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Made for the infinite train loop.
There is no way I could not make a refrigerator car and not make it ice planet. Based on "Getting Started With LEGO Trains"
25/04/2018, Hoek van Holland, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 19/08/2003, launched on 08/11/2003, and entered into service on 08/02/2004 by Hyundai, Ulsan, South Korea (1488)
26,833 g.t., 34,300 dwt and 2,556 teu, launched as:
'Regina Star', completed as
'P&O Nedlloyd Regina' to 2006 and
'Maersk Nottingham' since.
Engaged on Maersk's NW Europe/East coast USA/Colombia reefer trade.
This is the Varsity Theater in Ashland Oregon, also home of Southern Oregon University. In the early 1970's the theater owner's mistakenly thought it would be a good idea to play the movie "Reefer Madness". This movie seemed to bring out a less then wholesome audience that ended up partaking in drug use and behavior during the showing that resulted in theater management deciding police intervention was a good idea. This resulted in the fact that not everyone got to see the entire movie. My friends and myself did get to see the entire downward spiral of Ralph though.
Voigtlander Bessa II
Color-Skopar 105mm/f3.5
Kodak Portra 400 medium format
I don't believe I've ever uploaded a WIP pic of any of my Lego train models, so this is a first.
But, I just wanted to show you guys that yes, I really am back and building, and yes, there really is going to be a fleet of orange-colored Pacific Fruit Express reefers rolling around the layout in the near future. (Barring the usual Bricklink part order time delays, of course, lol.)
So, what's in the pic? Mostly design studies. The main areas of focus so far were the steel dreadnought bulkhead car ends, the ladders, the roof shape, and the cargo doors.
The thing I've spent the most time on is the dreadnought ends. All of the square-shaped hunks of black colored Lego are dreadnought experiments. While they may look simple to build from the angle of the pic, they are actual very complicated, and very snot heavy. Each one of those black blocks represents an entire evening of puzzling and cajoling Lego into place using from 3 to 5 different stud facings, and many more interlocking techniques that didn't use studs at all. The dreadnought ends that are pictured are actually just the survivors. There were about half a dozen more that got scrapped half way through building them, and the parts re-used.
Yes, I've purposely blurred a few areas of the pic. I promise, once I get it to where all the reefers are sorted and in a more presentable condition as complete models, I will be more than happy to show those bits in detail, but for now I want to keep a few of those things a secret so there's at least some surprises for you all during the fleet's proper unveiling.
Most of the model chunks in the pic are not final versions, and will get ground up and reused in the final models. Having said that, however, the left most, nearly complete looking orange car body with the yellow colored brick sprinkled through out it is getting pretty darn close. :)