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Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:40:05 GMT
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Hi all,
A couple of weeks ago James contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in
working on a preliminary design of a Hogwarts engine he had made. It was
good timing since I was getting rather bored with no new projects so I
started.
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Heh, why did I have this feeling when I was working on my 4 studs wide
macaroni boiler, that I had to hurry up or else I’d be beaten to it by
somebody else? ...
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It was funny to see your post as I had James’ boiler design sitting in my inbox
from a couple of weeks ago. It’s also similar to an idea I considered for my
Russian L class steamer but decided against for the reason that it would be too
hard to add greebles (that train had a lot of boiler detailing). However on the
right sort of prototype such as yours or this one it is really effective.
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I like the wagons the best, with their curved undersides; that’s what English
wagons look like. The whole thing is actually pretty nice: there’s not much
that could be done to make it look more like the prototype.
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The curved undersides were the most fun bit. Making them work whilst keeping
internals was a big challenge. The progress of the carriages was quite
interesting as the designs got swapped back and forward between James and
myself. James also has a suggestion of a cheaper alternative which may sacrifice
a bit of accuracy but make it a lot cheaper/easier.
I’ll also use this as an excuse to add something else I forgot. The carriages
are involve half plate height offsets here and there. In fact, the IR carriage
is a half plate height.
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The reason that an “actually” crept into the previous sentence is that (and
now some gentle criticisms, or rather suggestions, will follow) it’s hard to
rest one’s eyes on the renders as the luminosity of the red (a warning color,
after all) is far too bright. And maybe the roof of the locomotive cab should
be black after all. Lastly, why haven’t you added a side rod to the big ben
wheels of the locomotive, it ought to work with that design.
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Oh yes! To be honest I am not too happy with the renders at all. The red is too
bright and the black is too dark (which is why the red is too bright or vice
versa). Unfortunately all my playing with lighting couldn’t improve the picture
and so I decided to ship as is. I may upgrade the pictures if I can work out how
to make them look better. It might be the background playing up with the
foreground so I might have to remove them from my ‘playroom’ and onto a white
floor.
As for the rods... I am usually too scared to build things that I haven’t tested
(or can work out easily) in real life. Since I have no BBB wheels handy I wasn’t
willing to add a side rod that might not work. I forgot earlier but I’ll upload
the MPDs so that if anyone wants to they can try adding some.
Thanks for your comments and criticisms (I like criticism as it helps me
improve),
Tim
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