Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => From the Archives and all around the Internet ! => Topic started by: Tony Marlow on July 23, 2017, 08:36:17 am
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I don't know if this has been posted before but I just came across it today. I just wondered to myself if any of these beautifully crafted models are still in existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcuSkAsSmQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcuSkAsSmQ)
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Lovely models.
Good old bread & butter construction. You spend a fortune on yellow pine planks and then throw 90% of it away! Must have smelt nice though.
Colin
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I am guessing that yellow pine was as cheap as chips and readily available back then.
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Don't think so TT. In the mid 60sm it was hard to come by and the alternative was parana pine which had knots and could be inclined to split. And that wasn't cheap either! Yellow pine was an excellent wood but of course in those days there were few alternatives.
The wood for the models shown must have cost a lot of money!
Colin
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The 60 pounds in 1956 relates to around 1500 today.
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As a slight aside, what were the old planks used on building sites made of? My dad used to misappropriate those for woodwork projects, back in the 60s.
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Depending oh how the models were assembled and cared for, they could easily have
been maintained by a conservator, or museum. Museums have some very specific guidelines for
model ship work, and often won't accept plastics or cyano glues as part of model construction.
:-)
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Those models would have been built in the 1950s using traditional construction methods. Probably Cascamite or Aerolite glues.
Colin
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Those models would have been built in the 1950s using traditional construction methods. Probably Cascamite or Aerolite glues.
Colin
Exactly, they wouldn't want any of my models in a museum, they may off gas and cause corrosion is a neighboring display.
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Hi all, sad to say but I suspect he was the 'lone modeller' in his family, after he is gone the models get looked at for a while then someone wants the space and they go into a damp garage and then.........
Still happening now.
On that gloomy note I will leave you!
Roy
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Noticed the date,1956. remember it well. January 6th 1956 signed on for 3 years in the RAF, must have signed something else for I didn't leave till June 1993. :police: >>:-( :-))
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Many of the models you see in the Hamburg Maritime Museum have been constructed in quite recent times and very few are constructed from what could be classed as traditional materials and methods of construction . There is nothing intrinsically bad about modern materials as Museums in the UK do as part of their acquisition policy take models built using both modern methods and materials. The dividing line is when older models usually so called builders models are conserved using traditional methods and materials applicable ,were possible to the time period of the model.
Bowwave