Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Neil on April 27, 2013, 12:47:10 pm
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.12.35 hours, Sat, 27th April, Just started watching an old Midsommer murders (Which you can catch on channel 33 in an hour) and in the opening shots before the titles, a chap is wandering around a minature village with a harbour............and on the Lifeboat slip is a nice 1:12 scale ( i presume) Liverpool class lifeboat ready to launch.
Does anyone recognise or know where the minature village is please, (town or actual place) or who made the model lifeboat........it looks familiar.
neil
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Is it Bekonscot in Beaconsfield.
The series were filmed in the locality
They have a fishing village with a lifeboat house
Guy Bagley would probably know.
Ned
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Hi Niel:
There is a listing of filmimg locations at http://midsomermurders.org/locationsindex.htm (http://midsomermurders.org/locationsindex.htm).
The Beaconsfield area is very popular, so the model village is almost certainly Bekonscot Model Village.
http://www.bekonscot.co.uk/ (http://www.bekonscot.co.uk/)
On their home page slide show is a lifeboat on a slipway that looks very much like a Liverpool Class.
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Small Mercies was filmed in Bekonscot Model Village.
Ned
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{-) Funny thing just as I am reading the thread, the wife who is watching midsummer murders on the tv ask me where the model village was
and I could tell her thanks to you guys, now she thinks Iam clever and will keep on asking questions all about the village,
Ray {-) {-) {-)
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I've just searched google for photos of 'Bekonscot model village lifeboat' and saw a shot of the stern, she's more like a 35'6" self righter than a Liverpool. Other photos showing the boat show it's just a generic lifeboat model, not necessarily a specific class or boat. But definitely not a Liverpool.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloydengland/1084770339/
Andrew
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I agree Andrew.
If it looks like a lifeboat then it is a lifeboat.
That's what the modeller has depicted.
Ned
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cheers guys............next time I'm down there I'll take a visit.
neil.
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A little while since this thread was started, but I have just visited Bekonscot model village, and as proof that this was indeed the lifeboat Neil asked about regarding the Midsommer Murders Episode, here is a photo of me in that lifeboat. The scale RNLI staff were happy to launch the boat whilst I was aboard.
(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n626/bobkiralfy/bekonscott1_zpsc303f657.jpg) (http://s1143.photobucket.com/user/bobkiralfy/media/bekonscott1_zpsc303f657.jpg.html)
(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n626/bobkiralfy/bekonscot2_zps7a72faf8.jpg) (http://s1143.photobucket.com/user/bobkiralfy/media/bekonscot2_zps7a72faf8.jpg.html)