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Garabaldy

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Why do you build model boats?
« on: January 12, 2009, 12:24:36 am »
If this is a repeat thread i am sorry but i couldnt find it anywhere.....

I was thinking about this earlier.  I had a pretty terrible weekend with alot of argueing and badness etc leaving me a bit down.  But today when i started assembling my latest build on my building board i could see the boat starting to taking shape.  It was no longer a pile of funny looking shapes!  I got that really happy excited feeling and forgot all about what had happend earlier.  All i could think about was how good the boat is beginning to look.  Something so simple and triviul but gives so much joy  :}  This is one reason why i build these things.  It also keeps my brain ticking as there is always a new challenge or a problem to over come.  Even when things aren't going well it still relaxes me.  Its just great all of it!  Even when things don't work out well its still fun.  Or at least it is for me :-)

I decided to get into model boat building after seeing all the harbour tugs working in Hong Kong harbour.  I saw a tug towing a crane barge and thought to myself "it would be cool to build a tug with a crane barge like like that"  I never actually did that.  I ended up building an OSV then a fireboat now im building another 1800 long OSV!

Why do you build model boats?
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2009, 12:33:15 am »
Because  my wife wont let me run around with a naughty women.... >>:-(

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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2009, 12:45:18 am »
I started it because of my love of the river and towboats. Back then no type of kits could be found and there was only a handful of model towboats in the country. I started scratch building to teach myself patience, but after my models got popular I started commission building. After scratch building fifty four models, most of them R C, I decided to take a break for a while. Mostly because I was losing my patience. Go figure!
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2009, 01:51:31 am »
I saw an RC sailing model on a movie (cannot remember which one). And it got me thinking.

Took me ages to track one down. But found one and loved it.

I also love the interest that others show when a boat is on the water. In Engliand the usual question might be, "how fast does it go?". In china the usual question is "how much did it cost?"  {-)

I find it very difficult to get started on a project. But once started I enjoy it. Spen to many nights lost sleep mulling over modelling problems and how to make it work.

I also get too distracted on here. Especially if flame wars spring up. :o
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2009, 04:57:30 am »
Like many others, I suspect, I turned to RC model boats when I found my reflexes slowing, and I had trouble keeping up with RC aircraft. I also find it much easier to have a chat while steering a boat, and to stop it in the middle of the lake if necessary. I always found it quite hard to stop an aircraft in mid air, at least, for any length of time.  {-)

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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2009, 06:36:17 am »
Quote from: Peter Fitness on January 12, 2009, 04:57:30 am
I always found it quite hard to stop an aircraft in mid air, at least, for any length of time.  {-)Peter.

Shouldn't be too difficult for an Australian?  {-) {-)

Malc


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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2009, 06:42:23 am »
Quote from: Reade Models on January 12, 2009, 06:36:17 am
Shouldn't be too difficult for an Australian? 

Perhaps I'm a bit slow today Malc, but why should we find it easy?  {:-{

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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2009, 06:49:58 am »
Quote from: Peter Fitness on January 12, 2009, 06:42:23 am
Quote from: Reade Models on January 12, 2009, 06:36:17 am
Shouldn't be too difficult for an Australian? 

Perhaps I'm a bit slow today Malc, but why should we find it easy?  {:-{

Peter.

Sorry Peter, I couldn't resist the temptation...No offence intended.

Malc




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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2009, 07:30:40 am »
i was given my first model boat as a gift, now i have always got something on the go in my workshop. i guess i do it basically because i enjoy it and get such a good feeling once i complete one
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2009, 07:46:43 am »
Sorry about my first post  ;D  I grew up in the Mecano era and the norm was to build Planes/ boats etc I tried both, liked boats so started with an ezibuild kit at about 10 then quickly went to aerokits, much encouraged by a father who never built a kit in his life or helped but wanted me to come in to the family business,  Joinery    (I did but not for as long as he wanted) >>:-(

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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2009, 10:07:53 am »
Hi Proteus, I was a Meccano child and so that explains my attraction to 'naughty women'.  I often wondered what it was, now I know!

regards Roy
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2009, 10:28:10 am »
Without waxing lyrically and subjecting you all to poetic mish-mash, I was born and brought up with a bedroom window overlooking the River Wyre at Fleetwood, and from the earliest of age my granddad would walk me down to the docks where the cacophany of noise, steam and greese/oil smells from a once mighty deep sea fishing fleet were everywhere.
He was a master pattern maker and cabinet maker by trade, and I built my first three masted sailing ship from solid yellow pine, under his masterfull "eye" at the age of 7-8.
I say "eye" in comma's because at the time I made that little boat( and oh how I wished I'd kept it) he was totally blind, but always said, "you don't need eyes laddie to feel the bumps".
He was my inspiration and I hope I have never let him down! :((
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2009, 11:45:56 am »
I just like to recreate and bring to life in miniature something which no longer exists in the real world - but then I always did like history!

