Progress continues on the Flockburgh extension board. One feature conspicuous by it's absence has been anything in the water.
During a holiday on the Isle of Man I managed to photograph the plans for a traditional Manx fishing boat. The owner also had quite a nice radio controlled model he had built. Despite the pictures being taken at 5mp they were still good enough to print full size on an A4 sheet.
More importantly they were easy to reduce to 1/100th scale so my Dad could start a couple of scale versions. This isn't as daft as you might think - this shape of boat was also common in Scotland. In fact the Admiralty also built some during the Second World War so there ought to have been plenty around in the period the layout is set.
The basis of the model is a sold balsa wood hull wrapped in thin ply to give the bulwarks. The deck is built up and a wheelhouse added. This is being replaced with a hollow version which is tiny and made up of many parts. The hull will be shaped a bit more but as these are waterline models, not much.
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