Edinburgh Model Boat club Regatta Pt.3

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Chris,

who built the Grampian Orcades? She is a lovely bot. Is it kit or scratch built???

James

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lo james, i think ajg141 could give more info on that model.

i`ll try and find out for you.

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James

Spoke to the owner/builder this afternoon. The Grampian Orcades was built by EMBC member Eric Carrington. The fibreglass hull was produced by W Woods of Aberdeen to a scale of 1/50th. Superstructure (and everything apart from the hull) is scratch built from plasticard, wood and brass. It is powerd by a 12v motor and has a single Kort nozzle. The original prototype (built in Denmark in 1991/2) apparently had something called a tunnel thruster but this was abandoned. The model took 2 1/2 years to complete.

Andrew

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Very nice boats Adz

Jason:emo1:

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very jealous.

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i wish i had the patience to build models to that standard, i always start off thinking "i'm going to take my time and build it to look good " and the next thing you know a show pops up and you think " i know i'll get it done for then " , and i end up rushing it to get it ready, why does that happen?.

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Very nice boats. I love the designs. Building models to the standard is very hard. Great art work.

Boat club

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Well Im going to get HMS Illustrious plans at 1 96 scale and scratch build the hull it will measure at 86 inches the plans are from Jecobin at £56.