Revell 1/144 Trinity House 'South Goodwin' Lightship

[Mini Me]

Top 'O the Heap 570.......coming on smartly! :thumb2:
Rick H.

[Bobby Conkers]

Ooh I like this 'un lad. All my models, no red anywhere, except a Ferrari which accidentally had the engine stuck on the front. Misspent youth.

As a Yorkshireman, a seafarer at heart. Haven't seen many lighthouses on the canal, but there's a few trolleys and half a goose. Gap in market I reckon.

Loving your work, nice to see summats different where camouflage would be a disadvantage.

[spanner570]

Thanks for the positive input, chaps.

Andrew. Correct, give that man a coconut!
The light tower does fit against those "Triangular thingies" A better name I couldn't have come up with.

...and what a ball ache it is! To ensure a good fit, just try cleaning up, straightening and then dry fitting 6 bits of recalcitrant plastic in a circle.... :dizzy:

On top of which, each piece had to sit perfectly on one half of those dark triangles to ensure the next glued on the remaining half - And so on, all the way around. And finally just hoping the last piece of the structure slotted into the remaining space and kept tight to the triangles all around.

But, hey, we is modellers, right?

5 sides in position.



Access ladder fixed. Nearly all the gaps between the rungs were caked in plastic.



All 6 sides finally glued together.





...a few more diddy bits added. Bl***y dust!


Cheers and thanks for looking in.

Trinity House. (Lighthouse looker afterers and other maritime duties extraordinaire)

Or as it was originally called...
'The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement, in the parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent'

....and I kid you not!

[Neil Merryweather]

dust? I was impressed that you had painted the seagull sh*t

[adt70hk]

Ron

Looking very good indeed. By that really is coming together nicely.

ATB

Andrew

[boatman]

TOP work Ron very nice indeed :thinking: are you fittin in a flashin white led ? so my tiger wont run aground ? lol:rolling::smiling: chris

[stillp]

"Triangular thingies" A better name I couldn't have come up with.

Gussets!
I just felt like writing that.
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

It’s the upright truss flange.....patented by Albert Euless Eustace in 1837. Much admired, sometimes copied, but never bettered.....

[minitnkr]

I would think most of the stuff is to hold the ship "on station" and to easier abandon ship. Love the guano. PaulE

[spanner570]

Brilliant posts, boys! Thank you.

Chris. No lights I'm afraid. When you find out your 'Tiger' is about to run aground on Goodwin Sands, can you give the crew of the lightship a bit of warning? Not for them to clear off out of the way in the rowing boats, but to give them time to make a heap of bacon sarnies for your crew!

Pete. Gussets? It's not that bad a model is it? :tongue-out3:

Tim. I remember 'Useless Eustace' from my early days. He was a cartoon character in the Daily Mirror, wasn't he?

All this reference to seagull s**t makes me start to consider splattering the ship with the stuff, as part of the weathering process. :thinking:

Thanks again chaps. All good fun.

Yours.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Ice cream nicker, par excellence)

[boatman]

(RON QUOTE)

Chris. No lights I'm afraid. When you find out your 'Tiger' is about to run aground on Goodwin Sands, can you give the crew of the lightship a bit of warning? Not for them to clear off out of the way in the rowing boats, but to give them time to make a heap of bacon sarnies for your crew

WELL Ron thats ok then :thinking: as i was goin to give them warning via a 6inch shell from my front gun turret to wake them up as they should be given me warning of the sands so i dont run aground as WOT NO LIGHT SCANDALOUSE but bacon sarnies well your crew are forgiven then lol:rolling::upside:
capt birdseye

[Tim Marlow]

I believe he was Ron. Not surprising I can’t remember birthdays and phone numbers, my brain is full of rubbish!

[spanner570]

Thanks to Chris and Tim for your input.

I've finished the building of the light thingy.

The walkway/platform.



The handrail is made of a single piece of moulded plastic. - I always paint freehand and the framework was a s*d to paint.


...fixed.






The actual light glass was even worse.


The 'bulb' can be seen better here.





I'm well happy to get this part of the build and painting behind me.

Mind you, the 'Zoom Merchants' can now have a field day, but I've done the best I can, so that will do me.

Cheers.
Ron

[Guest]

Great job, 570. A pleasure to sit on the fence and observe progress.

[boatman]

Thanks to Chris and Tim for your input.

I've finished the building of the light thingy.

The walkway/platform.
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The handrail is made of a single piece of moulded plastic. - I always paint freehand and the framework was a s*d to paint.
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...fixed.
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The actual light glass was even worse.
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The 'bulb' can be seen better here.
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I'm well happy to get this part of the build and painting behind me.

Mind you, the 'Zoom Merchants' can now have a field day, but I've done the best I can, so that will do me.

Cheers.
Ron

IM ZOOMIN IM ZOOMIN an it looks great 570 looks very realistic very nice work on this model AN REALLY quite oridginel coulors great stuff this build
chris