I’m not into yachts and am a long way away but I can’t believe you’ve not had your hand bitten off.  The J class were elegant boats.

Len

Colin

Bob

Bob 

Thanks for that.  It’s on mi calendar and in mi satnav.  I’ll bring mi Puffer along to provide some light entertainment.

Len.   

Hi Len,The meetings are in the Caton room, attached to the side of St Michael’s Parish Church Grimsargh Preston Road PR2 2SD

May meeting 18th – Doors open at 1000

June Meeting 15th             ditto

Plenty of free parking – disabled access.   Toilet facilities.   Tea and coffee making facilities

Wives of partners welcome, and ac…[Read more]

I live within 20 minutes of Grimsargh.  It would help to know the date of their next meeting, the time, and the street address.  They might find they have some more boat minded people attending.

Len. 🙂 

Still passed ulez emission standard. I have not brought a new car for 15 years so have not ramped up new build or disposal emissions.

ANYWAY. I have a 1,/35 Amati J class yot kit to get rid of for a friend whose husband sadly passed away. Hull…[Read more]

I did manage to post on Tim’s thread so it looks like it did the job.

Chris

Tim

They were good years, editor John Bowen’s and my own interest in the field were identical and although we never met, we worked closely via the internet or on the telephone to work out the articles.   I think that Conway ended Model Shipwright when John died, still working, at the age of 99.

Bob

I’m one of the lucky folk who has nearly a full set of Model Shipwright’s with so much of your work featured , treasure indeed 🙂

Kind Regards

Ray

It has been the other way round with me – I haven’t spent much on it at all, as most of my simple tools I have had for years and materials are generally available very cheap on Ebay. 

I have built and sold over 280 models over the last 32 years, but writing about it has been the highest income, but since Conway Maritime quit the model…[Read more]

As we are talking things electric !!

My friends son just started running a Polestar electric car, goes like a rocket 🙂

His old diesel powered Merc used £200 of fuel a month for work travel

The new electric car costs him £500 a month to charge to do the same mileage !!

Food for thought, not mentioned in the adverts strangely :…[Read more]

Hi Bob,

Things move on in all walks of life it’s just the way it is, I love model making in all forms and has been almost a way of life in my 68 years so far, It’s just what I do as enjoyment, I could have bought a Ferrari with the money I have spent on modelling in the last 60 years 🙂 but it has been money well spent  🙂

All the best

Ray

Colin

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Hi Colin,

Thanks for letting me know. I’m off today but have cleared the cache and object cache from the site, that may resolve the issue, I’m back tomorrow afternoon so will run some further tests then.

Cheers,

Andy

All “washed up” and about time we accepted it and did something else!

I don’t wish to do something else and I don’t belong to a club so it doesn’t affect me.

The move to making model shows more inclusive of different subjects has been going for a while now and makes a lot of sense given that model making generally is in decline and has been for…[Read more]

Colin

Colin

The thread is for general discussion. Hijacking totally allowed for interesting and informative discussion,!

I recall that the Island class OPV the RN used to have did about 14 knots on one diesel (it had one shaft) but only 16 when the other was added.…[Read more]

You’ve sorted things for me since I joined the forum and it’s much appreciated.

Jim.

I’ll get another one and use that block for lighter work. I need to stock up on glues etc. As well as they have either run out or gone past their best. And remind myself how to build!!

Chris

As my sailing is done in open water (always launching from a lee shore so the boat will drift back in the event of any failure) it…[Read more]

It seems that the three musketeers are back You , Tim and me 🙂

I find if you wire brush across the Permagrit block it unclogs it and it’s good for another 10 models, one of the best tools I have 🙂

This Biplane is taking ages !!

Regards Ray

First thank you to Colin and the other mod’s for all the work that they have put into trying to have a fully working forum.

Last night I was locked out of the forum and was asked to log in, yet the main page of the forum said I was logged in, after so many attempts I sent a bug report, now these morning I seem to be logged in. this is not the…[Read more]

Oh I forgot, yes one more motor boat but that is a classic.

Going to watch the Fisherman when you get going again

Tim

Good to see you back on the forum with your meticulous builds which always include some good tips. Seeing the pictures of Eventide reminds me I must start my Fairey Fisherman 27 at some point, though I don’t know when I will be returning to modelling yet having done nothing since  Christmas. Only thing I have done is collect all the…[Read more]

I was s…[Read more]

Pictures of the new carriers sailing in formation with other supply and warships appear to indicate that the carriers have a much reduced wake.

Apparently the Australian Jindalee long range radar ( I believe it was bounced off the ionosphere or something silly) could detect wake patterns in the ocean at massive…[Read more]

I remember during our Naval Architecture lessons doing my…[Read more]

The weather does at last seem to be improving!  At least the lak…[Read more]