mikeharvey22 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 For anyone with 15 days to spare and deep pockets here is an ambitious kit build. Would like to think a more manageable N gauge one would cost 1/8 of the 750 euros. Â http://www.regionsetcompagnies.fr/produit/846-ferry-boat-a-quai/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 14, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 14, 2017 He might get more business if he also made it to 1:76. I wonder what sort of a market there is for this. Â Impressive though and the associated linkspan looks OK. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bigbee Line Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I'm pretty certain that the Senlac was Ro-Ro only. It would look nicer with 2 tracks on the link span... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeharvey22 Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 Senlac was indeed a Dieppe- Newhaven car ferry 1973 and 1984. She was a sister ship to BR Hengist and Horsa which operated on the Dover/Folkestone- Calais/Boulogne/Ostend routes, and later on the Irish Sea.To be fair the seller's description does admit that it was not a train ferry, more about the same shape and size as other ferries built in the same yard around the same time. They also implied that it was scaled down as it could not accommodate all the tracks. Now if it had been the Shepperton, Hampton, or Twickenham it would have been smaller and they had a real and long train ferry life on Dover - Dunkerque. I do not think that Senlac will be a great seller! Â http://www.dover.freeuk.com/port/cross_channel_69.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 15, 2017 (edited) Amazing to think that Twickenham, hardly at the forefront of ship design when built in the 1930s, was still running in 1972. I may actually have crossed on it in 1970, the only time that I travelled 1st class on the Night Ferry. All my later trips, 2nd class red-eye, were on St Eloi. Â The kit is also wrong to have SNCF logos on a train ferry. The French train ferries were ALA. Edited August 15, 2017 by Joseph_Pestell 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusDe Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Having spent years sketching out layout ideas centred around train ferries I can only think, despite the compromises, this is a good thing...... Â ...then I saw the price. Â Ho, hum, linkspan it is then. Â Â Angus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 (edited) 1/100 is a common scale for r/c model ships the price is pretty much in line with what you'd pay for a Deans Marine kit, what's the one in the post made of? http://www.westbourne-model.co.uk/acatalog/Deans_Marine_Model_Boats_Merchant_Ships.html Edited August 16, 2017 by doctor quinn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Aren't the other kits in the range(buildings?) mainly card?  As far as scale, a compromise, but I would certainly not think 1/76 would do any better. Maybe I should seek out some drawings for ferry wagons to do in HO. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted August 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 16, 2017 1/100 is a standard scale for builders models too, I have seen builders models of rail ferries in 1/100 loaded with 1/87 wagons and it looks OK. Not perfect but the discrepancy in scale is not as obvious as you might think. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted August 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17, 2017 It says that the kit is on 20 laser cut A3 card sheets. Â I suspect that re-scaling to a larger scale (1:76) would involve a complete redeign since A3 sheets do not scale up by 76/87 or 76/100 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Do the 3mm Association do ferry wagons? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Crawford Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 They also have the more reasonably priced ferry-ramp. As for the ship, I found a wiki page in German (!!) stating that the real ship was 118m long, so the model is 1:100 scale, not 1:87 as it should It was scrapped in 2010 in Turkey. Â It would be even more huge if it was 00 or HO Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2018 Â It would be even more huge if it was 00 or HO Roughly 5 feet in HO and nearly 6 feet in 00. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delfin Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 For a layout using this vessel see the June edition of RMF. Â The layout of the month is called Tieppe, an artifice they should have avoided IMHO. Â Anyway it is worth seeing if you can get hold of a copy. Â Delfin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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