Name a good book for photos and details of ” Gubbins ” . . . .

[Martin GrantParticipant @martingrant36546]

Hello folks – I’m another new boy to this model ship-building malarky. . . the so-called semi-scale seems the thing that grabs me at the moment . . . looks the part from a distance, ideal !  I like the free plans that appear in magazines and the type of stuff Glynn Guest comes up with. . . I helped a small yoof make an imaginary HMS PALADIN from Model Boats and it works a treat , so he tells me, and to remind myself of the little I knew at 14, which was the last time I made anything balsa ( a Vernon kit ? ) I had a go at HMS WINCHESTER from MMI magazine a year or so back . . . am I allowed to use thier name here ? I think my finished model looks great, and I made up a model of a sort of US navy guided missle destroyer to give to the son of a friend soon . . . and I have two hulls of semi-scale Leanders , from a very old BBC publication on model-making. . . .  thing is chaps, will I ever get these things into water or am I possessed of some incurable constructional disease . . . I say this because I am 60 years old and should know better !( Is the bath the only solution ? )

 Oh yes, the book . . . I need to know a bit about the various bits of ” gubbins ” that all my photos of Leanders show on the rear end – I know it is mainly the towed array sonar stuff, but even semi-scale has to look something like – or am I missing the point ? Anyone recommend a book that shows this sort of detail ?

[Martin GrantParticipant @martingrant36546]

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Martin

 

You are not alone in having an incurable construction disease, I have a shed stuffed full of model boats that I don’t sail.

Once built I tend to move onto the next one and can’t be bothered with going to the lake and sailing them (that eats into building time)

 

Can’t help with the Leanders though

 

Paul

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I can  recomend Maritime Books, in Liskeard as a supply of things naval, they are very knowledgeable and would I am sure find you a book with that sort of detail. But is there nothing on the `net? i am sure 3 mins surfing would find what you are looking for. the trick with semi-scale or “offshore” scale boats is to decide on the level of detail you want to see at the distance you want to view it at. For instance, my HMS Manchester Type 42 destroyer in 1;96 scale has the rear docking cutouts underneath the flight deck simply painted black, and that looks fine out on the pond, and masses of detail in this area would just be lost once underway.   I am a bit like Paul, the satisfaction is in the build and initial sailing, and then its off on to the next project!!  Ashley 

[Martin GrantParticipant @martingrant36546]

Thanks chaps, most encouraging and useful. . . Had not really thought about the range from shore aspect ! I will try the folk in Liskeard, see what they can recommend . . . . there is a model boat  club in a small town not far from here, Evesham in Worcs., perhaps I should go see them for some advice too . . . if I get anything floating I will try and put a few photos up here for your amusement !

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