Wow, thanks guys! I really appreciate all this! I have so far gotten about a third of the containers painted with most touched up. I wish I had my camera to shoot pics for you!
Fred, that diagram is excellent! I’ll have to reallly think about doin that. To give you an idea of why I’m hesitent, I’ll let you know that the bottom tier tiedowns on this model will be less than a quarter-inch long! Maybe 2mm or 3mm, if I’m lucky. Not sure I want to tackle that, but we’ll see.
Thanks again for the info. Kp, I’ll be watching for those reference pics.
Thanks again guys! You’ve really been a tremendous help!
When you get to the title page, click on thumb version (you get thumbnails of the pics), then select the letter “M” from the alphabet bar. Look at the first ship under the M’s, the MV Mackinac Bridge. You’ll the lashings from the aft end, but they’re only one-high. Note also the mix of standard height (8’) and high-cubes (9’-6”) boxes. Further down you’ll also see the MSC Tina, and some two-high lashings are visible, but you need to look closely.
Wish I could make progress with my models as you do! Your progress is inspiring!
chuckles You guys and wondering if 1/400 is too small … that is HUGE compared to 1/700 when it comes to things like rigging.
Speaking of rigging, I’ve used stretched sprue to do some modest rigging on 1/700 ships, and 1/72 biplanes. What I like about it is it is fairly rigid, so you can cut it to the length you need and install it with a tiny dot of super glue. I color mine with a black Sharpie marker before installing, it’s easier than painting it. You can stretch it out thin enough to look “right” in just about any scale.
Thank you for those links. They will be very helpfull. I’ll study what I can and see what I can do.
Yeah, that kinda sounds like it. However I’m not so concerned about the size so much as the volume of bracing I’d have to do to make this look right. I too have tried the stretched sprue to rig a couple of ships, and I’ve been practicing and stretching extra for my SOC-3 Seagull that I built awhile ago. I want to be able to look at good photos of what the tiedowns look like to go with the diagram that Fred provided, and the links given by KP willl help alot. Then I will decide what to do.
Thanks again to everyone for the assistance and the encouragement. Now I got a few more stacks of containers to paint…
Aren’t we nice to come up with all this work for you to do?[:D]
Seems like it would be easy for me to get a good picture of lashing rods, as I used to spend most of my time down on the docks or on the ships, but since I don’t get down there so much anymore, this is the best I can do from my picture files. It of course is an example of how NOT to have your cargo arrive, but if you look closely, you can see a rod going from the bottom of the grey container, just left of the guy standing on the catwalk.
BTW Duke if you have another container ship in your stash I suggest building it as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier disguised as a container ship ( now before you guys say that the Royal Navy didn’t build any of those ships the Royal Navy did build 2 of these ships as prototypes) these ships could carry a number Harrier aircraft during convoy actions.
I’m not sure if the Atlantic Conveyer was one of those ships you refer to. It was the container ship that was used to carry Harriers during the Falklands War. If I’m not mistaken it was sunk by an Exocet anti-ship missile. A quick Google search didn’t come up with any pictures of that ship, but I know I have one somewhere in my files around here. If I recall they left rows of containers around the outboard sides to protect the planes. It also seems to me it was partly a Ro-Ro ship, but I could be wrong about that.
Fred
Edit: AhHa! I was spelling it wrong! It’s Atlantic Conveyor. If you google that in their “images” there are a lot of good pics. That would make an interesting model.
