IMEX Tampa *update 7-28* Finished!

That's looking real nice! You did a nice job of matching the Maersk blue.

Fred

Hi enemeink!

Are you building the Maersk Nanhai?

The Imex model Tampa is the Willhelm wilhelmsen´s container ship Toyama built in 1972, sold to Maersk in 1993 and renamed to Maersk Nanhai, sold again in 1995, and scraped in 2001.

The Imex Tampa and Toyama is the same model, only that Tampa has some badly shaped plastic container in the kit.

The Imex container ship Tampa did never exist, I Emailed Imex and asked them why they did a model of a non existing ship, and they replied that they are working in Tampa and this was a personal thing they do for fun. 

Good luck on this model, I´m slowly on my way my self on this model as Toyama.

If you need some pic. mail me.

hans.neren@telia.com

By the way Fred, nice one your last model, the rebuilt Hawaiian pilot.

Regards to you ,  

Hasse. 

kp80 wrote:

Keep us posted on your progress.  How did you shade the hatches, with chalk pastels, or did you airbrush?  Is this 1/500 scale or so?  I've only seen these on my LHS shelf a few times and never really studied the box.

KP90,
Funny thing. I used a black primer on this. and to save paint i just didn't airbrush were the containers will be sitting. So nothing fancy I was just cheating and being conservative. the scale is 1/550. Thanks,

I think i spent more time masking containers then I did on the actual painting and building of the hull. next up it's weathering these cans to make them look like they've crossed the ocean a couple of times. hopefully my rail set and decal set will be here before the week ends....  to pick the colors of the containers I just went outside my office and looked in our container yard to see what companies we do business with. anyways i hope you enjoy....

neat build, also great that you can model 'work", great conversation piece.

if anyone want to pick one of these Imex cargo kits up, they are in the (Naval) Bargain Bin at Sprue Brothers, 13$ USD. And grab the last Zvezda Oriol at 20$ while you are there, I already have mine ;)

If you take MFSOB's suggestion, you might find all kinds of logos in the trade magazines. Scan them into a graphics program, then print them on Testor's decal paper. He's right though. Frustration level goes up. I found it was hard to get them reduced to the correct size.

Yeah, 1/550 is probably too small for lettering. Maybe some of the larger logos might come out. This is 1/400 scale, and the 'Sea-Land' was about as small as my printer could habdle.

Here's what I learned the hard way - you can't print small decals with an inkjet printer. It just won't work. Period. By small I mean anything less than about 1/350.

If all you want is black logos and lettering, then a laser printer and clear or white laser decal paper will give good results down to 1/700 scale. I did an entire carrier air wing that way and it looked good, down to the individual aircraft modex numbers. Someday God is going to leave a color laser printer on my kitchen table for me to play with. Until that time ... 

try putting some rigging on her     like on the cranes maybe

it is a big enough model  so not to be hard  and would make a MAJOR diff.

DURR wrote:

try putting some rigging on her     like on the cranes maybe it is a big enough model  so not to be hard  and would make a MAJOR diff.

I had Planned on it. But i'm saving that for the very last.

onyxman wrote:

By the way enemeink, nice workspace!

Thanks, I posted a picture in the "show us your workspace" thread. i picked it up at sams club back in march. before that I was using a TV tray in the living room.

So it's finished! the PE sets were somewhat of a pain. Good thing i had a great set of calipers or it would have made this that much worse. The maersk decals were smaller than I had hoped but I went ahead and used them anyway. I tried to find some G scale railroad decals but couldn't find what I needed. anyways I hope you all enjoy. People at work seem to dig it.....

She came out real nice! Fine work. Yes, the "Maersk SeaLand" is probably a little small, but unless you compare it to the real thing nobody will notice.

Fred

Thanks everybody!