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(...) Looks really nice. But how do you get containers into the hold? Play well, Jacob (21 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats)
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Maersk ship fans, Here is my mini-fig version of the new Maersk ship! This ship uses parts from two 10152 sets and some brick from my oun collection. See this ship at future GFLTC Train shows and events in the state of Florida. (URL) Link: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(snip_) (...) I also found these sites useful: www.maersksealand.com www.maersktankers.com (anybody want to make a Maersk tanker?) www.oss.dk (you can select english text)--this is a shipyard building site (that apparently does a fair amount of ship (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats)
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(URL) you go up from that pic, you'll find info on the ship pictured. Go up again to here (URL) and you'll find a LOT of great ship info. Including a number of container ships, one of them Maersk... The curator may want to put this site in the (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) They may be empty, if that pic was taken at a US port just before departure during the reload process. (we import a lot more goods in containers than we export) Also, the ship is nowhere near capacity... count the empty rows, it's got maybe (...) (21 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) water to keep all those containers afloat... they must all be full of cotton candy or something! Mark (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.boats)
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Oh, one more... If you don't know what to do with your orange, here you go: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) I agree... Here's a snap of a small container ship. Note that it's only 5 containers long and about 6 or so wide (URL) think it's an NL ship, actually. So there are small ones out there, as well as the monsters (URL) some are presumably (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) From my model railroading I know all about selective compressing and there's usually a certain breaking point where it looses it's effect and becomes silly. IMHO the 4-w container is at least close to that if you use it together with minifigs (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have, both from the air, and up close, (and in articles in TRAINS) and I agree. (...) I just don't have enough brick(1) to do very many of them and I'd rather go for a huge pile of smaller containers that I CAN do, and 2 or 3 ships instead (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
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Jonathan Lopes wrote in message ... (...) of (...) copies I had the same reaction when I saw the detailed pics. As far as I can see there's only one layer of M Blue bricks, and they look like mostly 1x8's or other large size. Pity. Actually I'm more (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) I can see both sides of this, but I'm more swayed by 'selective compression', as Larry mentioned. For example-- Jeff VW set up his harbour cranes at a few of our train shows-- (URL) the 'standard' 4x8xwhatever freight containers. The cranes (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
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(...) While on one side I'd say that you're right here, on the other hand some things in proper proportions can get a point across much better. (URL) you've ever seen a real terminal, you'll know it's really overwhelming. I think using 4*6 or 4*8 (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I agree with Larry here (...) Larry introduced me to this term/concept and this is what I had in mind. The container size is the key. The model seems to have 5 rows of 2-wide containers and you would want 4-wide which IIRC is what the train (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I think we should build 3-wide trains to fit these new 2-wide containers... ;-) JohnG, GMLTC fut .trains, just to rile John Neal... (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) (snip) (...) Well, that's sharp and all, but I think building to scale really misses the point. That container's 8 wide! I prefer my scenes more packed with detail rather than doing one 10 foot long ship so that I can fit my to scale (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Bryan, I agree with you that this model looks much better with the stickers. But the stickers are damaged. I hope to get new stickers from Lego service... right now everyone I know who has built this set has the same problems with the (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for posting these. My copies haven't arrived yet. I am initially a little disappointed at the inclusion of thin walls instead of bricks in the Maersk blue color....but, that may change when I receive my copies of the set. Of course, I (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Here's the first set with the new colours that I actually want - but only for displaying purposes! This is also one of the few sets that I'll actually apply the stickers - I think it looks far better with the Maersk logos on the containers. (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for sharing these pics! I am digging the stickers!!!! I am impressed with all the neat microfig scale details this ship has. And some tasty non blue parts as well. (1x2 curved top, 1x2 tile in trans black, etc) Looks like our selection (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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