Hey all you container lovers, check out this 1/200 scale container ship: http://www.hobby-lobby.com/sydney_star_container_ship_rc_boat_81092_prd1.htm Enjoy! John
Although very nice, this ship is a small one by container carrier standards. 1135 mm in Z scale means roughly 250-meter long in the real life, when biggest container carriers are more than 400-meter long. But even small, such a ship should have a bright look on a Z scale layout and should give interresting operations. Dom
The containers look very much over-size to me if this is a 745' ship. Perhaps 1:160 containers on a 1:200 ship?
:thumbs_down: - Only for the reason that it should be in 1:160 scale instead That's actually a small container ship, it's got a very small TEU volume (TEU= Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, a measurement used in the container ship industry - a 40' container is equivalent to 2 TEU, for example). Wonder if anyone is able to model the Emma Maersk, the world's largest container ship (13,800 TEU capacity - about 6,900 40' containers!):
What I think might be cool, and I hope the German Z scalers pick up on this...American modules on one side, German module on other, containers are picked up at container yard, moved across country(US MODULE) by rail, dropped off at container yard/docks, put on ship, (Ship on table with wheels?/) ship pushed across hall, cargo picked up at harbor, put on german container train, shipped across country (GERMAN MODULE) dropped off at destination . Doing rail ops with cards ect, but instead of boxcars its containers. It would be realisic sea/rail operating, and bridge the gap between the US and German module folks. Get some ship model builders envolved and I am sure they would be happy to show off . Kelley in Germany
