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Manx Car carrier Elbe Highway
Scale: 1/400
Skill Level: difficult
Length: 365 mm (14.37 inch)
A complete diorama kit for modern merchant fleet enthusiasts: This 1:400 scale modern vehicle carrier comes as a comprehensive harbor setting, featuring a quay wall, 57 cars, railings printed on clear foil, and a 670 mm water surface sheet.
With this kit, JSC offers much more than a solitary ship: it delivers an engaging, modern harbor diorama. In addition to the massive, high-sided hull of the car carrier, the set includes an authentic quay structure and water-textured display sheets measuring 670 mm in length.
To bring the scene to life, the kit includes 57 miniature passenger cars along with railings printed on transparent foil for delicate, crisp finishing. The characteristic box-like lines of a modern pure car and truck carrier, complete with its loading ramps, make this kit a rewarding and visually impressive diorama centerpiece.
| Product type | Papermodel |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | JSC |
| Scale | 1/400 |
| Difficulty | difficult |
| Sheet size | DIN A4 |
| Sheets | 10 |
| Parts | 641 |
| Length | 365 mm (14.37 inch) |
| Bauanleitung | German, English, Pictures |
Technical data:
- Type: Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC / Shipyard Type Stocznia Gdynia 8245)
- Shipyard: Stocznia Gdynia S.A., Poland
- Year built / Completed: 2005
- Owner: Ray Car Carriers Ltd., Isle of Man
- Tonnage: 23,498 GT / 7,750 DWT
- Length overall: 147.93 m
- Beam: 25.00 m (moulded) / 26.40 m (extreme)
- Draught: max. 7.90 m
- Main Engine: 1 x MAN B&W 7S46MC-C 7-cylinder marine diesel (built under licence by Cegielski)
- Power output: 9,170 kW (approx. 12,468 hp)
- Service speed: 19.0 knots
- Cargo capacity: approx. 2,130 cars across 8 vehicle decks
- Ramp capacity: Stern ramp (70 t load capacity) and side ramp
- Ice Class: FS 1A (Ice-strengthened)
The Elbe Highway (the lead vessel of the Type 8245 series built by the Gdynia Shipyard in Poland) was completed in 2005 for the Isle of Man-based shipping firm Ray Car Carriers. Operating as a Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC), the ship was designed primarily to move factory-new vehicles across demanding short-sea shipping routes throughout the North Sea and Baltic waters.
Spanning eight vehicle decks, the 148-meter ship provides roll-on/roll-off space for over 2,100 passenger cars. Cargo operations are handled via a heavy stern ramp rated for 70 tonnes as well as a dedicated starboard quarter ramp. Equipped with an ice-strengthened hull (Finnish-Swedish Ice Class 1A) and a service speed of 19 knots, the vessel maintains year-round schedule reliability even under severe northern winter conditions.