Revell Container Ship Columbo Express 1/700

They're locked into place several ways.  First at the ISO blocks located on all four corners.  Second, and this can be modeled, are with tie downs.  If you look mostly at the lower cans on the ends you can see the cables holding the container to the racks.  That's a nice detail to pick up on.

Ed's right, sometimes they get knocked off in storms, bad loads blowing out containers, etc.  Containers have a short life span.  If I remember right it's about 5 years.  There after they have to be inspected annually to be used.  Normally after their short lives, many only make one trip and are sold, they end up in somebody's back yard.  Anyway, that's why we sell insurance. 

Dave

Old ones are very popular in Afghanistan, I'm told.

Here's a good site to look at Cargo containers in trouble (ships too!)

http://www.cargolaw.com/

Specifically, the Gallery Of Transport Loss

  I guess I should remind everyone on this thread ,who,s talking about unplanned unstacking.It happens more times than the shipping companies will admit.Remember the tennis shoes of the OREGON coast.I wonder if the right shoes ever showed up.All there were was left shoes! Well,I am here to tell you that captain got in a world of gummy,sticky stuff!! He lost the containers, saved the ship and lost his job,Is that fair? NOPE oh, well,anytime man gets to big for his britches the sea will whittle him down.Picture a supertanker with a dent over two feet deep in the first three stories of the deckhouse.That was a smaller "big wave" The ship came through it,and,it was good that the deckhouse was modular. We were underway in six weeks ,good as new!         tankerbuilder

      This what happened when the Chinese container ship XIN QUING DAO encounted heavy seas off Brittany, France on the night of October 24,2004 and arrived at the Port of Felixstowe, England. The damage assessment was 31, 40 foot continers lost overboard and 29 damaged units still on board, containing computers and tennis shoes.

     Loss of containers is not limited to ships. On March 28,2003, the barge BIG BEN of the Tidewater Barge Lines of Portland, Oregon was unloading 100 containers of peas and lentils destined to be reloaded on to a ship bound for Europe, when the barge suddenly capsized dumping the containers into the Columbia River. Several tug boats had to be called in an emergency roundup of the straying containers from endangering passing river traffic.

       Perhaps Forum viewers can answer my naive question. Why can't containers be stowed INSIDE a container ship's hull, rather than on deck, where the containers can be subjected to the whims of wind, water and weather ? Just curious.

     Montaini semper liberi !  Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                                         Crackers          

As long as wer'e posting show-and-tell photos of container disasters ...

This used to be a container bay on MV Pennsylvania.  Those are 40' containers you see down there.   She had numerous cans of fireworks bound for Hamburg from China.    Various and sundry hazardous materials are shipped worldwide by container.

She burned for four days

This is the aftermath --

Yet she remained afloat -- one dead, one missing (assumed vaporized), and 19 rescued

More images and the whole story at cargolaw http://www.cargolaw.com/2002nightmare_penn.html

Crackers -- you wouldn't want that in an enclosed hull would you

This happened just last week on an Oakland to Honolulu run.

In almost 30 years in containerships on the Alaska run and in the North Atlantic and Pacific, I never had a can go overboard, though a few times they were completely destroyed on deck.

Fred

That's a great detail of the supports used on the first row of containers. 

Dave

Those interested in doing a loaded ship but would rather have a more realistic loading; a company has released a set of container stacks with varying numbers of containers.

https://shop.strato.de/epages/61404716.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61404716/Products/%22Containerstapel%20CE%22

Greetings,

I just created a post regarding new decals for the Revell Colombo Express.  Here's a link to that post.

Dave

/forums/t/127757.aspx

Hello,

I recently purchased this awesome kit, and i like to thank you all about this thread. It has been most helpful Kit went straight to the workbench and now i am waiting some aftermarket stuff to arrive...

I am planning to build "Tsingtao Express" and if somebody have information how it differs from Colombo express i will be grateful about info. According to pictures from Google-search paint scheme is similar to Colombo and to my eye the Tsingtao seems to be quite similar as Colombo.

I am also planning to scratchbuild some tank containers. Is it realistic to have tank containers as deck cargo with normal container stacks ? I didn't find pictures about this kind of "mixed" deck cargo.

Cheers,

Pasi Kiiski / Finland

Crackers:

They do!  The things are full, then they stack. 

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

crackers

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       Perhaps Forum viewers can answer my naive question. Why can't containers be stowed INSIDE a container ship's hull, rather than on deck, where the containers can be subjected to the whims of wind, water and weather ? Just curious.

     Montaini semper liberi !  Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                                         Crackers          

If anyone has actually built the Colombo I would be interested in knowing the finished dimensions I know the length, but what about height and width?

Hi ;

 I think you need to post to Don Stauffer . He built this ship from the Revell Kit and created different decals for her .  T.B.

I mounted it on a homemade wooden base, but it is three and a half inches tall from bottom of hull to top of mast, and two and a half inches wide.

Thank You Don ;

 I knew you would be able to give some helpful info on the ship .  T.B.