PS Glen Rosa

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

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[Richard SimpsonParticipant @richardsimpson88330]

Nice looking model Alasdair, do you have any other pictures of it and can you tell us a little about it?

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

H- thanks Richard – sorry, more posts will follow! Am only with difficulty getting the hang of logging in to this forum!

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Hi again (hope I am posting in the right section here). I bought the moulded hull for this and sought out the 2008 relevant copies of Model Boats to set me on the right tracks with this.  As well as being a novice, however, I am a bit of a pedant, so I sought out the actual builders plans from the shipyard (now held by Glasgow University Library as well as varius old photos and have aimed to try to capture Glen Rosa as she was in her first season.

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Model is 1:48 scale and I have tried to research  paddle boxes.  not the tidiest job but hopefully well-informed!

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

BTW- if there is a better way of posting blog posts and photos to this section other than replying to my own initial blog, would be grateful for any advice please! thanks

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Alasdair,

I’m afraid the way it works is that you can make successive posts (with photos) on this topic which is open to other members to comment. You can also creat a gallery of photos through the options in your profile.

Colin

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Ah! thanks Colin. so to make a series of new posts I would hit the reply to post button? Sorry, will try not to use you for too much IT advice!  thanks Alasdair

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

This has taken quite an age to get this far.  Now working on mast and internal lighting.  Ballasting on paddlers is not easy, and I suspect that it is going to be difficult with this one too!

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

 

Here is the real vessel, early in her career.  She was built for the Glasgow and South Western Railway, operating out of Greenock and elsewhere on the Clyde and lasted from 1893 to 1939, serving as a miesweeper in the First World War.

 

 

 

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Very much a classic paddler then. I completed my paddler ps Bilsdale, also 1:48 scale, last year and can comfirm that ballasting and generally getting everything in balance can indeed be tricky. A two part article was published in the August and September2023 issues of the magazine. Looks like you have feathering paddlewheels, mine are just fixed ones for certain reasons but work OK.

Colin

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

The wheels I have are made to look like they are feathering but they are just fixed floats too.  Float a Boat Ltd in Australia produce these kits with approximated fake feathering gear on one side. The Bilsdale looks a lovely model.

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Have the funnel on now – working on a lighting circuit, a mast and a smoke unit now

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Keep us updated with progress. Have you been able to check the ballasting yet as this is usually quite critical with paddlers.

Colin

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Thanks Colin – yes, just about to trim the ballast again in the bath! I reconditioned an old model of PS Duchess of Fife and it was no easy task ballasting, as I recall.  Suspect this will be the same. Main problem is when goiing astern. suspect i need to move batteries etc from midle of ship to each end to steady the see-saw.

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Not the best photographer, but getting a lighting circuit set up- in honour of the fact that Glen Rosa was one of the first ships in the world to have electric lights!

[Richard SimpsonParticipant @richardsimpson88330]

Having the majority of the ballast concentrated in one place midships is guaranteed to create a very unnatural and toy like ‘bobbing’ motion as the model goes through small waves.  It is far more effective to split the ballast up and have around a third at each end and the battery, motors and electronics should generally make up the third in the midships area.

This 1/48th scale corvette required 6kg of ballast so I put 2kg of lead shot into the bow, encased in resin, and 2kg of lead shot in the stern.  It looks so much more realistic to see it cutting through the waves rather than bouncing over them.

The lighting looks spot on Alasdair.

 

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Thanks again Colin. I am currently trimming ballast a bit along these lines. And will see how we go. Think part of problem may be that wheels are not quite aligned, so one wheel digs into water a moment before the other  only creates list when going astern.

 

 

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Thanks Richard I mean- responding to the wrong post!

 

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

Starting to make some progress!

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

[Alasdair AllanParticipant @alasdairallan37423]

getting lifeboats rigged up at last.

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