Hand made big model boat.......
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Thought somebody on PH might like a look at this model boat.
Just been around a 99 year olds house to help sell his car for him. I know his son is into model railways and had a huge one going all round his garden but he cleary got it from his dad.
There were lots of models everywhere including a steam driven tractor, combine harvester connected with conveyer to a truck (looked like it worked together at some point), a big dolls house, and this boat which is electric and remote controlled.
I guess the thing was 3-4ft long, he said it weighed 56lbs, the hull was carved out of a single piece of Elm. When I asked when he started building it he said 'Ooh, about 1947 I think'.
He said it was powerful enough to pull him around in a rubber dingy !! I assume he sat in the dingy and then steered the boat pulling himself along !!
Theres quite a lot of detail to the boat and I think most of it was made by hand.
Just been around a 99 year olds house to help sell his car for him. I know his son is into model railways and had a huge one going all round his garden but he cleary got it from his dad.
There were lots of models everywhere including a steam driven tractor, combine harvester connected with conveyer to a truck (looked like it worked together at some point), a big dolls house, and this boat which is electric and remote controlled.
I guess the thing was 3-4ft long, he said it weighed 56lbs, the hull was carved out of a single piece of Elm. When I asked when he started building it he said 'Ooh, about 1947 I think'.
He said it was powerful enough to pull him around in a rubber dingy !! I assume he sat in the dingy and then steered the boat pulling himself along !!
Theres quite a lot of detail to the boat and I think most of it was made by hand.
Edited by SimonTheSailor on Monday 4th April 22:32
When i started work in The City in 1964 ( i was learning from the bottom up about the workings of an import/export firm)the first job was to deliver by hand all the bills of Lading for the cargos going in and out of the docks, everything had to be done on the day. As a result many visits were made ot the offices ( head or otherwise) of shipping lines. Without fail everyone had a model, of one of the ships,and no disrespect to the builder of that fine model, were absolute stunners. Those offices have all gone now, and along them the models. I think there must have been thousands in total. I just hope someone appreciated what they were. I remember one being at least 10ft long.
silverfoxcc said:
When i started work in The City in 1964 ( i was learning from the bottom up about the workings of an import/export firm)the first job was to deliver by hand all the bills of Lading for the cargos going in and out of the docks, everything had to be done on the day. As a result many visits were made ot the offices ( head or otherwise) of shipping lines. Without fail everyone had a model, of one of the ships,and no disrespect to the builder of that fine model, were absolute stunners. Those offices have all gone now, and along them the models. I think there must have been thousands in total. I just hope someone appreciated what they were. I remember one being at least 10ft long.
I keep going on about this place, but a lot of models such as that have ended up at the Hamburg Maritime Museum:
The above is a tiny fraction of whats there: Thousands of large and small scale ships. Over the years, I must have spent days there just gawping at the quality of those models.
It must be said though that as far as I know, unlike the model in the O/P, none of them actually float, so credit where it's due.
The old Glasgow Transport Museum had a massive display of hundreds of ex-shipyard and shipping company models, most of which now languish in a shed as the stupid new museum building is far too small and in any case the curators reckon people don't want to see boring old models, so there's only a display of a dozen or so.
That place wwent from great to crap. There was a super ship section. Mashooosive ones on the Cunard Liners QE and QM, pus a great model of the Cruiser my dad was on in HMS HMS Dido.
There was a cracking street set up. all gone to b
ks now. A car show room where you could walk around the cars as is you were in a show room, Now it really is a pile of dog st. I cried when i went to the revamped one ,epecting somethin that would knock my socks of, found myself vomiting in horror. And these idiots get paid for for desecrstion such as this.
Whatver you do dont aste your time going there
I would recommend the Summerlees museum at Coatbridge. now that IS worth visiting, rather than this pile of sanitised crap
There was a cracking street set up. all gone to b
ks now. A car show room where you could walk around the cars as is you were in a show room, Now it really is a pile of dog st. I cried when i went to the revamped one ,epecting somethin that would knock my socks of, found myself vomiting in horror. And these idiots get paid for for desecrstion such as this.Whatver you do dont aste your time going there
I would recommend the Summerlees museum at Coatbridge. now that IS worth visiting, rather than this pile of sanitised crap
hidetheelephants said:
The old Glasgow Transport Museum had a massive display of hundreds of ex-shipyard and shipping company models, most of which now languish in a shed as the stupid new museum building is far too small and in any case the curators reckon people don't want to see boring old models, so there's only a display of a dozen or so.
I don't know how many, if any at all, are in storage, but the museum has far more than a dozen on display. It would estimate there are about 40 models you can see, but they are on a kind of conveyor, so are moving all the time. Gassing Station | Scale Models | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff