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Title: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: Engineman on July 06, 2021, 05:28:44 am
As it was promised - let me represent our model of wooden torpedo boat (builders' alias SWORDFISH).
Full-scale prototype was built by Messers. J.S. White & Co., East Cowes in 1888.


Cheers, Roman
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: rhavrane on July 06, 2021, 07:13:36 pm
Bonjour Roman,
Absolutely beautiful, I would like to see more details of the steam plant then her on a pond  :-))
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: jpdenver on July 06, 2021, 11:33:20 pm
Roman,
Will this be a "One-Off"?or a commercial product?
Kit?

Incredible detail - great work.

Regards,Jim PopeDenver, COUSA
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: Engineman on July 07, 2021, 05:27:04 am
Quote from: rhavrane on July 06, 2021, 07:13:36 pm
Bonjour Roman,
Absolutely beautiful, I would like to see more details of the steam plant then her on a pond  :-))


Hi rhavrane,
Thanks for your kind words!
Speaking about the steam plant and the pond trials...what are your estimations for the size and scale of this TB scale replica?
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: Engineman on July 07, 2021, 05:47:38 am
Quote from: jpdenver on July 06, 2021, 11:33:20 pm
Roman,
Will this be a "One-Off"?or a commercial product?
Kit?

Incredible detail - great work.
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your so hi-rated evaluation of our engineering reconstruction activities indeed.
You're correct in general...then yes, this model is planned for serial production as a commercially available kit.
For now - it is really 'one-off' "sample" which could be quite easily replicated thou.


Rgds,
Roman
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: rhavrane on July 07, 2021, 05:04:10 pm
Bonjour Roman,
As she has a thin hull, if steam is real, I would say she is roughly around 1 meter long, but without any other object around, dffcult to evaluate a perspective.   
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: KBIO on July 07, 2021, 05:22:52 pm
Hello !
I confirm that it is a beautiful one with lovely details !
Should be a winner if ending up as an available kit (4 feet) on the market.  :-))
Just let us know.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards.
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: Baldrick on July 08, 2021, 09:35:27 am



 That is one fantastic model which really turns me on.   Out of interest the following photograph of the steam torpedo boat HMRAN Gordon was also built by Whites of Cowes in 1985, 3 years earlier and shows a lot of similarity but definitely not as tiddly , more soot , smoke and coal dust encrusted , or shall we say weathered .  The torpedoes are similarly carried side saddle


(https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2021/07/08/Victorian-colonial-Navy-HMVS-Gordon.jpg) (https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/image/a5DGl)
Title: Re: Code name SWORDFISH - 2nd Class Wooden Torpedo Boat
Post by: KNO3 on July 11, 2021, 07:03:05 pm
What a superb model,  congratulations Roman!
Could you show us some pictures of the engine too?