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Re: 4561 alternates?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:13:11 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.*AntiSpam*chem.tulane.edu
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Martin,
There has not been much talk here about how to modify or rebuild 4561, and I am
at a loss as to how one would turn 4561 into a steam engine (I just received a
4561 for my 31st birthday). Does Finland have a Shop@Home service like we do? If
you have access to a spareparts service you can buy flat baseplates to replace the
stepped ones, but the flat ones are red. Also, if you haven't bought any extra
track yet go buy some. The oval that comes with the train is just too small.
Have fun,
Chris
Martin Erdelen wrote:
> Moi,
>
> have just stumbled into the world of Lego trains, buying a 4561 for my
> daughters for Christmas (probably the last but one in Finland; almost nothing
> available in trains/accessories; given the limited shelf space, the "themes",
> worst of all StarWars, are killing everything else :-( )
>
> Fortunately, had not yet read all the flak it got here; am clinging now to the
> comments pointing out play value as a redeeming feature... ;-)
> The heavy black&red 4565 looked so forbidding, and the girls prefer playing
> with little people, anyway... (talk about role model changes :-)
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> Now, I could just have a very tiny peek (cannot possibly open the box before
> the kids do), and am wondering: The back of the box shows, as a variation, a
> quite nice little old-fashioned steam engine, and also a small ditto train
> (conveniently fogged by "motion-blur" -- how can you do it with those huge
> wagon bases? Or are they using one of these to simulate _two_ small 2-axle
> cars?)
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> Has anyone here on LUGNET already supplied detailed pic.s or, even better,
> step-by-step instructions for these or other alternates? (Without using
> non-4561 stuff...)
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> I hear there is an "ideas" booklet included, but am sceptical about its
> usefulness to us as beginners (but we _can_ view LDAT, if that is an issue :-).
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> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Best regards from the Far North,
> Martin
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| Hi Chris, thanks for the reply! (...) am (...) But surely it should be possible to build what they show on the box? And the old steam engine _is_ shown relatively detailed, i.e. certainly not background decoration (whereas the whole old train is (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| Moi, have just stumbled into the world of Lego trains, buying a 4561 for my daughters for Christmas (probably the last but one in Finland; almost nothing available in trains/accessories; given the limited shelf space, the "themes", worst of all (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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