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    I've never gotten that, either. I cannot believe it's a safety issue - most modern passenger locomotives have far less of a "nose" to crumple than E/F-units.
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    It's a nice looking product, but batteries remain the future.
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    This is really cool. I'm not hyper wild about the non-Lego ladder just because it sticks out a ton against the yellow. But the locomotive is just awesome.
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    It's staggering, but at that BL price... geesh. Would love to see your talents applied to something British - Warspite, Invincible (the battlecruiser), Tiger, etc.
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    Nice models. Not personally a fan of the genesis (IRL - not yours) - it was ugly when it first showed up, and hasn't aged particularly well. The charger is a slight improvement, but not an enormous one. Why we can't build pretty cab units anymore is just beyond me.
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    I said it before, but I'll say it again here: this is basically the only 6w project in existence that I actually want on my shelf. It's just too good.
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    Quoting the Steam Locomotive Database: I think these are the best North American Pacifics ever designed (at least after the rebuild). Mercifully, a number of them survive, including one in (agonizingly slow) retirement in Abilene, KS.
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    This thing really is lovely.
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    Jeez this is just superb.
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    I'd buy one. Would love to see your take on a British rail station from the same era.
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    He's in the UK.
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    I'm going to buy it because... well... we don't get a lot of castle stuff anymore (sadly). But it sure is overpriced for the footprint.
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    Those are some chonky rear treads. I'd love to see a tank conversion.
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    This. I don't like them 'half assing' play scale ships like this. Either do it right, or don't do it at all.
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    Nice shape. I think I might add a third window on the stern, but that's just me.
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    Man, that feels like something you could pick off a store shelf today. Pity it isn't so :(.
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    Very nicely done.
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    Neat engine - super steampunk-y. What can I say about the bridge? Never in my wildest dreams would I invest so many pieces into such a thing, but it came out grand.
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    I don't collect these - they're just too expensive - but I do spend a lot of time admiring them. And, I have to say, I feel like this one is kind of a miss. I think they would have been better off with something like this: You know - very LA City Hall-like. The lack of so much as a parking space for a police car is also jarring.
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    I did. That's why the hoses are gone. When you load LDD stuff into Stud.io, all the work with the bending tool gets forgotten. And... I find the controls in that program to be nigh-unusable. So I just removed them and then did the render :/
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    Thanks. My favorite part is actually the frame under the cab. I was glad I was able to fit those old pieces in, because they match the prototype really well, and are pretty distinct.
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    1x1 bracket pieces. They're newer than LDD's final update. I have "reminder" pieces set aside next to the model to buy them, and everything would work fine IRL, but I couldn't model them digitally.
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    In the render? I actually think that's Stud.io throwing one of the motors through the front of the smoke box :/. I really hate that program.
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    Probably lousy. But who cares? It's plastic.
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    It's been forever since I did anything, and it shows - this took way longer than I expected it to, and I honestly felt really, really out of sorts for the first hour or two. These were the largest, heaviest, and most powerful 4-8-0s ever built - and one of just two mastodons I know of built for passenger service in the western hemisphere (the other being Argentina's candidate for world's weirdest steam engine). They were also ordered really late for a 4-8-0, being constructed in 1935 by Baldwin to be shipped south of the border. The Class PR-8 burned oil, had enormous (compared to other engines of this wheel arrangement, at least) 67" drivers, and their fireboxes were actually built with notches in them to accommodate the last set of wheels. As far as I know, none survive (though N de M was pretty good about preserving a decent number of other steam locomotives). There's no piping on the render because Stud.io "forgets" the bends on all the pipe pieces, and I find that program so indescribably frustrating that I just don't bother resetting them.
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