About a year ago I bumped into the forum and sent in some early pictures of my latest RTTL. Martin kindly posted them. Seeing all your lovelly models I thought I should have a go. I found a smaller setting on my digital camera today so here goes.
My dad took me to the RAF museum in Hendon in the 70's and bought a Veron Vosper RTTL model kit and we enjoyed many nights and weekends building her and then sailing her. Then came teens and girls and cars and all that. Then i had my own kids and a demanding job so looked for some kind of release. The model had always lived on a wardrobe and got damaged over the years, so i thought i would rebuild her. I did and my passion was restored.
My next project was a 1/24th version. I managed to track down a hull from Deans Marine and started building number 2. I spent a winter building this and then enjoyed sailing them both for a year. So last April sitting in front of the telly, nothing on. I thought what the hell why not another one! What scale? Oh well, and just plumped for 1/12th.
I contacted Grenwich Martitime Museum and went down to the plans office one day and rooted through all their original blueprints and plans etc and came up ewith the original hull drawrigns. After various copies it was off to the drawring board. I happened by chance on a friends chum who was a architect. After coverting the plans from metric to imperial he converted them to cad, sent me a disc and I had the 14 bulkheads and the keel cnc cut at a wood shop in Cambridge. Most of last summer was then spent in the garage building her up.
Well here she is so far, so far I have only had her in the water three times, (do not build bigger than your bath). Still having teething problems with motors, batteries and props to get good speed but thanks to all on the forum I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Thanks to all that I bore with my boat, Martin for a great forum, like mind model maniacs and my wife for putting up with the mess in the house.
Dont know if it interests you but here she is anyway.
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