Ship

Looks great!  Even if it is smaller scale it gives it some forced perspective!  

I like it very much. It sure has a back home flavor for me. Who makes it?

That looks good.

It was a lindberg model.

This ship would go well in our waterfront area. Thanks for the info.

Wallace:

A couple of questions. Is this the 1/95 model and is the bottom flat so that you don't have to rework it. A leading on-line site has these at about $ 35.00.

Wallace - That is a great scene!

Art

Love the light ship! It needs to be at sea marking a shoal.

Wow & wow

Great idea & it looks great on the layout. Well done, Model Train Engineer. 

It is a 1/95 scale but I had to cut off the bottom with a Dremel tool. It must be a old kit because the pieces all had bad flashing around them. Each piece had to be cleaned up. Must be from an old mold. Thanks Wally

Thanks very much, Wally.

Wallace,

The ship looks like it fits very well there and it looks like it is right in scale.

Alan Graziano

Looks good.

Really nice looking and it looks just fine in the background. Nice job!

I know the kit.  It works well both as an interesting boat as to force perspective.  

Thank You  for all the nice remarks. Wally

One good thing about a waterfront scene is that the horizon behind the scene does not have to be distinctive - blue sky to blue water, throw in a few clouds and it looks very natural. Great scene - well done. 

Wally....that ship and scene are just perfect.  You did a first rate job!

Alan

That is nice.  I like Lighthouse ships.

if you want it to seem like it's in scale, then it seems to work as is. if you want to reinforce the forced perspective idea (i.e. it's further away and that is why it looks somewhat smaller), you might consider a few HO workers on the ship and the dock. at 1/95 scale it's pretty close to HO scale. regardless, a nice scene. 

jerrman

Nice loking ship and fits the scene great

I really want a couple of ships - ideally warships - on my layout but have no room for them at the moment.  But I could do one of those fold-up water-surfaces to fill one of my access aisles, that swings down (sort of like a big door that is hinged to the layout edge).  I think Alan Arnold had one on his layout if I remember.  

Anyway, I'm looking at something like Graupner's 1:48 model of the Flower class, HMS Bluebell.  About 55 inches long and sort of a "built-up" - the model boat equivalent of Woodland Scenics built up buildings.  It is a cool model even if expensive as a vision loco:I would make a cutout hold in the waterline so I could take it out of its waterline hole in the "water" and down to the lake and run it, which would be cool.