Model Boat Mayhem

The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Navy - Military - Battleships: => Topic started by: Shipmate60 on October 10, 2010, 07:40:49 pm

Title: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Shipmate60 on October 10, 2010, 07:40:49 pm

Can anyone remember who produced this semi-kit?

Bob

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Klunk on October 10, 2010, 09:00:05 pm

sirmar i believe

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: longshanks on October 10, 2010, 09:04:30 pm

Fleetscale do one in 1/24 if you want twice as much boat  :}

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Klunk on October 10, 2010, 09:06:27 pm

models by design aswell 2 scakes under hms grey goose

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Klunk on October 10, 2010, 09:11:33 pm

http://www.model-dockyard.com/acatalog/model-boat-magazine-Warships.html look down for denny mm946

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Klunk on October 10, 2010, 09:13:37 pm

mouldeans also!!
http://www.deansmarine.co.uk/mpage/

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: rob on October 11, 2010, 01:02:16 am

beauty of a boat

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Bunkerbarge on October 13, 2010, 06:33:01 pm

Just something to give you a bit of inspiration,

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Shipmate60 on October 13, 2010, 06:47:26 pm

Is that the 1/24 scale as I have 1 of them too   :-))

Bob

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Bunkerbarge on October 13, 2010, 08:53:46 pm

I don't know anything about it I'm afraid and we haven't seen the guy who built it for a while.  If our Stan sees this he may well know a bit more than I do.

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: John R Haynes on October 14, 2010, 10:23:47 am

This was a John Piper kit which was the best in its day. However all the top-side fittings were white-metal which by modern standards would not be acceptable

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Stan on October 14, 2010, 10:29:33 am

HI Bunkerbarge. I think this model is no longer at Kirklees. I seem to think is was sold last year.

Title: Re: 1/48 Scale Denny Steam Gunboat
Post by: Bunkerbarge on October 14, 2010, 11:16:47 am

I think the model was scratch built on a bought hull but it could have even been a bought hull.  AStan says the model has moved on but I was trying to identify the models origins.

Still, it did make into a lovely boat that handled very well.  The more i think of it though the more I seem to remember early trials with an open model seemed to look like a moulded hull.