Topic: Shannon Build (Read 39985 times)

Juergen · « **Reply #25 on:** July 27, 2015, 04:44:26 pm »

Thank John,

I will check my 3D model and come back when it's changed.
Would be interested, if the RNLI issued lines planes.

Kind regards,
Jürgen

Juergen · « **Reply #26 on:** August 01, 2015, 08:54:47 pm »

Hi,

I measured length pp on the plan. It's about 45,15 cm long. Multipled with 25 (plan's scale) I get an original length pp of 11,2875 m (almost exactly the measurement of my 3D model). I cannot verify the 11,63 m officially mentioned by RNLI.

Kind regards,
Jürgen

Atlantic Mouldings · « **Reply #27 on:** August 01, 2015, 09:52:11 pm »

Well if anyone feels like a drive out in the sunshine tomorrow , ( Sunday )
The New Shannon at Dungeness will be strutting it stuff at there openday , should be launching around 2pm,
great chance to get upclose and see her in action as well as some good detail shots on her launching unit

mk1 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 17, 2015, 12:39:10 am »

Just got the mould back checked it over a couple of bits of paint from the plug stuck to it. Wed and dryed the paint of and gave the mould a good rub over with cut and polish cream. Will be taken it back today to get the 1st hull made hope to have one by the end of the week.

Charlie · « **Reply #29 on:** August 17, 2015, 10:31:32 am »

Looking good

BlueWotsit · « **Reply #30 on:** August 20, 2015, 10:16:18 am »

Some photos of the Ilfracombe setup on the Shannons arrival day. Will upload more photos later.

BlueWotsit · « **Reply #31 on:** August 20, 2015, 10:20:44 am »

john44 · « **Reply #32 on:** August 20, 2015, 01:24:30 pm »

Nice photo,s

John

Juergen · « **Reply #33 on:** August 24, 2015, 07:43:39 pm »

Hi,

I promised to revise the lines. Here they are ...

Kind regards,
Jürgen

mk1 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 26, 2015, 12:26:12 am »

Thanks for the pictures BlueWotsit very nice. I went down today and took some of the cabin etc if anybody want any please ask as I don't want to clog up the forum. New drawing look good Juergen.

Cheers John

mk1 · « **Reply #35 on:** August 26, 2015, 12:30:15 am »

Hi just to say have got a hull at last done in Oxford Blue Gel coat will post pictures after I have trimmed it.

Cheers John

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #36 on:** September 02, 2015, 09:42:50 am »

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mk1 · « **Reply #37 on:** September 03, 2015, 12:13:13 am »

Hi all got one of the hulls at last and trimmed it down to the right size and added a temporary watermark line for when I try it in the bath also made up a couple of small pieces of wood to the right size of the fenders just to see what it looks like might make them in hard wood if I can't find any thing else that's light and easy to work with.

Juergen · « **Reply #38 on:** September 03, 2015, 10:07:51 am »

Looks great ...

Kind regards,
Jürgen

T888 · « **Reply #39 on:** September 03, 2015, 12:04:58 pm »

John,
Looking great, also PM sent in answer to your question

Atlantic Mouldings · « **Reply #40 on:** September 03, 2015, 10:18:25 pm »

Looking Good

mk1 · « **Reply #41 on:** September 29, 2015, 12:46:58 am »

Hi just a up date on were I have got to. Have now made the cabin a lot of hours in making one of these I think over 50 have made the deck beams and cut the front and side deck out. This model is for display so I have not taken so many pictures as some things are not fitted. I will show more of how I have done things when I do the one I am going to use.

T888 · « **Reply #42 on:** September 29, 2015, 06:31:39 pm »

John,
She looking go, you've done a great job on the hull

Canterbury Coxswain · « **Reply #43 on:** October 09, 2015, 01:31:20 am »

This is looking good, especially the wheel house. I'm posting a few photos that I put earlier on the other 'thread' regarding the Speedline Models build. Hope to have a DVD of photos out for the 'Warwick' Show [as per my Trent, Solent, Mersey, Tamar, Arun and Severn ones which have raised some £500+ for the RNLI] which will be £5 each and all the money goes to the RNLI Station [at the moment Dungeness] who have given me their time and help. These though are just a few from the RNLI Open Weekend in August. Trust they might be of some use to those building a model.

