Javelin

Here's my model of Cable Lay Vessel Living Stone. She's used to lay cables in offshore windmill farms. She can do export cables between the farm's transformer station as well as inter-array cables between the windmills as well as the between the windmills and transformer station. 
 
It's my first attempt to go for something larger than a model itself. I wanted to show more of the purpose of the vessel. The dio represents a 2nd-end-pull-in, where one end of the cable is attached to a windmill and the vessel is now laying the 2nd end. This means the vessel is stopped next to the 2nd windmill, the exact length of the cable is determined and the cable is then cut to length. After this is done, the cable is pulled into the windmill base while the CLV slowly lowers the white quadrant, this gives the cable extra length while it is pulled in. As a last step, the quadrant is flipped over to release the cable. Eventually it forms a straight line with little to no excess length on the seafloor. 
 
The sea surface didn't really come out the way I imagined. At first I wanted a rather green brownish appearance, typical for the North Sea, but noticed on pictures that the surface looks rather dark blue when seen from the air. I recreated that colour succesfully, but eventually noticed that the lost transparancy and dark colour takes away too much light below the surface. If I'd do something like this again, I assume I'd leave part of the surface uncovered to give more light and emphasis on the part below the water level. 

This is my first ship-in-bottle project. Decided to go for something different since I'm more familiar with styrene than with wood. 
The vessel is the Sea Installer from the DEME-company. A traditional dredging company, it has turned its attention to the installation of offshore wind farms. They bought the Sea Challenger and Sea Installer vessels from a Danish company a couple of years ago. The model shows the original Sea Installer configuration, installing a Transition Piece (TP) on a monopile foundation. 
In the meanwhile the actual Sea Installer was upgraded, the hull widened, the crane lengthened and strengthened in order to handle the recent larger wind turbines. 
I also etched the DEME logo in the bottle, since I was researching and prototyping after all. 
 
Although I had some larger plans with the base and lay-out, I eventually decided to go for a scaled down and simpler base. The letters and logo on the base were cut out of Vinyl with a stencil cutter. 
 
Some bubbles in the epoxy, but in the end I'm quite happy with how this turned out. 
 

Scratch built model of the Ti Europe. She was one of the 4 V-plus Ultra Large Crude Carriers built in the early 2000's. They are probably the last ULCCs to have been built as their size is simply too large. With a draft of over 24m they can not pass Singapore strait nor the English Channel in fully loaded condition. 
Some of the sisters were converted to Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) units. They, as well as Europe changed names a few times, but since the funnel on my model is an early version with the Tankers International (TI) logo, the name was TI Europe. 

This is the split barge Bengel. A seemingly insignificant working vessel, like so many, from the world of dredging. 
These barges are used as transporters between backhoe dredgers or cutter suction dredgers and reclamation/dumping areas. They are generally used where floating and sunken pipelines can not be used and to get into shallow areas. They are pumped full of sand or rock and discharge by splitting into two. That is also what I tried to represent in this model. 

One of my older works. Built for someone who worked on that vessel. 
Only the railing was made from PE, the rest is all scratch built from styrene and brass rods.