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1/87 Smaller Boats
Posted by WardR on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 8:59 AM

Hello,

I just completed a small boat house, was looking for small 21- 30  ft boats, say the older Chris Craft boats, seems no one makes them? I actually tried my hand at scratch building a few, there are ok, but need allot more practice, the problem is there are way to small to get the details needed. does anyone know of a place to buy these boats or maybe a site that shows how to build these type of smaller vessels, seems like its either tug boats or small row boats and canoes.

nks!!

 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:12 AM

I built a lobster boat from Frenchman River Model Works.  Sea Port Model Works also has HO-scale kits.  If you go to the Walthers site and search for "rowboat" you'll find some of those, too.  Campbell Scale Models makes a rowboat kit.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:14 AM

Buy a small rowboat in O scale, and then detail it as a larger HO scale boat.You can sand the hull to make it smoother, give it a fore deck and cockpit. Put a motor compartment in the middle. Unless you count the rivets it might pass inspection.

Fr. Claude had a house boat made of old air force drop tanks for pontoons, a wooden deck with a shack on it. Neither the Coast Guard nor the Park Service ever bothered him about it: they never could guess that it was really a boat and could navigate on its own.

 

Surely any boat that you would scratch build would look better than this!

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Posted by CTValleyRR on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 8:42 PM

Lion -- I'll admit that your friend's boat is nothing to look at, and looks like it would float about as well as a lead brick.

However, it does appear to have a registration number on it, so he may have been pulling your leg about flying under the radar of law enforcement.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:06 PM

Eh? Did you check the date on that sticker?

Not that that matters, it is easy to get a registration number, passing a Coast Guard or State Game inspection is quite another matter. But then in recent years he did not really use it as a boat, but only as a "house" albeit that he had to move it across the cove or some such to a spit of land where he beached it for the summer. His motor boat, such as it was, did not look all that much better. He beached the house boat on Indian Reservation Land and so he was seldom bothered about it.

The Sheriff was here looking for him one evening, for they saw him sail out before a storm, but never saw him come back. "They" (whoever *they* were) did not know about the house boat in that other cove.

Oh well, if you have nothing to put in your boat house, then build a house boat instead.

ROAR

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Posted by DeCleyre on Thursday, February 9, 2012 9:35 AM

Either I'm misunderstanding the problem or you boys are just too young.

Athearn used to put one on a flatcar. From the '62 catalog:

Can't vouch for their scale size or accuracy, but I see them at train shows occasionally, with and without the flatcar. Gotta be one on eBay before too long.

Lionel had 'em too, but they were made by Athearn; probably the same piece painted differently ('58 catalog).

Since it's got the big L on it, you should be able to find it somewhere right away, if you don't mind paying the L premium.

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Posted by WardR on Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:04 AM

Hi Guys,

 

Thanks for the replies, i have seen a few of those athearn boats available and have bid on a few and lost the bid, still its strange that we dont see more of these smaller cris carft type boats, even the athearn ones are not very good looking. i know kibri may ahve ahd a few in production but there was no eta

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Posted by Train Modeler on Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:09 AM

Ward,

Here's a link to Walther's for boats.   There was a recent article on modeling ports in the MRR mag with sources for boats listed as well.

http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=&scale=H&manu=&item=&keywords=boat&words=restrict&instock=Q&split=300&Submit=Search

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Posted by WardR on Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:43 AM

Hi rich,

 

Thanks, but that link appears to be dead, can you confirm and repost thanks

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Posted by WardR on Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:45 AM

The link maybe ok, maybe the Mac  I'm on or that I'm accessing it through  forum, I'll paste from a pc, your link is probably ok, thanks 

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:54 AM

Whistling

I think it was just last year that Athearn re-released them again. I think this production was four different paint schemes of the boats and four different roads for the flat cars.

I picked up two of them on a pre-order. Very nice paint schemes on the boats.

Also check out Sylvan Models for their boat kits.

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Posted by Train Modeler on Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:57 AM

WardR

The link maybe ok, maybe the Mac  I'm on or that I'm accessing it through  forum, I'll paste from a pc, your link is probably ok, thanks 

The link contents are good, the link somehow did not insert properly.  So, yes, copying and pasting will work.  There are several smaller boats available as well as larger.

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Posted by tstage on Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:16 PM

Ward,

Yea, it looks like Rich's link is no good.  You could always go on Walthers site directly and do a search.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Thursday, February 9, 2012 6:48 PM

Ward,

There is a company in Canada that makes what you are seeking.

It is Osborn Model Kits. They do a couple of Chris Craft style launches and also an outboard runabout. I have the runabout and it looks quite good. These are laser wood kits. Just do a Google search and their website will come up which shows pictures of their models.

I think you can get them directly but if not I do know that Credit Valley Railway stocks them and they do mail order. I just ordered some stuff from them today.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Thursday, February 9, 2012 6:48 PM

Ward,

There is a company in Canada that makes what you are seeking.

It is Osborn Model Kits. They do a couple of Chris Craft style launches and also an outboard runabout. I have the runabout and it looks quite good. These are laser wood kits. Just do a Google search and their website will come up which shows pictures of their models.

I think you can get them directly but if not I do know that Credit Valley Railway stocks them and they do mail order. I just ordered some stuff from them today.

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Posted by g&gfan on Thursday, February 9, 2012 8:33 PM

Ward;

Here's a link to Osborn Model Kits that CN Charlie is referring to.

http://www.osbornmodelkits.com/httpdocs/HO_scale_railroad.htm

They have Canadian prototype details along with the boats and airplanes like the DeHavilland Beaver.(Might have to get me one of those.)

 

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Posted by WardR on Friday, February 10, 2012 8:00 AM

thanks Charlie, just went to thier site and bought one of thier boats, looks pretty good.

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Posted by WardR on Friday, February 10, 2012 8:01 AM

thanks Charlie, went to thier site and purcahsed a boat.

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Posted by DeCleyre on Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:06 PM

There are about 40 min. left in the auction, so it's probably too late, but you might be interested to know that this Marx boat exists; maybe you can find one at a more reasonable price.

Item # 110830994820

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110830994820+&item=110830994820&ttle=VERY+RARE+VINTAGE+MARX+HO+MINT+BOXED+CHRIS+CRAFT+BOAT+LOAD+FROM+FACTORY+CARTON&vectorid=229466&tc=US

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