HO scale deck winches

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I am building a HO scale ship. I need a scaled drawing of deck winches for ocean freighters or lake freighters to assist in scratchbuilding.

Best Regards,

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It might be worth while to check out YahooGroups to see if there are ship modeling groups, join and ask there. Or check for a newsgroup and ask there.

Bob Boudreau

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Winches and other ship fitting are available in a number of scales for model ship builders. While none are “HO” scale the they come in various sizes (most are not labeled by scale), some of them may be useable since prototype ship fittings varied greatly in size.

One on line source is Model Expo www.modelexpo-online.com

Here is a link that lists a lot of stuff in and near HO scale:

http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/car-floats/ho-ship-models.html

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Try Sylvan - they offer a full line of HO scale marine kits and detail parts. Go to: http://www.isp.ca/Sylvan/ho-scaleproducts.htm

…then click on “Marine” for their online catalog

Here’s a photo of their winch:
http://www.isp.ca/Sylvan/kits/1062.htm

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Blue Jacket Ship crafters is another sourse of cast ship detail parts. Seaways Ships in Scale is a magazine devoted to model ship building which would have many sourses for parts.

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The guys have got it covered. Sylvan is the place as they are HO. Are you modeling a great lakes ship? Check out http://www.greatlakesmodeling.com/.

Paul

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I like the Laker Class ship shown on that site. It is rather expensive. I wonder if there is a experienced builder of such large resin kits availible?

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Sylvains kits are top notch and not all that hard to build.It’s funny, as I was ready this thread, because I had just returned from doing a train show in N Fall Canada and sylvain was there. Had a good long chat with claire the owner he’s good people. He had a couple of the lker class and the reg large laker there.They are worth the investment and they are water line kits so they fit into a layout quite nicely.Their tugboat models are also quite good,you can’t go wrong really with their product. Rob

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Here is a link to the one I kitbashed:
http://trainweb.org/ironbelt/oreboat.html

If I had to do it all over again, I would skip the hull kit [plus the 3 extensions] and just buy the detail parts - the resin subsections don’t always align very well with each other. The lines of a lake boat are quite simple and straightforward. One thing I must admit though: Sylvan’s hull plating and rivet patterns are very well-detailed.

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There is a place in Texas called the Dromedary. They have a full selection of scale parts and kits of all scales. Problem is they aren’t on the net. They’re Catalogue is jam packed with great stuff.

Fergie