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Re: Factory Set: Checkerboard Boxcar
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:17:18 GMT
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Paul S. D'Urbano wrote:
> For a while I'd been thinking what I really need is a good boxcar for my layout.
> When I saw Christopher Masi's LDD <http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=27469 "Old
> (Millyard) Boxcar"> I knew I had found what I was looking for. The only problem
> was Chris' boxcar was in 8-wide and all of my equipment is 6-wide. So I set out
> to convert Chris' model to 6-wide and in the process I added some features of my
> own. Here's the result:
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=194414
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/durbano/Trains/ChecksBoxcar/a01.jpg>>
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> gallery: <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=194414> • [...]
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> While so much of the credit goes to Chris, I'd still love to know what you think
> of the bits I did. Also, if anyone likes it enough to buy one I'd love to hear
> about it or see pictures if used in a show.
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> Thanks!
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> Paul D'Urbano
Paul,
Thanks for the kind words. I should point out that the sliding door
is a derivative of something the James Mathis Suggested to me a long
time ago :) Also, in the arena of there are no "new" ideas... after
designing my roof I discovered that others have don similar things :)
Anyway thanks for the nod, but you really give me too much credit. Now,
on to giving your model some credit!
I love the checkerboard pattern! I noticed that you used red plates
on the bottom of your model. I didn't think there were enough red plates
to do that. Is it working out well?
By the way, great design, love it :)
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| (...) Hi Chris, Thanks! I'm really glad to hear you like it. Yes, the red plates in the LDD trains palette are sparse but luckily they had 4 x 6 red plates which were good enough for my 6-wide needs. You had a lot more area to cover in 8-wide. (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| For a while I'd been thinking what I really need is a good boxcar for my layout. When I saw Christopher Masi's LDD (URL) "Old (Millyard) Boxcar"> I knew I had found what I was looking for. The only problem was Chris' boxcar was in 8-wide and all of (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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