new lifeboat modellers forum

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

today [well late last night actually] a new forum [not facebook] went on line, purely to give a designated home to lifeboat modellers of all classes within present and past RNLI lifeboats.

you are welcome to join and read and browse, but posts are literally for lifeboat models.

enjoy your stay should you be interested.

http://www.modellifeboat.com/

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

this is a new forum dedicated to lifeboat modellers.

[Fred wooleyParticipant @fredwooley76212]

been on it joined dammed good start long may it last

Fred

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Good luck with the new Life Boat forum, but why would anybody be only interested in them ?? It's beyond me, there are so many other fabulous boats to be interested in ? I would get bored building the same type of boats.

Regards Ray

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ray. Like me, variety is the spice of life etc but if that’s what you like making, then that’s what you like making!

Personal choice, and I am all for it. I hope the site does well. I can see the attraction in a lifeboat, and at Chatham there are quite a few and of more varieties that perhaps I had thought possible!

I am sure many people only make warships, or Fairies, or ….whatever. I mean…wouldn’t touch a sailing barge myself.. 😲

Ashley

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Ashley,

Of course your right, but I'm slightly surprised you haven't been caught by the sailing barge bug 😀 if nothing else they have a good residual value as ornaments etc 😉,

Now where's that drawing of that Watson. Lifeboat 🙊

Regards Ray

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

your choice Ray, but the concept came from the fact that the build blogs on other forums was stifled by just Shannon builds, and as such, those interested in lifeboats and if you were to join the forum you would see that there are listed 18 different classes YES 18 classes, and within those 18 classes there are multiple choices within that class, it is for lifeboat modellers, who, like myself these days, no longer diversify into other types of model, but just concentrate my knowledge on lifeboats.

and with 18 different classes, with multiple choices within those, o don't think I and others will ever get bored.

posting on Facebook is so fragmented that we needed a home for model lifeboaters, and that is what we now have, thanks to the perseverance of one man. Dave Stavros jones…………and he should be applauded for his tenacity, time and private expense in setting it up for people like us geek lifeboat builders,

just to point out that within that one class…Watsons, there are over 13 different types of Watson lifeboat, in Barnet 5 different arrangements………..a lot to go at.

thanks.

neil.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Neil,

Yes there is one Watson Class 41 I'm interested as Rosa Wood & Phyllis Lunn, which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, converted to a cruiser later as Dowager, she is down the road from me in the Medway and looking un-loved and in need of a rich owner as she is advertised for £35k maybe I need to build a model of her before she is lost.

Regards Ray

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

you can buy a kit of her sister boat ANN Letitia Russell from Dave Metcalf.

she is one that I designed as a kit in 1995 and sold very well for Dave over the last 23 years he has owned the rights to manufacture and sell. she is a 41' none self righting Watson…..this is daves show boat….

but although it is right way round in my folder and have rotated it twice to get it right way round here it is still coming out upside down……….good model to build, and great sailing model too.

colin, could you please work your magic on it. thank you.

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Sorry Neil I can't change it, must be to do with the way the original image was encoded in the camera, it does happen sometimes.

At least you can see that the vessel was non self righting!

Colin

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

..very good Colin……….very dry, lol.no probs. cheers for trying.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

Posted by Ray Wood 2 on 18/10/2020 16:56:13:

Hi Neil,

Yes there is one Watson Class 41 I'm interested as Rosa Wood & Phyllis Lunn, which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, converted to a cruiser later as Dowager, she is down the road from me in the Medway and looking un-loved and in need of a rich owner as she is advertised for £35k maybe I need to build a model of her before she is lost.

Regards Ray

we had Rosa Woode and Phyllis Lunn at Fleetwood on numerous occasions whilst she was in the reserve fleet………..I remember her name as a young lad, as if you got to the station early enough you could volunteer to polish the brass work, and the mechanic would treat you to a bottle of pop…….great days.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Neil,

Unfortunately Dowager is not a thing of beauty and I think nostagia for her history maybe not enough to save her 😢

Regards Ray

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