45 years ago I sold ice cream from a boat very similar to this model which nearing
Completion. It is only 13 inches long and vaguely 1:12 scale .
More details after sea trials!
I SHOULD ADD THAT AS WITH MANY OF MY BUILDS ,I AM ABLY ASSISTED BY neilw ( Lt Cdr)
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45 years ago I sold ice cream from a boat very similar to this model which nearing
Completion. It is only 13 inches long and vaguely 1:12 scale .
More details after sea trials!
I SHOULD ADD THAT AS WITH MANY OF MY BUILDS ,I AM ABLY ASSISTED BY neilw ( Lt Cdr)
Newest acquisition is a HA Kits Pilot boat. Hull and shaft already completed. About to paint and fit out. More to follow !
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Whilst on a Welsh holiday last week, my host gave me a box of bits and tha ABS hull from a Billings Calypso kit started many years ago . The fun starts identifying all the parts etc.Watch this space - maybe Mission Impossible!!!
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Whilst on a Welsh holiday last week, my host gave me a box of bits and tha ABS hull from a Billings Calypso kit started many years ago . The fun starts identifying all the parts etc.Watch this space - maybe Mission Impossible!!!
I took mine from the kit and made a minesweeper. I was helmsman on it in early 1960’s one week a month n two weeks in summer. My uncle was navigator on that ship. Here are some pics. A little cutting at the bow was main surgery. The rest was plastic card. The engine room under the stacking made removable to access motors n electronics. You might want to do minesweeper as the Cousto ship was that originally. I used wood, bondo, plastic card strips to represent the vertical reinforced bow. The rest was simple to eyeball sizes of superstructure. I knew the bits like the floats n otters as well as what the life raft looked like. The kit had a few parts but the hull rails n cabins I just make from scratch , pictures n memory. I had thought of making a working sweeper rig with the floats ( look like airplane drop tanks) the cable drum held a black thick cable that made electronic pulse in water as it trailed ship. The washing machine at the bottom of stairs was carved wood. Have fun either way
In practice I used to consume large quantities of of Cadburys 99 chocolate flakes!!
She’s a beauty
Tastee too