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MRH Staff 7,978 posts jeffshultz MRH Staff 7,978 posts
jeffshultz

"Okay boys, remember - No ketchup on your hot dogs, and no blasters - you can't hit anything anyway and I don't want you scratching my truck."

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The background:
Lionel Strang is known as a former Model Railroader columnist, former TrainMasters TV host, and is currently the Evil Overlord of the A Modelers Life podcast. He's also a Stage 4 cancer survivor. A year after his original diagnosis he decided to celebrate that he had lived "One More Year" by walking 100km (~64 miles) from the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto to his home in Barrie, Ontario. He has since turned it into an annual charity event benefiting the Psychosocial Oncology Unit at Princess Margaret. Assorted model railroad manufacturer's have been supporting him, and this year they were joined by miniprints , who did a full body scan of Lionel to produce 3D-printed Little Lionels (over 100 have been sold) in all of the major model railroading scales. This is what I did with mine... (I printed the St*rmTroopers myself from plans on the internet).

(the "no ketchup on hot dogs" thing is a running joke on the AML)

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Jeff Shultz - MRH Technical Assistant
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AzBaja Prolific poster 2,048 posts
AzBaja

(I printed the St*rmTroopers

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(I printed the St*rmTroopers myself from plans on the internet)

 Link to that file,  I have looked for some quality storm troopers before. 

AzBaja
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jeffshultz MRH Staff 7,978 posts
jeffshultz

Link to the St*rmTroopers aka Space Toys

Disney's Intellectual Property machine is to be feared, so these are officially low-poly Space Toys.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1169514

Multi-extrusion: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1936309

You will need to scale them down to whatever scale you are going to use them at - I went with 6-foot for the StormTroopers, and later learned that the canonical StormTrooper is 5'11".

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Jeff Shultz - MRH Technical Assistant
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AzBaja Prolific poster 2,048 posts
AzBaja

N scale is just the look...

N scale is just the look... nothing more to it.

 

AzBaja
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Jim at BSME Prolific poster 2,098 posts
Jim at BSME

Awesome

Jeff that is awesome, love the commentary.
- Jim B.
Baltimore Society of Model Engineers, Estd. 1932
O & HO Scale model railroading
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Ron Ventura Notace Frequent poster 689 posts
Ron Ventura Notace

6’ Troopers

Older followers of Australian Rules Football may recall the phrase “Collingwood six footer”. Collingwood is one of the oldest and largest clubs in the competition - the team you either love or hate, there is no in between. Anyway, back when 6’ was considered tall, many Collingwood players who were slightly shorter (5’ 11”) would pass themselves off as 6’, hence the term.

So perhaps the opposite is true, and your models could be “Collingwood 5’11” s)

Ron Ventura

Melbourne, Australia
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barr_ceo Super User 3,267 posts
barr_ceo

As Leia would say....

"You're a little short for a stormtrooper..."

Read my Journal / Blog...

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RicharH Regular poster 130 posts
RicharH

Jeff you are great, as usual

First, congratulations to Lionel on his walk and charity efforts. I saw the mini Strangs in the the MRH. Pretty cool. Also, let me say that I found your little scene and dialog absolutely hilarious! ROFL!
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James Six Prolific poster 1,936 posts
James Six

You people are all "sick"!!! 

You people are all "sick"!!!LOL  LOL

Jim  
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jeffshultz MRH Staff 7,978 posts
jeffshultz

Just got an email...

Bernard Hellen of miniprints just sent out an email announcing that the sale of the Little Lionel's resulted in a donation of $2187.23 (CDN) to the Psychosocial Oncology Unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. 

That's a lot of Little Lionel's running around.... 

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Jim at BSME Prolific poster 2,098 posts
Jim at BSME

Little Bruce's

Now all we need a Little Bruce's, but if you don't want him standing next to Lionel, he should be at his factory: Wilson's Mustards
- Jim B.
Baltimore Society of Model Engineers, Estd. 1932
O & HO Scale model railroading
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jeffshultz MRH Staff 7,978 posts
jeffshultz

Little Bruce

Apparently this is on for next year, but the plan appears to be that Bruce the moderately agitated mailboy will be in his traditional pose - seated on a cushion on a milkcrate. 

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Jeff Shultz - MRH Technical Assistant
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Jim at BSME Prolific poster 2,098 posts
Jim at BSME

re: Little Bruce

I wasn't sure if he was planned or not, but he could still be sitting on a milk crate outside his factory.
- Jim B.
Baltimore Society of Model Engineers, Estd. 1932
O & HO Scale model railroading
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kcsphil1 Prolific poster 1,233 posts
kcsphil1

I am so in for Little Bruce . . .

Cause Little Lionel is lonely at my place since all the Cajuns speak weird French to him.

Philip H. Chief Everything Officer Baton Rouge Southern Railroad, Mount Rainier Div.

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