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Gloucester and District Model Boat Club
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A selection of fine models built by our members |
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Also check out these Pages:
Mallards Pike Picnic - July 2006
Saul Junction Canal Festival - July 2006
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Bob’s Amphicar - originally built in Germany in the 1960’s with a Triumph Herald engine. This is a plank-on-frame model built from photographs of the original stored in the Science Museums warehouse near Swindon. Here it is ‘swimming’ in the Club’s waters at Over and making use of the slipway to show it really does drive in and out of the water. (Must get a driver on board). There are still a few of the originals left on the road
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RMAS Forceful - used in the 1950’s for towing Britain's fleet of aircraft carriers. The model is from Argus Plans and a vac-formed hull with plywood superstructure and planked decking, It is driven by two “Pile” motors and gearboxes via tooth-belt drives. As you can see it gives a fair wash when it is under way. |
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Two views of Barrie’s buoy layer, Vliestroom, this is a kit from Model Slipway that took two years to build and needs two to launch it. |
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Ted and Derrick ‘Goose Winging’ at Saul Junction on a very cold Monday afternoon in January |
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Barrie’s all-wood construction Fairey Huntsman 31. This has a shaped plywood hull with separate ply superstructure. It goes well with an MFA Torpedo 850 motor on 12V turning a 40mm prop at 9700RPM |
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Ted’s lovely New Zealand J class yacht under full sail at Newent. |
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Ted’s Model Slipway kit of the Watson class lifeboat named John Gladys Tedaldi in memory of his parents. |
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Alan’s (much adapted) Artisenia Latina kit of a sail/power trawler 'HELLEN'. It is built to 1/20th scale with full lighting, 'action electronics' including speed controller, switching and engine sound simulator. He has a trusty RC laser for use on windy days but takes this out when he is becalmed. This is his first marine model for 50 years and took him 2 years on and off to complete it. |
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Another fine model from Barrie, this time of the Model Slipway rescue Launch |
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Views of Bob Hinton’s Great Western built from Science Museum plans used to make their model many years ago. Some parts (notably the fore and aft decks) have been remodelled in accordance with the model on display in the Bristol Industrial Museum which are probably those of a later refit. When the model was first built about 15 years ago it had full working radio control of independent paddle drives using Pile motors and toothed-belt drives. In the interests of preserving the model these have been taken out and the model is for static display only. It has been exhibited on several occasions at celebrations of Brunel’s three great ships and we do not know of any other models (except those in the museums mentioned above and, of course, the classic Airfix kit) of this ship. Does anybody else have one? |
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This is John Birnie’s Shazam Footy Class yacht that won the 2006 National Chris Dicks Award. This 12" (30cm) yacht concept was first suggested at the 1999 Weymouth Festival as a standard class suitable for racing at the pavilion pool. Richard Webb devised some rules which were published in M.M.I's December 2001 issue. Following interest from the Continent, New Zealand and the USA, Roger Stollery of the M.Y.A. technical committee revised these slightly and introduced a simple method of measurement, similar to that of the British 36" class. Footy hulls must fit in a box measuring 12" long, 6" wide with a depth of 12". Allowance is made for projecting booms, bumpkins and rudders. Two channel radio is specified, but with no restrictions as to "El cheepo" sets only. Otherwise designers can allow their imagination free reign and also make use of any materials they choose. "Shazam". After making a couple of hard chine hulls in wood, the intention was to move away from their slightly boxy shape and produce a strong, rounded, lightweight hull, which, hopefully, would give a better sailing performance. Not having the experience to work in G.R.P. (Fibreglass) or vacuum moulding, the hull was made up of five layers of sticky brown paper strips laid over a rock hard balsa plug. Health warning! Small is very fiddly.
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This is Armando Loni’s latest model of “Samwise”, a Liberty ship. It is based on a plan by Glynn Guest, the model was scratch-built to 1/144 scale. It took 15yrs to build (very much 'off-and-on'), and, despite the plan being 'stand-off scale', it includes quite a bit of detailing. The hull is balsa-sheet, on ply frames, and it is coated in laminating resin. The deck is ply and the superstructure is of plasticard. The majority of fittings are constructed from plasticard and other bits and pieces. Everything is scratch-built with the exception of the six cowl vents. It has a single 550-type motor with home-made rudder. The 4-bladed brass prop was procured from the Prop Shop. It is painted in acrylics with weathering applied as enamels and pastels, everything being sealed with a couple of coats of satin varnish. The flags are from BECC. Displacement is 7lb, length 950cm. |