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Re: 30 NEW Train Sets! -- Or Individual Hobby Train Models Pricing
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:07:16 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Daniel Aubin wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J Railton wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
Well, my models still don’t appear under ‘trains’, but the cement wagon I
rendered last night has just shown up in ‘Cool Train Creations’, which is a
bit of an honour.
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I really like your cement wagon. In fact, I think it would make a great
starting point for a model of the limestone slurry car pictured below;
I’ve been wanting to model it for some time but I needed to see how you
managed to offset each row by half a plate. Hope you don’t mind if I “steal”
some of your ideas...
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There are four other new ones in there too.
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Two of those designs are mine, the red MMA loco and the tankcar. I also felt
quite honoured and more than a little suprised when I saw them this morning.
I’ve converted most of my models to version 2,0 and most are posted under my
user name. I haven’t yet posted my (scrambled) Coca-Cola reefer Because I
don’t want LEGO to label it “creation” again.
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Thanks - the offset is done by having four ‘spines’ running from the centre out
to each end, made of headlight bricks. The odd ones are upright, the even ones
bridge between them, face-up. They’re colour-coded blue and black if you want
to look out for them in the slightly odd build process that LDD2 generates. I
finish on some face-up ones so the studs stick out for attaching the ends.
This gives you a whole/half plate step every stud. You then have to build
slices of the tank around it progressively one plate higher up, all the way to
the end.
With a tank of that length, you’re probably best doing it every two studs. That
may be a bit trickier as the continuous spine of headlight bricks won’t work.
They’re still the easiest way to get a half-plate height difference though. You
may need to use the full four studs wide inside to arrange yours, one pair at a
time.
Another bug in LDD2 is that it won’t let you place a brick half a plate above
another stud, even if they would fit perfectly if they came together. I know
solid surfaces shouldn’t strictly lie half a plate above a studded surface, but
when it’s a stud that close above a hole, of course it should work! In my
original model, the tank rested on the baseplate, then there was a radar dish
and mini steering wheel snotted underneath. In this model, I’ve had to weaken
the base by making a hole in it, and make it look like I wanted the middle 4x4
part to poke through.
Jason R
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