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15 March 2018 at 18:49 #76266
Charles Oates
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The BBC 2 program the repair shop is covering an antique steamboat on Monday the 19th at 6.30 pm.

It'll be short on detail but probably still interesting

Chas
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15 March 2018 at 18:49 #4480
Charles Oates
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16 March 2018 at 18:03 #76289
ashley needham
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Chas. Will record, but it is frustrating that these sorts of show are so shallow. I presume they suppose nobody actually wants to know what they did, just what it looked like before and after.

Ashley

rant rant… same with the |Guy Martin WW1 tank. A wonderful thing made from 15mm plate steel even, but program filled with Guy`s rabbiting. Would have made a great documentary on replicating a lozenge….
17 March 2018 at 07:55 #76304
Charles Oates
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Hi Ashley, you are absolutely right, but I'll take the little we get of this sort of thing knowing I'll be cross with it.

It beats me why program makers assume watchers don't want technical details and concentrate on the human angle.

Chas
17 March 2018 at 08:07 #76305
ashley needham
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Chas. Cheap TV entertainment, for the unwashed masses. Easy to digest. Ashley
18 March 2018 at 09:29 #76334
Byron Rees…(Ron)
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But not so easy to swallow!.

RON.
18 March 2018 at 13:53 #76346
Charles Oates
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Which explains why so much of it is regurgitated!

Edited By Charles Oates on 18/03/2018 13:54:30
20 March 2018 at 08:54 #76381
Bob Wilson
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Just looked at it on the internet. Even though the battleboat was antique, and obviously had a very nice engine in it, it was still rather "dumbed down" and was just a "toy" for Victorian children. Didn't even see the engine, but it was certainly running very smoothly, maybe the actual TV show had more in it. Here is the link for anyone interested: **LINK**

Bob
20 March 2018 at 09:08 #76383
Dave Milbourn
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Come on, guys! This is a generalist program put on at an early evening slot to entertain the masses after they've had their tea. Had it been a specialist program specifically about renovating this one model then we might have expected more in the way of technical detail, but it wasn't. You lot sound like a bunch of old harpies! I wonder if somewhere there's a stuffed toy renovating forum where even now the members are carping on about not being told what type of thread was used to restitch the panda, or a marquetry forum replete with complaints about not being told the type of adhesive used on the table job or pointing out that rosewood of a certain age is now a prohibited import….

DM
20 March 2018 at 09:43 #76384
Bob Wilson
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I didn't see the actual programme, so maybe there was more than in the link above, but I would at least have expected to have been given a look at what was inside it! Did they show the inside at all?

Bob
20 March 2018 at 10:12 #76386
ashley needham
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Stuffed toy forum….now THERES something !! Where??

I have recorded the program so I can sit at the sofa with my cup of co-coa and critique it properly…..

Ashley
20 March 2018 at 10:43 #76389
Dave Milbourn
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Ashley

Your wish is my command….. **LINK**

DM
20 March 2018 at 14:59 #76393
Tony Hadley
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Found the programme good, the model/toy sailed well on the water. It was nice to see the model wasn't over restored and re-painted. How many Bowman or Bassett-Lowke or other vintage model boats (such as this) have lost value by being unnecessarily re-painted?
20 March 2018 at 17:28 #76400
ashley needham
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DM. Wow. I have been wasting my life away making boats…

Thanks for that (I think)

Ashley
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