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[ianwales]

Hello Everyone

I am new to this forum and have basically joined as a way of getting some help for a project I want to undertake, I am a Railway Modeller who is currently building a model based on Dover Marine station in Kent, but, the info I am after requires more knowlege of Model Ships rather than model railways at the moment.

One of the requirements for this layout will be a train ferry so I am on the lookout for a model somewhere in the 1/76th-1/100 th scale bracket of a train ferry or a stern loading ro-ro ferry that I can add the railway tracks to, I am looking for something along the lines of the Deans Marine kits MV Muirneag model, although this one is a bit expensive for what will become a glass dock mounted static model, that can be cut down to a waterline model and mounted in the dock to shunt the trains on and off.

Is there anything of this sort available or that can be adapted to a cross channel train ferry? I undertand there was a model of a Danish train ferry some years ago made by trinbaetett of aarhus, but, every other avenue I have tried has drawn blank so far.

Ian

[Prophet]

i've had a good look round and have only found pic's of train ferrys which you can google pretty easy, buying a kit of some sort thats not so easy... and given that the models going to be 'static' i would be hesedant to spend the best part of £300, i would be more inclines to search for a build plan costing around the £20 mark and scratch build it to your requirements, try here and see if there are any ships that might do the job
http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/mmi_plans.html

at a guess.. i doubt you will spend more then £100-150 building it from scratch which is still excessive but better then 300!

[Klunk]

any card modellers out that could help????

[Circlip]

Check your PM Ian. 

  Regards  Ian.

[barriew]

The October Railway Modeller has an advert for a paper kit of a Train Ferry.

Barrie

[ianwales]

Hi Barrie

Thanks for the heads up on the RM advert, not quite what I am looking for, more of a cross channel type ferry is what I am after.

Ian