I just thought I would post some photos of my HMS Cottesmore.
She is still a work in progress.
I have been working on her for about three years now.(in between other projects)
I purchased the hull And running gear from Fleetscale.
Everything else has been made by myself using odds and ends, bits and pieces including yogurt pots and a lot of LED's
I have a few more years work to do before she is completed, lots more bits to make.

Trying to alter the side of the lake when I went on Sunday - bumpsa daisy :-) and it did send one of the gun turrets into the lake but fortunately I got it back :-) sorry about the sound track though :-)

New video on Stevenage MBC YouTube channel. Fast electric ‘mini starship’ shows paces round the lake.

Stevenage MBC lake still has some IC boats on Sundays... here’s one of the many we see.

🤞I noticed there are a great deal of RAF plans for various fire tender etc but is there a kit for a Seaplane Tender like ST480 (based at Lyme Regis where this photo was taken) that picked up a pilot off Chesil Beach on 8th November 1941. I am about to put on a display regarding the aircraft and pilot and their history and I have a model of the aircraft a Curtiss P40 Tomahawk and would love to have a Seaplane Tender model on display.

1/45 Scale Type IX DX2 U-boat. A good friend and photography guru came along and took some great photos for us at a recent sail day. Details about the U-boat are elsewhere on this site.

Maiden voyage of HMY Britannia model on the lake at Stevenage MBC

This Aeronaut Kalle Harbour Tug had seen better days when I acquired it last month, after some remedial work it is now taking some shape, there is still plenty of work to do but I feel I am getting there.

Finally completed after near enough four years work off and on. Mind I am very happy with the result, the superstructure was slightly modified so as the steam plant can be removed easily in one piece.

Our 2nd outing to the lake last Saturday 30-3-19,
1st photo shows her doing her job supplying the oil rig
2nd photo Aziz at full speed, great bow wave moving down her sides.

I started the SMBC Youtube channel a couple of months ago... here's the latest video, with on-board cameras...

Made by 4 clubs and filmed here by Geoff Chequer at the TOYS FOR BOYS SHOW at WATERLOO LIVERPOOL