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Re: More pictures!
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Fri, 7 May 2004 16:42:48 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Jordan Bradford wrote:
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You know, I just realized something. LEGO train club builders don’t spend a
lot of time or pieces on actual trains. They instead spend their time and
effort on the scenery around the trains.
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I think each club will be different, depending on its members. Each member
either has a specialism or gets involved with general building. It is similar
for my local non-Lego model railway club. For non-Lego railways, trains are
easy if you’re not doing fine scale, painting or weathering, so it’s the layout
that takes the time. Even then, it’s split into baseboards, track planning and
laying, electrics and scenery, each person leading their specialist bit and
taking an interest in the others.
I have only had the companionship of other Lego train enthusiasts for 18 months,
and as an 8mm:1ft scale builder I have a unique layout, so I can’t expect others
to get involved club-style.
My trains take a lot of time and effort, and have been my major since I began
serious Lego railway modelling. Have a browse round
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=62749 Then again, I have a point
to prove - you *can* build trains to scale in Lego.
My scenery is not yet well developed. There is plenty of space for development
on the boards, as you can see from the layouts folder on Brickshelf. So far I
have followed the non-Lego MRC maxim that the town is there to support the
trains, not the other way round, and that the trains are what the public want to
see (at model railway shows, which I attend). Hence the station on my big
layout measures 2.7m x 1m, with 5 platforms.
Small steam engines took 10-20 hours, diesels 20-50 hours, large steam engines
and Pendolino 50-100 hours! I expect sculpted scenery to take longer though.
My first piece, a 64x64 corner, took a couple of evenings for the first build,
and this has shown where improvements are required. Trains can be built to
scale from drawings, so it’s easier to make them than scenery you haven’t got
measurements for. Scenery requires more imagination. Buildings are somewhere
in the middle, since you can find out the sizes of some. My gasholder and shed
(see pictures) are at the small end of the scale for real buildings of their
type, but plenty large enough for the layout. The station bridge was done from
measurements and the station building is imaginary.
The trains use at least twice as many pieces as 6-wide ones. My procurement of
parts has focussed on the ones that are useful for trains rather than those for
buildings. Yer chooses yer scale and pays yer money!
Mark Bellis
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| Mark's is an example of a layout where there are more bricks in the trains than the layout! But I agree with Larry that just because you put more bricks into your scenery it doesn't mean that's where the effort lies. My smallest engine, an 0-4-0 OF (...) (20 years ago, 8-May-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| You know, I just realized something. LEGO train club builders don't spend a lot of time or pieces on actual trains. They instead spend their time and effort on the scenery around the trains. Those buildings are amazing, especially the ones with (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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