In lugnet.boats, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
>
> > Those containers are gorgeous, as is Mark's 8wide. That's not what I'm
> > debating. 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 of just one big one.
>
> 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 and 6-w trains/4-w cars (let alone wider)
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
(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 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats)
(...) 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)