TYNE Class Lifeboat build

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Very interesting info about lifeboats Neil. I enjoy studying the detail on your models. Most impressed that you make all the accessories from scratch too! I have watched a few nice videos on youtube featuring various lifeboats. Maybe some of them made by yourself? I suspect that the nearest I'll get to a lifeboat is the Colin Archer that I have down in the cellar store. I don't have space in the flat – or cellar- for any more 'shipping' projects

Regards, George

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

cheers George.

I was given a part built model of the 1;15 scale Colin Archer by the widow of a friend, but sadly although I was always interested in the model, it had been started, and there were more repairs to do than building.

my friend had built the parts whilst in the mid stages of dementia.

so I sold it at the Blackpool show and all proceeds went to the RNLI in his name.

you should get it built…….apparently they sail well.

neil.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

small detailing is what goes to make a big impact.

the toe rails have had their "feet" fitted. I used small grommits that come with servos in accessory packs…………..never use them on servos so collect and use for just such events.

then o marked and drilled the deck to take them port and starboard. they are NOT equidistant as they follow the positions of the stanchions.

however, just looking at the pictures of the real boats……………..I have missed two across the stern of the boat………so will rectify that in the next hour.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

that didn't take long………already had the brass rod annealed and ready to go.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Excuse me, Sunshine

Am I missing something here?

Your handrails are absolutely stunning!

But the hull is looking like a Destroyer thingy?……`ish

I`m easily confused there days

Nice workmanship BTW

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

cant help the way the hull looks Bob………..they were built to withstand hurricane force weather, and did many times in their lives.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

plasticard out tonight……

made the backing plates for the life ring brackets which attach to the stanchions.

you might think I have gone mad making 3 pairs………..NO lifeboat of modern fast era carried 6 lifebelts as far as I know, on deck….

NO!!!

Seeing as certain modellers have worked a fast one on me and I am now building [ or should I say renovating] a certain members Mersey class lifeboat, and another person of repute[or should that be ill-repute] has asked me to fabricate the rear end of his new cabin as well, I thought I would whilst making one set, make all three sets.

took a rough tracing from the plans I had and then offered it up to a picture of the plate from a Tyne that I enlarged on screen.

marked the positions of the holes, and tomorrow I will find some tubing to use as the brackets which hold the life ring to the plate.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Very nice Neil

I like your attention to detail

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

Posted by Bob Abell on 29/08/2020 11:42:10:

Very nice Neil

I like your attention to detail

Bob

thank you bob..….

the plates are now sporting the new brackets. these were made from slices of the plastic oval tube that comes as a weight in the bottom of a roller blind…………the exact size to locate the life ring.

like they say on Blue peter……..here's a life ring I made earlier.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

the lengths one goes to for photos to build………and all things go tits up.

on Friday, I went to Glasson Dock to see if the Tyne lifeboat had gone in to the water yet…….errr NO!

Last night a picture appeared on Lifeboat Enthusiasts, showing that she had gone back into the basin either Friday afternoon or Saturday [ yesterday].I have asked permission of the poster if I can put it on here, and waiting for a reply.

so this morning to get some deck level and possibly even inside cabin photos of her.

pulled up at the spot where the photo of her was taken yesterday……….the old girl had done a disappearing act,,,,,,,or were my eyes and brain deceiving me and I hadn't seen the photo last night. got around to the marina, parked up and started walking to the marina office when a guy said to me pointing to the Mersey emblem on my fleece…………"one like that went through the locks and out to sea about 90 minutes ago"…….

jeese….. I couldn't believe it, 18 bloody months i'd wanted to photograph her deck level.so went to the docks marina office to ask where she had gone.

"Lytham" was the answer.."to the museum" they said.

so, I thought……..trip down to the creek at Lytham…….she might be tied up against one of the berths…….

drove down to Lytham and the "creek" was all locked up behind steel gates.

the RNLI Lifeboat station I thought, there's a small jetty there, she might be berthed up against that!……..of along a visitor packed prom and parked up close to the station, where [I thought] fortuitously the main doors to the station were open, and I thought I would ask. one guy was busying himself detaching the charging leads to the D TYPE as I started to chat, and he said can't talk now mate……….as I realised they were on a shout.[hope you guys got there in time and I didn't hinder you too much].

so I went up on the prom and looked out towards the estuary entrance to find the Voluntary Worker being tied up to a river mooring.

thwarted again…….will I ever get photos of her fore cabin aft section and interior!……..what a waste of motoring time and diesel.

so all I managed to get was her mooring up at the mouth of the Ribble, in a few distant shots.

the quality of photos isn't the best, but she was about half a mile from where I stood, with only a little cannon point and shoot camera

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

today, I set too, cutting the tubing and solid pieces for the main mast on the tyne.two and a half hours cutting and filing to length and just 15 minutes to silver solder all parts together.I'll finish it tomorrow by fitting the brackets and lugs to take the rams for folding down, and then on to the radar and light platforms

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 31/08/2020 21:24:54

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 31/08/2020 21:39:48

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Neil my ghast is continually flabbered by all this fabrication!

