1:48 Scale Builder's model after restoration

Model boats on the local pond

My usual quick snap of the boats positioned for transport so that I can reload them correctly for the return journey, this one being for a recent display in our local Maritime Museum.

Australian Wooden Boat Festival.

Hobart Tasmania.

Planked with 5mmX1mm plywood planks. that job seemed to take forever, then I had to do the same on the deck.

Wilson experimental ship model. This is the original model used by Robert Wilson to demonstrate the efficiency of screw propellers against paddle wheels in dunbar harbour in 1826. The model is propelled by a clockwork motor.

In 2008, National Museums Scotland commissioned Maori artist George Nuku to carve a new stern post for this canoe. It is made using transparent acrylic. This canoe may originally have been a Maori fishing canoe, with war canoe features added later. George Nuku, Ngati Kahungunu.

Frank owns this wonderfull rowing boat driven by an electric motor, and is a big crowd puller on sunny Sunday mornings at Black Park Lake. Great detail with even a grama-phone player on the back of the boat !!

Olympus Mju II, 35mm, Agfa Vista Plus 200

These are radio controlled yachts that only use wind power and they have to be sailed with skill.

Somewhere to put my best photo's! Everytime i climb the stairs i get the motivation to get out with the camera.

Australian Wooden Boat Festival.

Hobart Tasmania.

I'm catching you!

Yes I do occasionally make static models.

Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site in Steveston

located at 5180 Westwater Drive, Richmond, BC Canada

Richmond’s historical connection with the sea was celebrated at the 13th Annual Richmond Maritime Festival, a free family event at a National Heritage Site.

Over two days, land lubbers and sea-goers of all ages enjoyed activities that delight one and all. Discover local lore, visit beautiful wooden boats, create works of art, bring your picnic blanket and enjoy the tasty treats. Take in music, painters, wood carvers, potters, stilt performers, puppets, story tellers and much more!

The Richmond Maritime Festival celebrates all things waterfront at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site. From wooden boats to model boats, water safety to sea creatures, local lore to fishing history, the festival invites visitors to explore a spectacular heritage site and enjoy music, games, interactive exhibits, roving performers, food and much more.

richmondmaritimefestival.ca/festival-info/

Rhine pusher tug model in action. The load in the rear barge is a pack of 40Ah ex-aircraft nicads giving an endurance of many days of constant running.

Yes it's the model again, the real thing is still in dry dock,

remarkable model of an intriguing ancient Korean warship, at the Canberra Model Shipwrights Society Expo 2011

* This is the 24" model of 1978 - C&C 36.

The model is mounted on the Honduras Mahogany backboard. The model scale is 1/18.

The model dimension is 24"(L) x 8"(H) x 4"(D). The size of the backboard is 30.5"(W) x 13.5"(H). The model weight is 11 LBS. The model scale is 1/18.

The detail pictures of this model are posted at the link below :

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The link to the detail pictures of the latest models is listed below :

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Furness Model Boat Club member Melvin Peacock's radio-controlled fast electric powerboat 'Merlin's Magic', capable of 40mph, captured at speed on Barrow Park's lake during the penultimate regatta of the club's 21st anniversary year.

Home Brew 2 is scratch built from balsa wood, to my own design. It has working lights, smoke & JJC twin cylinder diesel sound.

Believe it or not, there are tiny plastic windows which will attach to the inside of the wheel house!

Union Park grand opening

As she is a rare visitor to the pond the resident swans were giving her a looking over to see if she is acceptable in THEIR water

While Gooders wields the camera for the benefit of the other club members!

Record: HMS Victory by Endesigns, for more info visit www.endesigns.eu

Portpatrick now have a Tamar class so I will have to get me a set of plans and start building!

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

anaglyph red/cyan

Cornelis Moesman

Adriaen de Vriend

Operation Pluto (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean) was a Second World War operation by British engineers, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

The lower cabin deck attaches to the top of the lower cabin. Again, I had several of these included in my box of parts, but this was the only one that hadn't been used.

You can see attachment points for the Wheel House, Smoke Stack and Mast. And all those little holes along the perimeter? For individual brass rails!

The box of parts I bought contained a number of pieces for the lower cabin. This one, which had already been assembled, seemed to be in the best shape -- just need to cover up that botched paint job!