The little barge crane that I scratched together is made from:
1/700 scale "nameplate", a stand plate frome a Iterilia NIMITZ 720 scale kit, 1 HO scale pipe stand, and a crane from a 350 scale BB-59 kit that was destoryed when I moved.
Total cost to make: $0.00
Time to make: 20 minutes
See if you are like me and keep all pieces leftover from a kit that are not used then things like this are possible. I have a bunch of carrier stands that I'm going to use to make "standard" types of buildings like maintance sheds and things such as that. The name plates that come with the 700 scale tamaya, hasagawa, and fijumi kits are perfect for making barges of verious sizes, just cut off the angled brace and sand flat, add a 720 scale stand plate to the bottom, add whatever you want to the barge or nothing at all, your choice, the "stand plate" can be painted black on the edge to give to antifoling touch.
If your not so advanced in scratch building like myself this is a way to pratice and learn that cost you nothing. Yes these are very simple craft to build but the important thing is your building something from scratch and building "skills". I really had a great time coming up with this crane barge and finding the parts to make it. I had no clue how it would turn out seeing the pieces on the bench, but after playing around and test fitting parts here and there I found the concept I liked and started gluing it together.
So, the moral of this post is those parts that are not used from kits can be used to make things like this barge crane. So don't throw those things away, put them in a "scratch parts box", and those other parts from kits you didn't use put in a "spares box". After a while you'll have some nice pieces to scratch build with and make nice additions to your diorama's or as a stand alone static display.
Have a great modeling day.
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