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Post by swanrail on Jan 23, 2008 0:47:26 GMT 1
This thread is just to show my credentials in model building: 1. Marie-Jeanne This is a tuna fishing boat built from a Billing kit. She is my first plank on frame model, prior to this, I used the bread and butter technique (all being scratch built). 3 pictures of my Smit London, a seagoing tug from a Billing kit, with a crew!!! The Plaudit is a London river tug, scratch built from plans in a model boat mag. (with a carved crew member steering!) Next is the Billing kit of the Cutty Sark, but by visiting the ship and taking lots of photos, the kit was heavily modified and improved. Now is my comppletely scratch built model of the BP tanker British Chancellor. She is the same size as the Bismarck, R/C controlled and weighs a hefty 8 kg! and here is the card model that the above was modelled on: Now the Hachette Titanic, again modified to fit books: The Victory was the del Prado partwork version, again heavily modified as per the book on the ship from Portsmouth The last ship model just completed, was the Jotika kit Granado, once more modified, with amongsto other things, a crew and sails!!
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Post by swanrail on Jan 23, 2008 16:16:48 GMT 1
and now for some of my non-nautical models: A rocking horse built for my granddaughters some 6 years ago. Based on drawings, and bought in finishings. This car is a scratch built model of my first car, made from teak deck plank offcuts from the British Piper, on which I was serving at the time. Based on photographs all hand carved (wheels cut out using fretsaw, and then shaped). Hood works, and is stowed behind the back seat as per the car (cloth on wire frame) This is a dolls house again built for my granddaughters. It is fully fitted with electrics (including a coooker hob and fireplace!), whci are controlled from the garage roof. Started as a basic kit, then extended with garage and extension both scratch built. and here is something bit bigger, she is Annabel, our steam railways 115 year old Victorian coach. Her side panels have suffered badly, and I have spent the last years replacing them. The original was a red hardwood, but full of splits letting in the rain. These have been replaced with waterproof ply, and the original wood used to make new mouldings. This side is complete: and this side is being worked on: Unfortunately, between 1923 when she retired from railway use until 1947 she was used as a camping coach, and some compartment dividers removed, hence the sagging roof and the tarpaulin. We are working on a method to restore the roof as it was, whilst keeping the inside open as we use it as a tool store and workshop.
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