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My attempt at the "Macro Mondays" theme "B&W”.
HSS
Shot with a Friedrich "Axinon 10.5 cm F 4.5" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
I like this large truck. One man can deliver all this lumber to a job because he carries his own fork lift with him.
I’m not tooting my own horn, but notice that I caught the tie down in mid-air. A little stop action. Soon I will be able to progress to turtles crossing the road or to ducks swimming in the river.
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Dajing Rd., Shizi St. & Jiucang St., Shanghai
Despite China's property crash, construction of luxury flat sites in the heart of Shanghai continues apace. I wonder who will buy these flats when they are built, though.
shot with rollei 35 w/ 40mm f/3.5 tessar type lens
* shot on fomapan 100 film
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* digitized with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron 90mm f2.5 adaptall sp macro lens
This Space Tank is a "small class" unit inspired by WWI English tank Mark I. Colors and style are clearly based on LEGO Classic Space series.
Named "Blue Bull" due to the stocky shape, it's equipped with a huge long-range gun and with a little gun machine right below the rotating turret. I particularly like the loader's hatch and the details featured both on the turret and the side.
The crew is composed by 3 crewmen: the commander, the driver and the gunner.
Here the Tank is at the maintenance hangar where the staff is taking care of it after a moon mission.
Even if Classic Space is not my comfort zone of building, and some friends of mine were surprised seeing this new build, I like this theme since I was a little boy. Moreover having in stock a lot of CS pieces pushed me to build the tank and the space hangar.
It has been really funny building this MOC and for sure won't be alone for a long time.
The forklift is based on Alban Nanty one.
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Here is another from the archives over a decade old. It too was long ago posted on RP but figured it belonged here now. This is the caption I wrote at the time:
What we have here is a rather unique and fascinating operation. Flint Hills Resources operates a large refinery in North Pole, Alaska and they lease a fleet of nearly 450 tank cars that are handled between Fairbanks and Anchorage by the Alaska Railroad (FHR is the ARR's single largest customer). Recently FHR decided not to renew the lease on 118 cars owned by GE Capital due to fatigue issues (many cars were suffering from cracked center sills). GE elected not to ship the cars to the lower 48 for repair and instead arranged for their scrapping in Alaska.
After the cars were cleaned they were sold to Schnitzer Steel for disassembly. On this date the first 29 cars were removed from their wheels in a ballet of efficiency. The first car took about 20 minutes but once they got into their groove it took less than 6 minutes per car!
Here's how it worked. A wheel car was spotted at the very end of a spur track inside the North Star Terminal on the Port of Anchorage. Then an ARR geep shoved a long string of tank cars onto that same spur. The crew would cut away from the last car about 10 feet and then a longshoreman would torch the brake rigging. Once that was done another operator in a heavy lift forklift would lift the tank body off the trucks leaving them on the rails (look beneath the green sheer and you'll see a tank car up in the air). Then a large crane mounted magnet would lift the truck side frames and spring package off the rail and deposited them in a side dump truck. Wheels that were marked to be kept (the ARR purchased some) were loaded onto the wheel car (or staged next to the track once it was full as can be seen to the left of this image).
While the magnet did its thing the forklift ran down toward the dock face where they were making a giant pile of tank car bodies. By the time the forklift returned all the wheel and truck components were off the rail and another tank car was in position and ready for its turn.
This was truly a fascinating ballet to watch.... Ultimately, the tank bodies are going to be piled high on a barge for shipment to the Puget Sound area where they will be processed for recycling.
Anchorage, Alaska
Wednesday September 28, 2011
Not my est work, but definately something.
I know it's completely oversized, so I may be revisiting it in the future.
I'm also looking for a good Firefight map to build and have this in.
Thoughts?
Well Instead of doing a review I though I would make a vehicle for the crates! I finished the forklift around 5 days ago and thought the crates would fit perfectly with it. The crates can also fit in the back. This was actually inspired by Black ops 2 forklift but dosn't look anywhere near it. Thank so much for Toywiz and Brickarms!
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Built for an upcoming MOCathalon project.
I must say, these things were an absolute pain to build.
To build both of them, it took me around three and a half hours.
If anybody is interested in a breakdown, let me know.
Look forward to seeing the diorama in the next few days.
Forklift for heavy loads, rear steering, adjustable forks in height and angle.
First photo with the fork down
Camera: Zenza Bronica C
Lens: 75mm Nikkor f2.8
Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
My latest build has been commissioned by a german leading pallet truck and forklift manufacturer.
I've built the entire line up of its truck range plus three different warehouse scenes: unload/upload, storage and picking scene (see the previous pictures). Every scene is fitted with the right forklifts.
The three different subjects are the advertising campaign of the company and in these days my work is featured on many logistic and transportation specialized magazines.
It's been very challenging and even funny building all the pallet trucks and forklifts and the company has been really satisfied by the work.
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