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Noone Transport Mercedes Actros MP4 141-MH-1941 heading west along the M62 at Sandholme, East Yorkshire. Thanks to the driver for the friendly wave, much appreciated!
141 Class no. 146 and 150 pass through Waterford with a train of fertilizer to New Ross on the 7th April 1995. The New Ross branch, wagons and locos are now all gone.
Scania Astran
A couple of years ago I started building a pair of Scanias LB141 as a replacement of the bonneted ones I built a couple of years before. Both chassis and engine were useful but I decided to build it again from scratch which resulted in a white/blue LBS141.
While I was building a couple I didn’t put this one online yet when I finalised it somewhere in 2016. I wanted to add something special and didn’t took time to take a decent photo shoot in my studio.
Some time before I bought a nice book tilted “The long haul pioneers”. It describes really good stories about long hauls from southern UK to the Middle East and even further. It is an ode to Astran, a British hauler which undertook many routes to those regions from the 60s. They started with British built vehicles and sometimes even without a sleeper cab. Driver’s were en route for weeks! During the late 60s they bought some Scanias which were more powerful and far more comfortable. The book describes the founding of the company, the trucks they ran (also the subcontractors) and interesting stories from its drivers.
When I saw a replica of a LBS141 at the Retro Truckshow of Gaydon in the UK in 2014 I took a lot of detailed pictures and started building my LEGO replica in scale 1:13.
Other than the first 141 I gave this model a more life like look with weathered metal chrome wheels and other details on the engine. The engine was rebuilt and in this case I made a red copy. I guess the real Scania has a sand green one but some crucial elements aren’t available in sand green unfortunately. However, in red it doesn’t look bad either.
The cab has a full interior with double bunks and can be tilted. The doors can be opened just like the front grille. Like many trucks from the late 70s, early 80s the cab is equipped with a roof rack and ladder. Two large size fuel tanks are put to the chassis, as well as two spare wheels behind the cab. These are inevitable on the long trips where many punches had to the repaired.
The trailer only took a couple of weeks to build while it is quite straight forward. However it is a vintage tilt with rope trailer and to add the ropes properly I had to drill holes in about 200 2x2 tiles. The trailer outfit is typically Middle East with wide spread axles and a belly tank in the chassis to carry additional fuel for the truck. These trailers are still used in Africa.
Decals are supplied by Dennis Glaasker who did a great job. We added them together when finished.
Later on I was thinking to add something more to the model. That could only be a couple of camels which I also found on some of the pictures in the book. Well, building animals is not really my steel and it took a while before I finished them. I think they have the right proportions while there aren’t any blueprints :-)
The striking red/yellow livery does look very well with this model. Together with the Volvo F12 in Sties livery I have a nice couple of around 1980.
Final shot of 141 as she heads out of Claremorris and on to the southern "Burma Road" with the 10.30 Sligo - Limerick goods.
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Scania Astran
A couple of years ago I started building a pair of Scanias LB141 as a replacement of the bonneted ones I built a couple of years before. Both chassis and engine were useful but I decided to build it again from scratch which resulted in a white/blue LBS141.
While I was building a couple I didn’t put this one online yet when I finalised it somewhere in 2016. I wanted to add something special and didn’t took time to take a decent photo shoot in my studio.
Some time before I bought a nice book tilted “The long haul pioneers”. It describes really good stories about long hauls from southern UK to the Middle East and even further. It is an ode to Astran, a British hauler which undertook many routes to those regions from the 60s. They started with British built vehicles and sometimes even without a sleeper cab. Driver’s were en route for weeks! During the late 60s they bought some Scanias which were more powerful and far more comfortable. The book describes the founding of the company, the trucks they ran (also the subcontractors) and interesting stories from its drivers.
When I saw a replica of a LBS141 at the Retro Truckshow of Gaydon in the UK in 2014 I took a lot of detailed pictures and started building my LEGO replica in scale 1:13.
Other than the first 141 I gave this model a more life like look with weathered metal chrome wheels and other details on the engine. The engine was rebuilt and in this case I made a red copy. I guess the real Scania has a sand green one but some crucial elements aren’t available in sand green unfortunately. However, in red it doesn’t look bad either.
The cab has a full interior with double bunks and can be tilted. The doors can be opened just like the front grille. Like many trucks from the late 70s, early 80s the cab is equipped with a roof rack and ladder. Two large size fuel tanks are put to the chassis, as well as two spare wheels behind the cab. These are inevitable on the long trips where many punches had to the repaired.
The trailer only took a couple of weeks to build while it is quite straight forward. However it is a vintage tilt with rope trailer and to add the ropes properly I had to drill holes in about 200 2x2 tiles. The trailer outfit is typically Middle East with wide spread axles and a belly tank in the chassis to carry additional fuel for the truck. These trailers are still used in Africa.
Decals are supplied by Dennis Glaasker who did a great job. We added them together when finished.
Later on I was thinking to add something more to the model. That could only be a couple of camels which I also found on some of the pictures in the book. Well, building animals is not really my steel and it took a while before I finished them. I think they have the right proportions while there aren’t any blueprints :-)
The striking red/yellow livery does look very well with this model. Together with the Volvo F12 in Sties livery I have a nice couple of around 1980.
Arp 141 (UGC 3730, VV 123 and others) is the result of the merger of spiral and elliptical galaxies. Part of Arp’s, ‘E and E-Like Galaxies – Material Emanating from E Galaxies,’ these are located approximately 130 million light-years away in Camelopardalis. A 1959 paper, where these are designated as NGC 2444 and 2445, can be found here - articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1959ApJ...130...12B.
Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2
360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours
Imaged January 30th, 2022 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.