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Re: LEGO Desert Express
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lugnet.build, lugnet.trains
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:08:18 GMT
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johnneal@/nospam/uswest.net
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Holger Matthes wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> X-MAs is just waiting outside - a good time to see what'S going on in the
> desert: Over the last weeks I build a model of "Namibia's unique railway
> experience" - THE DESERT EXPRESS.
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> A black and white picture was shown in my local newspaper and I thought: "Taht
> might be a great project for LEGO!" After very nice e-mail contact with the
> Desert Express Management I finally recieved some colored pictures by Michael
> Obert. The blue was LEGO blue, the yellow seems to be LEGO yellow and the white
> is LEGO white - so were is the problem?
>
> I decided to build it 8-wide! (So what you think John?)
Oh, I'll tell you what I think-- Wunderbar!! What a great train to model and what
a nice job you did of capturing it in LEGO! Those windows are nuts, and yet you
rendered them perfectly with bricks! I also like your presentation-- nice photos
and diorama. I think your decision to capture it in 8 wide was wise because you
really were able to get in a lot of details in the engine and cars. My only nit
would be on the passenger car roofs-- I would like to see them using the half
round brick as I have done here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/J-2/8wide/Hiawatha/hidiner1.jpg --but I know how
hard it is to collect those pieces! Hello...LEGO Direct bulk service....? ;-)
Terrific job, Holger. You are a credit to the 8 wide fraternity:-)
-John (redirected to .trains:)
> Make up your own mind
> by comparing the real pictures and my model at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2385
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> The real Desert Express has 8 passenger cars and 1 luggage car and operates
> from Windhoek to Swakopmund in Namibia / Africa. It's a luxuary train for
> tourists and it stops in the evening to see the sun set in the desert.
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> The LEGO DX just have 3 cars (each 46 studs long) and a huge engine! The
> luggage car door's where build by an idea from James Mathis - Many Thanks on
> this way to James!!!
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> So what do YOU think?? Anything else you want to now???
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> Kind regards and MERRY CHRISTMAS
>
> Holger ...from Germany
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| (...) John, I'll nit your nit. I think that the curved bricks are too sharply curved to model the curve on the top of the cars in the pictures that HoMa posted. I think the multi plate roof is a very nice work around for some hard to get pieces (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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