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[Guest]

Welcome Paul , I like the Japanese card models esp as my daughter brought me one back from a trip to Japan.
Some nice photos of your work, you'll fit in here very well.

 

[AlanG]

Hi Paul

Totally missed your 'welcome thread' so sorry for that.

So..... welcome

 

[Airborne01]

Welcome mate - very impressive minis - if I was to try that all you'd see would be a multi-coloured three-dimensional fingerprint!
Steve

 

[PaulinKendal]

Thanks for the lovely welcome, folks, much appreciated.
The card models are not Japanese (although Himeji Castle is obviously a model of a Japanese structure). They're German, from a specialist dealer called Marcle Models (www.marcle.co.uk), which has an amazing range of kits, including hundreds of ships, airplanes, tanks, trains and architecture. Well worth seeking out.

 

[PaulinKendal]

I think it's probably best to put this here, as it's a continued introduction.

My job - I'm a skipper on Windermere, England's largest lake, working on the pleasure passenger boats.

These are the boats I drive.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Seems to me there are worse ways of making a living…..love the Princess of the lake. Looks like she should have a vertical steam boiler at the front.

 

[Jim R]

Hi Paul
Sorry to be late welcoming you to the forum. It's a great place to share the hobby. Some excellent work on show. I especially like the fantasy figures.
Jim

 

[PaulinKendal]

Seems to me there are worse ways of making a living…..love the Princess of the lake. Looks like she should have a vertical steam boiler at the front.

Princess is a traditional Windermere launch, built in 1950 along the same lines as had been used many years earlier when steam launches were developed. She's absolutely lovely to drive. There are some very similar, older, steam powered vessels in private hands that are still run on Windermere.

Princess (and her twin, Queen of the Lake) are on the National Historic Ships Register, along with Muriel, Sunflower, Swan, Teal and Tern - all in operation in our fleet.

 

[rtfoe]

Ah me another late to the welcoming party.

Hi Paul, welcome aboard. I like your general selection of builds so dioramas would be in the mash soon. :smiling2: Love the story on the bofors.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[PaulinKendal]

And there's a story about Princess...

I was driving a private charter on Princess for a couple of middle aged blokes. I took them round showing them some of the flashy houses on the lake shore, pointing out where moneyed guests would land their private helicopters on hotel lawns, and so on. I asked them where they were from, what they were up to. They'd eaten the night before at L'Enclume, a local Michelin starred restaurant, so I knew they had a few bob.

They were taking selfies (and tweeting them, it turns out). By the time I got back to the pier, one of my football-mad colleagues took my mooring line, stuck his head in the cabin and said to my passengers: "Trust you to get the only skipper in the fleet who knows absolutely NOTHING about football!" He laughed, my passengers laughed - so I laughed, thinking: "something's funny here, but I haven't a clue what it is".

As they departed down the pier, they showed me a tweet they'd just sent of one of them sitting in the back of the boat, all alone, looking thoroughly miserable, with the caption "here's me with my mates on Windermere". I looked, I laughed - and STILL didn't realise that the chap in the picture, and on my boat, was Gary Lineker. I was none the wiser!

 

[AlanG]

Paul. You've probably driven my family and me around the lake then. We've done the boats at Windermere and Derwent (we normally stay near to Keswick).