Model Boat Mayhem
The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Working Vessels => Topic started by: dgp1957 on January 24, 2017, 02:30:53 pm
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Guys I have inherited this lovely weekend model of an Aberdeen trawler built by the late Tom Fields from Gourock.
Can anyone identify the type of trawler for me?
The hull was originally painted orange if that is any help?
David
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there were quite a few like this in Aberdeen but the red colour does mean I think its the Ardenlea , originally a longliner , went to be an oil rig standby boat for a while before being converted to the side trawl ( as the model depicts ) and was red as a trawler for a while
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/516/Ardenlee.jpg)
^as a longliner
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/516/medium/Ardenlea.jpg)
^rigged for the trawl but at this time back to being an oil rig standby boat ( no port registry on hull )
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Cheers David, so she should have a red hull, any other colours that need changed?
Also would there be a name or id numbers on the hull?
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Sorry David, I see the reg no on the hull now.
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She was red as a standby boat and for only a few months back as a fishing boat before being repainted either dark blue or black hull
Name on hull should be Ardenlea KY194 and the hull colour of Blue looks to be correct
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David would she have been painted orange when she was a supply boat?
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Yup all standby boats were painted bright orange , still are
Her job was to keep close to oil rigs as a rescue vessel
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Is it not the Billing model, Nordkap.
Jim.
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I think Jim is right, have a look at the Nordkapp, very similar, nemesis
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hi Jim, it's not the Nordkap it was scratch built by one of our late members Tom Fields. He had it painted a bright orange originally, but one of our members repainted it.
I was thinking of painting it in its original colour, any ideas which orange would be suitable? Also would the funnel be orange as well?
David
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They were painted in a few different shades ( which ever colour was cheapest at the time I think lol )
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/626/boats_00510.jpg)
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/1202/medium/Grampian_King.jpg)
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/626/medium/grampiandee-27jan2006.jpg)
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/626/medium/St_Martin1.jpg)
(http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/626/medium/North_Star_SHIP_S.jpg)
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The model in question is definitely a Billings 'Nordkap', I know because I have the same model
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/deltic13/Boats/Laurel%20II/3e9cebd0-2dd4-40c0-986e-2edab9a76342_zpsm0cq22hr.jpg)
If it wasn't built from the kit, it was certainly built using the plans & components from the kit, the bridge window frames, rear deck vent, crane & foremast are a dead give away.
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The model in question is definitely a Billings 'Nordkap', I know because I have the same model
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/deltic13/Boats/Laurel%20II/3e9cebd0-2dd4-40c0-986e-2edab9a76342_zpsm0cq22hr.jpg)
If it wasn't built from the kit, it was certainly built using the plans & components from the kit, the bridge window frames, rear deck vent, crane & foremast are a dead give away.
actually looking at the two together, don't think it was the billing kit, although as you say kipper, there are many similarities.
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Definitely is, look at the droop on the front of the wheelhouse roof, the winch is the identical one from the Nordkap, the hatches on the deck, they are so alike it can't be anything else, the whole of the upper superstructure is identical.
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Sorry kipper the boat is not the Nordkap, there are similarities but this model was built from scratch by Tom Fields from a GA drawing :-))
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Then that GA drawing must be the same one they used for the Billings Nordkap, because they are identical, from the anchors to the rudder.
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One less freeing port, gallows entirely
different, small hoist abaft the funnel
to Starboard.
Mmm.....
Back then ,Billings were a favourite for
supplying fishing boat fittings so some
have probably found their way aboard.
Ned
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Even the front of the wheelhouse is a different shape to the Nordkap......my first assumption was totally wrong as they are not the same ship.
Jim.
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I'll get the camera out tomorrow, take some up close shots of mine & prove it, I've been up close & personal with the Nordkap long enough to know one when I see one. :-))
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Does it really matter either way?
Ian.
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It does when someone has built a fine looking trawler from, [what it has said to be from scratch] and yet someone else is insisting that it is a kit built model just because it has a resemblance to a similar kit that he has built.
It is insulting to the scratch builder I am sad to say.
Jim.
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Lets try the BOSTON ARROW plan from my Hobby store
http://www.myhobbystore.co.uk/product/17002/boston-arrow-mm666
http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showfull.php?photo=49725
john
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One less freeing port, gallows entirely
different, small hoist abaft the funnel
to Starboard.
Mmm.....
Back then ,Billings were a favourite for
supplying fishing boat fittings so some
have probably found their way aboard.
Ned
Freeing ports are open to builders making more or less when planking, yes the gallows are different but could be replacements.
As for the small hoist abaft the funnel, well blow me, exactly the same as the Nordkap (see photo of mine below) as are the pulleys on the deck & the doorway into the fore storage.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/deltic13/proof/copy%209_zpsnkkbag6u.jpg)
The front of the whellhouse is down to the angle of the photo. (check the shot below) & what about that radar?
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/deltic13/proof/copy%207_zpsqbgcfhaj.jpg)
..... the wheelhouse continuation to deck level, the pulleys & hatches on the deck & not just the jollyboat, but the crane too.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/deltic13/proof/copy%202_zpsxjmoypxt.jpg)
I don't want to insult anyone, but don't insult my intelligence, I've been to Specsavers & know what I'm looking at.
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At the end of the day, yours is a Nordkap.
The other is a scratch build from probably
The same GA.
Why worry?
Two very nice models loved by the owners.
Let's call it quits :-))
Ned
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and people wonder just why people have been leaving the site......
Kipper NOTHING that you have circled is unique to the Nordkap model but pretty standard design features on ALL trawlers of that size class of that period between the 1950's to the late 1960's
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Definitely is...
Not many definites in life .... or model boats.... well not on this planet anyway!
In this instance, everyone is right... and / or wrong!
All models are open to builder or owners own interpretations, whims, desires, skill level, resources, wealth, etc. etc.
‘How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth? - Arthur Doyle! ok2
Does it really matter either way?