RMS Queen Mary (Scale 1:1250)

[pugwash]

Looks to me those waves scale to a rough 30 feet!
Also, the Atlantic voyage would be crossing the swells, predominantly travelling West to East, so you'd expect the ship to be ploughing into them more directly?

Still, I'm happily watching development of this little diorama.

 

[Jhoanor]

Looks to me those waves scale to a rough 30 feet!

Thanks!
Well, that wave is supposed to be 90ft high.... (scale 1:1250 ->22mm/0.9")
I try to recreate this occurance:
"...... Queen Mary carried 10,389 soldiers and 950 crew when, on 11 December 1942, she was suddenly broadsided on her starboard side by a rogue wave that might have reached a height of 28 metres (92 ft). An account of this crossing can be found in Carter's book. As quoted in the book, Carter's father, wrote in a letter that at one point Queen Mary "damned near capsized... One moment the top deck was at its usual height and then, swoom! Down, over, and forward she would pitch." It was calculated later that the ship rolled 52 degrees, and would have capsized had she rolled another three degrees."

RMS Queen Mary - Wikipedia

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