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Re: A castle fan's Train plan
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:11:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Matthew J. Chiles wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
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So would anyone be so kind as to describe or give LEGO examples of what a
typical undercarriage of a (steam era) passenger car looks like? Has anyone
attempted the built-in stairs that descend below the train base?
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Anthony-
Here are a couple of styles of built in stairs in train cars I have built.
I’m not the first to do any of these, but they can work well, especially the
one in the passenger car:
http://www.auctionbrick.com/mchiles/christmastrain/passenger.htm
http://www.auctionbrick.com/mchiles/christmastrain/caboose.htm
There several other creative methods that have been used for built in stairs,
including recessing stairs into the base of the train (by not using a train
baseplate), building wider so the bogies don’t hit the stairs on corners, or
inseting the bogies from the ends of the cars. Insetting from the ends of
the cars is probably most prototypcial, but it requires prototypcially long
passenger cars to still look good in Lego and long cars lead to problems on
short radius track.
-Matt :)
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Here’s my suggestion for stairs. Black or grey these:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6231 SNOT’ed so the open top points out. Either
a single vertical row creating an L, or horizonatal pairs for a _ shape.
Remember that other than photos and show-n-tells, few people are going to see
the bottom of the train. I usually stick a small ‘greeble’ underneith for those
viewers that get eye-level to a minifig at train shows.
Good luck!
Aaron
Theme-Crosser
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| (...) Certainly a tried and true technique but doesn't easily make stairs that go into the carriage (the hard bit). There are numerous other parts that are handy, one notable one being the 1x2 plate with rail (part 32028) but it all depends on how (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Anthony- Here are a couple of styles of built in stairs in train cars I have built. I'm not the first to do any of these, but they can work well, especially the one in the passenger car: (2 URLs) There several other creative methods that have (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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