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Re: Factory Train Contest Entry
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 30 May 2006 13:43:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:
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What is the piece count? How many extra elements do you get?
SteveB
In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal wrote:
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My son Ross was messing around in the LEGO factory, and I encouraged him
to submit his efforts to the contest, so here it is:
- It is based loosely on his GP50
- The color scheme is by necessity, not by prototype. Could be CP though.
- The sticker price is rather shocking ($122.22 without motors!) Buy it (if you dare;-) HERE
I never really give much thought to how much MOCs eventually end up
costing; now I think I know why;-)
JOHN
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Hi Steve,
Following the provided link ;) I find 1067 parts and I assume there are no
spare since it’s Factory on demand.
John,
Can one engine really have 1067 parts? Do all your engines have about 1000
parts? That is huge!
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Yeah, between 8 wide and schleiming, the piece count tends to creep north...
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I think my three car Moscow Metro rake only has 1200 or
so parts. Wow! I am so glad I build in the proper scale :P
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So you don’t have to sell blood to afford your hobby? I see what you
mean;-)
JOHN
BTW, it doesn’t cost anything to virtually build 8 wide....
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Surely you have to pay in sweet and tears as well as the aforementioned blood
to design in LDD. Mmmm... sweet LDraw converter :-)
Nice loco, pity you can’t get very good images off LDD to show it off better.
(Another) Tim
(My (four wheeled) tram has over 1000 parts)
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I guess it’s easy to forget that the piece count goes up vaguely cubically.
Since (8/6)^3=2.37 is about 1000/400=2.50 I guess the trains fit nicely to that
rule. I suspect that in eight-wide you use less small plates as a fraction of
the train but you add more greeblies etc. which makes up for it.
That said by my calculation you would only need about 100 pieces to scale your
tram down but I suspect the greebling and other part counts count stay about the
same after a certain point which flattens off the relationship... Have I ever
mentioned before that I am a nerd?
Tim
PS. It is a nice loco, particularly given the part restrictions (insert rude
comment about 8-wide here).
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| (...) Surely you have to pay in sweet and tears as well as the aforementioned blood to design in LDD. Mmmm... sweet LDraw converter :-) Nice loco, pity you can't get very good images off LDD to show it off better. (Another) Tim (My (four wheeled) (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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