Part of the layout I am building consists of a small fishing village and the harbour. I have built boats in many gauges but here I wanted some small lobster boats much like the boats at Beer in Devon. Browsing through Cornwall Model Boat Ltd site I came across a 1/72 Medieval Life Boat priced at about £6. The kit came today and I am over the moon with it. I will add a small wheelhouse, remove the rowlocks and seats and adjust the single sail for drifting. Add a couple of crew and some lobster pots and this will be just right. Here is a photo of the kit and I will follow up as she is mpdified.
Ken,
Looking forward to seeing your build.
Lawrence
A start has been made and the rollocks have been carved off and sanded down. Don't do this if you want the boat powered by fishermen. Make sure you check the locating pegs and holes for flash and remove if neccessary. Have a good look and several trial runs as the halves are a bit unusual. The bow and stern post are moulded into one side only. Once satisfied with the fit glue together (figure 1on the plan). Clean up the last piece of figure 1 and glue into the hull sides. From Fig 2 locate the seating section and remove the pieces by cutting through where the seat joins the thwart. Sand down carefully as this piece has very good graining. It is easy to push this piece too far into the hull so have a couple of dry runs and when happy glue it. I loose fitted the mast to check fit. This should now be setaside overnight to harden.
Next move is too fabricate the wheelhouse to fit near the stern and this will modernise the boat to the 1930s to the 1960s.
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They are nice little models. I have one (that I have built but not put on the layout) Chris O'Donaghue (of Compass Point fame and others) has modified a number of them into different styles.
A couple of hours work sees the wheelhouse walls windows cut out. This is made of 2mm plasticard because this item needs to be robust. The front wall with the door scribed on is glued into place first. A side is then cut to match the length and glued in. The same try and cut is used to glue the other 2 walls. Once the glue is hard the top will be sanded level and then fitted out.
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