It's a long while since I've put a boat on the water. And my last visit to the KMBC pond on an organised day, well I can't remember that. For various reasons, including being so busy at work, my model boating has been pretty much non-existant.
Still, on a nice day, when the club would be putting on a show, it would be daft not to nip down for a couple of hours.
There was certainly inspiration on show. The Rother lifeboat looked magnificent, and reminded me that the very same kit has been "maturing" in my collection for well over a decade.
A 3D printed Thunderbird 4 appealed too, and proved how hopeless Garry Anderson vehicles are when they aren't attached to strings. This one has all the technical gubbins attached to the underside, and works like a conventional boat. Looks good on the water too.
For reasons I can't fathom (pun intended), members were being given free food. Being a generous soul, I insisted on paying for mine - a couple of quids worth of cake isn't going to break the bank, and I can'[t see a little more in the club coffers will hurt. Orange and giner in the photo, since you ask.
Talking of money, there was a bring'n'buy stall, and of course I left some cash there.
This literally has my name all over it!
At first, this looks like a Meccano copy, but on closer examination, it's not quite as simple to use. A proper play will appear in a future blog post, this deserves more than a passing mention. If anyone remembers this stiff, please comment.
And considering this is boat club, picking up a large-scale wagon for a fiver was a surprise.
So, a nice couple of hours away from work.I really must get something back on the water.
The construction set - silver pieces with a lot more holes than Meccano - looks to me like a product sold here in the UK during the 1950s under the "TRIX" brand name. I imagine it came from (West) Germany and was both incompatible with and a rival to Meccano.
ReplyDeleteChristopher Payne
I had a set the same as that in the mid-1960s. I seem to remember that one of the projects involved making working hydraulics, using the rubber type pipe and other fittings that were included. I can't remember whether anything other than water was used as the hydraulic fluid though.
ReplyDeleteVaughan Farrer