RAF Fireboat monitors

Started by Peter47
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#7

RAF Fireboat monitors

Will try that cheers shipmate. ;-), Progress report - Have found items they are sold separately in their ship fittings order 2, at first I could only find full set of fittings, was just looking on wrong page on site. Again Thank you Rooky Sailor, much appreciated Sir :-)
#6

RAF Fireboat monitors

Yes , you have the correct company,but they sold me the monitors and the breech
seperately, ask them and I'm sure they will let you have the parts you need and you can always scratchbuild the rest.
#5

RAF Fireboat monitors

Again thanks for the response I think I've located the right page - http://www.vintagemodelboats.com/page7.html - these look good, but also think they are non-working, see it comes as a full fitting sets, vents anchors, tow hooks etc wish I'd seen them earlier as already fitted most of fittings bought from other suppliers.
Have to sneak it passed the chancellor, okay missus :-)

Peter
#4

RAF Fireboat monitors

Just finishing my 34" Fireboat,got the foam monitors and the breech from Vintage models, they are direct copies of the Yeoman whitemetal fittings that were available for the 1/16 Aerokits Firefloat, they make up very nice and are a reasonable cost.
#3

RAF Fireboat monitors

Thank you ship mate, those photo are just what I needed, usual go by scratch built route, but have seen larger scale monitors advertised was just being lazy, as you say crane look an easy job, having utilises Plasticard on a few models, mainly my rendition of HMS Princess Beatrix LSI, Landing craft LCA and LSM and their launching davits, found it very versatile.

Will check out blog you mentioned, cheers,

Peter
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#2

RAF Fireboat monitors

A google search will find you working monitors, but they are unlike the fire monitors on the fire boat, so if you want to be authentic you will have to make your own, have a read of pmdevlin's blog.
The crane I am afraid you will have to make yourself.
Shouldn't be to hard to do with plasticard.
A couple of photo's taken at Blackpool show last year to help.

Alan
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#1

RAF Fireboat monitors

Can anybody tell me were I can purchase working fire monitors for KitShacks 34" RAF Fireboat, believe scale Is 1/16th. Also looking for small crane for amidships Finding her a very agile and stable boat.

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