Model Boat Mayhem

The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Working Vessels => Topic started by: Positive on November 07, 2009, 08:05:20 am

Title: RMMV WINCHESTER CASTLE
Post by: Positive on November 07, 2009, 08:05:20 am

Here is the Union-Castle Line's big motor ship WINCHESTER CASTLE.   Model built to 32'=1".
Bob

Title: Re: RMMV WINCHESTER CASTLE
Post by: DickyD on November 07, 2009, 10:24:39 am

Great model as usual Bob, Have missed seeing your models of late.

Title: Re: RMMV WINCHESTER CASTLE
Post by: HS93 (RIP) on November 07, 2009, 10:30:48 am

Where you the chap in the June 1977 model boat Magazine article ?


Peter

Title: Re: RMMV WINCHESTER CASTLE
Post by: Positive on November 07, 2009, 10:55:13 am

DickyD
Thanks,
I haven't been here for a while, I suppose too much work over the past few years.     When I took voluntary redundancy in late 1992, I became self-employed at building model ships and writing.    Since then I have completed 236 models and am currently working on the 237th.    I turned 65 earlier this year and decided to practically retire.   I am still building models for my own pleasure and my wife assists by painting the seas.     I am enjoying it as a hobby once again, so you should be seeing more of me.    I have been looking for a model forum to settle into and remembered that I was here at the start.   Spent a couple of days racking my brains to remember my user name and password - came up with the correct ones yesterday.   
Bob

Peter,
I probably was, I wrote regularly for them about that time, but they suddenly "went off me"    They didn' say anything, but took to accepting articles but never publishing them, so I stopped sending them in 1979!

I now write regualrly for MODEL SHIPWRIGHT, but they have just stopped quarterly publication and gone on to annual.

Bob