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[heritorasphodel]

Finished at last! (well... almost)


RNLB Bassett Green served at Poole from 1962 to 1969 after serving as Padstow's No.2 boat and despite being one of several Liverpools stationed afloat she is the only one I know of to wear anti fouling on the hull.


The model once belonged to my father, but it sat in his shed for a few years so I think he was glad when I took if off his hands. I've owned her for the last 3 years or so. Much of the build was based on RNLB Grace Darling, but the rest was cobbled together from other photographs of boats closer in period to Bassett.





The Liverpool when I got her.





After a bit of work had been done. The belting was particularly difficult, and the canopy was the most frustrating thing I've ever done, but I think it's worked well.


Andrew

[heritorasphodel]

And this is the stage she's at now:




















Various things still to be done, the coxswain's nowhere near finished, there's no spotlight or anodes, but they're relatively minor. Next job though is radio gear.


Andrew

[RMH]

Looks fantastic, you must be well pleased with it

[gribeauval]

Very nice refit Andrew!!


Mike

[baloo]

Love it.baloo

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Lovely to look at. Well done.   


Ken

[heritorasphodel]

Thanks everyone. I'm very pleased at how she turned out, given that this is the first boat I've finished. I forgot to add a photo of the real boat,





Andrew

[Neil]

beautiful job Andrew.....looks superb.
neil.

[mk1]

Looks super a credit to you.
 
John

[irishcarguy]

Beautiful work Andrew, it is a credit to your skill, Nice to see your work, you spend a lot of time helping others. Now lets see her on the water. Mick B.

[heritorasphodel]

Now lets see her on the water.

That may be a while... I haven't got any radio gear yet, that's coming soon, and the local pond has been empty since before Christmas with no sign as to when it will be refilled. But she'll get there eventually, and I'll put up photos when she does.


Andrew

[mk1]

Looks very good. What did you make the curved seat boards out of and how did you bend them to get a nice finish like that. I will have to do some thing like that on the Surf boat I am doing.
 
Keep up the good work
John

[Neil]

I think that Andrew will have done the same as me and other modellers..........soak them in a bath tub of warm water and then pin to the shape you want whilst wet..........allow to dry out and then glue and re pin or just clamp......cloathes pegs ( preferably the wooden spring type) are great clamps for this sort of work. and this is not said with any degree of fun to it......but I have found that russian/eastern block wooden cloathes pegs are better than any other, as they have the strongest springs I have ever found.
 
neil.

[heritorasphodel]

Pretty much. The strips are mahogany bought from the local model shop, they were pinned to a jig I'd made using the plans as a reference for the curvature, after being soaked. After they'd dried, I offered them up to the model, cut them to size and superglued them to the frames.


I actually cheated a bit with the side benches... The air cases are in fact a single length of balsa, carved to fit the model, with various notches cut in it to give the impression of separate boxes. This was to avoid having to make lots of individually shaped boxes that you can't see under the benches anyway. (In fact on a Liverpool there are two rows of air cases under each bench) The frames for the bench are fixed to this block because when I made the jig up, the planks didn't curve enough, so there was still tension in them when they were bent into shape on the model. The first bench I made was built up off the model, and only fixed down near the end of the build. The finish on them is half-a-dozen coats of varnish.


Andrew

[john44]

Brilliant job Andrew, have you used real wood veneer on the canopy?

john

[Neil]

the frames.


I actually cheated a bit with the side benches... The air cases are in fact a single length of balsa, carved to fit the model, with various notches cut in it to give the impression of separate boxes. This was to avoid having to make lots of individually shaped boxes that you can't see under the benches anyway.

Oh you cheat Andrew

[heritorasphodel]

I did use veneer, but I don't know what kind of wood it is. After the diagonal planks had been fitted, they were given a coat of teak oil then teak stain, which oddly enough gave the colour of mahogany. The king plank and the windscreen frame (made from ply but covered with veneer) were just given the oil. The whole thing was given several coats of varnish.


On the inside of the canopy, the fibreglass was filled and sanded to make it smooth, then that was planked with brown paper which was stained to make it look like the inside of the canopy was planked without giving any more thickness.








the last photo is before varnishing.


Andrew

[heritorasphodel]

It may be cheating, but it works!





Each aircase has a plastic front and top, and all the spaces between are painted black or covered with a frame. The plastic was then covered in masking tape to give the effect of the calico covering, before each was given their number.








Andrew

[Rottweiler]

a brilliant idea! I think I will try that out on my Liverpool.Certainly looks effective!
Super model too.
Mick F.
 

[Neil]

a brilliant idea! I think I will try that out on my Liverpool.Certainly looks effective!
Super model too.
Mick F.

NOW!!!!, come on Mick......hone those modelling skills........cut them all out individually.
neil.