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[heritorasphodel]

yeah, the screen is scratch, all out of styrene. The hinge is made from short, thick sections of plastic tube fixed to the canopy, with longer bits of brass tube attached to the screen. The difficult bit is getting the pin in!


The problem with it though is that on the real boat, to hold them up and together there are locating brackets, with a wingnut-ish thing to hold them together. I don't think I could make a working set at this scale, so mine are imitation. They hold the two side screens up well, but the front panel has a tendency to fall forward.





Andrew

[heritorasphodel]

This may be a long shot, but does anyone know how how a flag could be flown from the mizen mast of a Liverpool? It must be possible, because I've got photos of the flag on the boat but there are no fixings apparent on Grace Darling (my main boat for reference).


Andrew

[dpbarry]

spoke to dave this week about liverpool lifeboat,he said it is progressing really well and should be on sail about october 2012 price approx £350.
Martin

Anyone know how Dave's kit is progressing?


Declan

[Neil]

Anyone know how Dave's kit is progressing?


Declan

Slowly............spoke to Dave last week and he is working on some cad cut parts for it to make life easier for the modeller.

[dpbarry]

Slowly............spoke to Dave last week and he is working on some cad cut parts for it to make life easier for the modeller.

Cheers Neil..


Many thanks for info. We have a model of the 'William and Laura' coming to the station from HQ in Poole and would hopefully like to build an RC version in due course.


Declan

[Neil]

yes, Declan.............I didn't realise that when I built the motor sailor William and Laura, first motor lifeboat in Ireland stationed at Donaghadee she wasn't the only boat of that name...........when I get my Liverpool off dave I will be building her as W & L.
cheers, neil.

[dpbarry]

yes, Declan.............I didn't realise that when I built the motor sailor William and Laura, first motor lifeboat in Ireland stationed at Donaghadee she wasn't the only boat of that name...........when I get my Liverpool off dave I will be building her as W & L.
cheers, neil.

Yes, the William and Laura (from our station) is currently in storage at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, Belfast. Have to speak to my cousin again to see if I can get up to take photographs.


Declan

[typhoon]

has this kit been shelved ? i know patience is a virtue but ......... !  please can someone enlighten me. soon be winter !

[Bob K]

I had requested one on these kits some time ago, and was advised 'probably in the new year'.  Nothing since.  Very sad.  I am not normally into life boats, but my Uncle served on the Liverpool Class St Ives lifeboat "Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child" ON861.  I would love to build a model of it as we used to see her every summer when we stayed there.

[baloo]

Tony Green steam models at lincoln has brought most of metcalf mouldings models,but they declined to answer weather they brought the Liverpool class,I would say if they did buy the Liverpool class off of Dave then a least 20/30 kits would be snapped up a bit rapid.I am going to kirklees on Sunday if there there I will ask again.Somebody spent a lot of time making the moulds but nothing to show as of yet,as I was told by a close source that Dave metcalf eye site was not as it was.

baloo

[typhoon]

thanks for that info  baloo please keep us updated  with  any further developments if any regards.

[baloo]

I have there ph number somewhere ( Tony green) but I will see if there at kirklees 1st  to ask them again,as they brought dave's models/moulds/kits and it would be nice to know what's happening with the Liverpool class

[baloo]

The kit will be produced in about a year or so.

[typhoon]

a year or so jeez    hibernation for me then !

[typhoon]

so are his other kits still available but through tony green steam models ?? 

[baloo]

He has about 5 or 6 kits on display,that is why I said to him,are you doing the Liverpool and he said what I have on display at present but more to follow

[typhoon]

just spoke to tony green and he told me hes not got any molds for the liverpool class . dave metcalf sold the molds along with the ann letitia russell to someone else. he doesnt know to  who .  However  tony green will be producing the rest of metcalfs kit range in the near future .

[Charlie]

If you want a Liverpool Class but don't want to wait for a kit that may or may not come out at some point in the future, your best bet i reckon is to get a Hull from Orion Mouldings and a set of plans from the RNLI - see links below 
http://www.orionmouldings.com/apps/webstore/products/show/5359317
http://www.rnlishop.org.uk/about-rnli/model-making-plans/info/liverpool-lifeboat-drawings/997048.html

[typhoon]

thanks for that charlie but personally would rather have a kit to get me old gnashers into everything in a box instead of searching for this and that but thanks all the same. shame really but we live in hope.