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Tanked Up

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It’s the day after TLCB Christmas Party, which means we’re still drunk. No matter though, as we’ll be tanked up from now until New Year anyway. Cue TLCB debutant JLD25’s splendidly rendered Dodge L700 tanker truck, which could well be full of virtual alcohol. Hurrah!

If the L700 looks rather small for an American semi-truck that’s because it was based on the A100 van, and if it looks a bit more digital than you’re used to here, that’s because it… um, is. Despite the lack of physicality however, it carries both excellent detail and a range of ‘working’ features, and there’s more to see JLD’s ‘Dodge L700 Semi’ album on Flickr. Click the link to get tanked.

Red Removal

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LEGO’s fictional energy company has been supplying fuel to planes, cars and boats, as well as sponsoring pretty much every vehicle in LEGO City with a number, since ’92. Cue TLCB Master MOCer Dennis Glaasker (aka bricksonwheels), who has taken Octan’s iconic white, red and green colour scheme and flipped it to create this huge custom Peterbilt 389 and Polar tanker combo.

Constructed for the Legoworld Show in the Netherlands, Dennis’ spectacular 1:15 tanker features unique decals, custom chrome, and a livery so cool we don’t miss the red absent from Octan’s usual colour-scheme at all.

There’s more of Dennis’ stunning creation to see at his ‘Peterbilt Octan Tanker Combo’ Flickr album, plus you can find out how he creates amazing models like this one via his interview here at TLCB via the first link in the text above.

Tanked Up

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We’re not sure what’s inside Arian Janssens’ excellent classic DAF FT 2800 truck and tanker trailer but – as is always the case with such posts – we hope it’s beer. Or wine. Or anything alcoholic in fact. Yeah, well… you try and work with mythical creatures for a job. Arian’s creation is perfectly hopped, and you can have a taste at his ‘DAF FT 2800’ album whilst this TLCB Writer tries to find some alcohol in the office that isn’t in a hand-sanitiser.

Yo Mama

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Large, round, red, and pulled by truckers. No, it’s not your Mom on vacation, but this stupendous tanker truck by Flickr’s Arian Janssens. Six axles, superb detailing, and much steering are all at play, and there’s more to see of Arian’s DAF FTG XF 480 to see via the link.

Born Slippy*

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According to cartoon lore, the banana skin is the slippiest object in the universe. Not the obvious choice for tyres therefore, which tend to require the opposite characteristics of skiddy fruit, but that hasn’t stopped Renaud Petit Lego, who has equipped his sci-fi water tanker with wheels wrapped in the bendy berries. Keep your eyes peeled and slither over to Flickr via the link above.

Today’s seminal title song.

Space Balls

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Measuring over one-hundred studs in length, the family jewels of the Lego sci-fi community are the ‘SHIPs’. This one, constructed by Flickr’s Duncan Lindbo, measures in at 116 studs, and it’s a properly impressive specimen.

A ‘Samovar-Class’ tanker, Duncan’s design utilises an array of orbs to transport various fluids, hung within a plum-straight outer casing which looks like it was rather testy to create, what with LEGO’s limited sand-green parts inventory.

You can head to Duncan’s photostream to check out this nuts creation, bouncing on over via the link above, and fifty TLCB Points to you if you found all the testicular vernacular. Although most of our posts are bollocks anyway we suppose…

Training Day

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We’re a car blog here at the, um… Lego Car Blog, but we do like other forms of brick-built transport too. Cue today’s array of vintage railway-based machinery, all of which come from Franz of Flickr, who has created them beautifully to fit with LEGO’s traditional 6-wide tracks.

Whilst LEGO’s own trains and rolling stock were 6-wide too, Franz has added an extra stud to allow for enhanced realism, with his lovely steam and SLB E11 locomotives also fitted with Power Functions motorisation.

Flatbed wagons (complete with vehicular cargo) and a tanker car accompany the power units, with all superbly presented at Franz’s photostream. Take a look via the link above, where you can find the four fantastic creations pictured here and much more besides.

Saving Fuel

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Streamlining is rather de-rigueur at present. In the world of electrification, eking every last mile of range – when recharging is a royal pain in the socket (sorry EVangelists, but it is) – is of the utmost importance.

Proving that fashion is always circular, some seventy years ago streamlining was also the height of vehicular design. The ‘jet age’ of 1950s saw super-smooth almost art-deco like shapes because… well, it was cool.

