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I will say that I liked the baseplate look (I wish I had that many plates for the NGLTC layout, but for now the tables are painted base plate green) but it looked like it had a few draw backs. For one I don't think you'd have a lot of flexibility in (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) When i designed that on track designer i was going for the "city block" look.We were able to get a ton of plates(over 400) from TLC so i really wasn't forced into that design.When we walked in there(to setup) i had the road allready designed (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) It's good to see they helped out like that. Did that include road plates and runway plates or just green 32x32's? KL (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) 200 green 32x32's, 192 straight road, 26 T roads ,32 grey 48x48 and trees.Funny thing on the trees is they told me if i needed anything else other then the plates that i could get it at cost.So i told them give me $100 worth of the large (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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In lugnet.trains.org, James Trobaugh writes: <snip> (...) You could do it in sections like I did for the last show that WAMALUG (and coincidently I) did. Keeping it to one 32 long X 'N' wide sections, you can do a faily decent mountain. Rich -- Have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Baseplate vs Brick landscape (was: Re: Show report)
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In lugnet.trains.org, James Trobaugh writes: <snip> (...) You could do it in sections like I did for the last show that WAMALUG (and coincidently I) did. Keeping it to one 32 long X 'N' wide sections, you can do a faily decent mountain. Rich -- Have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Might I be able to borrow the trees (and any extra straights and switches) for Supertrain2001 one month from (yesterday and) today? SRC StRuCtures (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Baseplate vs Brick landscape (was: Re: Show report)
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(...) Email and we will talk.CWLeach (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Incedentially, we used some of the trees to stablize the plates. We placed trees on the four corners junctions of four plates to lock them into position. The plates were green and so were the tree bases. You might also want to dig up som 2x2 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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