supermodels

[wooly350i]

Hi folks,first post but just wanted to say how impressed I was watching the series of supermodels on sky's discovery shed channel whilst they designed and built a C17 Globemaster jet engined transport plane,truly amazing work which culminated in a successful test flight although finishing with a minor wheel loss on landing. Followed that up with various YouTube clips of similar and not so similar,truly gobsmacked with the engineering though and them jet engines, wooly.

[Eric Mc]

Are there many model related shows on "Shed"?

It's a channel I always whizz past in my remote surfing.

[wooly350i]

Yeh,next one starts Monday I think mid afternoon building one of the HMS warships which evidently can half submerge itself ! About 16 episodes I think,I've set to record

[Eric Mc]

I'll try and keep an eye out for these programmes.

My main interest is in static scale models - which, to be honest, don't make the best TV as, once built, they don't do much except sit there.

[Red Firecracker]

I think they're very good programmes, certainly better than the other model focused offering on Shed, Model Mania. The expert, Roy Lever, is very interesting and good to listen to, but the presenter, Kevin Duala , misses the mark somewhat with the style and level of his pitch.

Mark Found, who presents the Supermodel series' also has a unique presenting style, but I actually find it quite personable and there is some nice, well explained detail sections in the episodes that can easily be transferred into other branches of modelling. One that springs to mind is actually in the HMS Fearless series and deals with moulding the watertight doors.

As well as the two large model build series he has also produced two episodes that cover the Dortmund (?) model show, which is very eye opening and I think the original series he produced detailed his build of his garden railway. Well worth catching all of them to be honest.

ETA:

Programme Guide for Model Mania;

http://www.radiotimes.com/programme/r6gx/model-man...

Edited by Red Firecracker on Friday 21st September 12:35

[Shuttle Cock]

Roy Lever is a complete bellend!

[silverfoxcc]

IIRC the one on HMS Intrepid, not only gets the ship to semi-submerge correctly but then a landing craft (also r/c) chugs out and gets to the beach where a r/c tank rolls off and fires one off.
The German shows are awesome, my lad goes regularly. there is a building site where everything is r/c no hands allows and if a model goes u/s they send in a r/c recovery truck. Mind boggling
Still back to my little locomotive tomorrow. after i have manchined a 5x3x1.5 in lump of mild steel to make a new machine vice for the lathe. Oh and just bought a set of ER3 colletts, trying to figure out how i managed without them for the last 30 years!!!

[Red Firecracker]

The entire Garden railways series is actually on YouTube. Search for;

Mark Found - The Garden Railway

and you'll find all 16 episodes.