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This is a work in progress: a 1:24 scale diorama of the ranger station and dock from the old Flipper TV series.
Conpositionally Challenged: May's most versatile - 10. Turquoise.
Who knew that model boating was a sport. But it is!
All New Scavenger Hunt: Sport/sporty
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.
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.
Latest model project is from a very old (and incomplete!) Aeropiccola kit. The basic construction appears to be straightforward but the rigging promises to be quite a nightmare! I may post some updates later.
The real PARAT harbour tug was built in 1983 by the Detlef Hegemann Roland dockyard, and delivered in the same year to the Hamburg-based Luetgens & Reimers shipping company.
The ship is equipped with 2 VOITH-SCHNEIDER propellers, powered by 2 x 6-cylinder e 4T K.H. Deutz diesel engines each rated at 2460 BHP, giving the vessel a tensile power of 32.2 tonnes. The tug also features a comprehensive fire-fighting system for use in the lower Elbe region.
This Graupner model of the PARAT, has been developed with the help and support of the D. Hegemann Roland dockyard, who kindly supplied actual design office drawings. As with the full-size vessel the model is powered by 2 VOITH-SCHNEIDER propellers, although it is possible to replace the VOITH-SCHNEIDER units with two Schottel I drive units at the builder´s discretion.
The pair of VOITH-SCHNEIDER drive systems makes the tug extremely agile, as it is capable of manoeuvring in any direction. Installing an optional "tug" sound module allows the realistic reproduction of characteristic operating sounds such as diesel engines, foghorn, horn and winch noise. Additional working systems can also be installed, including rotating fire monitors, and extending the upper fire monitor to a height of 30 cm. Parts which are difficult to make, such as the hull, deck, bulwark, superstructure and bridge, are supplied highly pre-fabricated.
This model is on the model boat lake in Eastrop Park in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Eastrop Park is an popular place for people to spend the day. A boating lake, tree trail, trim trail, children’s play area and a paddling pool are also available. Due to its high standards, Eastrop Park has been awarded the Green Flag Award for 2013-2014 and a management plan has been produced which sets out the future management of the park.
This model boating is also part of the River Loddon which runs through the park, feeds into a balancing pond in the wildlife area, where a dipping platform allows you to observe wildlife on, below and beside the water. Many birds inhabit this area including a resident kingfisher which can be seen hunting along the river.
The River Loddon is a river in the English counties of Berkshire and Hampshire. It is a tributary of the River Thames, rising within the urban area of Basingstoke, 1.75 miles (2.8km) in the other direction and flowing to meet the Thames near the village of Wargrave. The river has a total length of 28 miles (45 km) and, together with its tributaries, drains an area of 400 square miles (1,036 km2).
Historically, the river has been important for milling, and the channel has been modified by the creation of mill ponds, weirs and sluices. Most of the mills used water wheels to generate their power, although two used water turbines. One was a silk mill for a short period, and one was a paper mill, with the rest milling corn or producing flour. Several have been converted to become homes or hotels, but one is still operated on an occasional basis. The river has been used for navigation in the past, although its exact nature is unclear.
The river is an important resource for wild life. Former gravel workings have become Loddon Nature Reserve and Dinton Pastures Country Park. A section of it is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest due to rare populations of bulbs and pondweed. It supports several species of fish, and recent improvements have included the provision of a fish bypass, to enable migrating fish to move around the mill site at Arborfield. The scheme has been implemented to comply with the Water Framework Directive and is expected to be a benchmark for similar schemes on other rivers.
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This model was built by my grandfather, Dr. A.J. May of Hayling Island. He built this in 1937 - totally scratch built. It is about 4 foot long, lights up internally and still has the original light bulbs he fitted back then. It was left to me when he passed away in 1968 and has been my pride and joy ever since.
