Floating dock OSTRÓW II - 1:250 - JSC

**Marco** · #1 02-07-2022, 01:07 PM

By a bit of coincidence I'm building another floating dock. This is a resized version of the original 1:400 model. It is intended for a shop window display, and will eventually have the SS Rotterdam (1959) in it, to represent the time at which the ship was converted to a museum ship from 2005 to 2008. The real dock is located in the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, and is featured on the start page of the shipyard (Home - Remontowa - Remontowa).

It starts with a bit of a challenge, fitting the base on an A2 sheet of 1mm cardstock, having to add a small strip of cardstock for it to fit, and then doubling up so it has a nice and strong 2mm base.

**John van de Pavoordt** · #2 02-07-2022, 04:31 PM

Hello Marco,

You will not be the first one to put the Rotterdam in a drydock.

On the Scaldis site you will find a number of pictures of my 1/400 built of the Rotterdam in the same drydock.

I am always wondering, when I see a new built, how many hours you do per day as you built amazingly quick. Although I am retired I do only a few hours per day, when I'm lucky. There are also other things to do: walking the dog, shopping, playing tennis.

anyway, I will follow your built with interest. Good luck. It's a pitty that the hull colour of the 1/250 model is not correct. The colour of the 1/400 model is much better.

Kind regards Hans.

**Marco** · #3 02-22-2022, 04:36 AM

Whenever work is slow (thanks covid...) I have some extra time.
I want to arrange the support blocks in a way that makes more sense for the Rotterdam, so I'm building those first while I still have full access. The block pattern that comes with the model is for the Lucky Lady when it was being converted to the Willift Eagle carrier vessel.

**Kevin WS** · #4 02-23-2022, 01:13 AM

Hi Marco - nice to see you have started on another floating-dock.

I enjoyed your last build and followed it (even though I did not post a lot on it!).

Keep well!

**Don Boose** · #5 02-23-2022, 07:41 AM

Watching all those support blocks come together was hypnotic.

Rotterdam is a beautiful model. I look forward to seeing the dock take shape.

Don

**Marco** · #6 03-07-2022, 04:25 AM

Thank you! Here are the walls of the dock - rather large parts, but a lot easier to process than the base plate.

**Don Boose** · #7 03-07-2022, 10:30 AM

It's always a great pleasure to see your models come together. Always such beautiful clean and precise work, and you always choose such interesting models.

Don