Albatros

A 1/1250 scale model of RMS Aquitania by Albatros SM AL105.

Albatros has announced a special edition 2019 of the  1/1250 scale metal, assembled and painted waterline model of Aquitania as turned out in 1914.

Aquitania was completed to provide Cunard with a three ship transatlantic service with Lusitania and Mauretania before the outbreak of the Great War. She survived two world wars and years of Atlantic crossings to become the last of the 4-funnelled liners scrapped in 1949.

Bulolo was a new ship immediately before WW2 and was requesitioned for the duration. Eventually she became a headquarters ship and servived the war. Modelled here in 1/1250 scale and Burns Phillips & Co colours.
Length 100mm, width 10mm height 30mm

A 1/1250 scale metal model of Tuscan Star of Blue Star Line in 1930 by Albatros SM AL111.

Good looking waterline model of Britannic  in 1/1250 scale metal model, assembled and painted by Albatros, carrying the Red Cross that didn't stop her from being sunk off Kea in the Aegean.

Britannic was completed as the third ship of the Olympic class and intended to provide the White Star Line with three ships for a weekly transatlantic service. She was altered to increase safety after Titanic sank. The Great War started before she was finished and she was laid up in Belfast until 1915. Britannic was converted to a hospital ship for the Galipolli Campaign but was sunk by a mine in the Kea Channel later that year and sank.

The model shows her in 1930 cruising livery with a white hull. She was still in this livery when she went for scapping at Rosyth, masts cut down to get under the Forth Railway Bridge and lifeboats removed for re-use on other ships.

A 1/1250 scale metal waterline model of Finnmerchant (ex-Longstone)by Albatros SM AL233B.

A 1/1250 scale metal model of Skandi Seven, an off-shore support and construction ship. The ship is registered in the Isle of Man and its 250 ton crane can operate in depths of 3000m.

A 1/1250 scale model of Accra by Albatros AL 261. The British motor ship Accra was of 11599 grt and ran a liner service with her sister-ship Appapa. Accra was scrapped in 1967.

Albatros have always turned out very nice die-cast models of post war cargo ships and the refrigerated cargo liner SS Fremantle Star is no exception.

The handsome Fremantle Star was launched for Blue Star Line in 1959 and had a relatively short life, being broken up by the 4th January 1980.

A 1/1250 scale metal model of Lavoisier, one of 8 "Savant-class" passenger & freight liners  for the french company throughout the 1950s. In 1961, she was re-named Riviera Prima and converted to a cruise ship. In 1964, she became Viking Princess but in 1966, she caught fire in the Caribean and was so badly damaged that she was scrapped in Bilbao.

A 1/1250 scale metal model of Faraday, Siemens Brothers of Woolwich cable laying ship from 1924. This fully assembled and painted model is new for 2016.

A 1/1250 scale fully finished and painted model of Changsha, a China Navigation Co ship from 1949. New model for 2016.

A 1/1250 scale fully finished and painted model of MS Kota Panjang, a Pacific International Lines  in Singapore 1969 (ex MS Changsha).

Provisional price, stock expected soon
 

A 1/1250 scale fully finished and painted model of MS Enskeri