BFSMP · « **Reply #44 on:** October 09, 2015, 10:12:19 am »

they look just like models themselves but bigger.

they look wonderful lifeboats. I like lifeboats and would like to build or buy a model of one, one day.

Canterbury Coxswain · « **Reply #45 on:** October 09, 2015, 11:04:49 am »

BFSMP - you're right. That's exactly what I thought! As modellers we sometimes forget that we are 'imitating' the real thing, not the other way around. I liked them because most of my colleagues / friends call me 'Mr. Grey' because most of my lifeboats don't get past the primer stage!!
Have a go and build one, there is a fair choice.
C.C. [Mr. Grey]

BFSMP · « **Reply #46 on:** October 09, 2015, 06:04:17 pm »

I have only built a few things in wood over the years.a few model aeroplanes with skins of paper and dope in years gone by and a dolls house for my grand daughter some time ago which sits on top of a dresser these days

And by looking at all the beautiful lifeboats that are built on here.......both the old age ones that I used to see in my youth when visiting the sea side and the modern ones...........I don't think I would ever be able to build one such as those I see......they are all magnificent.

Think I will be content to buy one if one is cheap enough.

Canterbury Coxswain · « **Reply #47 on:** October 09, 2015, 06:54:39 pm »

Here are a few more shots and I will send some more over the next couple of days. Some 83 appear on the Dungeness Lifeboat Station's Flicker page in folders two and three. My DVD of Shannon photos for modellers will feature several hundred and I will have to make another visit to Dungeness to get some on board close-up shots of fixtures and fittings, plus interior ones.
These were taken in February and March 2014 when training was on launch, recovery and towing and then in Ramsgate Harbour for mooring skills as Dungeness only has sand and shingle!!

Canterbury Coxswain · « **Reply #48 on:** October 10, 2015, 11:44:34 am »

A few photos as promised. For those wondering what colour all the rails and stanchions are, that are not painted black, Trevor Bunney [the Engineer/Mechanic at Dungeness] told me 'brushed aluminium'. However, it looks very much like galvanised aluminium [only in my ignorance I'm not sure whether ali can be galvanised - please let me know]. This was to cut down on paintwork maintenance by the RNLI. If you search 'Alclad paints' on the net you will come up with about five different types of ali colour - most useful too for window frames on other lifeboats! They need to be laquered too. However, there are plenty of articles on the use and application of these paints [used by the plastic model aircraft fraternity] and www.britmodeller.com deals with the subject a plenty. My good friend Alan Poole has used the Alclad stainless steel paint to good effect on his 1/12th scale Severn Class Dover lifeboat's [17-09] water cooled exhaust pipes and other stern/transom paraphenalia. Hope some of this is of help to those that want to see what goes where and what it looks like.

Flundle (Speedline Models) · « **Reply #49 on:** October 10, 2015, 01:12:26 pm »

Well, having just checked the site out again, what a fantastic resource we have now. Many thanks for me mo0st sincerely .
All the handrailings are natural aluminium in colour. According to the Coxswain at Lowestoft they will never need painting and by some process or other (?) they will not oxidise or react to sea water.
The photos of the bow (earlier post) show a clearly different arrangement, without all the cut-aways and clamps of the stored ashore boats. The Lowestoft boat had the cutaway parts and the chopped-off spray rails and that's a moored afloat boat. It had a long piece of rubber running down the bow to cover up the cutaway bits and apparently its a good 2 knots faster so maybe there has been a design change.
Does anybody know?
Its an important aspect of the hull and I was going to do the bow section as a separate resin casting but now if they are all nice and smooth its a lot easier I tell you.
By the way, the 3D printer is not suitable for making masters unless you can afford an SLA machine and I cant.

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