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| (...) Excellent. I love the colors. My friend was in Istanbul over the holidays. I am going to forward this link to her to see if she recognizes it. As always, very inspiring. Jonathan PS: the .trains sidebar link for this appears to be mis-directed (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| --snip-- (...) And I'll raise you with (URL). You can see the two face designs there (maybe three). (...) I "scale" stuff only insofar as things look OK together. In the case of 8-wide it's more the length I'm worried about (I've actually (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks. I didn't document it very well, and now it is in mothballs. It won't come back until we redesign our subway modules (which is at least a year away). Hmmm, maybe I'll lend it to the GMLTC.... (...) Check out (URL) linkie> Ours is the (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Istanbul has better colours :P and a fancier roof. (...) Very nice station. (...) But then I'd lose the fun of squeezing the shrouds in as much as possible. (...) I've admired that one before. I love the window arches and rivets on it. Didn't (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Cool. This is the (URL) same model> we have here in Minneapolis. I had built a replica of one of (URL) our stations> for the Philly show, but never got around to finishing the light rail cars themselves:-( Now it's on the dreaded backburner. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| --snip-- (...) PPS. Credit to Jason Alleman for his close-coupling. Yes, I've used it again ;) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Hi all, Saw this one a while back while looking for other trams in Istanbul (oddly enough). The face gave me nightmares for ages but I finally hit on an adequate (at least in my opinion) solution a couple of days ago. Tim (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| (...) Hi Beat! LEGO makes test molding for each molding device, so it's clear that many proof parts are molded. The rails you have, are like the one I own (with the only difference that my one is for 9V). The black one is surprising because red is (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Red may also be (or at one time was), the most used color. So it may be easiest to load a new mold into a machine running red ABS. I don't think it's surprising they would do 40 test moldings. The mold probably has at least 4 rails. And they (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) There's a pretty comprehensive article on the red test moldings at (URL) the article notes, test moldings are often done in red because it is the most difficult color to mold. Hence, Jason's theory makes a lot of sense. It is surprising that (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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