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[Nemo]

Making more tugs 

Congratulations on your triplets Tug! 

[tugmad]

Just converting an old Sun XX into an older version Sun tug the Sun XII.

[JerryTodd]

I've posted in this thread before, but we can't edit posts to update them, so....

I have three models on the bench, two of which I maintain build-logs for on this forum, and are linked in my signature below.

Macedonian is a Lively class frigate of 38 guns in 1:36 scale.

Pride of Baltimore is a 1:20 model of the reproduction Baltimore Clipper tops'l schooner I crewed in 1981.

Constellation is a 1:36 scale model of the sloop of war built in 1854 and currently a museum ship in Baltimore USA.  This model was, begun in 1999, but not actively worked on until 2009.  I think she will finally be completed in 2017 as what's left is all rigging and details to do.
A 3 minute slide show of her construction to-date is on YouTube, and other videos, including a 16 minute vid of her latest sailing,  are on my YouTube channel

https://youtu.be/7dBQkeARVsc

[tugmad]

Very nice.

[Ron Rees]

Needed to make loads of little Vac-Formed parts, so decided to build a Mini Vac Former, only 4 inch square with a pull depth of 2 inches, Different, but fun, should be a handy gadget for the model room. Uses a hot air gun to soften the plastic and a good old workshop Henry vacuum cleaner for the 'Suck'..  But has a lift up Platten to increase the depth of mouldings, so good for lifeboats, cowlings, window frames and millions of other bits.


Cheers.Ron.

[Big Ada]

A scratchbuilt Griffon 2000tdx Hovercraft.

I am not sure who put the Photo on my post ( Not me ) but if you have some more shots of this one, can I use them please.

Many thanks.

Len.

[Capt Podge]

Needed to make loads of little Vac-Formed parts, so decided to build a Mini Vac Former

Cheers.Ron.

Now, that's something I've often thought about but never got around to doing - perhaps sometime early in the New Year....

Regards,

Ray.

[ballastanksian]

Needed to make loads of little Vac-Formed parts, so decided to build a Mini Vac Former, only 4 inch square with a pull depth of 2 inches, Different, but fun, should be a handy gadget for the model room. Uses a hot air gun to soften the plastic and a good old workshop Henry vacuum cleaner for the 'Suck'..  But has a lift up Platten to increase the depth of mouldings, so good for lifeboats, cowlings, window frames and millions of other bits.


Cheers.Ron.

Are you doing an article on this Ron?

[JerryTodd]

I am not sure who put the Photo on my post ( Not me ) but if you have some more shots of this one, can I use them please.
Many thanks.
Len.

Found this on YouTube...

https://youtu.be/Tq4mfK7eWCA

[Big Ada]

Found this on YouTube...

https://youtu.be/Tq4mfK7eWCA

Many thanks for that Jerry.

[Ron Rees]

Mini Vac-Former.


Well, I have taken all the photos and even written some of the copy, just a working plan to go now. It works great and nearly all came out of the scraps box....Don't worry, there is no foam or stockings anywhere!!!...


Now it just remains for Paul F. to show interest and it could go in the Mag...after all I do like to share.


PS. I've also come up with a slightly bigger one that uses a different method to do the job, but you need to fit heater elements to it. 240v. Mains is not an area that the magazine likes to go down, we don't want to kill any of our readers after all!.


Cheers....Ron.

[dreadnought72]

Not a boat. 


This is a 1/25th scale model of my wife's old home in south Belfast. A typical Edwardian 2-up, 2-down terraced house. She loved living there, so this is going to be finished - has to be finished! - painted and stuck in an 8x10 frame as a Christmas pressie.


...Don't tell her! 


Bricks are individual balsa blocks. Mortar is cardstock. Rendered in thinned PVA to smooth things out. LED lighting planned for the living room and exceptionally well-placed street light (it'll be frame-left). Sources? Google streetview and old photos held by my step-daughter.


Taken twenty hours so far. Another ten to go.


