1/142 Revell North Sea Fishing Trawler .. A voyage to the fishing grounds of the Arctic. Building the vessel.

[Guest]

Another beauty, Ron....
Love it mate :upside:

[Gern]

Smashing! I assume the prop will be buried in your sea when it's done?

[spanner570]

Smashing! I assume the prop will be buried in your sea when it's done?

Dave - Correct. Plus being one of the founder members of the 'Bone Idle, if I can't see it, it don't get done' Club., I saw the prop as a prime candidate for leaving in the box!

Glad you like the finished vessel too Polux...:thumb2:

Ron

[stillp]

If that's what you do when you're bone idle Ron, heaven knows what you'd do if you felt energetic!

Pete

[grumpa]

Great progress so far Mate!
looking forward to more :thumb2:

Jim

[Steve O]

What a cracking build Ron i've enjoyed watching this from the start, very very well done and a great subject.

Steve.

[Guest]

Will be good to follow this build, I'm considering this as a future build.

Me too.

Will you be showing it in the sea?

[minitnkr]

Beautifully done matey. Props to all you floaty guys for water & rigging. Too much for me. PaulE

[papa 695]

Great work Ron, now onto the base, looking forward to that, I hope it's not too rough I get sea sick :smiling5::smiling5::smiling5:

[spanner570]

Thanks for all your most excellent and humorous posts. All good stuff!

Steve - Plenty of water
Paul - I can't even see the excellent stuff you do!
Ian - Tough. Just bring plenty of sick bags.

Better start making some water for her to sit in......
So first off. 'The Departure'
Here is the start of the harbour entrance. I know in my minds eye what I'm after so I'm just going ahead and hope something stirs in the old grey matter.......:upside::thumb2:

As always it's made from scrap polystyrene, I love this stuff. It's light, easy to cut and work into shapes, almost anything sticks to it - and it's free!

I'm building the harbour walls first. I came up with the idea of rather than having straight walls, and to make it a bit more interesting, I would incorporate a bend at the entrance.
As this will be a relatively modern harbour, I am going for concrete rather than stone for the walls.

Sometimes I get carried away with builds like this and forget to cut out the hole for the vessel first. - Not this time sweetheart!

I realise it's a narrow entrance (I've seen and navigated narrower!) but I had to make it so to hopefully make sure everything would be in the finished job pictures. As you can see, the base is made up of two pieces. The join will be hidden as the job progresses. I built up one side to add a bit of variety to the entrance.
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We're off and running. I'm staring at the thing waiting for ideas to come along.......

"Hello Matron, yes it does look nice."
"What was that? Wow, that's a great idea. I'll stick some on now!"
"Hang on, why should I turn over, and that's not an artist's paint brush, it's a needle. Don't you come near m......ZZZZZZ

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Rigging looks great. Base will work a treat.
Docks in Hull had a narrow entrance just like that. As a teenager we skipped school and went down to watch the trawlers. No drink was allowed on the boats so the crew got legless while ashore. I once saw a crew member who had not managed to get himself up in time to join his boat and was obviously still well p****d, literally thrown off the harbour entrance wall into the arms of his fellow crew mates as the boat passed, presumably by friends/relatives. Lucky he was so drunk as he landed with a hell of a thump.
Jim

[spanner570]

Nice one Jim. Thank you.
Great story too and thanks for sharing it with us.

Ron

[spanner570]

Moving on.

I've added a small wall, the harbour radar reflector and lights. All made from general bits and pieces.

The port side entrance.
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Starboard with the addition of a 'stone' bank at the rear.
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Cheers.
Ron

[spanner570]

Thanks for the :thumb2: Jim.

I'll quickly rattle through the rest of this part of the trilogy.

Painted up a bit and a small sea added.
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Some wooden protection timbers added to both sides of the entrance.
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Finished pictures next.

Cheers.
Ron

[PaulTRose]

mighty impresive