Container Ship Models for N-scale

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Hello,

I am looking to add a harbor/port on my N-scale layout expansion and can’t seem to find any manufacturers of roughly N-scale (1/140 to 1/200 ???) plastic container ship models. Anything I have seen is 1/350 scale and most of that is aircraft carriers and destroyers. Anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Cooperbrad

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Cooperbrad, ask around on the Fine Scale Models forum under the ships heading. They may have something.Theres a couple guys in Spokane who scratchbuilt an HO model complete with an interchange yard. They display it regularly at the shows there. Unfortunately I don’t have any Pics. A nice feature of it is the monster smoke unit they put into the stack . I think it is actually some type of water vapor generator as there is never any smell associated with their display.

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Doing a Google search on: model container ships resulted in these:

This one is a very small ~1/95 scale model: http://www.rchobby.co.uk/radio_controlled_t_class_conta.htm

I am not sure of the scale of this one, but it is another very small ship. In the picture, the containers are 30 pixels = 40 feet, the ship is 485 pixels = ~633feet, model is 33.8", which works out to be about 1/225 scale. http://www.hobby-lobby.com/neptune.htm

http://www.marcle.co.uk/cataloguehome.html

You may want to talk to these guys; the scale is off by a factor of ~8, but you could use one of thier models as a basis of what you want. http://seaveemodels.com/browse_56

And here is an idea for making one out of Legos: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/5622 As noted, the real ship is over 1000 feet long - roughly 6½ feet in N scale.

Check out the links here: http://home.att.net/~ShipModelFAQ/smf-qPaperModels.html It will give you techniques.

You may want to get this model http://www.amazon.com/Tampa-Container-Model-1-550-Imex/dp/B000GKW5LQ even though it is 1:550 scale. It is very inexpensive, and provides you with a model that you could copy into a larger scale.

If you have a LARGE fortune, these guys will be happy to change it into a small fortune and provide you with a model: http://www.bertilewis.com/index.htm

And another 1:1250 model

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Are there any museums in your region that have harbor scenes with ships in them, that appear to be N-scale? If so, I would contact them and find out how they acquire their models. [Most of the time I think they are built in-house by an employee…]