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Re: 8 vs. 6 (was: Excited to Finally be here...)
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:22:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tony Priestman writes:
> I'm not being snotty here, I just can't see how you can justify the
> statement that you can make a 6 wide scale model of a standard gauge
> loco.
But I don't think that's what John said. He merely said that his creations were
of the highest calibre. And, after I got to MSP and gave him some lessons, they
are. :-) He's not claiming they're any particular scale.
> Yes, you can make it so that people recognise the prototype it's based
> on, and I assert that *that* is where the skill lies.
And now I agree. I can make models, and John 1, 2 and 3 all can make models,
that get people to say "that's an X!" even though they don't match scale for
scale, and they don't even have window frames or doorways that are to scale
(even factoring out selective compression of the number of windows in a coach
and so forth...)
> The key words here are 'supposed to be.' ie. isn't, but looks like.
Yes, yes... but "looks like" is what I am going for. My Shinkasen (well, my and
Nik's Shinkasen) isn't To Scale... but it caused jamups in the elementary
school hallways and all the parents knew What It Was...
I'll be blunter. Everyone on this thread, are we actually disagreeing about
anything here??? I don't think so, really.
++Lar
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| On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<Fpoosu.HrL@lugnet.com>) wrote at 22:22:06 (...) Probably not. I think either John G misread my post, or I misunderstood his disagreement, because I ended up wanting to write the same thing again :-) I guess I'm (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, John Gerlach (<Fpo6pw.Bp6@lugnet.com>) wrote at 15:51:32 (...) You can make the body look right, but the wheels will be in the wrong place. You can make the doors look right, but a minifig won't be able to get through them. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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