Hauler

This is the final merchant ship that I built, and I decided to push myself compared to the others. I built a recessed cargo area then added a bunch of salt to represent some stuff that is being carried. I dropped on superglue and they eventually held themselves in.

I had a ton of fun building these ships, and i still have a few of those hulls left over. I'll see what else strikes me...

Thanks for looking!

Refinery Ship

Ok pushing on with the merchant ships, i decided to build a refinery ship. The main superstructure is part of an old micromachine toy from back in the day. The refinery piece is from a box of monopoly 3D pieces that I got off ebay. Defo some interesting pieces in there.

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Merchant Tanker

Cracking on with the merchant fleet, here is my take on a tanker. Again recessing the pieces beneath the top plate of the hull is the trick!

Quite like this guy!

Merchant Ships

So I also bought some bits and pieces from the spartan bits and pieces part of their store with a view to build some of my own merchant ships.

So I've had the bits of one of those ancient pontoon bridge army sets from when I was a nipper in my bits box for as long as I can remember, and these were the hulls of the ship.

So here is the first one..

This guy is a simple flat bed cargo hauler type ship. I also made some interesting looking cargo but then decided not to photograph those pieces. The textured plasticard fits the scale really nicely. The pieces fore and aft (how nautical am I?) are what I think are folded up cranes that are from the merchant fleet box.

I also discovered that the resin pieces look many times better if they are recessed into the top hull plate rather than plonked on top.

Thanks for looking!