Topic: 3 Lifeboat builds, What goes into a model kit. (Read 39025 times)

Number 6 · « **Reply #735 on:** June 02, 2012, 02:26:02 PM »

Have a Happy Birthday Neil, hope you have a good time with the family. Lifeboats are looking great, Dave.

Norseman · « **Reply #736 on:** June 02, 2012, 06:53:33 PM »

Quote from: HS93 on June 02, 2012, 12:42:30 PM

and Dave no Cake for you

I'd have you banned just for that comment

us diabetics dream of a chance of some birthday cake - and Neil's must be blinking huge with all them candles

Dave

irishcarguy · « **Reply #737 on:** June 02, 2012, 07:33:31 PM »

Hi Neil I know in the world of model boats you are a very very important person, but don't you think it is a bit of a stretch that the Queen is putting on a thousand boat parade on the Thames for your birthday,talk about political clout. LOL, Mick B.(Canada) PS.= Enjoy your day off with your family & control the amount of cake intake.It always seems to stick right around your middle.

HS93 · « **Reply #738 on:** June 02, 2012, 08:22:27 PM »

Quote from: Norseman on June 02, 2012, 06:53:33 PM

I'd have you banned just for that comment

us diabetics dream of a chance of some birthday cake - and Neil's must be blinking huge with all them candles

Dave

So poor Neil has a day of and Dave wrecks his thread, OK Dave you can have a Pie instead , OOOOPS to late someone ate all the pie's

Peter
now give Neil his thread back as it is a serious thread.

trawlerman · « **Reply #739 on:** June 03, 2012, 07:12:56 AM »

Happy Birthday dear.........have you lit the candles yet because i can see a lot of smoke near your house. have a nice day see you soon....rod

RAAArtyGunner · « **Reply #740 on:** June 03, 2012, 07:49:15 AM »

Quote from: trawlerman on June 03, 2012, 07:12:56 AM

Happy Birthday dear.........have you lit the candles yet because i can see a lot of smoke near your house. have a nice day see you soon....rod

stoney · « **Reply #741 on:** June 03, 2012, 09:50:42 AM »

Happy birthday Neil. Boats are looking great, will you be taking them to any shows so we can come and see them?

Paul

Neil · « **Reply #742 on:** June 03, 2012, 10:18:48 AM »

thanks for all your well wishes, lads.really do appreciate it.
as for shows, Stoney.......I'm trying to get them ready for Etherow National Lifeboat rally in three weeks time???
after that it'll be Blackpool show on the LBES stand..........don't really do shows as I tend to spend too much money, and with the price of fuel.............bit expensive.
neil.

Tug---Kenny · « **Reply #743 on:** June 03, 2012, 08:04:12 PM »

Happy birthday Neil, and many of em.

ken

Neil · « **Reply #744 on:** June 03, 2012, 08:27:01 PM »

thanks Ken....
I must be getting older......have done a senior thing over the weekend..........

I have had a bit of a disaster.......................................... as it twas my birthday today ,yesterday we ( family) went up to the Lakes District and hired a small motor boat to sail on Ulleswater lake......took a few pics with the camera of the event............and today I can't find the damn thing, so can't show any of the work I have done on the boats until I either find it, or buy a new one.......... think I must have left it on the stern of the boat...........will call the company tomorrow but don't hold out much hope

Tug---Kenny · « **Reply #745 on:** June 03, 2012, 09:02:12 PM »

I can imagine how you must feel. Have faith, it might turn up, as there are a few honest people still left. Perhaps the hire company have it and don't know who to contact.
best of luck,

ken

Neil · « **Reply #746 on:** June 03, 2012, 09:16:09 PM »

belay that message.........I suddenly remembered that I have my spare camera which although has a busted viewing screen and shows nothing I can still view through the viewfinder and it works fine except for that..........so been out and taken a few of todays slow progress ( too much time spent viewing the Thames Pageant.
Made the back rests and the raised steering platform for the H F Bailey and the Mary Stanford, and put on to all cabin tops the Handrails, plus handrails on the insides of the cabins, which can't be seen unless you take the cabins off the boat or stick your head inside the cockpit....but at least I know they are there.

also lined up and painted are the fire extinguishers for the boats.

