One For Vaughan

[LizG]

I've just started following the Thames Traditional Boat Festival on FB. This picture was just posted!

Liz

 

Sent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app

 

 

[Vaughan]

The model on the right is the King of Hearts.

 

Photo taken at the Woods End, in 1952.

[Turnoar]

Wooden model broads boats are real boats! This is my snapshot from Herbert Woods book launch day.

[JanetAnne]

1 hour ago, w-album said:

 

I've just started following the Thames Traditional Boat Festival on FB. This picture was just posted!

Liz

 

Sent from the Norfolk Broads Network mobile app

 

 

 

You are looking at the work of Ron Wem. He has a superb fleet of probably 30 broads cruisers models and is someone I am trying to get to bring a display to the Beccles Wooden Boat Show.  

Check out his work at 

https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Modellers/Ron_Wem/1ndex.htm

 

[JanetAnne]

Aha! I knew I had a link to his proper site somewhere.

http://ronsboats.bbbgroup.co.uk/about.html

[Lulu]

Amazing work. I want the Skipper!  

[petersjoy]

7 minutes ago, Lulu said:

Amazing work. I want the Skipper!  

You my want to rephrase that

[Lulu]

Just now, petersjoy said:

You my want to rephrase that

I cant think of a different way to rephrase and it still sounds wrong!
Seriously though, the collection looks amazing, absolute works of art.

[CambridgeCabby]

Absolutely stunning work !!!

would love one of Cerise Lady

[grendel]

and I know just how long it takes to make a model like those, hours and hours, week after week.

[ChrisB]

8 hours ago, Turnoar said:

Wooden model broads boats are real boats! This is my snapshot from Herbert Woods book launch day.

Spun for you.

 

[Vaughan]

9 hours ago, JanetAnne said:

Check out his work at 

https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Modellers/Ron_Wem/1ndex.htm

 

Astounding detail!

If you enlarge the bottom photo of the King of Hearts on this link, he has correctly modelled the playing card on the stem head and amazingly, the fact that the flagstaff was inserted into an old valve spring, so it would bend over if it hit Thorpe bridge on a high tide. All of the boats had their flagstaffs arranged so that they were one inch higher than the saloon canopy when lowered. So if the flag touched the bridge, you backed out and waited for the tide to go down!

[wombat nee blownup]

No mention of a 3D printer on those? 

[grendel]

to be fair i 3d print some parts, then go back and decide i can do better and remake them by hand.

[Turnoar]

Thanks for the spin Chris B, I hope this one is the right way up, same yard but different builder! I love Vaughan’s comment about the old valve spring, reminds me of my dads ski boat having an Austin bonnet badge on the tip of the foredeck as a nod to the raw water cooled clutch only bmc 

12 hours ago, ChrisB said:

Spun for you.

 

 

mini engine hidden under the cowling midships with vents made from old brass munition shells. No such thing as a throw away society back in the days of my youth and before!