Cue Andrew Tate (no, not that one) and this gorgeous Octan fuel tanker streamliner, shown paused in the desert as the driver takes a break. 1950s aerodynamics were a bit ropey, so we’re not sure the designs of the time actually generated increased efficiency, but they looked so good.

There’s more to see of Andrew’s streamlined truck on Flickr, and you can make the jump to the cutting-edge aerodynamics of the ’50s via the link above.

Just the Tip

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Whilst we like trucks here at The Lego Car Blog, we don’t really know much about them. The engine denominations of British family cars from the ’60s, sure. Trucks… not so much.

Cue our surprise then, when one of our Elves found this magnificent DAF FT 2600 truck complete with an enormous tanker trailer, and we discovered it tips. We didn’t even know tankers could do that.

Every day’s a school day, and we have previous bloggee Arian Janssens‘ brilliantly detailed Model Team DAF FT 2600 and tipping bulk trailer to thank for our education.

Both truck and trailer are superbly constructed and photographed, and you can take a look up close via Arian’s photostream. Click the link above for just the tip.

Titchy Tanker

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This dinky 1950s Mercedes-Benz Unimog ‘Gasolin’ tanker probably isn’t going fill many gas tanks, but it’s going to look properly cute filling what it can. Christoph Ellermann‘s is the builder behind this wonderful classic off-road tractor, and you can fill your tank in the ’50s, as long as too many people haven’t filled theirs first, via the link in the text above.

Liquid Gold

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Thanks to the combination of a worldwide pandemic, the scumbaggery of Putin, and the greed of energy companies, petrol prices peaked in the TLCB’s home nation at over £2 per litre. For those in the States, that’s around $6 per gallon. Which made TLCB staff very much ponder hijacking a petrol tanker.

Cue today’s creation, which is a Scania P-Series tanker truck, as constructed by previous bloggee damjan97PL. Unfortunately for the impoverished staff here at The Lego Car Blog, there is no liquid gold inside, but the model is packed with other goodness, including remote control drive and steering, a six-cylinder piston engine under the tilting cab, and a lifting third axle.

Building instructions and a video of the model in action are available, and you can see more of damjan’s Scania tanker at the Eurobricks forum with the complete image gallery hosted via Bricksafe.

Tank Top

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Or rather, top tanker, because this is perhaps the cleanest tanker truck build we’ve seen yet. The aesthetics of MCD‘s Volvo FMX 8×2 are even more impressive when you consider this is a Technic creation, not a Model Team one, and is entirely LEGO, even down to the rubber bands holding the pipes. There’s more of MCD’s model to see at the Eurobricks forum, and you can tank on over via the link above.

Monotone Mystery

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What’s in this excellent and delightfully-bland tanker truck? Milk… Petrol… Beer…? We can but hope it’s the latter. Previous bloggee Arian Janssens is the builder and there’s more to see of his magnificently monotone DAF XG+ 530 truck and equally nondescript tanker trailer on Flickr. Click the link to take a look whilst this writer heads to the fridge for a beer. Unless there’s just milk in there. Please let there be beer…

Water on Mars

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Mars. Our closest neighbour that isn’t orbiting us, and bleak desolate planet where water turns directly from a solid to a vapour, and back again.

Cue BobDeQuatre‘s ‘Dionysus’ armoured water tanker, a nuclear-powered transport, capable of carrying large quantities of water from remote extraction sites back to Mars Corporation outposts. Or something like that.

Bluetooth remote control via an SBrick and a rather snazzy paint-job caught our attention, and there’s more to see of Bob’s water-carrying martian on Flickr via the link.

Panic-Buy Fuel!

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There is currently a fuel supply crisis in TLCB’s home nation, caused by COVID or Brexit or something.

Whatever the reason, a portion of the population (probably the same portion who stock-piled toilet rolls during the COVID lock-downs) have gone mad, and are trying to refuel every five minutes, in doing so turning a really rather minor problem into a rather larger one. Because they’re idiots.

Typifying this idiocy are a select group of morons who have followed tanker trucks in the hope they’re delivering fuel, and not olive oil, or liquid nitrogen, or – in one particularly amusing case – mortar.

Cue Arian Janssens‘ DAF FTS XF95 ‘Mestwagen’, which we think means manure tanker, but frankly without actually knowing what’s inside it we’re just guessing, much like a worrying number of the UK population have been doing over the past week or two.

You can follow Arian’s DAF ‘Mestwagen’ to wherever it is it’s going in the hope of procuring some petrol via the link above, whilst we start stockpiling tinned food and toilet paper.