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Re: New German Loco: Green DB139 and more
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:45:46 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> This is where 8-wide crowd wins out again.
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> Commenting on your stud forward nose. I think it looks better than 2x2 1/4 • curve
> (aka macaroni bricks?) bricks becase there are no gaps in your design. A • macaroni
> brick desing would have unsightly blemishes. Imagine letting a train rust so
> badly that there are holes in it!
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> Chris
Also, at six-wide with macaroni's, you can't mount "lights" and have two stud
spacing between left and right "lights"...unless you stick the lights farther
out in front than the macaroni's.
I like no gaps. However, I fault my design on the white stripe around the
front corners. The use of square corner tiles leaves a "notch" in the body
work. That's a tad unsightly, I think. But, I live with it.
This harks to one of my favorite attributes concerning modeling and "sculpting"
with the LEGO "brick" medium:
You have a limited amount of element types with which you can configure and
assemble in many ways to attempt to approximate as close as you can what your
mind imagines...or tries to copy from "real-life".
later,
James Mathis
> James Mathis wrote:
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> > In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > >
> > > Hi James,
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> > > again a very cool model! One could only wish Lego had better windows for • the
> > > train front. (Maybe a kind of train windows in 3x1x2?)
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > Very true. I'm not completely satisfied with the windscreen.
> > I have considered using older style 1x2x2 house windows in gray from my 7740
> > locomotive. I'd have to figure out a way to set them at a slight angle and
> > figure out a way to flank either side with green bricks.
> >
> > The next closest standard LEGO window element that I'd try to use would be • the
> > exclusive black-framed windows from the yellow/black locomotive in the 9volt
> > Freight Rail Runner train set. But, still, that doesn't do it exactly • right,
> > either.
> >
> > later,
> > James Mathis
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| This is where 8-wide crowd wins out again. Commenting on your stud forward nose. I think it looks better than 2x2 1/4 curve (aka macaroni bricks?) bricks becase there are no gaps in your design. A macaroni brick desing would have unsightly (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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