PaddingtonBear

Goodness, no wonder you will need to keep it heated although I suspect that will be the least of your problems

Almost plus one for a 15/50 or 4/44 but it seems a little big (although that could be a trick of the photo of a moving car, what about a Riley Parhfinder?

Anything to do with all the inbreeding in the land that time forgot?

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For the sake of clarity I am posting this separately from my previous thread. In thinking about the cabin sides of my new 1:24 project and with considerable input from the Great Helmsman are there any thoughts on the use of Masonite. It is likely that I shall be looking at modelling the late fifties/early 60s or possibly later due to the nature of the available scale figures.

Good god was it tha long?

When lock wheeling for Alan Fincher of this parish on my way to the ill fated National at Cassiobury I was somewhat confused by activity on the far side of an up coming bridge (can't remember which one because I am a senile old fool and I am not A Fincher either). On approaching the bridge I came across a very large floating bungalow complete with a box hedge on the roof. As I approached the mahogany stained steerer complete with medallion he said " I fink(sic) it's out of order building bridges so that I can't get my boat through". I gave him "words of advice", this being before I knew what P*** would have said.

I wonder how you know that :0

We live perfectly happily :0 for weeks on end with one battery and a dynamo but as has been said each to there own.

Goodness James is there no end to your talents?

Take no notice of what either the vendor or the broker say nor the previous survey as that was done for someone else. The only survey that has any value to you is one done by a respected surveyor issued in your Nama and paid for by you. Even then use you 'nose' and common sense and let your head rule your heart. I did the reverse and came a massive cropper and continue to do so.

That was exactly what I was thinking Carl, just as long as the rest is as per a large. All this is extremely theoretical at the mo. As I have not as yet summoned the courage to even think about it. I was thinking on the way back from the shop today that I might bottle it and pay someone to finish it given the pressure I am under

I already have a very detailed scale drawing except for the ellum but had hoped that the large Ricky was not too far away so that I could adapt it. Can anyone tell me the main differences? The main dimensions must be near as dammit surely, much like small and bigs so are we just talking hull depth etc? Or is there something fairly radical? Mmmmmmmm the great helmsman would just love that if it was.

If the stove is in such appalling condition ,what is the rest of the boat like? You really must have a survey BEFORE you do any deals via the broker. The BSS is not anywhere near sufficient. Seek the guidance of the mighty throng on here with a few details/pictures perhaps?

How many Rickeys are still around? And how do the large and small differ especially in terms of dimensions? Would it for instance be possible to convert small to a large, in 1:24 not 1:1 . Could someone measure the thickness of an ellum please?

Love the step and a proper engine as well

I think you will find that given the number of years that the oil and diesel has lain there it will have seriously soaked into the paint and therefore to get Paint to adhere properly you will need to get down to bare metal. We shot blasted ours and took the tanks out but under different circumstances. Good luck

The.fact that they have bought a floating bungalow might suggest that judgement was severely lacking.

Can I suggest you go nap Dusty Carpet in the 3.30, will take a lot of beating.

Ho Ho Ho , you beat me to it:)

Nearly down to the sort of money.........£8/10000that we were considering offering all those years ago, before we heard about the problems with the fore end and the counter. What on earth is it doing at Foxes btw hardly a well known repairer of wooden boats

What a brilliant set of posts nicknorman, even an idiot like me could follow them (not that I need to as we have a dynamo) and I am sure that they will be helpful to many. It is often the case at these sorts of discussions get shrouded in techie talk and the required information largely lost. Perhaps you should consider 'doing' an everymans guide to electrickery

What a great photo, very useful looking front fender:)