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Re: Containers and printing (was Re: I'm bringing sexy back
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:57:22 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Ludo Soete wrote:
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Hi Larry & Rob,
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I didn’t build much last year, but here i go with a few pictures i posted
recently on Brickshelf: Container flatbed car able to carry 2 20-Foot
containers or 1 40-Foot container.
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Those are very nice cars... do the containers interoperate/interchange with
the recently released Maersk Train’s containers? If not, would it be a hard
modification?
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I don’t know, i don’t have the Maersk train yet.
The 20-Foot container is 6 x 14 studs + 1 for the opening doors.
The 40-Foot container is 6 x 29 studs + 1 for the opening doors.
I only hope now that those dimensions are close to reality regarding the scale.
If not, correct me.
The gray container is build with panels 1 x 6 x 5 to cut on weight.
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I’m thinking that it might be time to switch away from the old 4 wide
container standard and adopt that one, it’s now “LEGO defacto” standard...
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Models are build after pictures i found in a model railroad magazine.
I have now 11 container wagons in the colors green & blue (Belgian railroad
- NMBS) and red (German railroad - DB)
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(snipped the pics, they are huge (but cool)...)
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Here a pair of pictures of my cereal wagon.
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Also very nice, the rounded top is a nice effect.
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Note: The logo is PRINTED on the bricks.
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How did you get that done? In the US, Tommy Armstrong prints things for
folks, do you have a similar person in NL?
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To be clear, i live in Belgium, but the panels are printed by a verry friendly
Dutch (NL) AFOL.
He has a Bricklink shop: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=fasblok
The idea is to ‘commercialise’ the cereal wagon, but with an other logo.
see: http://www.reynaulds.com/products/Rivarossi/6148.aspx for the logo.
We have one problem at the moment.
As you can see (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5182331),
i use panels to cut on weight and have only enough gray panels for 75 wagons
where i would like to keep 10 for myself,
so there remain only material for another 65 wagons, and thats it.
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Regards and enjoy my little contribution.
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I certainly did, thanks for sharing.
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Your welcome.
Regards,
Ludo
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