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Re: BF 2003 Container Swap
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lugnet.trains.org
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Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:38:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Ross Crawford wrote:
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Thanks for the info Lar. How does this generally work? Do all clubs that
register bring enough containers to swap with all the others? Or do you
choose who you want to swap with beforehand? Also it looks like some clubs
swap stickers, M>ltc would possibly want to do this, depending on the number
of swaps, to reduce luggage space required. AFAIK I’m the only Aus intending
to attend, though that may change. Certainly the only M>ltc rep so far.
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At BrickFest 2003 in DC we did an “incremental swap”. Search for posts by Rob
Hendrix around that time, he posted some very good explanations. Basically, in
an incremental, suppose that there are 10 old (already have each other’s
containers from a previous swap) and 5 new (never did a swap before) clubs.
The old clubs bring 5 containers each. The new clubs bring 14 each. At the end
of it each old club has 5 containers (one each from each of the news) and the
news have 15 each (one each from the 10 old and the 4 other new clubs). Mix
stickers in or mix in clubs that participated in some previous incrementals but
not all, and it gets more complicated but that’s the gist.
So far all the swaps have been incremental. If a club chooses to participate it
is in for all clubs that it needs to swap with, there is no “I like ABLTC so
they get one, but not CDLTC so they don’t get a container from us” that would be
bogus.
Rob did up a tracking spread that tracked who had to bring how many of what.
That’s findable too if you find his old posts.
Hope that helps. (if someone wanted to write up an ILTCO library article on
this, that would be great too!)
Coordinating this is not hard but it’s good if it is done by a somewhat detail
oriented person... I would LOVE to get a volunteer for this! It only takes a
small amount of time at the con, most of the work is advance work. Any
volunteers???
Don’t forget I am also looking for people to give presentations! Rosco maybe you
could do one on modeling trains while standing on your head?? :-) Or challenges
in working in very large scale like with that streetcar you did?
++Lar
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| (...) I'm thinking about going to the brickfest in Portland. I just have to see what a plane ticket costs. And the other expences. Do we make one container for each LTC ? Or 1 container for each member off all LTC's ? And how do I put a order in for (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks for the info Lar. How does this generally work? Do all clubs that register bring enough containers to swap with all the others? Or do you choose who you want to swap with beforehand? Also it looks like some clubs swap stickers, M>ltc (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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