Hey group,
after meeting Marijn van Gils last week with one of my micro builds in tow I realized I never posted that one here. My micro build are always sized to the 90*55 mm diorame bases sold by Trumpeter. This one was entered in a britmodeler group build last year.
MV Oosterschelde was one of a series of three small side loading ferries build for the short but dangerous ferry routes in the Rhine Scheldt delta. I just missed them as they were sold out of service in the early '70s when I moved there. I had good drawings for Oosterschelde in the early 1950s so this is what she was going to be. I started with my usual balsa hull with evergreen 2020 planking. This was a bit difficult as the car deck had partially diagonal planking on the loading section but I managed to get it right I think.
The rest of the ship was straight styrene shapes.
And the fun part. L'Arsenal makes this really nice set of 1/700 WW2 US military soft skin vehicles with could easily be ' civilised'.
Note that I originally added a bus to the deck . According to paper model guru Wim van der Meer of Scaldis who essentially grew up on these ships this was impossible as a bus could not make the turn when loading.
So I replaced it with a much smaller truck from the spares box.
And there were some details and decals to be added.
This was a real fun in between build taking some 4 weeks of a very nice looking subject.
Oosterschelde is still around but heavily rebuild as a club and restaurant. Her longer half sister Koningin Emma has been restored to her original configuration. She is in use as a hotel in Vlissingen where she was build. I spent some time drawing her last year.