Jim, The horse's had was not repositioned. I used Preiser or Noch figurine. The head was already slightly crooked. I try to make preliminary arrangement of the ships. My best idea loooks like this: I am thinking of another ship. I consider to arrange wreckage lifting scene in the red marking area:
Pawel, Like the wagon mods! Nice barrels as well. I've purchased some nice barrels from here: https://www.allscaleminiatures.com/ I like the vessel arrangement as well. Scott
The last barge to be made. I decided to make it semi-open. One of the most important commodieties which were reloaded in the Poznań river harbour was sugar. I think the original photo probably shows this process: 3D printed barge with additional supporting elements in the loading space: I decided to make the load of sugar in big bags using Green Stuff: The barge painted (not finished in 100%) with added closed and open holds:
Scott, Green Stuff is a two part modeling clay that a lot of military modelers use. Cool stuff that’s easy to use and shape into various objects. https://www.amazon.com/Army-Painter-Modelling-Easy-Knead/dp/B001AE5ZQO Old school scratch building stuff. As they say “old school is the best school”. Enjoy, John
I was suggested to add some more items on the lift-pontoon. I think it was a good suggestion: I started to make re-loading ramps following prototype: I made them using photoetched 3D profiles and for the first time I try to solder some scenery items. It is not masterpiece but I think it is acceptable: I made loading containers for cranes based on original ones: Still "work in progress" phase:
Pawel, More good details! The chutes came out nice! I like the loading container on the right. What size wire is that? Do you have smaller? I think .01 dia. might be better scale wise. Scott
Scott you are right - the wire is overscaled. I think it is 0,6 mm. I used 0,3 and 0,4 (I think). It looks much better: I fixed lower parts of cranes permanently as well as chutes. The crane is in the place just to check how it look like. I do not want to destroy it while working on diorama..
Container 3.0. I got some criticism about to fat walls of the container. I changed the technique. Once again some examination of prototype photos: Version 2.0 compared to 3.0. I think 3.0 (right one) is much better both in terms of thin walls as well as general proportion to the crane. I plan to have one more - Version 3.1. The vertical size will be smaller to represent different sizes (see: lower reference photo). New technique: old "Coca-Cola" can, some wire, bottom made of old plastic skipass + some putty (mostly scrap materials)
I'd say you nailed it! If you kept the original bucket, I'd recommend using a grinding burr and sanding a sharp bevel on the inside edge to make the thickness less apparent.
Pawel, Looking better! Shorter in height will be better, the taller one in the photo looks to be 1/3 smaller than version 3.0. Scott
Thanks to all friends' comments I came to the end of "container story". 3.0. container was shortened, I added the second one. Both of them get the stripe on the edge. Thanks for comments. Final result is much better than starting point.