I did eventually let him out on open water, since he promised me he would bring the boat back in. I also let him know if he didnt stay nearby I would leave without him. Its a big big world for a small pup, I dont think he liked the idea of being stranded out there, even if he would never admitt that.
Also on the boating lake was this little paddler. It is a model of the PS Wilton Castle, a pleasure boat built around 1902 that used to work the River Wye. (The 13c Wilton Castle stands on the River Wye.)
The venue here for the Barry Model Boat Club activity is the lake at The Knap, Barry, UK.
A picture of the original boat may be seen (and purchased) at the Archive Images website.
The kit was designed to have sails but not being into sewing I left her without. Quite a satisfying task and kept me busy for a fair number of afternoons.
Not my finest creation, however it kept me busy for a few days during this lockdown, using odd bits of plywood and plasticard. She works, in the bath, but stability is a problem.
From the MFA's website: "[Governor] Djehutynakht equipped his tomb with a fleet of more than fifty-five model boats, the largest collection known from a single Egyptian tomb. Several types of craft are represented, including funerary vessels, boats for traveling, ships for troop or freight transport, hunting and fishing boats, and kitchen boats of the sort that would have accompanied a Middle Kingdom official and his entourage on voyages up and down the Nile. Although they vary in size and quality, all of Djehutynakht's boat models are constructed in the same fashion, with the hull carved from a single piece of wood, while the cabins, masts, other fittings, and crews were made separately and attached with pegs." At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Model Boats (RAF Air/Sea Rescue Launch) - 3 (of 11) - Samsung Galaxy S8 - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
This is my 1:24 scale scratch-built model of the boat seen on the old Flipper TV series. The boat was a 22 ft. Thunderbird Iroqouis
This is my 1:24 scale scratch-built model of the boat seen on the old Flipper TV series. The boat was a 22 ft. Thunderbird Iroqouis
No Frigate I am NOT going to iron it! Pic actually posed to let my grandson in Canada see that all repairs were complete after she was struck by a fast powerboat.
Kirklees Model Boat Club member Mike Cole's 1:16 scale replica of Whitby-based RNLI Trent class all-weather lifeboat 'George and Mary Webb', pictured at speed on the lake at Wilton Park, Batley.
Scale model of the schooner 'Rifleman' on display at Harrington NSW.
Details:
Name: Rifleman
Type: Schooner
Length: 82.6ft
Beam: 18.0ft
Depth: 7.4ft
Tonnage: (Volumetric measure 1 ton = 100 cubic ft)
Tonnage: 81.5tons
Builder: Alexander Newton Snr
Launched: Saturday 14th December 1861.
Official number: ON036732
Signal letters:unknown
Registered: Sydney - 7th January 1862 -1/1862
Ports & Owners:
- 1862 - Alexander Newton
- 1862/March - J.C. Aickman - Merchant, & T. McClatchie - Mariner, Christchurch New Zealand 8/8/62
- 1864 - T. McClatchie & W. Wilson, Nurseryman.
- 1870 - T. McClatchie & J. Hobbs, Mariner, Lyttelton.
- 1871 - August - Part owner 1871, Captain Joseph Hobbs.
Description:
- 1 White beech deck
- 3 stepped masts/white beech topmasts
- Square stern
- Scroll figure head /female bust
- Carvel built from locally sourced hardwoods.
Launch:
Custom House
“The Victoria crossed Manning River bar at 6 p.m, on Monday (16th), and arrived here at 11 a.m, yesterday. She reports the Mary and Gleaner lying in the river, and also the launch of a large three-masted schooner, on Saturday (14th), named the Rifleman, from Mr. Newton’s yard.
The Victoria brings up 280 bags maize, 28 bags onions, 45 cases eggs, 10 coops poultry, 50 hides, 3 casks tallow.
Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 18th December 1861.
History:
1862
The'Rifleman'
"This fine new three-masted schooner arrived from the Manning on Monday afternoon, having left there on Saturday, in command of Mr Alexander Newton, her builder.
