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📝 Mersey Mammoth / Lara 1
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember (
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Dave Morris is a member of the Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club and yes I think the model was at one of the shows there.
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📝 Model Boat Show.
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club are having a Model Boat Show on the 18th. and 19th. May 2019 at Hooton Park Trust, an old RAF airfield adjacent to the Vauxhall factory in Ellesmere Port. There will be Traders, Model Boat Clubs and RC truckers there. Opening times are 10 am to 4 pm on the Saturday and 10 am to 3pm on the Sunday. There is a pool for sailing. We have a Facebook page with photos.👍
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📝 Island Class cutters
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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This is what I wish to build at 1/48 scale. The island class cutter is 110 feet long and serves with the United States Coast Guard Service, there are about 35 still in service and it is based on a Vosper Thornycroft design.
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📝 USGC Island class fg hull.
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I wish to build a USCG Island class cutter. I have a full set of plans but I am not too brilliant at making hulls from scratch. I have found a possible source, MTBHulls of Gibralta, of getting a fibre glass hull at 1/48 scale but they need an order of 4 to produce one. They produce many different hulls but not this one, hence the requirement for 4 to make it viable to make a new hull. So I am looking for 3 other model makers who may be interested in buying one of these hulls at approx. £55 each plus any cost for me to post them on or deliver.
The Island class cutter is 110 feet long, which would make a model just over 2 foot long, and based on a Vosper Thornycroft design but built in the States. I believe there were about 80 built of which 35 remain in service.
There are many pictures of them on the internet which is where I got the plans from but I am happy to copy the plans if anyone is interested.
The Island class cutter is 110 feet long, which would make a model just over 2 foot long, and based on a Vosper Thornycroft design but built in the States. I believe there were about 80 built of which 35 remain in service.
There are many pictures of them on the internet which is where I got the plans from but I am happy to copy the plans if anyone is interested.
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📝 Hms Rodney/ Nelson
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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There is an HMS Nelson for sale by a member of the Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club, pictures on their Facebook site. it sails very well.
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📝 1/24 crew figures
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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The figures I am looking for are for a Perkasa 1/24 scale MTB who usually wore white polo necked sweaters and duffle coats. they are very hard to find.
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📝 1/24 crew figures
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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It seems like 1/24 scale crew figures are like hens teeth as I have been unable to find any. Does anyone know were I might find a supplier.
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📝 Latest Post
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Hi, Admin, is there any way to alter the order in which the posts appear so that the latest post appears at the top of the page.
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📝 LED Tug Mast Navigation Lights
7 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I have a Richardson Tug and have now got each prop with its own ESC, trouble is to do it I had to replace the radio which cut out the lights, horn and smoke so maybe to strip out everything and start again is the best idea. individual twin props are good, it will now turn around in iys own length. I gues it depends on what you want to do with it, just sail it or use it for tug towing.
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📝 HMS Nelson
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I thought I had already asked the question!! Where can I get a wooden deck for a Trumpeter 1/200 scale HMS Nelson. I know someone does one but do not know who! Just taken delivery of one of these kits and am wondering if brushless motors would be suitable as well.
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📝 Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Until last year we hosted the March Model Boat Show at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, but dwindling space and the Museum,s lack of proper support with regard to advertising, sadly caused us to not go ahead with it this year. We are planning, however, to have a Model Show in May 2019 at our new venue. Hopefully many of the traders will support this, watch this space!!!!
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📝 Council madness...
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I regularly visit the Richmond Model Boat Club in Glasgow where there are many swans, coots, ducks and other water fowl on the water but the council provide a very nice, substantial club house for the model boat Club and have regular shows at the venue as well as regular weekly sailing. Urchfont Council must be made up of really stupid people who are control freaks.
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📝 Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Our sailing water at Hooton.
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📝 Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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We formed in about 1989 as "The Boat Club" based at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. In the nineties we changed the name to the Ellesmere Port Model Boat Club. We meet and sail at the Museum but now have a pool at The Hooton Park Trust site. We are currently 30 members strong and have models of every type.
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📝 Ellesmere Port model boat lake
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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The toilets work, they are just not 5 star!
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📝 Ellesmere Port model boat lake
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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To answer NJP's question we can get a car within 30 feet of the temporary pond, less if you drive on the grass, the pool is about 12" deep. The pool has now been taken down for the winter but we have been asked to put a larger one up next year. There are toilets there although not 5 star, but these will be refurbished when there is cash available. The site is the Hooton Park Trust next to the old airfield. At the moment they are refurbishing the last hanger with a new Belfast truss roof. They do have a website and they are on facebook. You can also read about it if you type in RAF Hooton Park Airfield, which was opened in 1917 and closed in the 1950's I think. At one stage it was Liverpool Airport before Speke was opened.
