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Re: Milwaukee Road GP20 locomotive
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Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:06:57 GMT
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Matt had raved about these to me after the show, but while I had noticed the
doors, I hadn’t noticed the SNOT frame, and he didn’t mention it! Have you found
it any advantage or is it a just a nice builder’s feature? Samarth Moray also
built a loco with a SNOT frame a
while ago, I wonder if building studs outward might be worth a go? (files in
(ever growing) mental list of things to do). I’m in two minds about the doors.
The idea is a great way to break up the rather flat (in Lego terms) sides of US
hood locos but comparing with the proto pic it looks like you have to many,
perhaps some mixing with grills would work well.
Having possibly sounded quite
critical, I would say like to mitigate it a bit by saying that I am always very
impressed by the consistent standard you achieve when building SO much stock! If
you want to run a railroad there no point in having one 100% loco and
freightcar, lots of 95% vehicles are much better (if that makes sense?)
Tim
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| (...) Hi Tim, thanks for the 95% kind words (grin). Seriously though, Matt had said roughly the same thing about the grills on the long hood doors. Trouble is, the grills on these doors should be horizontal and given my geometry a grill tile can (...) (17 years ago, 26-Sep-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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