She is 77 tons new measurement, breadth of beam 15ft, depth of hold 7 feet 8 inches; length 81 feet on the keel, and 90 feet over -all.
Mr Newton, her builder was formerly in partnership with Mr Malcolm, which firm turned out several smart vessels on the Manning.
He is now cutting timber for building a barque of 80 tons."
The Maitland Mercury Tuesday 7th January 1862.
NEW ZEALAND
After registration, under the command of Captain Newton the Rifleman set sail for Otago on the 16th January 1862 with 34 passengers.
Alexander Newton spent six months with the Rifleman around the New Zealand coast before selling her to Aickman and McClatchie.
John Campbell Aickman was a man with far-reaching interests, whose advertisements in the Christchurch newspapers of the time covered land sales, hardware, furniture,corn, chandlery and clothing.
Thomas McClatchie, Rifleman's first New Zealand master, retained his half-share in the schooner for the rest of her nine-year career.
William Wilson, who bought Aickman's share in the schooner in 1864, was a well-known horticulturalist, credited with introducing many exotic plant species into the Canterbury Province, and was Mayor of Christchurch for a period during the 1860's.
MAORI WARS
1868
In July 1868, Rifleman featured in an event which caused considerable alarm among the colonists of the North Island of New Zealand. Waitangi in the Chatham Islands had become a prison camp for political exiles after the land wars between the settlers and tribes of the East Coast. In 1866 some 180 East coast Maoris had been sent without trial to the Chatham Islands, where their women and children were allowed to join them.
Promised that they should be allowed to return when the war ended, they were docile and well behaved until about May 1868, when it became clear that they faced indefinite exile.
The most active and vocal of the prisoners was Te Turuki Rikirangi, who claimed he had been unjustly imprisoned, and had demanded trial before a Court of Justice so many times that his nickname became "Te Kooti" (the Court) - the name by which he has been known ever since.
ARK OF SALVATION
On the 3rd of July, the Rifleman arrived at Waitangi with a cargo of provisions for the garrison; also anchored in the bay was another smaller vessel, the schooner Florence.
The Rifleman would be the 'ark of salvation' that Te Kooti had predicted.
THE ESCAPE
On the afternoon of the 4th of July Te Kooti put his escape plan into action. The prisoners overwhelmed and handcuffed the men of the Armed Constabulary who were their guards, boarded the Florence and cast her adrift so that they should not be followed, and seized the Rifleman.
With 163 men, 64 women and 71 children as passengers, the Rifleman arrived at Whareongaonga near Gisborne on the 10th of July. Te Kooti kept his promise that no harm would befall the crew, paid them £6 each and provided a letter for the authorities exonerating them from any involvement in the escape.
Meanwhile, at Waitangi, events had turned out just as Te Kooti had hoped: the Florence had stranded and all attempts to refloat her failed, frustrating any chance the garrison and the two ships masters had of giving chase.
WRECK OF THE RIFLEMAN
1871
In August 1871 Rifleman's new part owner, Joseph Hobbs, was in command of the schooner when she stranded on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf.
"By the arrival of a gentleman yesterday from the Great Barrier, we learn that the rumour circulated on Monday last respecting the wreck of the three-masted schooner Rifleman is correct.
The schooner left here on the 29th ult. for the Chatham Islands and that night, it coming on to blow a strong south-west gale, the master of the vessel deemed it advisable to run for the Barrier for shelter. It was Captain Hobbs' intention to have brought up in Tryphena Bay, but owing to the darkness of the night he mistook the harbour and run into Blind Bay, and before Captain Hobbs noticed his mistake the vessel went ashore, striking heavily. The schooner is considerably damaged and there is little hope of being able to get her off again. The crew got ashore all safe. When our informant left the men were engaged in stripping the vessel of her sails, rigging and anything of value."
Wellington Independent 13th September 1871.