If I have to spend more that an hour making something, I usually look for an easier method….

Like the use of curtain components. It’s always nice to find something lurking that can be used for not its intended purpose. Latest one is a pair of “tulip” golf tees as air horns 🎺

Ashley

Edited By ashley needham on 01/09/2020 08:52:30

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

ohhh yes, Ashley, I also use golf teas as air/fog horns………

problem is i'm not a golfer and so have to go hunting on the golf course after dark with a torch for them when needed, lol…..only way I can avoid getting hit by golf balls lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

the main mast including the "backbone" for the main mast have all been soldered together now.

on with the radar platform and the main mast light platform tonight.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

radar platform, light platform and mast are on their way to being fabricated…..these will be finished tomorrow

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Beautifull work Niel,

I thought I was 'scratch building' until I started following your thread/s. Soon realised I was only just 'scratching ' at the surface.

I'm a bit like Ashley, after about an hour of 'scratching' I wonder if I should try to find an easier way and scratch my head agian! Usually end up restarting what I first thought of.

Regards, George

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

Posted by gecon on 02/09/2020 07:15:28:

Beautifull work Niel,

I thought I was 'scratch building' until I started following your thread/s. Soon realised I was only just 'scratching ' at the surface.

I'm a bit like Ashley, after about an hour of 'scratching' I wonder if I should try to find an easier way and scratch my head agian! Usually end up restarting what I first thought of.

Regards, George

thank you for your kind words, I had a good teacher 61 years ago and apart from an interest in classic cars and motorcycles, I have inly ever had this one hobby in all those years……other things just don't interest me,

and TBH in those 61 years I have spent a lifetime honing my skills and developing that level of patience to get it right in the end.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

The TYNE folding mast has come on a bit since the last set of photos of the basic radar trap.

I'll just show the progress in photos except to say that the main mast was constructed using brass tod, plastic tubing preformed plaststruct square section moulding, and the pieste' résistance was an inspiration of Neil Huyton which was the cross bar for the DF arial.It was made from Neil's idea of a star servo arm. The holes I will fill with plasticine [ it paints very well and doesn't need sanding flat like filler.And the receiving aerials will be cut to length before gluing in place. The mast will, once I fit the brackets for the hydraulic rams, be completely folding.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Very nice and tricky, Neil

What is that illuminated wall chart thingy?

It looks like a scene out of a James Bond Film?

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

just my computer screen Bob………..nothing MI6 or anything like that lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

the main mast for the TYNE is now structurally complete with the brackets fitted to support the top ends to the hydraulic rams that raise and lower the mast.

however,. I will NOT be motorising it as a special effect….too much hassle for the small WOW!! effect that it might bring………….lights will be good enough for my lack of electrical capacity, lol.

the mast can now be separated from the main cabin and painted and eventually wired up for the lighting.

the cabin and hull are ready for going to Dave Stavros Jones when he is available to meet, and I will get on with some casting of fittings for my boat's fittings.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

as I am building a model of our own lifeboat at Fleetwood I want to try and get the model as close as can be to our old boat.

one of the little quirks is a cut out in the top of the superstructure on the port site……..

I don't know what purpose it serves, as all I can see is a DF aerial set into it, and yet all other aerials on the boat are just set onto the roof of the cabin.

I have also noticed that this same cut out is on some of the class but not on others as far as I can see.

I cut out the top, filed it to shape including the curved corner on the rear straight, but 90 degree angle on the forward "wall"

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

WELL, the time is finally here,

my baby is ready, arrangements have been made, and I am meeting my mate Dave Stavros Jones on Sunday at New Brighton boating lake,

we will be exchanging a Mersey from Dave, for my Tyne model, so that I can do some work for him, and he is going to lavish my lifeboat with numerous coats of primer, rubbing down and 2 pack top coats of red, blue and orange!

and so the next time I see her will probably be in November.

looking forward to that day as she will look totally different to what she looks like now as I say goodbye.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Can`t wait to see the finished article

But…..November?

Bob

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