Showing posts with label Brede Lifeboat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brede Lifeboat. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Lifeboat day 2026

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Lifeboat day dawned grey and cloudy, but when I arrived at the lakeside, everything was set up, and looking good. I'd even got there ear...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Best of Brede?

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If you read back through my Brede build thread , you'll know that while this might be my favourite lifeboat design, building a model of ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Preparing the Brede

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  Last week, in preparation for the boat club lifeboat day, I hastily dug out my scratchbuilt Brede Lifeboat planning to give it a sai...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Brede in World of Model Boating

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Time for the Brede Lifeboat to make its appearance in print. The full story of the build appears in the Bookazine "World of Model Boa...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Plastic fun with a radar reflector

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Some things are so much fun to make that it's sad when they go together properly first time as I'd like to do them again. Such it is...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Scratchbuilt Brede Lifeboat

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Producing a model of a Brede Lifeboat has been on my agenda for a few years now. Regular readers will also know that I've been trying...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Lifeboat window development

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Over at the Brede build, the "joy" of scratchbuilding has been allayed by hitting a bit of a challenge. Lifeboats have quite co...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Brede Bathtime

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The Brede Lifeboat has sailed! OK, so it's the traditional test in the bath, or as it is invariably reported in model boat mags, ...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Shaving plastic

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Working on the plastic fantastic Brede, I've been trimming the sheet along joins. Rather than cut everything to size perfectly, where ...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Brede lifeboat progress

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Progress has been made with the Brede lifeboat project. I've got a deadline and this model is taking longer than I expected. The hu...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

Brede Building - 3rd time lucky (I hope)

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Long time readers of this blog will know that I've had a couple of goes at building a model of the Brede Class lifeboat . Attempt 1...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Another boat for the dustbin

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Tomorrow, I will be manning a stand at the International Model Boat show . On the same stand, the plan was that my Brede lifeboat would be s...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Every kit CAN be built

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From Brighton, a little ray of hope. It really IS possible to build any kit if you try hard enough. Back in 2008, I abandoned a kit I'd...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Back of an envelope calculations

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I have a plan of the Brede lifeboat. I have photos. I needed rudders. The plan is 1:20th scale and the boat I need rudders for is 1:12th. ...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Big Brede

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If you've been reading this blog for a very long time then you might just remember that I started building a Brede Class lifeboat . The ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Spray Rails

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sprayrail1 Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker Regular readers will have noticed a lack of updates on the Brede Lifeboat project. My excuse i...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Maiden voyage (sort of)

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Brede Hull sailing Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker I know this isn't how you are supposed to do things. Years of tradition tells that...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Cracking filler

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In an effort to get the hull of my Brede lifeboat as smooth as errr, a lifeboats' bum, I'm using a combination of model filler and s...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Scabby Hull

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That hull looked better than it was. Once I started examining it closely all sort of tiny lumps and bumps and pinholes hoved into view. Plen...
Thursday, February 05, 2009

Glass bottom boat

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Grey boat hull Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker . The Brede hull has been fibreglassed with the finest fibreglassing cloth that Halfords d...