Neil · « **Reply #747 on:** June 03, 2012, 09:21:54 PM »

Now someone who has seen the H F Bailey at Cropmer might say that the boat didn't have backrests for the helmsman/coxs'n but there is written evindence in one of his rescues that in a specific moment, Henry Blogg, (as in written RNLI station records ) was indeed thrown against the "backrests by a heavy cross sea and was badly bruised around the chest and suffered cracked ribs, and spent a number of days in bed resting"
So I felt that the addition of a backrest to the helmsman position was not out of character or order........call it modellers licence.

Norseman · « **Reply #748 on:** June 03, 2012, 10:22:51 PM »

Quote from: Neil on June 03, 2012, 09:21:54 PM

Now someone who has seen the H F Bailey at Cropmer might say that the boat didn't have backrests for the helmsman/coxs'n

Maybe the backrests were taken off after the injury? It's a nice detail to have added, and you have all the evidence needed to back it up.

Dave

Tug---Kenny · « **Reply #749 on:** June 06, 2012, 11:03:51 AM »

Any news on your lost camera ?

ken

Neil · « **Reply #750 on:** June 06, 2012, 12:58:19 PM »

nope, haven't found it yet Kenny...............I did try using the old spare one with the broken rear screen but it has a fault, and will only take one shot at a time before I have to charge the batteries again..........must be a massive short in it somewhere..................and I can't get close up's decent enough with my mobile phone.................sorry guys.................will be a catch up soon I hope.
neil.

trawlerman · « **Reply #751 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:49:06 PM »

Starting to fret....I loaned the man my camera 10 hours ago, and he has,nt posted anything yet. I hope he has,nt lost it.....Rod

Neil · « **Reply #752 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:04:23 PM »

Well matey........just for you........proof that it hasn't been pawned for my next fix,

started off yesterday by glasing all the port light outer and innners...........I cut the glazing from some old clear plastic that I tend to keep from the kids birthday and christmas pressies.............and cut the circles using a compass cutter...........the discs were pressed into the ports and then I back filled them with a little clear 2 part epoxy adhesive to seal them all up.
finally all the ports were glued into the pre cut holes using cyano.

rottweiler · « **Reply #753 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:16:28 PM »

now we have a lot of happy people....another lesson in boatbuilding from Coxn Neil. Thanks for lending him the camera Rod, is it insured for loss or damage?
Neil, remind me to give you one of my RNLI FLOATING KEYRINGS,so you can attach it to any other camera,in case you lose it overboard,I suspect this is what happened to your last one!
Another nice set of photos,as usual.
Mick F

PS if you are going to get the gale force winds we have just had down here,with worse to come,you had better batten down the hatches!!!!

Neil · « **Reply #754 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:21:13 PM »

cheers for the early weather warning Mick.............my batches are hattened, and workshop closed down for the night.
cheers.........mind you, if the roof blows off, then the dust will be no more

Neil · « **Reply #755 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:30:18 PM »

the next set of shots are some pics of the smaller fittings that go to fine detail the models........."coat hooks" for hanging the binoculars in the cabins, hathets and axes, knives, chart tubes etc, etc.
but before that the inner port opening covers have been fitted where visible in the boats.

Neil · « **Reply #756 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:53:24 PM »

And finally a few deck details have been added........chocks for lifebelts, hand grab rails at the stern of the two Watsons, plus fairleads and I think you can just see the fore samson post and Mast crutch on the Smut's bow.

Neil · « **Reply #757 on:** June 08, 2012, 09:55:03 PM »

Today, I was informed of a few items for the aft cabin of the "Smuts" by my guru..........a steel box for holding the line throwing equipement, a box for holding the lines/rockets etc, and an open pigeon hole type locker for holding flairs.

The latter was to be split into 16 pigeon holes.......I had a locker that I had made earlier that I thought would do for the rockets and lines to go under the starboard bench, aft cockpit, and the steel box will be made from a block of obeche, but the pigeon hole locker, I had to scratch from plasticard, using a "carcasse" of 1.0mm plasticard, with an inner set of interlocking 0.8mm card to make the pigeon holes.

Secondly was the making of the mizzen masts from 6.0mm dowel and resin cast brackets and base plates to hold both masts in place at their set angles.

