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Re: LEGO Desert Express
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:01:27 GMT
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CMASI@CMASI.spamcakeCHEM.TULANE.EDU
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John Neal wrote:
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> Holger Matthes wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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?)
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> 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....? ;-)
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> Terrific job, Holger. You are a credit to the 8 wide fraternity:-)
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> -John (redirected to .trains:)
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> > Make up your own mind
> > by comparing the real pictures and my model at:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2385
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
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
(gray slopes or gray 1/4 curves).
Chris
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| Hi, Some comments on the roof discussion: I have one single grey rounded roof piece in 4 wide and grey ;-((( One DX-car might need 11 of them on each side!! That will be 66 for my train with 3 cars. No way to get so many of that hard to find piece! (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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