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Re: Box cars for display at the "Kidvention"
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:15:13 GMT
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Christopher Masi wrote:
> I gave the plates a try, but I didn't like it. So, I went with the low slopes. Now
> I have to come up with a logo.
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> Thanks Lar,
> Chris
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> P.S. Shouldn't John be chiming in right now with the observation that extreme low
> slopes would fit on an eight wide box car? (Extreme extreme low slopes would fit
> on a twelve or fourteen wide box car.)
Hey Chris-
I'm chiming;-) Sorry, been out of town and and just catching up on email. As to
answer your question- yes, the extreme low slopes are perfect for 8 wide box cars-- I
have collected enough to build box cars of blue, yellow, dark gray, and gray, with
green on the way;-) I haven't gotten over the silly graphics on the red ones to
consider amassing them yet. I will have to take some new pics of my box cars soon
but alas, no time now:-(
As for the 6x8 extreme low slopes, my 14 wide caboose as well as my 14 wide box car
already employ them, with 4 more box car/reefers under construction. Check out:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=322
-John
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> > > OK, I have just decided to create the NO LTC. Read it however you want,
> > > "No LEGO Train Club" or "New Orleans LEGO Train Club". This train club
> > > will exist for only one reason; I want to submit a box car to the
> > > Kidvention/World Record attempt. I assume box cars should be six wide?
> > > Also, when looking at box car pictures I noticed that their roofs are
> > > very flat. Are people modeling roofs with low slopes, or would plates or
> > > tiles be a better way to model the flatter roof.
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> > I typically use low slopes which are technically a bit too steep of a pitch for
> > the roof but which make me happy. Using a 2 stud wide one plate high ridge in
> > the center of an otherwise flat roof might also work.
> >
> > ++Lar
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| I gave the plates a try, but I didn't like it. So, I went with the low slopes. Now I have to come up with a logo. Thanks Lar, Chris P.S. Shouldn't John be chiming in right now with the observation that extreme low slopes would fit on an eight wide (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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