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Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:43:40 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J Railton wrote:
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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.
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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
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 | | Re: First MOC after quite a while of frustration...
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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