Brick Slick
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The LEGO Car Blog highlights a microscale diorama by Loic Gilbert that recreates the 1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill. This build serves as a stark reminder of the environmental consequences of oil extraction and transportation.
Loic Gilbert's diorama meticulously captures the tragic event. It features the wrecked Amoco Cadiz supertanker, the village of Portsall, and the vast oil slick that contaminated the French coastline. The original incident involved a Liberian-flagged supertanker carrying crude oil that ran aground off the coast of France due to a jammed rudder. The ship broke apart, releasing approximately 230,000 tons of oil into the sea, resulting in significant environmental damage.
The diorama is a powerful visual representation of this disaster, created in microscale. It showcases the scale of the wreckage and the extent of the oil spill. The builder's photostream provides additional views of the creation.
This LEGO build serves as a thought-provoking piece, reminding us of the potential environmental impact of our reliance on oil. If you're inspired to create your own microscale builds, you might find a LEGO baseplate helpful for displaying your creations.
We like vehicles that burn liquid dinosaurs here at The Lego Car Blog. But there is a dark side to the Oil Age, and it goes beyond climate change and air quality. Because when the extraction or transportation of oil goes wrong, the consequences are horrific. This is the Amoco Cadiz, a Liberian-flagged supertanker that […]
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