Revell Container Ship Columbo Express 1/700

Thank You Don ;

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

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.

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?

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          

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

Greetings,

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

Dave

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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

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

Dave

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

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 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          

  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

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

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

crackers

       A question to Forum fans: How are the stacked containers on container ships prevented from falling over the side during heavy weather ? It would seem to me that the containers piled on top of each other, would be too unstable to remain in a orderly condition when seas get rough.

Sometimes they don't remain stacked

From Cargolaw.com.   They have an interesting archive of various shipping mishaps

     The COLUMBO EXPRESS holds 8,749  twenty foot units and 730 refrigerated reefer units. She is 1,099 feet long and a beam of 140 feet. She is also measures 93,750 gross tons. Her diesel engines generate 93,500 horse power at a top speed of 25 knots.

      COLUMBO EXPRESS was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea and finished in 2005.  Christened on April 11, 2005, she was delivered to the German shipping company , Hapag-Lloyd. She is named for Columbo, the largest city of Sri Lanka (Cylon). The COLUMBO EXPRESS operates from her homeport of Hamburg, Germany and travels from Europe to Southeast Asia and back in a 56 day round trip.

      Her other sisters of the COLUMBO EXPRESS class are: BREMEN EXPRESS, CHICAGO EXPRESS, HANOVER EXPRESS, KUALA LUMPUR EXPRESS, KYOTO EXPRESS, OSAKA EXPRESS and TSINGTAO EXPRESS.

       A question to Forum fans: How are the stacked containers on container ships prevented from falling over the side during heavy weather ? It would seem to me that the containers piled on top of each other, would be too unstable to remain in a orderly condition when seas get rough.

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

                                                     crackers        

     The SHANGHAI EXPRESS is a Hapag-Lloyd's Hamburg Express class container ship, delivered in 2002. She was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea. She has a length of 320 meters, width of 43 meters. She has a capacity of 7,506 isotainers and a up to 100,000 tons of freight. Her top speed is 25.3 knots with an engine output of 93,000 horsepower.
      As of April 2008, other Hamburg Express class container ships include the BERLIN EXPRESS, HONG KONG EXPRESS, AND HAMBURG EXPRESS.

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

                                             Crackers     

Just a quick TV alert for U.K. builders. Monday 25th Jan. at 5:00pm on Discovery Channel (Sky 520) an episode fo Superships features the Shanghai Express. Might be handy for references.

Rick---My guess for locating plans for the EMMA MAERSK, or her sisters is probably  non-existant. However, you might try: Loyalhanna Dockyard/Taubman Plans, 7527 Gilbert Rd., Bergen, N.Y. 14416     e-mail: LHDockyard@aol.com or:  www.taubmansonline.com  The Taubman plans catalog retails for $24. + $4.      s.and h.  Hope this helps. Can anyone out there in Forum land help Rick with information ?

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

                                                         Crackers        

Awesome.  Are there plans of any sort available from anywhere for this vessel (the Emma Maersk)?

Thanks, Rick

Just ran the numbers on ScaleCalc and at 1/700 it would be 22.28 inches long, or almost 1.5 inches longer than a 1/350 Arizona.  At 1/350 this monster would be 44.57 inches long.  Per Wikipedia, the Maersk Commpany says it holds only 11,000 20 ft containers, but it calculates them at full weight capacity.  Since not all the containers will weigh their maximum weight, it really can carry over 15,000 containers. And this ship has seven (7) sisters.

     Being computer illiterate, I don't know how to transfer other links about the monstrous container ship, EMMA MAERSK to the Forum. For those of you Forum folks who would like to view more information about this colossal floating monster, just go to your search engine and punch in the name, EMMA MAERSK. Sites like Wikipedia should provide ample information for your viewing pleasure. I wonder if a model kit company would ever produce such a kit for the public. Ever at 1/700 scale, the model would be too big for any person's work bench.  

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

                                                         Crackers   

Crackers - Awesome pictures man!  What a MONSTER!  Even in 1:700 scale it would be huge.  The containers in the top right photo look like pixels. lol

I had the same thought mfsob, but the model train people seem able to get all the corporate logo decals they want.   Maybe they get permission for all of them?  I donno.

I agree about the decals, weebles ... and I can't help but think that trademark issues are probably the huge stumbling block there, what with corporations wanting to get their pound of flesh out of any potential revenue source, even somethng as miniscule as 1/700 container decals.

     I managed to scan some pictures of the super container cargo ship EMMA MAERSK, built in Denmark in 2006, at a cost of $145,000,000. This ship was built in 5 sections which were then floated together and welded.The bridge is higher than a 10 story building. This monster's length is 1,302 feet, width ,207 feet, which is 100 feet wider and 300 feet longer than the biggest aircraft carrier and can not fit through either the Panama or the Suez Canals. This vessel is 123,200 tons with a capacity for 15,000 containers. It is powered by 14 in-line diesel engines at 110,000 BHP, which can push this ship at a top speed of 31 knots`in a trans- pacific time in about 3 days. It is crewed by 13 personnel with all the amenities of luxury hotel living. This vessel has a regular run between China and California, bringing all those goodies that one finds in box shaped stores like Wal-Mart and labeled ,MADE IN CHINA. And that  dear folks, is why MADE IN AMERICA has gone the way of the dodo bird.

       My thanks to Tracy White, who tried to help me place these pictures on the Forum. At first, I tried to cut and paste these pictures directly onto the Forum reply section, but was promptly rejected. Next, I decided to scan the pictures to the Flickr hosting site and then cut and paste them to the Forum thread. Can anyone suggest a better way to post pictures ?  Please let me know. I'd appreciate your help.

               Montani semper liberi !  Happy modeling to all any every one of you.

                                                       Crackers      

Great photos gents.  Sounds like a nice sage green might just do the trick for a weathered version.  Now if we can find somebody to do some nice markings for us...

Dave