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Subject: 
Re: Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:06:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
OK, I have just decided to create the NO LTC. Read it however you want,
"No LEGO Train Club" or "New Orleans LEGO Train Club". This train club
will exist for only one reason; I want to submit a box car to the
Kidvention/World Record attempt. I assume box cars should be six wide?
Also, when looking at box car pictures I noticed that their roofs are
very flat. Are people modeling roofs with low slopes, or would plates or
tiles be a better way to model the flatter roof.

I typically use low slopes which are technically a bit too steep of a pitch for
the roof but which make me happy. Using a 2 stud wide one plate high ridge in
the center of an otherwise flat roof might also work.

++Lar



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  Re: Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
 
I gave the plates a try, but I didn't like it. So, I went with the low slopes. Now I have to come up with a logo. Thanks Lar, Chris P.S. Shouldn't John be chiming in right now with the observation that extreme low slopes would fit on an eight wide (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
 
OK, I have just decided to create the NO LTC. Read it however you want, "No LEGO Train Club" or "New Orleans LEGO Train Club". This train club will exist for only one reason; I want to submit a box car to the Kidvention/World Record attempt. I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)

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