Hi John,
The first thing that comes to mind is the castle near Kaub. It is called "Burg Pfalzgrafenstein". It is published by the Schreiber Verlag. The scale is 1:160.
Some Picture of the real castle you will find there http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkenau_%28Insel%29
Schreiber also published a typical ship, called Binnenschiff.
Regards
Michael
Hoi John,
In which period of history is this project situated?
Thirties, Fifties, Sixties? earlier......later on.....
Kind Regards,
Gert
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Well, there was a teacher in Bacharach, the now retired headmaster Mr Rolf Jung, who designed a lot of black and white cardmodels for educational purposes, mostly architecture in 1/100 scale, but also some in 1/200 etc.
He had a pretty long list of models from this area to offer, but I'm afraid he's no longer in business.
His adress is/was:
Rolf Jung
Blücherstr. 237
D-55422 Bacharach-Steeg
A list of his models can be seen at the homepage of AGK, the Research Workgroup for the History of Cardmodeling, - URL http://www.kartonmodellbau.org
Go to Verlage Deutschland, then to Rolf Jung.
Kind regards,
Papercaptain
Dear John,
MB-Modelle of Michel Bauer (can be ordered through the website of Coastal Forces (BRD) offers a very nice and detailed model of a Main-chain tug (CBCS No. V) at scale 1: 250, I cannot imagine a more a typical Rhine ship as that one, but it needs to be enlarged for railway scale HO.
Two other European inland water cargo ships ("Binnenschiffs") that could (can) frequently be found on the River Rhine are the spits "Ebenhaezer" and the lux(e) motor "Damsterdiep", both designed by and available through World of Paperships (NL). These are somewhat more traditional type of inland water cargo ships. Both are at scale 1: 100, well-detailed and therefore suitable for a HO railway diorama.
Also JSC (Poland) has published a number of years ago a canal ship at scale 1: 100. This is a more modern type of canal ship which is relative easy to build in several versions and also this type of ship can be found on the River Rhine. Scaldis (NL) has published the Suzanna at scale 1: 250, this a modern, coastal (container) trader which however is also suitable to navigate on the River Rhine. However, I presume (due to its tonnage) not much further then Mainz (?) Maybe our German friends know more about this? I think this model will be quite large at a HO railway diorama.
Succes, Jeroen, Netherlands
Hello John,
further cardstock models of Rhine Ships you can find at MOEWE-Verlag >>Marketplace >>Liners - scale 1:250 and >>Merchant ships - scale 1:250, namely the following models:
- HANIEL: Schubleichter, Barge tugboat and barge
- GOETHE: Raddampfer der Köln-Düsseldorfer-Rheindampfschiffahrt, Paddle steamer of the Cologne-Düsseldorf Rhine River Lines
- BERLIN: Fahrgastschiff der Köln-Düsseldorfer, Cologne-Düsseldorf Rhine River Liner
- KOBLENZ: Fahrgastschiff der Köln-Düsseldorfer, Cologne-Düsseldorf Rhine River Liner
To get much more informations and pictures about rhine river shipping and landscape use the following links:
- Köln-Düsseldorfer Rheinschifffahrt AG (K-D):
- K-D:
und
- K-D: (use links in the map for further informations and pictures)
- Video K-D:
Regards
Helmut
