Mega Ships or Monster Ships

There's a vast, untapped (potential) market for Shear Legs and similar salvage crane barges (soem of thoe latter at least partially self-propelled).

Would be good subjects in railroad scales, let alone maritime modeling scales.

I've looked, more than once, at th edie-cast 1/50 crawler cranes as a starter for a crane barge.  Tyically, the hard part would be the engines to power the various pumps nad compressors found on those decks.

Would be cool stuff.

Barracuda RC Boats has a pair of laser cut crane barge kits.  One is 1/96th scale and the other is 1/48th scale.

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     You can find parts that will work. Check out model RailRoad shop equipment. There are a few scales where you can cheat. If in a Diorama for instance you can force the perspective a little. Don't give up on your search for parts,there are firms such as Preiser and Others that make the stuff.

   Some can be found in Oil equipment and Engine parts as well as Rooftop equipment for the same Model RailRoad Building sets. T.B. 

For a model of a really large ship, the RoG container ship (Colombo Express) is a real nice kit.  And there is a photo-etch package for it.

Here is an interesting idea for a megaship. The USS Kearsarge BB5 started life as a battleship and then in 1920 was converted into a self propelled crane by removing the superstructure, gun turrets, and armor and installing a huge 250 ton crane. She was given the name Crane Ship 1 and lasted through WWII ending up being scrapped in 1948