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📝 3d printing
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I guess 3D printing is going to be a big part of model making, we already have one club member who has one.
Does anyone have any idea where or how I can find a face to face 3D printing class (not an on-line one). I have tried looking on the web without success, any ideas would be very much appreciated. I live in the North West.🤔
Does anyone have any idea where or how I can find a face to face 3D printing class (not an on-line one). I have tried looking on the web without success, any ideas would be very much appreciated. I live in the North West.🤔
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📝 Blackpool Model Show
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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A wonderful list of traders and modelers, we all owe a very large debt of gratitude to Iain Lewis for keeping the Blackpool Show going. Show your gratitude by attending the Show otherwise these shows will eventually fail.
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📝 Individual Insurance
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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As a club member I am covered by the clubs insurance but does anyone know of an insurance company that will insure on an individual basis. There are general modelers insurances available but is there one specifically for model boaters as if you have a general modelers insurance this includes model aircraft which I would have thought would have a very much greater risk factor hence being more expensive. A model aircraft can do a great deal of damage and injury to a person or property while it is hard to believe that a scale model boat can.
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📝 new brighton model boat lake
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Correct onetenor, the original pool was only about 2 feet deep. However when the council agreed to the supermarket next to it it had to be moved. They promised that they would build the new one with the same amount of water, they did!! by increasing the depth and reducing the surface area, hence leaving the model boaters with a smaller usable pool. Never ever trust local councils!!!!
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📝 new brighton model boat lake
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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New Brighton boating lake is Ok, about chest deep should your boat sink and it is open to the public, it is right on the promenade. They have had swans and seagulls on the pool, kids swimming, kids wanting to touch boats if they get close to the edge(the boats that is) and once had a car in there I believe. There is a club that sails there with nice helpful members. They have a small storage container on site. Handy access for cars with a small car park adjacent to the pool.
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📝 Deans Seaplane tender
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Many thanks Dave M. I have got a 2826 brushless motor, a 30a esc and a 7.4 lipo battery, all from Component Shop. I am told nobody makes a motor mount for outrunner brushless motors, or is there a source for them out there somewhere.
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📝 Deans Seaplane tender
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Deans Seaplane tender calls for a 400 motor with a Bobs Board!! When I asked then for an alternative, ie. brushless motor and esc with lipo batteries they could not help as their built model had the aforesaid 400 motor and bobs board in. Can anyone suggest what more modern kit I could use to power the boat. I must say the kit and instructions are first class.
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📝 3d printing
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Hi, Very interesting posts about 3D printing. Can you say where the 3D printing course was and how much the course cost.
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📝 Motors
9 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I have just received a Deans Marine kit, ST441, a seaplane tender. The plan calls for a Black400 motor with a Bob's board and 6v battery. I would like to use a brushless motor and ESC in the kit. Deans say they have not tried the kit with a brushless motor so cannot recommend an alternative. Any one out there who can suggest what such motor would be the equivilant of the 400 motor. I have one suggestion from the Component Shop, they are always very helpful, but anyone else has any suggestion.
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📝 Coming to Ireland from Canada May 11
9 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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Hope you have a great time, Eire is a most wonderful place.
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📝 Counter Rotating Props
9 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I have always know propellers as left or right handed and on a single screw ship they nearly always turn clockwise looking from aft. Can be very handy if you know which is which as when approaching a berth on the port side at an angle with a right handed prop a good kick astern will put you flat alongside if you time it right. Done it many times with the real thing on all sizes of vessel. Can very often upset the Captain!!!
but if timed right it works a treat.
but if timed right it works a treat.
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📝 USCG Island class cutter
12 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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I would like to build an Island Class USCG cutter. Does anyone have any Information or photographs that would help me. There were over 80 built I believe but many are now being retired.
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📝 Ellesmere Port Model Boat Show
12 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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The Ellesmere Port Model Boat Show takes place at the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port on the 1st. and 2nd. march 2014. It Is the usual format of Model Boat Clubs, Traders, The David E Owen Comoetition, a Bring and Buy sale and on the water sailing from our dock system. There will be tows for anyone to try their hand at tug towing.
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📝 Boat Show
12 years ago by 🇬🇧 epmbcmember ( Master Seaman)
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The Ellesmere Port Model Boat Show Is on the 1st. and 2nd. March 2014
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