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Re: 30 NEW Train Sets! -- Or Individual Hobby Train Models Pricing
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:26:05 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, 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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Here’s a quick screen capture of the “finished” model. LDD 2,0 doesn’t realy
like working in half-plate offsets. Originally, I started with the headlight
brick spine but the ends of the wagon seemed to curl up! Clipping ricks on
the end was close to impossible because of the difference between the real
position and the added errors. During the construction, I had decided that
the support would come from two 12 x 2 plates imbedded inside the model
instead of the headlight spine. I redid the model using these plates as the
starting point and it went much better since I didn,t accumulate any
round-off errors. Still, some parts were a pain to fit in.
The construction I used resulted in a mostly hollow model so the weight must
be comparable or lower that Jason’s excellent shorter car. Pricewise, its
slightly more expensive at 42,82$ US vs 40,48$ US.
Constructive comments are welcomed.
Daniel Aubin
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That looks pretty good. It’s rounder, and the extra colours are a nice touch.
I’ve thought of trying to redesign mine to be a bit lighter and easier on the
parts count, though I originally built myself two nice grey ones using a spare
pile of headlight bricks, and I’m not after any more.
There are a lot of quirks that come out in LDD2 when you try to do some of the
more complex SNOT techniques, so it’s not always possible to do what you want to
first time. I’ve been trying to build a small steam engine, and I have to use
extra bricks because it won’t let me do exactly what I want.
Jason R
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