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Re: Hogwarts Express train - collaboration with James Mathis
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Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:25:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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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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Nice effort, Tim and James. This is especially interesting to me (and Ross)
because we (in the sense that I acquire the needed bricks and he assembles
them;-) have studied the Hogwarts Express at length, from finding pics and
schematics online to freeze-framing our HP DVDs to ascertain info about the
train.
Ross’ first effort I brought to Brickfest PDX but I never really made an
announcement about it because it was such a WIP:
He has since modified it, but we are now working on a total revision of it....
in dark red Hmmm. And that is with coaches. Brick acquisition has been slow,
but results will be forthcoming, so stay tuned:-)
Here are some thoughts about yours based on what I have learned researching
ours:
The roof definitely needs to be black. The coaches’ roofs, however, should be
dark gray. The entire train, of course, should be dark red. Since you have
created this baby virually, why not go all out and create it in dark red? :-d
(it might even help your lighting problems a bit)
As was mentioned elsewhere, the tender should only have 3 axles. We explored
the window treatment idea you have utilized and decided that it looked too bulky
and proportionally didn’t work well. So we decided that that treatment should
be handled with decals.
You have decided to use two yellow stripes to show the pinstriping-- we also
looked at this and decided that the plate is WAY too thick to simulate the
delicate pinstriping of the coaches. At best one could use the hinge brick
striping technique, but it would only be able to be used for the bottom stripe
(which actually is a double stripe), so that’s not a perfect solution, either.
What we have finally decided to do is to use a plate for the bottom striping and
use a dark red decal stripe through the middle of that yellow plate to
simulate the double striping. The top stripe will be a thin yellow decal
stripe. In any event, however, I think that having NO stripes is better than
using 2 yellow plate stripes-- they are too dominate and change the entire color
scheme of the train IMO.
One of these days I will be finishing up my rip-offs of the Hogwarts Express
logo, so perhaps that can be placed where people could use it either virtually
or as a decal. I have no idea how that is done virtually, but I could provide
it in any form necessary for someone who could run with the idea.
JOHN
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