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[DickyD]

 

[DickyD]

Show tomorrow 

[DickyD]

A few photographs.







































































That's all folks.  

[triumphjon]

that looks like it was a well attendec good show !

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Lovely set of pictures, Dicky.      It certainly looks like a well stocked show, Quite a variation of craft.

Did you manage to go. ?  I hope your health is improving.

Cheers

ken

[DickyD]

Not well enough to go Ken, Mrs D took the photos.

Our shows are always well attended, in fact we never have enough room for all the boats.

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Sorry to hear you couldn't attend. Mrs D did a great job on the photo's as they were impressive.

I noticed that I had built 4 of the models, although mine bear no resemblance to the quality of the one's shown.       It does give me encouragement to continue with this hobby.

I did notice one of your members had built the Titanic and was impressed yet again with their skills.

My  'scratch built'  Titanic is coming along gradually and still  'under wraps' at the moment. A million problems as you can imagine, but what a beautiful ship to work on.  As Harland & Wolff destroyed the drawings when she sank   (where have I heard that word before  )  there is only masses of guess work with assumed similarity with the Olympic and rare photo's to go on, but we are getting there.

Catch you again. Keep getting better.

Ken





 

[craftysod]

Great pics,
Just out of interest,what is the big blue boat,third from bottom picture called
Mark

[DickyD]

Great pics,
Just out of interest,what is the big blue boat,third from bottom picture called
Mark

Hi Mark, its Ken Dyer's Phoenix Rescue Tug.
Phoenix is a 1/10th scale model of the "Sea Helper" tug/pilot boat made by McDuff Ship Engineers, nr Aberdeen. The model was based on a scaled up version of a plan published in MMI magazine plus extensive web research - mainly photos.

The model is named "Phoenix" in recognition of it being the first model he has built since a fire destroyed Ken's workshop and his extensive collection of models in July last year.

The tug is powered by two 12v car heater blower motors which provide massive torque to lazily turn the 40mm 4-blade propellers at a very modest current consumption. The motors are controlled by twin 15A ESCs and one of Alan Bond's rudder mixer units. The motor sound is also one of Alan Bond's units, which you can see elsewhere on the club website.

In the past Ken has always operated the club's rescue boat and Phoenix continues that tradition.

http://www.srcmbc.org.uk/photo_galleries/gallery_albums/Phoenix/movie3.php

http://www.srcmbc.org.uk/photo_galleries/gallery_albums/Phoenix/movie4.php