 | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship... —Josh Wedin
| | | | Hi Robin, Great ship! I really your bigger version. And the tug is a nice touch as well. I work on the waterfront in northwestern washington state. So I see tugs and large freighters every day. I just have a couple of comments. The ship itself is (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship... —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) Agreed. This is a known issue with the standard (as designed by LEGO) minifig scale container, it's too small. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place though, either we abandon the design (and lose compatability and not have a use for all (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship... —Jan-Albert van Ree
| | | | | | (...) Not really if you model a European railway... Before the standard 20/30/40' containers the Dutch, German and most likely some other railways experimented with door-to-door transport using special freight boxes, which were around 1.5*2*1.5m A (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship... —Mark Bellis
| | | | | (...) Well, this is the hard place! (URL) This container is 40ft x 8ft x 9ft6in high, the size I see on lorries in the UK, built to 8mm:1ft scale. You could drive a model of a 5ft wide fork lift truck into it or two minifigures could walk in side by (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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