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[Shipyard Baz]

Some of my Fleet

[rnli12]

Great collection!

[Shipyard Baz]

Thanks.


The Cargo ship has interchangeable decks, Bulk/VLCC or Container.  Ships size is 72" x 13"

[Capt Podge]

A wide and varied selection of model boats - good to see and you must be justifiably proud of them all - well done Baz.

Regards,

Ray.

P.S. Nice size workshop to.

[ballastanksian]

The container ship is wonderful, I bet you had lots of fun designing and assembling the containers. Are they a hollow box made of containers, or are there undecorated ones inside making a block?

Lovely fleet Baz 

[tugmad]

Some very nice models there Baz, it is a rewarding hobby seeing something appear from flat bits of wood etc.
Here are a couple of pictures of my mates Tug collection, all but two built by me over the last. 10years or so, most are 1/24th scale with a few 1/32nd ones.

[Shipyard Baz]

What a superb collection, looking at them makes me ask are they Scratch built? ...............first class.  My tug is 1/32
  My Ships Scale     
 
                                                  L       B           Power
                                    Inches
Cargo                         1/160 = 72 x 13      Smiths 12v
Barge                          1/16 =    52  x 6 ½   Decaperm 6v
Coastguard               1/26 =    58  x  14    Ford Fiesta motors x 2 x 12v or 6 v  (Island class patrol boat USCG)
Coaster                      1/50 =    44  x  7 ½   6v
Tug                            1/32 =    46  x  11     2 x 6v
MTB                           34            almost completed
Schooner                                     not completed
 


 

[tugmad]

Hi Baz yes they are all scratch built except the southsider that was is a modified Tyne models semi kit.
And all but 4 are plank on frame.

[Shipyard Baz]

The containers are just hollow blocks x 7.  The photo shows the first lot of blocks, later on I put new container images on, this time with better quality photo paper plus laminating.  When I did the block images it was a winter project on the computer as it took quite a bit of work to resize all the containers to the scale.
It was too much to make individual Containers plus all the lettering and numbering.  Only last week I came across a superb site on the web that has free block or separate images of containers in different scales.  Would have saved me countless hours had it been about when I was sorting them.

[Shipyard Baz]

Ford Fiesta motors x 2 x 12v or 6v  Omitted Ford Fiesta car heater motors for the Coastguard vessel.

[Shipyard Baz]

Here's the tug at an early stage, could not chuck scrap bits of wood away.  Plus the Oil Deck, all pipe work is "Kid's straws"

[ballastanksian]

Thanks for sharing your container making method Baz, it looks very realisitic. Getting all the angles right on your tug hull must have been a challenge as they change a little each time as you follow the frames around. Lots of measuring and checking etc.

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

Love the interchangable decks on the merchant ship.

 

[Shipyard Baz]

Many thanks for all the comments, really appreciated.  As yesterday was a lovely sunny day I cut the frames for my new ship which will be a P & O Freight Only Ro-Ro, scale 1/124.  The tug has a home made sound system which is very effective and cut the cost of a commercial bought system by 75%.  It incorporates twin speakers, micro amp and MP3 player.  Very easy to link them together plus spending15 minutes on the Web.

[Shipyard Baz]

Many thanks for all the comments, really appreciated.  As yesterday was a lovely sunny day I cut the frames for my new ship which will be a P & O Freight Only Ro-Ro, scale 1/124.  The tug has a home made sound system which is very effective and cut the cost of a commercial bought system by 75%.  It incorporates twin speakers, micro amp and MP3 player.  Very easy to link them together plus spending15 minutes on the Web.

I started off with nothing and still have most of it left.