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Re: Help with Orient Express...?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:58:30 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
   My advice, if you haven’t already bought the sets, would be to see if you can get the blue version of the coaches. The Orient Express coaches are all blue for the sleepers and blue below and a light cream above for the day coaches and restaurant cars. With a bit of playing with the window spacing, some white windows and changing the end balconies to slightly narrower enclosed vestibules (maybe four or five wide) I think you could get a passable Lego-ised version. I think the loco you have chosen is a reasonable generic representation.

As the other Tim says, it all depends on how far you want to go with making it accurate. You could go eight wide and use dark blue!

There are some pics of the cars here

(The other) Tim

Oh and adding some thin yellow lines along the coaches would add to the Orient Express look.

Tim



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(...) My advice, if you haven't already bought the sets, would be to see if you can get the (URL) blue version> of the coaches. The Orient Express coaches are all blue for the sleepers and blue below and a light cream above for the day coaches and (...) (17 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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