 | | Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | Here is a little trolley that I built yesterday to run around the Christmas tree this year: (URL) Aside from the WOW factor of seeing a MOC completely in a rare color, it was a pretty straight-forward build. The only tricky part was the fact that I (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Ladasky
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| | | | | (...) That was in fact the first part of the model that caught my eye. Well-played all around, John! (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks, John! Being a sharp-eyed building connoisseur, you not doubt surmised that the "secret" to the roof is attaching all of the 2x2 tiles using only their center tube. The 1x6s are attached using perpendicular half studs. JOHN (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —David Laswell
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| | | | | (...) In-home, floor level use is probably fine, but if you ever run that on a layout you better hope that it doesn't take a spill, or the silver paint is likely to get uglified. I was never really sure if they were painted or not, but recently I (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Whoa, thanks for the heads up. Our tree is in a carpeted room, and I doubt I'll ever run the thing except around Christmas time. It'll probably spend most of its life on display. Sad to hear about the scratching issues, Dave. I will remember (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) The painted silver parts can take a certain amount of abuse (I mean, the stuff doesn't flake off when you rub it, so...), and simply tipping over probably isn't enough to do much damage unless it's at high speed on, say, some sort of natural (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Dood! Model railroaders go to great lengths to get that "weathered look!" (URL) When I was with the GMLTC, we did a show that featured an amazing guy who scratch-built these beautiful 8" gauge live steam locos. They were unfreaking believable! (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) The Nerd Herd cars are never smeared with sooty grease that I can recall. Utterly destroyed, on occassion, but otherwise they are clean and pristine. (...) Did I say functional model steam locomotives? Because I meant the kind that can flatten (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | (...) Nice! Shiny toys are good. But... you're not the most insane user of metallic silver on a train. That honour goes to Peter Norman (URL) ;) Tim (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Not so fast, Speedy. Although that is a beautiful MOC (which I hadn't seen until now; thanks for showing it), you've never seen my first metallic silver effect that I built a few months ago. (You haven't seen it because I haven't posted a pic (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | (...) I assure you any laying down of challenges was entirely unintentional ;) (...) Hah! You're going to have a really fun time detailing that one. There's a certain charm to building in the metallic colours. It's like dark blue in the good old (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | (...) Lol, just bustin' your chops! (URL) (...) Yup. I took on the "dark blue" challenge with (URL) this trolley>. Ahh, the good old days. Remember when orange was new? Or how about green. JOHN (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | | --snip-- (...) I remember how pleased I was with the brown 1x2 brick and 1x2 plate I got as horse filler back in the 80s. And green was what baseplates and trees came in. I can just remember when grey was rare. Of course those lucky dogs in the LEGO (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —Benn Coifman
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| | | | | | (...) Oh, so that's where all the metallic silver went. John, you're insane (grin). But I can't wait to see the full train set (grin some more). Benn (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Ha, well, the full train is going to be more like today's tourist lines: a hodge-podge of various cars. I already have a 12 wide Hiawatha car that I have built which I need to convert to 14 wide, and a 14 wide Soo Caboose I built about 10 (...) (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —David Koudys
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| | | | In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) Nicely done! The complexity of the build is masked by the simple look of it all--I love it Dave K (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool) —John Neal
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| | | | In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks, Dave. It is also quite sturdy, which is the real reason why I built it. I was running (URL) Trolley> around the tree, but our English Mastiff (URL) kept objecting!> (URL) I needed (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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