Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: verithingeoff on August 09, 2016, 10:09:02 am
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Good evening gentlemen, a very warm hello from sunny Queensland (http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/gwa_2006/Avatars%20etc/ozzhatcorks.gif) (http://s80.photobucket.com/user/gwa_2006/media/Avatars%20etc/ozzhatcorks.gif.html)
A bit about me, old git, ex RAF radar engineer, lifelong sailor and guitar nut. Also very interested in model steam engines.
I started out with model boats 3-4 years ago when I bought the Bowman Snipe that is in my avatar, was a bit rough so I did a complete rebuild. Currently I have a 1 metre boat also in the middle of a resto.
I can post pics in the appropriate place if you guys are interested.
My next project is going to be a kit build boat, a North Light - Clyde Puffer (http://www.miniaturesteammodels.com/category130_1.htm) I hope it's not too difficult as a first build [I'm more of a restorer than builder] . So expect a lot of questions, some probably pretty basic, but I don't believe there is such a thing as a stupid question......
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Hi,
Welcome to the forum, always nice to see what other model boaters are building.
:-)) Rich
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Hi .......Geoff, welcome. I like to restore old stuff as well. I was wondering about your dodgy past as a radar engineer, air or ground? I was air on Canberras way back when.
cheers, Roy
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Welcome to Mayhem Geoff. We're currently in sunny Queensland, at the Elliott Heads Caravan Park, and it really is sunny, absolutely glorious in fact 8)
Peter.
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Thanks for the greetings guys (http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/gwa_2006/Avatars%20etc/ozzhatcorks.gif) (http://s80.photobucket.com/user/gwa_2006/media/Avatars%20etc/ozzhatcorks.gif.html)
Roy, I was an apprentice at Locking [100th entry] Ground Radar C+R. Moved into computer controlled systems then took a career change and ran the engineering/factory maintenance side of a large printing firm in East Anglia.
Peter, nice place just south of Bargara, I know it well a mate of mine runs a guitar business up there. I'm a bit south at Mt Coolum on the Sunshine Coast
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Welcome to Mayhem
My wife and I spent many happy holidays in Coolum %%
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Geoff, we had a few days at Mudjimba before coming to Elliott Heads. I have a sister in Bundaberg, and have been visiting the area since 1975.
Peter.
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And don't forget the Sunshine Coast Model boat Club
http://www.scmbc.org.au/ (http://www.scmbc.org.au/)
Scale, Fast electrics and Yachts among other things. Nice setting, but check map first to get directions from the University entrance. Too easy to get lost.
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then took a career change and ran the engineering/factory maintenance side of a large printing firm in East Anglia.
Commercial or Newsprint? If commercial ?? Jarrold's, Clays, Woodford Litho, BPCC Colchester or what is now Wyndehams??
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Commercial or Newsprint? If commercial ?? Jarrold's, Clays, Woodford Litho, BPCC Colchester or what is now Wyndehams??
None of the above {-)
William Clowes at Beccles (http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/gwa_2006/Avatars%20etc/ozzhatcorks.gif) (http://s80.photobucket.com/user/gwa_2006/media/Avatars%20etc/ozzhatcorks.gif.html)