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Re: building 6 wide cars, looking for ideas/inspiration
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lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:45:52 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Our train club has decided to use 6-wide cars (instead of the usual 4-wide)
> for our next layout and I am looking for ideas or inspiration on how I can
> build them. More specifically I am looking to build a small hatchback in
> 6-wide and want ideas.
> Looking to use the newer style car parts like the new wheel arches ideally.
I second the idea of flipping through Spencer's gallery. When I decided to make
a 6-wide red vintage convertible, I went straight to his stuff just to see if
there were any ideas I could glean from them. After all, I didn't want my car
to look pathetic and under-detailed if it should ever end up sitting next to his
on a MichLUG layout
Now, while he tends to design unbelievably complicated, solid-block, SNOT-heavy
cars (several of them have downward-facing tiles on the underside because if
he'd used plates the tires wouldn't touch the ground) and I prefer ones that can
still fit either whole or half-minifigs inside, the one thing that I really
bring away from his gallery, and even from some of the more recent 6-wide
official LEGO vehicles, was the importance of using SNOT construction for the
front and back ends. If you build those two sections studs-outward, you get so
many more options for complex details.
Anyways, did you have a specific hatchback in mind, or are you going for
something fairly generic?
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