It make for great TV but would you build it?

I'm a fan of the show too.  Since all of the boats are distinctly different, a model manufacturer would have to gamble on which one(s) might be most popular, unless they want to go the 'NASCAR' route with a generic design and different decals???  Ugh.  Even so, I don't think there would be enough of a market.

I have to admit that I have looked at some of the old Lindberg fishing boat kits as the source of a hull that could be used as a scratch-building project.

Was just imagining a stack of 100 or so photo-etched crab pots stacked in the deck...;)

Mark

 

  

 I like the show too but I don't think there is a modeling market for it.  Maybe a generic Alaskan crab fishing boat would work.  PE crab pots would be cool.  Maybe PE crabs too .

-Jesse

If I remember rightly one of the ships is a retired CG Buoy Tender, which could be a start.

One was also a decommissioned fleet oiler. And Captain Sig Hansen has his own line of seafood.

It seems the rc crowd is slightly ahead of the static crowd on this subject. 

Crab boat

NORTHWESTERN

 

Im a big fan of te show as well.  I would deffinatly build te Northwestern, Cornelia Marie.....Heck any of them.

i love the show i would like to do a cornelia marie or a time bandit or the northwestern

 Guys --- I too am a fan of the show but I,m going to do a model af the ANDREA GAIL and then the CORNELIA MARIE . I used to live on a converted c.g. (small ) harbor and bouy tender . She was 57 feet but I do believe the TIME BANDIT is just exactly that ,a oceangoing bouy tender conversion . They are good rough water boats but they are hard on the crews . The CORNELIA MARIE looks like she was purpose designed after many conversions were gleaned for their best points . It is a good show and typifies what it,s like out there . I worked the TUNA boats before I joined the NAVY and it,s harder than it looks . I feel for any commercial fisherman . He,s at the captains mercy and in northern waters if he,s greedy as some in the past ,he can lose the catch , crew and boat too . Well ,enough on that , catchya later     tankerbuilder

Thanks to all for some interesting opinions, I was just curious if there was in fact any interest. I'l keep checing out that RC site for more looks.

I imagine if this was 30 years or so ago, the likes of Revell would already have produced a kit. Nowadays, with the increased costs of licensing, lack of "casual" model builders, and higher standards expected of new kits, tie-ins like this are rare.

There are, however, several kits of fishing vessels in the 1/100-1/200 range which might have conversion potential (even if you have to scratch everything from the deck upwards!) Pyro/Lindberg and Revell both produce 1950s/60s-era North Sea trawlers, and Heller made 1/200 kits of the stern trawler "Bodasteinur" and side trawler "Volontaire"; the latter might be the best starting point for a modern crab boat, being a more recent design than the Pyro and Revell trawlers, but is quite scarce and I imagine is even harder to find in the USA!

Lindberg's "Shrimp Boat" is probably not a very suitable basis for conversion, being a small coastal vessel.

 I do have to agree with EPinniger here . The truth of it is the old LIFE-LIKE TUNA CLIPPER could make a good conversion possibly to the CORNELIA MARIE. There are many sources in wood, and , there are some in R.C. scales that would make the grade . Maybe someone will surprise us and do it, with pictures.     tankerbuilder