Despite this pessimistic report, Rifleman was refloated and taken to Auckland for repair. The accident may have weakened the structure of the schooner, for her end came only a month later.
LOST WITH ALL HANDS
On the 10th of October 1871, Rifleman left Lyttelton bound for Havelock in the Marlborough Sounds, under the command of Peter Toomey.
The schooner was last sighted in a gale off Cape Campbell.
No wreckage, or sign of Captain Toomey and his six-man crew was ever found; Cook Strait had claimed another victim.
References:
- "War and Politics in New Zealand 1855 - 1870" B.J. Dalton.
-"Historic Poverty Bay" - J.A. Mackay."
-"Shipwrecks, New Zealand Disasters" - Ingram & Wheatley
-"Scotchtown and Pelican" - The Shipwright's Tale-by V.A. Newton.
Image Source: Nicholson Family Collection
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This is my 1:24 scale scratch-built model of the boat seen on the old Flipper TV series. The boat was a 22 ft. Thunderbird Iroqouis
A beautiful Autumn day, not a breath of wind, just the ideal conditions to get my scratchbuilt 1-72 scale model ship out on the water. It is a model of the preserved Norwegian "night route" ship, MS Sandnes, which used to sail from Sandnes/Stavanger to Bergen overnight and return the next night. The keel was laid in 1949, launched in 1950. It is now preserved in Stavanger, Norway, as a working ship available for charter and cruises.
Here it is seen on the Wollondilly River, below Marsden's Weir in Goulburn, which sadly is the only stretch of water anywhere around Goulburn where one can sail a model ship, without being snagged in water weed.
Wasting time @ work - Part II
Thanks Salvo!
Cazzeggio al lavoro - Parte II
Grazie Salvo!
Ingredients:
Small plastic bottle
Paper
Plastic Bag (white, but blue it's better)
Paper depliants
Cardboard
Monitor desktop (with a good apocaliptic background!!)
Printer
Scissors
Tape
Highlighter (the best we found was pink...)
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Ingredienti:
Bottiglia di plastica piccola
Carta
Busta di plastica (bianca ma azzurra era meglio)
Depliants di carta semi rigida
Cartoncino
Monitor con sfondo del Desktop apocalittico
Stampante
Forbici
Scotch
Evidanziatore (meglio di quello rosa non abbiamo trovato...)
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Bow view of a model of the Gunboat Philadelphia -- which was sunk on October 11, 1776, in Valcour Bay, Lake Champlain (off New York).
The American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775 after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. In late 1775, the Americans attempted to invade Canada (partly in the hope that Canada would also rebel, partly in the hope of seizing it and denying the British access to their bases there), but this failed miserably. The British then decided to invade New York.
The British received completed schooners from England, but the Americans had to build theirs.
The American shipbuilding occurred at Skenesboro (present-day Whitehall, New York). The "Philadelphia" was one of 15 gunboats (also called "gundalows" or "gondolas") but at Skenesboro. She was laid down in early July 1776 and launched in mid-August. Her first skipper was a Captain Rice.
The British and American lake navies fought on October11. The "Philadelphia" was commanded by Benjamin Rue. An unknown British vessel hit the "Philadelphia" with a 24-pound shot and she sank. The Americans were defeated, and only slipped away in the darkness after a six hour battle. Most of the American lake navy was burned, sunk, or captured over the next two days.
In the 1930s, Colonel Lorenzo F. Hagglund (a WWI veteran and professional diver who owned a salvage engineering company) began searching for the remains of the American lake navy. In 1935, Hagglund discovered the "Philadelphia" sitting upright on the lake bottom. He raised her that year along with hundreds of other items. Because of the way Hagglund raised the vessel, much of the archeological data necessary to determine exactly what happened to the Philadelphia, how she sank, and how many men went down with her was irrevocably lost.
Hagglung exhibited the ship at various locations for several years. She was given to the Smithsonian in 1961.
On display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
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.