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Re: James Mathis really has caught the 8-wide bug!
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Date: 
Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:52:47 GMT
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I don't want to say "I told you so", but...;-)

Bram Lambrecht wrote:

> Yet another 8 wide from James Mathis:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1995
> 
> Nice job!  Although I don't see any new innovative techniques, the model looks
> very realistic.  Great details!  Almost makes we want to get into trains...but
> I have no money...just a bunch of 4.5 track and about 12 or so single wheel
> sets (unadorned 2x4 brick with black or red wheels).
> I'll just have to build another truck. (I now have some 6 wide windshields...
> that means I can build at least an 8 wide truck :)

Hey Bram, why don't you create some really cool locos and cars in ldraw??  I
mean, for me, a ldraw MOC rendered in POV Ray is cooler than digital pics of
actual MOCs any day!!  An MOC is only cooler in person...

-John


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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: James Mathis really has caught the 8-wide bug!
 
(...) Really, I think the "it has actually been built factor" lends a lot of coolness to the digital pictures. When I see the cool POV Ray stuff I always wind up thinking "Cool, to bad it is not real". On the other hand, a picture AND an MOC (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
  RE: James Mathis really has caught the 8-wide bug!
 
(...) Problem is, I build best IRL. It's very difficult (at least for me) to come up with a complex design in LDraw alone. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  James Mathis really has caught the 8-wide bug!
 
Yet another 8 wide from James Mathis: (URL) job! Although I don't see any new innovative techniques, the model looks very realistic. Great details! Almost makes we want to get into trains...but I have no money...just a bunch of 4.5 track and about (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)  

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