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Re: Proposed 'Legomodule' standard
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:23:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
My only problem with this system is that it is difficult to maintain how the
"slope" from the front to the back is to be maintained between one person's
modules to another's, unless the edge of a module is designated as a high
one with a tunnel entrance or a low one with a bridge.  Perhaps my idea is
not the best for modular display, but I think it is the coolest in terms of
display value.

I agree completely.  That's why we try to do that exact thing on our 'common'
sections - the sections that *always* line up next to each other.  Building
vertical is good - it adds a lot of interest and visual appeal...

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: Proposed 'Legomodule' standard
 
(...) Terminology alert. I'd tend to call sections that are designed never to mate with anything else something other than "common", They're more or less unique, since the interface across the module boundary is non standard and unique to that (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Proposed 'Legomodule' standard
 
I have been envisioning a different idea. Start at, for example, 4 bricks + 1 plate at the audience side of the module. Run 1-2 main lines there. At the back of the module, run 1-2 main lines at an elevation of 22 bricks +1 plate. That leaves 18 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)

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