Converting a 1:60 Lindberg Shrimp Boat into a European fishing vessel from the late 1930s?

Here's a sample of a Danish vessel probably from about that era. Ignore the liferafts and meteoro sensors.

I don't know the provenance of the shrimp boat model, but I'd say it's American and several decades more recent.

Your vessel would certainly be under sail and be a wooden hull. It would be a nice little scatch project.

The Shrimp boat is similar in Hull form to some German fishing vessels. See for example http://www.moduni.de/product_info.php/cPath/30000000_30400000_30406000/products_id/6098585

As the above photo says- a lot of the Scandinavian vessels (and indeed English ones) had rounded sterns.

You may find something like this of some use too

http://www.moduni.de/product_info.php/cPath/30000000_30400000_30406000/products_id/6023017

  EXCUSE ME , but isn,t 1/60 a little large for war gaming ????? I am just curous , because I thought wargame ships were 1/1200  tankerbuilder

tankerbuilder wrote:

EXCUSE ME , but isn,t 1/60 a little large for war gaming ????? I am just curous , because I thought wargame ships were 1/1200  tankerbuilder

1/60 is not too large when you're gaming small amphibious or boarding actions ...

As for purely naval actions, there are other scales, too, such as 1/2400, 1/600 and 1/300 (ancient galleys).

P.S.: Thanks, bondoman and Billyboy! 

 

 

Look into some of the paper models of European coastal vessels.   While this is of British design they were similar on the continent.

This is a paper model by the PaperShipwright .   You can scale the parts and use them as a basis for scratchbuilding.

 HI ---- If you want to do the work ,it,s not hard to put a rounded stern on the shrimper . To convert it to a fishing boat you will have to change some of her deck gear . It seems you are up to the task . Send us some pics and let us see your work . Many of the fishing boats in california have small deckhouses and they,re usually aft ! You can keep the ronud front but it would probably look better small and square .  tankerbuilder