Neil · « **Reply #758 on:** June 09, 2012, 10:39:14 PM »

Have been doing a lot of painting of fittings today, and added the samson posts with cleats to the boats as one, but realised from a comment my Guru made yesterday in email to me that I hadn't included the "explosives boxes".those containing the line throwing gun, and rockets for line throwing...........so made these this afternoon.........from memory of seeing the Anne Letitia Russell, the gun box was red and the under seat locker for rockets and lines was painted grey......both had haspe and staples with padlocks.............and I always think that those little bits of detail always add a certain authenticity and interest level.
When the paint hardens tomorrow I'll label them "Danger Explosives".

Neil · « **Reply #759 on:** June 10, 2012, 09:31:36 PM »

Been fitting out the fore cabins with the oil tanks and hand pumps, gratings, bases for the samson posts and any other little bits and pieces inc. chart tubes and even hooks to hang the binoculars and megaphone on.........all add to the interest.

And lastly I'm glad my 13 year old daughter is a better spell checker than I or my computer are........was merrily applying the lettering to the grey rocket boxes and had gotten to the last box and the last E of the last word when she looked over my shoulder just befor she went to bed, and said
..............." Da-aaaaad!!! ( you know the way they do when they either want something or want to ask a question) "

"Ye-eeesssss!" I replied.

"isn't there supposed to be a "P" in explosives".

Duuuuuurrrrrrr!!!!!

rottweiler · « **Reply #760 on:** June 10, 2012, 10:10:47 PM »

Such detail ! I just hope that when you put them on show,that you will point out the finer bits,as I am sure they will go largely un-noticed,and do deserve to be seen. three cheers for yor dorter too,for doing your spell checking, you are teaching her well to take the "P".
superb work Neil,thank you for showing us.
Mick F

Neil · « **Reply #761 on:** June 10, 2012, 11:30:32 PM »

the lettering, by the way, is only my slant on things...........probably the boxes were totally void of such things but hey ho, what the hell................I'm building these for my pleasure, they are my boats, and I like the idea that the rockets and flare gun would be marked as such.
neil.

RAAArtyGunner · « **Reply #762 on:** June 11, 2012, 02:04:07 AM »

Neil,

Am I correct in that the floral tabletop, image 012, is also modellers license but for which boat

Neil · « **Reply #763 on:** June 11, 2012, 09:39:14 AM »

I thought it'd make a nice addition to the coxs'ns table RR..........do you like it?..................the fairies in the bottom left corner are a particularly nice addition.

it's actually my mouse mat,.........no manly RNLI boats on a mat for me!!!

rottweiler · « **Reply #764 on:** June 11, 2012, 10:19:47 AM »

would that be the Sugar Plum Fairy Neil? WoW this has brought to mind the image of you building your boats in a tutu !

Neil · « **Reply #765 on:** June 11, 2012, 01:27:49 PM »

You should never wish for something in haste mick.......you never know when it might materialise......lol.....

Never let it be said that I'm the shy retiring type...........

My birthday/house warming bash in 1984.................I'm the handsome one on the right.

rottweiler · « **Reply #766 on:** June 11, 2012, 02:28:07 PM »

my flabber is gasted, oooogh cheeky!

Neil · « **Reply #767 on:** June 12, 2012, 07:55:39 AM »

Well, it is regret that I have to say that my models will NOT be ready for display at Etherow National Lifeboat in two weekend's time.
I have been working flat out and up to 10.00pm most nights and find that there is more to do than I thought.
I've also made a few cock ups over the past few days whilst rushing them and so have decided that by rushing them, the enjoyment of building is fastly disappearing..............so back to the level and speed that I normally work at..........hopwefully they'll be ready later in the summer.

Just to put things into perspective I haven't even ordered my 6 speed controllers yet, nor have I got any motors for them, and the last straw is I'm fast running out of oderless superglue and will have to wait for that to be delivered..........ceste la vie.......

neil.

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #768 on:** June 12, 2012, 08:01:08 AM »

Sometimes it's better to miss a deadline than to cut corners/rush

I for one am enjoying watching the build and am considering the purchase of one ehan they are ready

Neil · « **Reply #769 on:** June 12, 2012, 08:48:30 AM »

thanks..............I was beginning to get fed up, ( only because I was rushing)..........but after making the decision last night to hold back and take it slowly...........I feel much more relaxed about it all this morning.......even taken the time to hang out the washing on the Siegried line,

......something I find very therapeutic when stressed,

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