Hello Colin

I may be a good idea to ask on the Modelflying forum.  There are many on there that knew Dave very well and I am confident someone will have the answer.  For my part I thought he did design the Precedent kit but others will know better.

Tim

Pity I didn’t see this post (due to the ongoing problem of my tablet not updating the forum for some reason) as I had an email from Dave setting out the history. As you say Dave designed it for Modav initially and it remained the same kit until bought by Anglian Model Centre. By then though the tooling was pretty blunt/worn out and they didn’t sell many before they folded. The history applies to the 34″ and 46″ Huntsmen.

As you probably know the big Huntsman 31 kit produced by SLEC whilst based on the earlier kit was modified by them slightly with Dave doing the drawing for the laser etched deck.

The Huntsman prototype that Dave refers to is the little one which you know all about!

The big 46″ Huntsman 31 was originally kitted by Modav in the 70’s, before that business morphed into Precedent Kits (aka Balsacraft). The rights to manufacture the kits were then bought by Anglian Model Centre who may still advertise the kits but I don’t think they’re made any more.  http://www.angliamodelcentre.co.uk/presedent-farey-huntsman-model-boat-kits/44-large-wood-huntsman-46-model-boat.html

SLEC make a model boat called Samurai…….Samurai is a Japanese Swordsman…..and Fairey made the Swordsman as well as the Huntsman……so guess who designed the Samurai?

The current Huntsman prototype is for SLEC – who are the direct descendants of Balsacraft – so the whole thing has gone full circle, although it’s taken 44 years!

See you on Monday.

Dave M

Yeah, I came across a post of yours mentioning the issue. I only really use the PC for updating build blogs etc. so I miss things.

I’ll report it as a bug.

Chris

I’ve heard back and the site cache has been cleared which has done the trick. Fingers crossed it continues.

Ray, worth trying your tablet and phone again.

Chris

I didn’t know that Dave had designed the Samurai and I don’t think the penny dropped when I received that email!

I read your build of the Swordsman many times John, when I first got interested in building model boats, and it was a great help with getting to understand their construction. All seems very simple now (well for hard chine hulls!) but not when you are new to it all.

Chris

Hi All,

I guess Dave designed the original Model Avionics Perkasa’s in 2 sizes ? back in the day

My regret is I didn’t accept building the new kit with all the bits from Lindsey for the magazine 🙁 !! not sure if it’s still in the build by whoever took it on ?? I wasn’t in a good place when she offered it to me .

Regards Ray

May as well complete the set!

I either scratch build or buy completed, nothing in between! Not just from anyone of course!