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    Thanks! It’s going to be a multi year build so I decided to have fun with it and create some work scenes.
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    I think the logos are hard to see in the first pictures because the light was coming from behind me. I took the last picture opposite the lighting and the logos are easier to see.
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    What do you mean? All the pieces are ordered off Bricklink. What piece doesn’t look like LEGO and how can I tell? Here’s a closer image from a different angle.
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    Here's some pics of my queen mary 2 engine room during installation of the fourth diesel engine. Each engine is connected to a 25MW generator.
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    Baseplates are glued to table so they won't slide around. Not a clone brand either. Part #3811 in Light Bluish Gray sold on BrinkLink.com.
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    Thanks! I’m still in the process of building. I designed the ship with LDD. It will take several years to buy all the parts due to cost. I haven’t even finished the first deck yet.
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    Thanks! I figured the extra equipment would give a sense of how huge the ship is in real life.
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    Here’s some more pics of my 1:200 scale interpretation of Liebherr’s 11200 crane. It can lift 1,200 tonnes straight up, but barely has the capacity to lift the QM2s engines at a radius of 14m since they weigh 217 tonnes each. I also included a closeup of the Cat D11. The credit for it's design goes to František Hajdekr.
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    This tug looks amazing with the finished wheelhouse. I love the water canons design. Nice work!
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    Very nice! What do you use to power the lighting system? I wish Lego made motors small enough to power the propulsion pods on small scale ship models.
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    The four diesel engines power generators and are located low in the ship due to their size and weight. Each real engine is 12.5 metres long, 4.4 metres wide, 5.5 metres high and weighs 217 tonnes. The diesel engines were built by Wartsila and are V engines with 16 cylinders. They have a bore of 460mm and a stroke of 580 mm. Each engine runs at 514 rpm and produces 16.8 MW of power. They run on conventional heavy fuel oil. The engines are of the enviroengine design that uses commonrail technology utilising water injection into the chambers to reduce noxious emissions. These are my 1:200 scale LEGO versions ready for installation in the ship.
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    I used Flickr for these pics. Let me know if they show up ok. These are just some comparisons between my design and the real QM2. There are some differences since my design is based on the ship after its 2016 refit.
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    I'll have more pictures soon, but it seems like they don't show up for a lot of people in Eurobricks. I've been posting the pics by copying the link from Google Photos and pasting it in the "insert image from URL" box from the post editor. The images show up fine for me on iPads, iPhones, and desktop computers. If anyone knows why the pictures don't show up for everyone and how to fix it let me know. I may have to just keep posting youtube videos that everyone can see.
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    Thanks. I think the gantry crane at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, where QM2 was originally built, is only 62m tall. It does appear taller since it sits on the raised sides of the drydock though. I don’t have enough blocks to build a proper drydock with raised sides. Maybe that will be a future project.
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    Let me know if you can see them now. I might have found the problem.
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    I used google photos to link my pictures. Hopefully I did it right. The pictures show up for me when I look at the post.
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    Very nice scale model. I am impressed by your very realistic hull and "snot" technique. Keep up the great work!
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    My dry-dock is ready for the first parts of Queen Mary 2 to arrive. I created a 1:200 scale gantry crane that can lift the scaled equivalent of 2000 tonnes. The ship will be built in about 60 sections. Here's an updated external and cutaway view of my design for the Queen Mary 2 model. I've tried to add as much detail as possible internally and externally at this scale. The cutaway picture got a little squished for some reason when I posted it, but you get the idea.
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    I thought about a stud-out hull, but I think it would make integration with the interior decks too complicated. I had to make some compromises to include all the features I wanted.
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    Thanks. 19,000 pieces is a little overwhelming, but I’m going to break the ship down into manageable sections just like the real shipbuilders do. It will keep me busy for a while
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    I’m designing a 1:200 scale model of the Queen Mary 2 with full interior (except the hotel rooms, 1300 identical rooms would get redundant). I’m using LDD to design it and hope to buy the 19,228 pieces and build it over the next 2-5 years. It will have working elevators, cargo doors, passenger doors, and all 17 decks with machinery and public spaces. Let me know what you think.
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    It’s hard to tell. Especially since the real truck’s windshield curves toward the sides. It looks like the real cab narrows slightly towards the top too. Has anyone found the dimensions of the actual truck cab to compare? @efferman your model does look like it matches better based on the first picture here: https://www.equipmentworld.com/mack-unveils-anthem-a-brand-new-on-highway-tractor/ I’m planning to replace several of the grey parts of the engine with red pieces to make it look more like the real Mack MP8. I don’t know why LEGO made the engine with so many grey and black pieces. It looks like the real MP8 is predominately red.
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    According to the official Mack Anthem brochure, LEGO made the cab the right width. The Anthem cab appears to be much narrower than the fenders. I think the biggest difference we’re seeing is the lack of a rounded sloping hood.
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    Yes, I wish TLG could have come up with a way to make the paddle movement less exaggerated. It would be nice if the paddles only required a small tap, like in the real car, to trigger a gear change in the transmission. I guess that would require a separate system to generate and store mechanical energy for the operation though.
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    I tore my Porsche apart (was ready to start box 4) and applied your fix Attika. It def keeps the shift mechanism at 90 degrees, but you still have to pull the paddles all the way back on each shift or their will be some occasional grinding. Good fix! If anyone is going to motorise the car I think they'll need to put a white clutch gear between the engine and transmission to avoid gear grinding during the occasional bad shift.
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