I was surfing American N gauge sites- enjoying the eye candy of big layouts featuring harbour and wharf dioramas. Northeastern Scale Models 'Sam Cahoon's Fish Pier'
is a classic. And in HO simply enjoy Fos Red Hook Wharf ....
I was thinking, what about a Bruneval style raid. A new WW2 radar station or AVBCW version of the Eagle has landed...the country house inland and a harbour like that one in the N gauge diorama.....
I suppose it comes from boyhood days of looking at pristine railway layouts in shop windows and thinking " I would love to take a squadron of tanks up that nice main street....."
Found a neat N gauge tugboat on my wanderings ..
Where man - WHERE
IanS
Langley Models do some
and http://modeltechstudios.com/nscalewaterlineseries-firefightingtugtugboat.aspx
Ian - the tugboat I saw was at www.modeltechstudios.com Then click on waterfront
It is part of their waterline series. £16 + postage.
The Fos eyecandy (in HO scale) is www.foslimited.com and click on waterfront . Inspiring stuff. The clip teaching video ion painting water is educational -Mod Plodge that's what I need.
I would love to build something a little bit like it in 1/150
Hello Sunray
Gramodels also do a Clyde Puffer for £15.
(http://www.pagenumberone.co.uk/layouts/puffers/gramodel.jpg)
http://www.gramodels.co.uk/ (http://www.gramodels.co.uk/)
Paper Shipwrights have free paper models for piers, quays and seawalls which need to be scaled up by 1.66666 for 1/150.
Some of the Japanese stuff like Tomytec could be used with a change of signage:-
(http://www.1999.co.jp/itbig07/10070961a.jpg)
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/1905/0/1 (http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/1905/0/1)
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan/Vic
Thanks guys.
IanS