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I am assuming John Neal is completely interested in this:
I have just finished my first 8 wide train car. It is an adaption of Larry
P's custom hopper. I widened it to 8 studs, added 5 plates height to it and
lengthened it quite a bit. I might need to cut down the size of it, but I
don't have anything other than the original car to check my ratios with. I
mainly lengthened it to allow 2 sets of discharge doors on the bottom.
The pictures didn't come out very well, as black is hard to photo with a
digital camera. I will take better ones when I get around to making my Lego
web page this summer.
Here is a picture of my big hopper, followed by Larry's 6 wide version,
followed by Lego's itty bitty blue one.
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/3hoppers.jpg
I also have a close-up of the top of my big hopper showing the two sets of
doors. (The shiny areas are the doors with 1x6 tiles on them) Between the
doors is a 6x6x3 sloped area made of roof bricks.
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/hoppertop.jpg
Finally, I took a pic of the front of the line of hoppers.
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/hopperfront.jpg
It now uses 1x10 plates for the ribs and has 10 on each side. Unfortunately,
it now takes 40 of the stud/pins and technic 1x2 bricks per hopper.
I have now tasted the 8-wide dark side. I am not addicted yet, but I think I
will be once I convert my SantaFe Warbonnet Loco to an 8 wide.
Mike Poindexter
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| Bravo, Mike! {:^D You beat me to the punch-- I had intended to build an 8 wide version of Lar's Hopper as well! It looks great! Don't you think the proportions look a lot better? I especially like the way an 8 wide is wider than its trucks-- which (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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