Dock & Shoreside

the  basic master was produced by Kelvin Holmes and Mountford have done  additional detail work and  added certain features including brass photo etch parts and metal castings for the cranes. There is some  detailed brass photo etch involved and a highly detailed  resin casting for the superstructure.

New for 2013! An intermediate-sized drydock for repair and maintenance of frigates, ice breakers and nuclear submarines of the Soviet and Russian navies through the cold war and beyond. The model includes two different cranes and is fitted with warning notice decals. See also the larger PD-50 dock modelled by Coastlines. The full-hull submarine is not included with this model but similar submarines are made by Mountford and can be purchased from Antics.

A 1/1200 scale resin dock wall for replacement of one side of a Triang floating drydock. The photograph shows the unpainted drydock wall in situ on a grey drydock.

New for 2013! A traditional-style motor yacht from the 1950s onwards.

A typical quayside attraction in a marina.

Floating dry docks, particularly those used to service ballistic missile submarines, offer obvious strategic advantages. The USS Los Alamos was based at Holy Loch in Scotland from 1961 until struck from service in 1994, servicing US submarines and performing a hardly noticed but very important duty at that highly secret base. In a somewhat different form the dock is still in use today, back in the USA.

The  basic master was produced by Terry Holtham and Mountford have done  additional detail work and  added certain features including brass photo etch parts and metal castings for the cranes. Brass photoetched parts and a highly detailed resin casting for the superstructure has produced an interesting and well presented model that can be put straight on display.

New for 2012! PD-50, the largest floating drydock in the world, belongs to the Russian Navy but was built in Sweden. Designed to dock the Kiev-class carriers, it is big enough to lift Kusnetsov out of the water for graving and maintenance. The model is fitted with warning sign decals and includes removeable blocks and 2x100t cranes. The full-hull submarine models are not included with this model but Mountford make similar submarines and these can be purchased from Antics.

New for 2012! A floating drydock trimmed down and ready to receive waterline ship models.

A 1/1200 scale unpainted resin replacement base designed to fit original Triang floating drydock walls, see photograph with one grey side wall in place.

A 1/1250 scale resin model of a harbour entrance with stone piers and port and starboard lights on the pier ends by Coastlines Models CL-L33.

The fishing vessels are not included in the set but they are Navis models which may still be available to order.

A 1/1250 scale resin model of a modern marginal quay that might be found in remote locations anywhere. The model is by Coastlines models CL-LA08a

A 1/1250 scale model of the grey Trident Missile loading crane from Port Canaveral.

A 1/1250 scale model of a yellow missile loading crane based on that at Bangor submarine base by Coastlines Models CL-LA08.

A pack of two pillar-mounted water towers in light grey modelled on some at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base.

3 different tanks, based on liquified natural gas tanks although tanks now being built underground are larger. This set is painted light grey but Coastlines also make tanks in white & blue like those on Canvey Island.

A US 300T heavy lift harbour crane by Mountford MM203/95.