[MOC] Shell Tanker

[obakesan]

Hell again, wanted to share another  moc I made, this one was more ambitious, and contains a lot of pieces for such a small model. I quite like trucks, semi's etc, so I did a whole series of them in LDD, and took the plunge to get the actual bricks to make one, the Shell Tanker. It's a little nod to set 671 Sgell Petrol Tanker which I had as a a kid. 

It's a small model only 4 studs wide, but I tried to put as much detail as I could in it. such as the mirrors on the cab, smokestack, shovel for spills ;). I had an idea for the trailer, borrowed from the small enterprise I did, which worked out well for a rounded brick based tanker. 

 

The cab on it's own, with the mirror showing, it's own petrol (gas) tanks, smoke stack and shovel ;)

 

The trailer has a kick stand to support it on it's own when detached from the cab, and I tried put in some details as best I could such as the control gages tile and valve in this shot;

 

 

On the other side, the hose connectors to supply the fuel at the Lego Town petrol station:

 

A last shot of the whole tanker, from a different angle:

 

 

A few more photos on my Flickr: MOC Shell Tanker

 

Thanks for looking again, and hoped you liked it. As a final thought, with some colour changes, this could become an Octan Tanker as well.

[Cylo]

No offense, but the wing mirrors look too bulky and isn't the shovel a bit too big for this scale?

Otherwise great build, there are some nice details on the trailer!

[obakesan]

33 minutes ago, JarJarBonks said:

No offense, but the wing mirrors look too bulky and isn't the shovel a bit too big for this scale?

Otherwise great build, there are some nice details on the trailer!

Thanks for your feedback. Maybe they are bulky but was bit of an experiment adding the mirrors, I'm happy with it. Nice thing with lego is easy to adjust and evolve it. 

The shovel I just chucked in there to greeble it up as it felt empty in the back. 

 

Cheers 

[Cylo]

30 minutes ago, obakesan said:

Thanks for your feedback. Maybe they are bulky but was bit of an experiment adding the mirrors, I'm happy with it. Nice thing with lego is easy to adjust and evolve it. 

The shovel I just chucked in there to greeble it up as it felt empty in the back. 

 

Cheers 

Instead of the shovel you could just put some grills or printed exhausts instead.

Maybe that will look nicer.

[obakesan]

41 minutes ago, JarJarBonks said:

Instead of the shovel you could just put some grills or printed exhausts instead.

Maybe that will look nicer.

I could, I kinda like the shovel, but can experiment bit further. thanks

[Johnny1360]

Small scale, looks good, small scale is harder to detail and make look right. I agree with jar-jar the mirrors and shovel are just to big also I think the valve wheel, exhaust stack and lights are too massive also. You are off to a good start though and I think it is worth modifying it further maybe even add some doors and trans clear windscreen so you can add some interior detail to the cab

Edited July 23, 2018 by Johnny1360