Does anybody know a source for small boats, like row boats or fishing boats? I know about all of the rubber assault rafts and the Viet Nam boats. Any others available? I would hate to have to scratch build one, but I guess that would save money on my total. HELP!

Patrick

Hi,

It will depend of what scale are you interested in.

Artesania Latina and Amati have some in wood.

There 're a lot of boats/ships around....Usually, from the " plans & plank " part of modelin' world ! To say, you buy a big box with nice pictures of the finished beast, and, safely back home, you open ' t, and find half of the world forests cut in small pieces, ten square/feet of a plan, and thousand of ridiculously small nails...You ' re done !
If you ' re an hardcore masochist, try some naughty company like Artesania, or Billing boats...Or else !
Btw, I ' ve a fishin' ship ( 3 feet long and, of course, half finished... ) lurkin' somewhere ( it was, in my dreams, the central piece of a Nam' diorama...You know, the VC trawler, full of seals jumpin' from an Great Armada of LSSCs & Pibber ! #:-) ...! ), and another one, called Krab Kuuter, or some wikinger language like that, with a plastic hull terribly empty....A much smaller nightmarish thingy, but a true one, anyway !
A real man experience....!
Have a nice day...!

I'm looking for something in 1/35. Just a small boat. I need something for a figure to fish from. Have a killer spring diorama campaign idea, just need someway to make it "float". Something like the small boat in Letterman's diorama.


Patrick

Hi,

VP has a set with two small boats -




HTH

you might check a large model train outlet, OO scale is roughly equivilent 40 48th scale but some of their boats may work.

I have the PERFECT answer for small, inexpensive boats.... go to any reseller of the LeMax collection of vintage christmas scenics. They use a standard 1:43 scale, but they produce a small pair of wooden hull boats for $8.95 that would be a perfect fit for about a 12-15 foot one or two man fishing boat... and at that price, they can't be beat!



Best of all, right after christmas, you can usually go to stores like Michaels or Hobby Lobby and find these boats for sale for $3.95 a pair. Now the Oars are WAY wacky (much too large!)... but those can be easily replaced with something you carve yourself from coffee stir-sticks. I will have one of these boats (destroyed and partically submerged) in my SPLASH diorama.

Keep a look out in my journal page for photos coming soon.

I still get a chill everytime i see that diorama from Bob Letterman... it is called "legacy" and I consider it the finest Urban WWII dio i have ever seen!

I was able to find some of the LeMax boats. Thanks a lot, Keith.

Patrick

The lemax boats are really nice to work with... they are even "finished out" on the inside with ribbing. i like to take some thin balsa wood and scribe a deck to the tops.... and also, be sure to snap or cut off the oar locks... they are WAY out of scale. You can replace them if desired with some curved sprue or plastic strip.