Scale: 1:250
Designer: Peter Brandt
Difficulty level: difficult.
Parts: 1627
Length: 297 mm.
Width: 210 mm.
Height: 120 mm.
Instructions: German, English, French, Spanish, picture building instructions.
Format: DIN A4.
Sheet: 12.
This model is probably the most popular model of the HMV. Everywhere it is frolicking and the eye can discover numerous details on this beautiful diorama.
The model highlights:
weathered combi freighter swan
2 port cranes.
Barcasses and Schuten
locomotive with wagons
horse carriage
trucks
Loading hatches open.
Loading
Hall with open buildable gates.
Water surface
A scene like a photo from the thirties of the 20th century in a piece cargo port. A combination ship with clear weather traces is loaded or unloaded, vehicles, vehicles, barges and cranes everywhere. The eye cannot see enough of the variety of details on this model.
In the arch, in addition to the swan in weathered state and with open loading hatches and the storage building with openable gates, there are plenty of accessories. Vehicles on land and on water horsecraft, wagons, locomotive, cranes and lots of loads. A beautiful diorama is created from many small and fine models.
The diorama shows a small harbour cutout that includes a variety of models that can also be used individually or as accessories for other dioramas. Included are the HMV model combi freight steamer swan, a bar box, two bullets, a post boat, a piece of quay wall with shed, a harbour train with steam locomotive and 7 wagons, two cranes, a truck, a car, a horse carriage and lots of cargo as well as a water surface as a base plate. For the harbour diorama, the steamer swan has been "aged", i.e. provided with rust and dirt and extended with some details. The deck planking shows different discolourations. The loading hatches can be partially opened.