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Re: New Look for old trains
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Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:56:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> This has got to be the most impressive MOC collection of trains in the world,
> James. You are one prolific dude, dude:-) I like the way you end on 8 • wides--
> kind of implies an evolution of sorts! <g,d,r>
Ending on 8-wides. Well, I guess I was just trying to separate the two scales,
6-wide and 8-wide from one another. But, I guess I really didn't do that since
I included the 8-wide EuroTram in the Mix of 6-wide passenger stock. I don't
know...
As for the slide show, ever since Ben Beneke tantalized us with his April
Fool's joke, I have considered what is another way to showcase MOC LEGO train
models. I didn't want the look of an official catalog, but I did want the
train sets to be recognizable to their real-life versions. I also wanted the
showcase to be fairly easy to put together, both for the web and on paper.
> Speaking of the 8 wides, regarding the euro box car:
> http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/train_portfolio/sld044.htm
> I noticed you have gone to great lengths to offset the sides and roof, but as
> I
> look at the proto, I see that the offset is negligible. I happened to notice
> this because I have just gone through the same design exercise with a couple
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> box cars of my own, and I decided to use the breaks in the tall bricks to
> *imply* the offset, even though they are flush. Did you ever consider doing
> this? (Sorry I don't have pics yet to illustrate).
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> -John
I started off simply trying to reconstruct an imitation of Gianluca's excellent
red DB "Cargo" box car.
see it at:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1339
I agree with you that the photo of the prototype I selected does not appear to
have such deep offsets as I have modeled into my white box car. In fact, I
think Gianluca's offset is not so deep as mine, either.
Thanks!
later,
James Mathis
> James Mathis wrote:
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> > I have put together a look layout look for several of my train creations.
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> > I have tried to pair my model made of LEGO bricks with photos of their
> > real-life counterparts.
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> > I welcome any comments and criticisms regarding organization, presentation,
> > content, download times, etc.
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> > Thanks for taking a look. Here's the link:
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> > http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~jmathis/train_portfolio/index.htm
> >
> > This presentation was generated with Microsoft's PowerPoint application, and
> > then converted html using PowerPoint's built-in "save as html" function.
> >
> > later,
> > James Mathis
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