Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: MartinL on July 26, 2017, 04:48:14 pm
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I have recently purchased this almost built boat and hope that somebody on this wonderful forum can give me some idea as to its origin, was it a kit, is it plan built etc. It is 4ft 6in long with a 14in beam.
Any information would be appreciated.
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It's a bit like a Billings Neptune.
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It's a bit like a Billings Neptune.
Looks like it! - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/billing-boats-neptun-250956485
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The Neptune kit states 880mm long, but MartinL's query is 4ft 6ins = 54" = 137cm.
Maybe someone has scaled the thing up ??
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Its a precedent...um, nope, cannot remember what they called it!!
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Is it Lorraine by Vic Smeed,?
Plan No MM512
john
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It matches Lorraine pretty closely, length is the same but Lorraine beam is quoted as 12 inches. Cabin layout and window patterns are the same though.
Colin
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Did you buy it in Yorkshire?
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No, It came from Eastbourne area.
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Colin I think your right, Lorraine from the grainy plan and pictures I,ve found seems to match, especially in the shape of the Windows which is where the Billings one differs a lot. Now to try and get a plan or a decent picture so that I can finish it.
Thanks you.
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Bluebird's right. It a little different to the plan but it does match.
I've got the plans in electronic format. If you want I could e-mail them to you and you could get them printed out.
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TailUK that would be brilliant if you could, I only need to print bits of them obviously it's nearly built.
Thanks
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Its a precedent...um, nope, cannot remember what they called it!!
Precedent Hanseat?
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Unbuiltnautilus and Mudway it is very similar and had I remembered the kit may have thought my boat was one, we used to sell them in the model shop I worked at. However mine is a wooden hull and now having compared it with the Vic Smeed Lorraine am convinced that indeed is what I,ve got. ( wish it was the Hanseat though).
Many thanks for your help.
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Mr Bish look what I found on your Model Boat web site {-) %) %)
http://www.modelboats.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=94633&p=1
john
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Yup, close but no tee shirt. My excuse..too young to remember them properly %)
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Yup, close but no tee shirt. My excuse..too young to remember them properly %)
In the North East we have a saying, that a young man with old looking face must have had a big paper round, hehehe {-) {-) {-) {-)
john
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Well done John, you obviously have too much time on your hands....
Colin
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In the North East we have a saying, that a young man with old looking face must have had a big paper round, hehehe {-) {-) {-) {-)
john
Being a thick Southerner, I am unsure if I have just been insulted...I shall have a bit of a sit down and a think :P