Do people model steel mooring buoys or floating hoses?

[Lanna]

I’ve noticed that in real ports and offshore terminals, steel mooring buoys and floating hoses are very common, but they’re rarely seen in scale ship models.

While researching how these are actually arranged and connected, I came across some clear diagrams and photos on industrial marine sites like https://www.jerryborgmarine.com. It made me wonder whether these elements are usually skipped in models because of scale limitations, or just because they’re not well understood.

For those doing industrial or tanker-related scenes:
Do you include mooring buoys / floating hoses, or do you feel they clutter the layout?

 

[Roger Pellett]

Welcome to SOS! You ‘re right. This specialized equipment is part of a real working waterfront. Unfortunately, very few modelers who are active on this site, model merchant vessels, waterline models, or miniature scale models of these huge vessels; all of which are necessary to show moorings and floating hoses.

Do you build models of modern day tankers? If so, could you post some photos of your work?

 

[Jerome]

Moorings and hoses and such would only be visible if it’s a waterline built model.
Many do not build waterline models.
I myself like waterline models as that’s how most vessels are actually observed.
And for oil tankers, if you show the whole hull then the only thing really seen is the red bottom of the boat.
Here’s one I scratch built a few years ago.
Had I built the entire hull it would have been 7” taller.