Andy

[SailorGreg]

I thought it worthwhile to see if we could resurrect this thread, and since I have mentioned my s-l-o-w build of Legend Model Boats' Miss Severn a couple of times elsewhere, here is where I am up to now.  A good kit, attractive subject (IMHO) if a little pricy buying direct from the US.  That's my excuse for the snail's pace - I don't want to mess it up!





Next update in 2019! 

Greg

[BFSMP]

That is amazing work. love it.


I remember as a young child. [7 - 10 yrs old] that I was given a second hand building set. It had real miniature bricks, roof trusses, king beams..........and then plastic [ on reflection now I think bacolite] roof sheets, and it was way over my age range for construction.........it even came with a bag of "lime mortar" that you mixed with water , and a miniature trowel.
in the end I plaid with the bricks as cargo on little wooden boats and corgi trucks that I would load up.


never seen a set like it sense, and cannot remember the name of the construction set........did any of the older members ever come across a similar set and if so can they remember the name of it.


it wasn't Bayko building sets, as I graduated on to that a couple of years later.


Jim.

[dougal99]

I had Brickplayer (see what they did there). This would have been in the late 50s (58/9). It had real bricks and a little metal trowel. The 'cement' was akin to wallpaper paste. The slight difference from your's BFSMP was that the roofs were thick embossed cardboard with separate ridge pieces. The doors and windows were plastic. The buildings were to the scale of 0 gauge trains. When you wanted to reclaim your bricks you just submerged the building in cold water and the whole thing would fall slowly apart.

[david48]

I still have one ,(Brickplayer most likely from Gamages mail order)  my dad was a carpenter/joiner , he used to bring strips of wood home and help me make the roof in timber ,setting out hips and ridge and valley gutters .
David

[grendel]

we had minibricks, rubber bricks with just 2 holes in the top and two lugs on the bottom, there were white coloured bottom strips with just the holes, and (though we didnnt have any) roof sheets embossed with tiles.

[BFSMP]

I had Brickplayer (see what they did there). This would have been in the late 50s (58/9). It had real bricks and a little metal trowel. The 'cement' was akin to wallpaper paste. The slight difference from your's BFSMP was that the roofs were thick embossed cardboard with separate ridge pieces. The doors and windows were plastic. The buildings were to the scale of 0 gauge trains. When you wanted to reclaim your bricks you just submerged the building in cold water and the whole thing would fall slowly apart.

it's so long ago Dougal that your Brickplayer sounds exactly what I had, and my description is just so long ago that it was incorrect in places.


I am glad though that you and David have reinforced the fact that I'm not imagining things and going senile just yet,


Jim.

[BFSMP]

Yes that's the one, Dougal...............   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VTG-Spears-Games-Brickplayer-Kit-B-building-construction-toy-house-bricks-BOXED-/292148554237?hash=item44056929fd:g:i40AAOSw3YJZPud9


I actually remember the picture of the child on the box because my mum used to say "he looks like you, you could be a builder when you grow up"


Jim.

[dougal99]

Yes that's it. I'd forgotten the quasi blueprint plans. The bricks in mine though were brick red not neutral pale brown (in fact those look like they could be wood but are probably clay.)

[BFSMP]

Yes that's it. I'd forgotten the quasi blueprint plans. The bricks in mine though were brick red not neutral pale brown (in fact those look like they could be wood but are probably clay.)

yes, mine were red as well.


Jim.

[BrianB6]

Mine were red also.
Must have had a good influence as I became an Architect. 

[Daleb]

I thought it worthwhile to see if we could resurrect this thread, and since I have mentioned my s-l-o-w build of Legend Model Boats' Miss Severn a couple of times elsewhere, here is where I am up to now.  A good kit, attractive subject (IMHO) if a little pricy buying direct from the US.  That's my excuse for the snail's pace - I don't want to mess it up!





Next update in 2019! 

Greg

Looks stunning Greg 

[Colin Bishop]

I Have just completed my long running fishery cruiser which I first started researching in 1992! A build article will appear in Model Boats towards the end of the year.

Colin

[derekwarner]

Yes.....I thought I had seen the Cruiser Brenda in the past few days ..... prototype steam engined?........Derek