definitely these had too high friction due to mismoulded parts done by a (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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(...) I would have thought so, although as I said it varied slightly from railway to railway so I wouldn't worry about it too much. The red light on the end is normally mounted just above one of the buffers, i.e. low down to one side. Tim PS I was (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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(...) snipped (...) Tim, that was extremely useful, thank you. I'm assuming that Thomas with two coaches would be a B class, same for Toby with his coach and baggag car. Is the red end of train light mounted high or low? Mat (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Union Pacific M-10000 MOC
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(...) Thwarted by the color and part availability! The Ldraw render should look great, and the red and yellow just fine. (...) Indeed, a fine shape you found for the nose. I like the use of the classic windows on an older style train. (...) Great to (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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(...) Until the mid-to-late 50s the headlamps formed a code to denote the type of train. There were four positions, centre, left and right along the footplate and top of the smokebox door. See (URL) this site> for more info (scroll down a bit for (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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Last year at Brickfest '05, Christina and I bought ourselves a complete set of the Santa Fe Super Chief (1 engine, 5 cars). I've been hearing about the problems people have been having with the wheel sets, but it's been so long since the error was (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Another Super Chief Observation Car by Tim and James
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It's been 4 years since I worked on the Super Chief Cars for TLG. I've been extremely pleased to see the parts fit into a great many MOC across multiple themes. We've also seen a great many MOC variants of the Super Chief and other streamliner sets (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Brittish Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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(...) Mark, I'm in the US, but I'm modeling some Thomas and Friends engins and cars. Perhaps you can explain a bit regarding GB train operation, past and present. I notice a white lantern, sometimes 2, placed on the front foot plate on many engines. (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Replacement Wire
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(...) I have a similar setup for my sons room. Good for storing trains. But hard for a kid to see from the ground. If you plan to run 3 or more motors on the layout at one time, you'll need a reved up controller, or a second controller. You can up (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Replacement Wire
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(...) First off, I use speaker wire. It's ideal for the apllication. I've even popped open the 9v connectors, and replaced the wire for longer runs. It's also polorized, so I can intentionally create straight thrue or cross cables without haveing to (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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