NUOTIE 1/1250 SS Norway Cruise Liner Diecast Model with Display Base

Product Overview

This 1:1250 model shows SS Norway in her long Norwegian Cruise Line years: navy-blue hull with a light-blue lower band, white superstructure, green deck spaces, orange lifeboats, and the two white funnels with blue wings she carried throughout her life. At this scale she comes out to about 25.5 cm (8.6 in) long — right for her real 316 metres — on a red wood-finish display base with a gold "NORWAY" nameplate.

Key Features

• 1/1250 scale, about 25.5 cm (8.6 in) long, 2.5 cm (1 in) wide and 7.5 cm (2.9 in) tall on the base
• Diecast ABS hull painted in the NCL cruise livery: navy hull, light-blue bottom band, white superstructure, green decks
• Two white funnels with blue wings — the profile she kept from her days as SS France
• Orange lifeboats lined along both boat decks
• Red wood-finish display base with a gold "NORWAY" nameplate

The Ship

Norway and France are one hull with two names. Built as SS France, the French Line flagship, she was laid up in 1974 when fuel costs and the oil crisis ended the transatlantic run, and in 1979 Norwegian Cruise Line bought the world's then-longest passenger liner to convert her into a cruise ship. Renamed SS Norway, she spent two decades as the line's flagship, gaining extra pool decks in refits while keeping her winged funnels — an easy ship to love and an easy ship to recognise. Engine trouble and new rules ended her in 2001; she was finally broken up after 2006. This model shows her in the livery most cruise passengers knew.

On the Shelf

The natural pairing is her past: the SS France model shows the same ship in her 1960s French Line livery, black-hulled and transatlantic. Add the SS Normandie model and you have the French Line's three flagships — 1935, 1962, and the cruise years — at one scale.

An Honest Note on Scale

At 1/1250 the model is a display piece rather than a loupe subject: the hull bands, lifeboat rows and funnel wings read clearly at arm's length. The hull is diecast ABS with painted detailing — light in the hand — so the base does the anchoring. The masts are slender castings; give the model a steady spot and dust with a soft brush rather than a cloth.