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Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
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Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:53:20 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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P.s.: ALL German steam engines 1920...1970 have been black and red. Only in
war times some had camuflage colours. So I will probably stay at this
colours.
Just engines before WW1 offer some colours like green and blue. And some
prototypes and private owned where coloured differently as well. I could of
course try some engines of the European neighbours one day.... There are some
really nice engine designs in Czechia.
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I know - I’m lucky that British engines came in a huge variety of colours,
thanks to all the different railway companies over the years - for example, some
trains are even black at the bottom and red on top! Can you imagine? ;-)
I find it funny that the part of the train that collects the most dirt is
painted bright red on german trains, and the top, that everyone sees, is black.
Several British trains had the spokes of the wheels painted to match the body
colour, or maybe the sides of the soleplate were painted, but the underside was
never a bright colour.
I notice the Germans are very proud of their engineering, and always want to
show off the moving parts. In München, I remember the escalators in the station
were all glass so you could see the mechanism working underneath. You don’t get
this anywhere else.
The British trains also hide a lot of the valves and pipework inside the smooth
lines of the body, unlike German trains that sometimes seem to have been built
inside-out. It does make them easier to model.
Jason R
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Well, yes and no. You don't have to add as many greebles for a British engine, but it makes getting the shape right even more important to capture the character of the prototype and differentiate from other classes. Tim (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks for your feedback Jason! I think your engines (and your other creations as displayed during the past days as top entry on the left hand side of this group) don't have to hide, but belong to the most accurate and complex models I have (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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