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Subject:	Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:31:03 GMT
Reply-To:	cjmasi@nogarbageplease&NoMoreSpam&verizon.net
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: > Hi train fans, > > the possible(?) end of 9V trains, the blay desaster and the too high demands of > myself against my MOCs have lead to a kind of frustration in my hobby. Due to > all this and more, I lost a lot of the fun that LEGO meant to me in the past, > but nevertheless here comes a new MOC of mine. > > <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2157067<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Ben/train-engines/BR39/thumb/05_br39_mirror.jpg_thumb.jpg>> • [...] > Hope you enjoy + Leg Godt! > > <<http://festum.de/1000steine/album/S/sign4ben.gif>> > > See more pictures of my models at www.brickshelf.com > <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Ben<http://festum.de/1000steine/album/S/banner.gif>> That is an excellent engine that you have built Ben. I also appreciate that you took the time to comment on it. Your models have always been an inspiration, but I think I just learned a building technique from you that doesn't involve bricks. Does this picture http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2151338 show a picture of the model printed on LEGO-scale graph paper? I don't know if I'll ever try to model a train that accurately, but if I do, I'll be sure to use that technique. Thanks for sharing, Chris -- http://mysite.verizon.net/cjmasi/lego/ Learn about brittle bone disease http://www.oif.org/

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		Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
(...) I routinely use locomotive schematics when I build (from (URL)). I'll blow them up to 1:1 to size and away I go:-) For prototype "accuracy", it is the only way to go IMO. Which brings me to the (URL) wide version of Trolley> I'm building. I'm (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

		Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration... / Building over grids
(...) (URL) show a (...) Dear Chris, the picture shows indeed a prototype sketch (a sideview of the engine, which I found on the web). I place this in a grafic program (in my case this is "Micrografx Designer 7.0" which is utterly cheap (<10Eur) , (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

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		First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
Hi train fans, the possible(?) end of 9V trains, the blay desaster and the too high demands of myself against my MOCs have lead to a kind of frustration in my hobby. Due to all this and more, I lost a lot of the fun that LEGO meant to me in the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!

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