"Asian port layouts for Predread era" Topic
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| kmahony111 | 11 Feb 2008 7:40 p.m. PST |
I brought a few 1/3000th scale warehouses and such from Navwar and Skytrex
recently and was wondering how I should base them to make a typical
predreadnought port preferably in the East. Does any one have any
pictures/suggestions from a typical or actual port layout in Asia? |
 McKinstry   | 11 Feb 2008 8:35 p.m. PST |
Check out the Russo-Japanese War sites. I know I've seen some decent photos and drawings of Port Arthur. |
| bsrlee | 12 Feb 2008 6:48 a.m. PST |
The early Jane's Fighting Ships had fairly detailed plans of some of the more important harbors. Judging from some of the old 'Eastern' photos books I have, warehousing tended to blocks of similar buildings separated from the water by a ~50yard clear walkway & in major installations there would also be a light railway of 30cm or 60cm gauge. Big steam cranes running on tracks seem to have been more a feature of Naval bases or major private yards and would have been uncommon outside major Naval facilities – e.g. Sydney had a couple of big ones at the main fleet anchorage (Garden Island) as well as Vicker's Dockyard (Cockatoo Island) – the commercial loading was still done on men's backs well after WW1. |
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