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Re: Milwaukee Road GP20 locomotive
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:18:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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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 only
give me vertical. I still might try swapping out a few of the tiles and see how
it works. Believe it or not the number of doors is accurate (well, there might
be one extra on one side due to asymmetry of the prototype) but given the
foreshortening in the model, it might look cramped.
The SNOT underframe arose as an off-shoot of the SNOT hood. I had wanted to do
the SNOT hood to minimize the number of transitions between orientations, but
with the roof, I probably wound up with more rather than less transitions.
Nonetheless, the 90 deg angle from the underframe helps stabilize the hood, it
is a great way to get smooth runningboards without tiles, and it allowed for a
nicer transition in the middle of the engine (see below).
So I’ll probably use this trick again, but I’m not throwing away my train
baseplates.
Benn
PS, that’s a great exhaust fan on Samarth Moray’s locomotive
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