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[M aider]

Hi guys and thank you for accepting me onto your site,
 I need some help, I am looking for a kit to build a Mersey Class Lifeboat, I can find various kits for other classes but not the Mersey does anybody know where I can get one,
Thanks
Scott

[Number 6]

Hi there Scott, welcome aboard. Nobody does a full kit for a Mersey as I know of. I've built one using a Models By Design 1/12 hull/cabin moulding. Plans are available from RNLI engineering in Poole. Virtually all the fittings can be obtained from the specialists listed below. I got the fendering from Speedline, 1/16 Severn fendering is spot on. Markings were from Barrys Model Lettering, give him a call, very helpful and I think he's building one too. Any questions feel free to ask, plenty of helpful folk oin here. I hope this info is of some use to you, cheers, Dave. 

Hull/Cabin http://www.modelsbydesign.co.uk/model_boats.aspx  Look under 'our boats' then 'lifeboats'
Fittings    http://www.macsmouldings.co.uk/index.html Under 1/12 scale
              http://www.speedlinemodels.com/page29aa.html
              http://www.speedlinemodels.com/page31aa.html
              http://www.modelslipway.com/  look under fittings
Markings   http://www.modellettering.com/
General Supplies
              http://www.westbourne-model.co.uk/westbourne-model-co-uk-the-home-of-model-boats-1-0.html
              http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/

[gribeauval]

Sorry Scott, there is no kit for the Mersey!

There are hulls available e.g. from models by design, but nobody makes a full kit for the Mersey so it's a case of do it yourself.  

Mike

[M aider]

Thanks guys that should help, will keep you all posted.
Regards,
Scott