Building Ships in RailRoad Scales .

GMorrison

 

 

Tanker - Builder

Here's a good example12' is 87 foot in H.O.

 

 

 

I think you mean 12 inches, not feet.

 

I have the Model Shipways steam tug kit in HO. 

Great scale for "stuff" and figures, but it is a little biggish.

I always thought that the Walthers Laker Ore Carrier was pretty cool. you can get inserts to make the hull as long as you want.

 

Ah yes, I have that MS tug in my stash.  I thought about building that Walthers bulk carrier, but I'd want it either 400 or 600 foot, no place to display it. 

I am contemplating an N-scale railroad ferry. It would be a convenient size and I could populate it with off the shelf freight cars.  I have planform drawing for it and several pictures.

Hi , RC Boater ;

 Well ,that's a great idea . Now for your edification . I was a member or the " Golden Gate Model Yacht Club " and we ran everything from sail to steam and of course electrics .No Gas allowed due to an accident one summer .

 My Electric Tug with a Lionel smoke generator and fully detailed wheelhouse and lighting weighed twenty pounds ready to go and was five and a half foot long . I also sailed 1/32 electrics to prove a point to the staff for the youngsters who built plastic -motorized kits .Won the day !

     Did you know a 1/32 scale ( LINDBERG ) LCVP can act as a tug for a All Metal ! !  steam powered Liner almost nine foot long ? His boiler broke and he was dead in the water .Our recovery Pram was getting a new bottom and fishing gear wasn't allowed ( Park Rules ) I took my teensy boat ( next to that ship ) and tucked in by his rudder and brought him to shore ( Thank Goodness it was a still day , wind wise) . I burned up the motor but saved a work of art !

 After that the official ruling was that smaller craft could run as long as they showed proper sailing courtesy to the larger vessels .Worked Great .( Don't know if they're still around either ! ) T.B.

" G " 

 Hey you got sharper eyes than me and I wrote the thing .Thank You Sir ! Yeah that ore Carrier was cool ! The Revell Moor-Mc-Cormack Brasil ( Brazil-Argentina )would look great on an N scale layout . Nice little cruise Ship ! 

I have a spare Revell 1/96 Cutty Sark hull. (no decks, just the hull.)  The dimensions of that one are almost spot-on for a scrathbuilt US Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane, in 1/88 scale, which is really HO scale after a small rounding error!

Not a RR scale, but close- 1/96 is popular for RC scale ships. Whenever I see an interesting subject, I’m thinking about what it would be in 1/96, and HO is only about 13% bigger, so I have a good idea of how big they’d be!

As I was telling my buddies the other day—  If I ever become “Czar of All Modeling”, I will do the following:

- replace 1/72, HO, and 1/96 scales with 1/100.

- replace 1/144 and N scales with 1/150.

- 1/43, 1/48, and O scale  are replaced by 1/50.

-Bill

Tanker - Builder

Here's a good example12' is 87 foot in H.O.

I have the Model Shipways steam tug kit in HO. 

Great scale for "stuff" and figures, but it is a little biggish.

I always thought that the Walthers Laker Ore Carrier was pretty cool. you can get inserts to make the hull as long as you want.