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Re: Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:43:44 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.eduSPAMCAKE
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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 box car? (Extreme extreme low slopes would fit
on a twelve or fourteen wide box car.)
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
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| The GMLTC already has a couple of 8-wide boxcars using those very slopes... <grin> (John has also built some G scale stuff using the 6x8 extreme low slopes.) Our *next* layout will be designed for 8-wide trains, but since we haven't even started (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
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| (...) Hey Chris- I'm chiming;-) Sorry, been out of town and and just catching up on email. As to answer your question- yes, the extreme low slopes are perfect for 8 wide box cars-- I have collected enough to build box cars of blue, yellow, dark (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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