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Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains
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Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:51:27 GMT
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In lugnet.boats, Josh Wedin wrote:
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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 closer to being minifig scale, if it were a small container
ship, but your containers are still a bit small. I have unloaded a lot of
these Sealand containers and you can comfortably drive a forklift into them.
In fact, two forklifts can squeeze by each other if the drivers know what
they are doing. Most containers are about 8.5 feet wide inside (I am sure
someone knows the exact size and will correct me :-)) and vary in length. I
think Sealand containers are about 40 feet long. It doesn’t look like a fig
can drive into one. What do you think?
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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 the train club containers) or
we live with it.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) 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...
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| (...) 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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| | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| 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)
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