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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2009, 11:54:07 am »

I'd love a huge motor power boat...... and in the real world I can only afford miniature ones!  {:-{
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2009, 11:55:18 am »
I'm building them for the same reason as everyone else, I enjoy it. Even when I hack various parts of my hands and arms off with scalpels, get fuel in my eyes, mess up my hair, get lungs full of exhaust smoke, and make my room smell of various chemicals...

Andy :-))
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2009, 11:58:43 am »
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I'd love a huge motor power boat...... and in the real world I can only afford miniature ones!

Go on a really strict diet Martin and your dreams will come true...  :}
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2009, 12:01:11 pm »
I had been into planes for a while and dabbled with some robotics,
I started on boats as a kind of rehab after a back operation. I was just sitting around at home and at a desk at work so decided I need to do something to stimulate the brain. I did think about going back to planes but figured if the back does not come back completely right, which it did not I can at least sit down and operate a boat.


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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2009, 01:41:32 pm »
I think it's the challenge on so many levels: the research, drawing, construction, detailing, control ... and I'm with Colin: recreating something which no longer exists is a joy in itself.

That said, if I'd been told my current build would take three years and still not be halfway complete I might have had second thoughts! ;-)

Andy (luckily my third thoughts are - I'm loving it)
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2009, 03:22:19 pm »
I gave up motor racing a few years ago,got bored on the computer (until i found this site),usual repeats on telly.
So i thought i would have a go at building a boat,the satisfaction you get when you first put it in the water,and
the pleasure you get when people comment on your hard work.
Only been boating six months and now got 4 boats,i'm hooked
Mark
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2009, 04:14:12 pm »
I love the water and boats and sitting in front of the TV watching soaps and reality TV is a living death(imho) :-))
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2009, 05:06:59 pm »
Quote from: andyn on January 12, 2009, 11:55:18 am
I'm building them for the same reason as everyone else, I enjoy it. Even when I hack various parts of my hands and arms off with scalpels, get fuel in my eyes, mess up my hair, get lungs full of exhaust smoke, and make my room smell of various chemicals...

Andy :-))

Hi Andy, How do YOU define " mess up my hair"?!?!?!?  ;D
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2009, 05:34:31 pm »
As a kid I always liked planes an the RAF. Well a medical finished off the RAF and being a little dyslexic I could never work out the controls quick enough to fly model planes. One day I was in a small shop and up on the shelf was a model boat. The Wave Princess by Norstar and I've been hooked every since. I like the variety of tasks building a scale boat compared to a model plane. Unfortunately I've only had 3 boats to date.


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« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2009, 07:17:24 pm »
It's a good question
"why do you build model boats?"
For me it's a mixture of things.
First I love creating things.
Second I am facinated by things going fast.
Third and most important to me is that my father built and ran one. His was a 33"  vopers crash tender (sorry to the purists I know it should be called an ASR launch) but it's what he always reffered to it as. He ran it at Frensham Ponds in Hampshire/Surrey (that border has moved a couple of times). When I smell glow and model diesel fuel, I am two years old again standing on the side of the lake wathing the boats and cradling the tinplate (yes TINPLATE) motor launch my Nan built for me. It still raises goose bumps vevery time I smell diesel exhaust.
Anyone else feel like that about smells (very emotive, someone once told me that the centre of the brain for processing smells is closely linked to the primitive brain).

Now back to my craft knife and cutting mat, maybe I'll fire up an engine later just to smell that exhaust.
GARY
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2009, 08:28:25 pm »
its a good question,why do we model,for me there is no better sight than my latest boat sailing for the 1st time,or opening the lid of the latest must have kit, and from time to time i get modelers block, usually whist doing the 100th stantion or similar,but i still go back,it is very addictive!!!!
    keep building it will get you through the winter!!!! 
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Re: Why do you build model boats?
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2009, 09:17:24 pm »
As a child my main interest was always aircraft.
When I was a lot younger (about 9 yrs old) I was on Southsea Common (Portsmouth).
There was a huge model of a Lancaster bomber, to me at my age it looked like I could sit in it!!
The 4 engines were started, it did take a while, they were fine tuned and she was let go.
This lovely model trundled over the grass picking up speed and took gracefully to the air. It looked absolutely superb.
This was in the days before remote control was affordable, so the rudders were set to take her in a circle.
After 4 circuits she suddenly straightened up and headed out towards the Isle Of Wight over the Solent.
He took it very well.
When I asked how much fuel was on board he answered "Enough to get her to Paris".
We both watched her disappear over the horizon.
Gone forever.
That was when I decided to make my first powered MODEL BOAT!!!

Bob
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