Martian Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 On 14/10/2019 at 20:47, Courageous said: Indeed. Stuart He does what it says on the tin. What more do you want? Martian 👽 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 47 minutes ago, Martian Hale said: does what it says on the tin. but does the tin have a copper bottom ? Kev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 10 hours ago, longshanks said: but does the tin have a copper bottom ? Kev No, I thought that I had explained that it is @general melchett that has the copper bottom, or so Baldrick says. Martian (clarifying the conundrums) 👽 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Oh!! Sorry Kev (Copper Head) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Quote No, I thought that I had explained that it is @general melchett that has the copper bottom, or so Baldrick says. What in the name of Jupiter's sainted underpants is all this about? neither Baldrick or anyone else within the hallowed halls of M Towers has any knowledge whatsoever of my copper bottom, brass neck, tin legs, silver tongue or steely determination!..it's a vicious rumor, is all, started by a renegade Poole Viking (lander) from Mars, so there... Great choice Stuart, sounds like a fair bit of work but I'm sure you're up to it...look forward to progress... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 3 hours ago, general melchett said: Great choice Stuart, sounds like a fair bit of work but I'm sure you're up to it...look forward to progress... Thank you General but don't hold your breath for a commencement date. This was just delivered at my work address... ...very scary stuff. Just wondering where the heck they got those weird names from, mind blowing stuff. Stuart 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 4 hours ago, general melchett said: What in the name of Jupiter's sainted underpants is all this about? neither Baldrick or anyone else within the hallowed halls of M Towers has any knowledge whatsoever of my copper bottom, brass neck, tin legs, silver tongue or steely determination!..it's a vicious rumor, is all, started by a renegade Poole Viking (lander) from Mars, so there... Great choice Stuart, sounds like a fair bit of work but I'm sure you're up to it...look forward to progress... Not me then, I haven't been a member for nearly ten of your earth years now. Martian 👽 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Quote Not me then, I haven't been a member for nearly ten of your earth years now. Ten Earth years, bah...a mere blink of a Martian's eye stalk... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak75 Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Hi I have activated postimage - thanks Stuart. Photos of Prof John Tilley's model deserve to be seen by everyone so here are two for examples of rigging and a suggested colour scheme: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 Truly inspirational but way beyond what I can and ever do. As you say, useful for colour scheme, don't know how anybody can make sense of the rigging from those images. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak75 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Hi I have just found on www that John Tilley passed away two years ago. As he is therefore unlikely to upgrade his Photobucket account, I have posted two other images of his HMS Bounty for posterity and ship modellers everywhere present and future. Cheers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted October 23, 2019 Author Share Posted October 23, 2019 Well Pak, that's the icing on the cake...a tape measure. Can't believe that's the Revell 1/110 kit, just shows you what can be done but those lines...those lines . Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Ah, Lees is an outstanding reference! Another good reference to consider is D. Leverer, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 On 10/23/2019 at 8:05 AM, dnl42 said: D. Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor I took your suggestion and got myself a copy, what a fantastic book, Thanks. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak75 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Here is another useful tome from 1794 This can be found online: https://maritime.org/doc/steel/index.htm Bit short of diagrams but interesting none the less. Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak75 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Quote On 23/10/2019 at 17:45, Courageous said: Can't believe that's the Revell 1/110 kit, Well to be honest, Tilley only used the plastic hull, the rest was scratchbuilt........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 45 minutes ago, Pak75 said: Tilley only used the plastic hull, the rest was scratchbuilt........ Even the more impressive. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak75 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 HI Stuart So my build has been progressing slowly but satisfactorily. Quote If you've only just started your Bounty, why not start a WiP here, I'm sure it would an interesting thread? I'll show you mine if you show me yours? Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Hi Pak, Mine is still here: ...and all being well, it'll get started once I finish my tug build here I think you should start your Work in progress build Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Smith Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 The mention of John Tilley brings back many happy memories for me. The Bounty was virtually scratch built all save for the Revell Bounty hull. John wrote a comprehensive two or three part article about this model in the UK Scale Models Magazine way back in the 80's I think when Ray Rimmel was editor. Prior to this he wrote a multi part article for the same magazine about the Heller Soleil Royale. I had the great pleasure of John stopping over for a few days with me when in the UK doing his dissertation for his masters degree. I took him to Portsmouth to see HMS Victory as well as take him to an IPMS UK National Championships where he became an honorary judge on the day for the sailing ships class. His other most famous model was the of the colonial frigate Hancock that was a complete scratch build. John showed me the hull and some of the fittings that he was working on that he carried around in a shoe box at the time. When he completed the model he wrote a comprehensive multi part article for Model Shipwright. As a good personal friend and a fantastic ship modeller he will be sadly missed, particularly for the information he also shared regularly in ship modelling forums. It would be interesting to know where John's Soleil Royale, Bounty and Hancock models are now. As a footnote there are two good just rigging books by Lennart Petersen. One covers Square Riggers like Victory and the other book Fore and Aft Riggers like schooners. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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