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Part 2 of my OC sprites remake. Also with new OC's.Henri - Chemins de fer de l'Ouest série 701 à 743 no. 721 (the engine that crashed and derailed at Montparnasse station on October 22, 1895. I originally intended to name him Hugo because of the 721 crash appeared in the Movie Hugo. But since the Thomas and Friends series has a new character named Hugo, I decided to name him Henri because of the artist Henri Matisse, which randomly popped into my mind. I realized the artist I was intending to name Henri after is Claude, since Claude Monet painted pictures of steam locomotives and railway stations like the ones at the Saint-Lazare Station. I may rename Henri to Claude, or keep his name Henri. I don't know. What do you all think? Answer this question in the comments below.) Image of the sister locomotive no 720: www.cparama.com/forum/cartes20…
Hercule - SNCF 230 G 353 (named him after Hercule Poirot and its appearance in the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express.)
Remy - SNCB/NMBS type 25 (named him after a Belgian soldier Remy from the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the engine's service during WW1.)
Lành - DSVN 141/ZL class (renamed her from Hue Yen to Lành because of its female name meaning gentle in Vietnamese.)
Agatha- GWR steam rail motor R diagram no. 90 (Named her after Agatha Christie randomly popped into my mind.)
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Is Labiche in reference to "The Train" from 64?
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Beautiful.
And thank you for helping me out figure out the locomotive class.
I hope you have a good day.
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No problem. And to you too!
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Awesome lineup
And I like the idea behind Hercule
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Thanks!
Let me guess, madam. I believe you've read one of Agatha Christie's books Murder on the Orient Express?
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I've heard of it, but I've read a few of her other Hercule Poirot novels and short stories - Halloween Party, Cat Among the Pidgeons, and the Murder of Rodger Ackroyd to name a few.
And I've read a few of her Miss Marple books too
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Nice.
BTW, I made an update in this picture's description, so, go ahead and read the section on Henri's name.
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Just did
What if you named him Henri Monet? A combination of the two names?
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I think one name makes sense. But, I appreciate your opinion. I'll think about it.
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It's final, I'll keep the name Henri.
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Yes, I do like it quite a bit. I don't happen to be focused on machines and accuracy of historic detail myself, but I can really appreciate the--the gemcarver's perfection of someone else's focused love, the same way I can with the lapidary precision of some poets, lacemakers, and carvers of walking canes.
Ignore the rest of this unless you're bored and have nothing better to do.
My primary hobby is/was, of all things, selling mix-and-match Barbies, 12" GI Joes, and similar 1:6 figures & gear so that other people can find & afford what they need to customize their OWN figures, whether it's just a more accurate canteen for their poilu, an improvised cummerbund & small silk rose to desk a Bridegroom Wolverine for a spoof wedding gift, outfitting their post-apocalypse monster hunters (one guy in his late teens spent nearly eight hours over the course of a weekend selecting and kitting out portraits of his gamers' characters), or making a toy portrait of a convention's Guest of Honor or their most famous character.
And I certainly noticed one major gender difference; by far the majority of guys wanted precise accuracy (does his belt have one buckle-tongue or two? Does that canteen have the right kind of chain? Does the Vietnam-era M16 have the original three-pronged muzzle brake or the solid one they replaced it with when they realized it kept getting caught on vines and grass?), while the majority of women wanted the overall impact to be right; does this GI Joe LOOK like Blade overall, or does he have the wrong shape of skull, a more heavyset body, a belt that may have the right number of buckles but is in a different material or out of scale to the figure's overall look?
I'm almost 60, so I grew up before kids could have vids/discs for TV episodes/movies or videogames, and since I was never interested in Barbie trying on all her clothes while waiting for Ken to ask her to the dance, my Barbies had ADVENTURES. And that meant improvising: 25c old-lady hairnets for fishing off the bookcase cliff dwellings, painting starfields on black construction paper for the styrofoam-tray viewscreens, pressing aluminum foil over a Barbie face to make something like King Tut's deathmask.
Every Saturday, I'd take my allowance and catch the bus to hit the five-and-dimes, the Goodwills, and all the rest; one $1 Mason jar of broken jewelry and single earrings cold give you a pirate's treasure, and a bag of cheap fabric scraps could become everything from Cinderella's patched rags to a half-circle black velvet vampire cape.
If I could earn a living doing anything I wanted in the world, I'd spend the rest of my life finding the right toys for other people's creations, whether they're the kids who want the BROWN-haired doll in the RED dress rather than the BLUE one, or that GM making action figure portraits to delight his gamers with, or the BBC Sherlock fans looking for the best Barbie to be Irene Adler.
Or, for that matter, the folksinger who bought two of the 1:6 scale plastic bones Luke Skywalker jammed into the Rancor's mouth because, of all things, it was the perfect weight and size to be a drumstick for her bodhran. Half the fun of the hobby for me was the unexpected.
But I DON'T have the energy (or a low enough cost of living, what with various physical and psych prescriptions) to be a toyfinder for a living, which I still regret.
Of all things to discover you have a calling for, this must be one of the oddest.
--Nonie
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Interesting introduction there.
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Oops! Sorry about the babble; I haven't had time to get out and meet people since I moved last year (my mother needed months and months of moving help), so I seem to have too many words dammed up.
Excuse plizz? (As a friend used to say)
--Nonie
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