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Re: Train Windows
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 22 May 2000 18:05:51 GMT
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John Neal wrote:
To make a long story short, the LEGO train windows are *perfect*......for G
scale, or 14 wide scale.  Using them in 6 wide trains or even 8 wide throws
the scale off, unless you are modeling certain Eurotrash passenger cars
which utilize larger style windows.  Soon I will take some pics of my tour
de force, a 14 passenger car and you will see what I mean.

Well... It's only been a few days since I started to seriously consider
eight wides and you are already trying to get me hooked on 14's.  What
kind of pusher are you? :)

I do see what you mean about the size of the windows... but the shape of
the windows just screams LEGO.
-Chris



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  Re: Train Windows
 
(...) The addicted kind;-) (...) Oh, you are absolutely right. TLC got the window shape down perfectly. Of course, scale was never an issue in Billund anyway. For all intents and purposes, use those babies! And thanks for that bit of revelation (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)

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That's the good news. Here's the bad news.... Look at how tall the windows are in that pic. They are about as high as the distance from the bottom of the car up to the bottom of the windows. A LEGO train window is 3 bricks high, so that means the (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)

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