boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build

[boatman]

Great work Chris, you will be a qualified electrician by the time you are done with this model.

Andy.

HI Andy qualified electrician ? dont i wish im rubbish at eletronics i know just enough to get me through this hopefully lol but thanks for your kind comment anyway an i'll propberly be ready for strait jackect after this lol but will find out tomorrow once i start on this wireing Oooooohhhhhhhhh
chris

[wotan]

marvellous... A great feat problem solving, engineering and electrical design. I'm in for the next two years.

John

[rtfoe]

Chris, looks wonderful with the paint on. You can hardly tell what medium was used under all of that. Details very neat so I guess the starboard side is the photogenic side but your explanation sums up why its this side and not the port.

Cheers,
Richard

[Guest]

A meeting was called this evening by myself to bring to the attention of the committee. this build .
There have been very few times in which an award has been made to a part finished model . Considering the amount of skills required in a multitude of disciplines and the shear complexity it has been agreeded to award Chris and Jen with the .

Congratulations to both of you and Snowball .

[boatman]

marvellous... A great feat problem solving, engineering and electrical design. I'm in for the next two years.

John

HI John many thanks for your kind comments an im glad you will be following this build for the next 2 yrs but how things are goin which is very well apart from that mast hiccup it may not be that long as i must admit im suprisieing myself at how the build is comin on a bit quicker than i thought it would but the killer is now coming up an thats the eletrics an building them two gun turrets as i want to make them work if possible but not really fire but look like they are fireing an all this is goin to take quite a bit of thought
anyway cheers for havin a look see an your comments AN HERE'S :thumb2: to the next maybe 2yrs lol ps an it took 20 yrs for them to build her in real so my maybe 2yrs aint to bad is it lol
ATB to you sir
chris an jen

[boatman]

Chris, looks wonderful with the paint on. You can hardly tell what medium was used under all of that. Details very neat so I guess the starboard side is the photogenic side but your explanation sums up why its this side and not the port.

Cheers,
Richard

AN HI Richard yes she is now looking good an im pleased at her all painted up but still a lot more painting to do on her an yes whenever i build my ships i always decide that the starboard side will be the show side ( an if any one which has happend several times a photographer with a big fancy camera comes up an asks to take pics in models shows) wants to photograph the port side i just stand back an say help yourself
ATB to you Richard an yours
chris an jen

[boatman]

A meeting was called this evening by myself to bring to the attention of the committee. this build .
There have been very few times in which an award has been made to a part finished model . Considering the amount of skills required in a multitude of disciplines and the shear complexity it has been agreeded to award Chris and Jen with the .
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Congratulations to both of you and Snowball .

OH HI John this is totally unexspected getting the dogs award again many thanks an for your wonderfull post an i an jen an snowball lol feel unworthy of this wonderfull award lol but cheers for this as this will keep me ploughing away at the build for as long as it takes to fineally get her to the seaworthy state to sail her an do you know why a ship is called a she its because when she enters harbour she always heads for the bouys lol
chris jen an snowball lol

[Jack L]

HI Jack thanks for the nice comment why do i just show the starboard side in a show well the reason being that that im a left to right person so the bow will be on my left when i put her on a show table an then it conectets up with the stern end on the right of me an it easy for me to fit the hull jiont butter fly nuts as im right handed an all the switchs are on the port side nearest to me so i can switch the eletrics on an off easyier without havin to walk around to the other side of the model in a model show with people lookin at the model but i could show the port side if i wanted to but more awkward for me hows that Jack does that answer your question ?
cheers for lookin in Jack
chris

Yes very well answered. I wondered if there were Starboard details that maybe aren't on the port side. But very logical!

[boatman]

Yes very well answered. I wondered if there were Starboard details that maybe aren't on the port side. But very logical!

HI Jack yea im logicall lol as i think like mr spock lol
chris

[Jim R]

Hi Chris
I look at the wiring and I'm amazed that you know what goes where. You must be very logical and organized.
If it does take another 2 years then it will be time well spent and we'll have another 2 years to enjoy this incredible build.
Jim

[boatman]

Hi Chris
I look at the wiring and I'm amazed that you know what goes where. You must be very logical and organized.
If it does take another 2 years then it will be time well spent and we'll have another 2 years to enjoy this incredible build.
Jim

HI Jim well i dont know about logical and organized. yes i said above i think logical above as a joke but i think how the build should go is in stages thats the best i can exsplain it an yes it will be an enjoyable 2 yrs but may be qiucker as at the moment im now fitting in her wirein all 44 wires an so far im nr half done in the stern section in just a day so im speeding along BUT i knew there would be a BUT somewhere here lol BUT something will happen an slow me down it always does somewhere along the build journey
ATB jim
chris

[Guest]

There must come a time when you surely want to finish this Chris. Don't think many of us could find the enthusiasm to build something like this and keep up the momentum.

[papa 695]

Just caught up again Chris, She is looking fantastic, and I'm sure you will show her off at a show at some point.

[boatman]

There must come a time when you surely want to finish this Chris. Don't think many of us could find the enthusiasm to build something like this and keep up the momentum.

HI AN G/M John yes there will come a time when i will say finito but that will be when i have fitted on her all her parts of the details that i can an as i said earlyier in this build to one of the other guys on here to me its like say building a load of kits nr all different an getting things to work thats the enthusiasm an momentum that keeps me movein on any of my builds that i have done but wont have to worry about enthusiasm an momentum after this build as i think this will be my last build as getting to old to do another an if i do it wont be a complete scratchbuild like this tiger but will be a grp hull job as thats nr 50% done before the build is even started how's that answer to your post above John ?
AN thanks for stoppin an a chat
ATB chris

[boatman]

Just caught up again Chris, She is looking fantastic, and I'm sure you will show her off at a show at some point.

WELL HI Ian cheers for the nice comments an yes i hope to show her off in a show but when that will be lord knows due to this covid problem as the normal shows about 5 shows in a yr as some up norwich pond around here have all been canncelled due to this for over 2yrs now just got to hope that the shows will be on next yr an tiger hopefully will be well on her way to bein finished as i can put her in as a unfinished model an a note to the pulic to exsplain that the model is still in build state as i did that with my big NIMITZ if i remember rightly
CHEERS for your post Ian an any more on them thunderbirds ?
chris