EdW, l didn't think I was offending you or those that want to build "museum quality" models. I know several people that I will never attain their level of quality.

That being said, like many others, I hope to do my best. It seems there are a massive quantity of postings on this forum involve electronics, motors, linkages, mechanisms and such.

There is room for all of us on model-boats.com to show our builds as well as "how-to's".

Lew
Florida ⛱️, USA 🇺🇸

Lew, you always have an opinion, which you are entitled to. I was sharing my knowledge of a man that taught me many of my modelling skills, not posting pictures of museum quality models. You place the emphasis on working models, others build static models and strive to meet the standards of people like Bob

Is there a distinction in model boat builds? I ask this because I have been to a number of museums that have "world class" models and my interest in building "operational scale model boats".

Putting loads of photos of museum models on this site is redundant as there are many thousands of photos of these on the internet.
To me, the "I built this" tag is more important that the "museum models". I would occasionally rather see some photos of some real boats taken by members where "those little details" stand out.

Physically, there is a big difference because the need to be operational the requirements a often substantially different. Weather, and frequent handling versus models commonly placed in glass cases is significantly different.

A big "thumbs up" 👍👍👍 to those that have created realistic looking high quality "operational scale model boats". Museum boats are interesting, but the ones that hit the water are the boats I appreciate viewing the most, especially when showing the running gear. I also enjoy the videos (and in the water stills) that are close up. To me, photography of the models are an important way to view the model from afar (like we do on this forum). I usually skip videos and stills of a boat that appears as a small portion of the overall frame and those that have low resolution ("pixels").

Lew
Florida 😎, USA😊

Hi AndyN and EdW, can you please share some pictures of the museum models if you have them?

I visited Greenwich museum. Now i'm wondering which models were his...

I was luck enough to have known Bob Lightley well as we both belonged to the South African Maritime Museum Modellers Society in the 1980s. He was a master of building model ships. He was commissioned to build the model of HMS Endeavour in the Captain Cook museum.
More of his ships are in the Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
His lectures and demonstrations were invaluable to us lesser skilled models.
This is newspaper article about him and one of his masterpieces which is in the museum in the Castle in Cape Town.