Friday, 14 April 2017

Lake Victoria Gunboat Completed

Well the lead pile is restored…well a small pile at the moment.

 

First off the table is the Pom Pom gun and crew to complete the Lave Victoria gunboat. For this set I scratch built the Pom Pom gun and used the Perry Gardner gun crew from the Sudan range. The figures are probably not 100% correct, but I figure that most units serving in Africa would have had a mix of old and new uniforms. The officer from the set will appear on the staff of one WWI East African commands.



The Pom Pom gun was built using plasticard and Greenstuff from the image below. I was unable to find a suitable cone for the base – and unwilling to try to construct one – so I compromised and used a piece of 6mm plastic tubing, on to which I attached a plasticard discs top and bottom.

 

The Pom Pom gun under construction…

 


And completed.



The addition of this piece completed the gunboat, to which various items (such as anchors, winches, ropes and life belts) have been added since the last time it appeared in these pages. Below is the finished item.







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12 comments:

  1. rross14 April 2017 at 20:05

    This boat is SO COOL Mark - you do such a wonderful job on these models mate - stunning! And the garden table glass IS a really good substitute for the waters of Lake Victoria!

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    1. Mark Strachan14 April 2017 at 20:45

      Thanks Keith. Shame I didn't have time to cut out the windows anc curtains behind the boat.

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  2. Ed M14 April 2017 at 23:10

    Garden table glass...I thought it was actually floating in a tub!
    Superb all around!

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    1. Mark Strachan15 April 2017 at 06:20

      Ah the garden table...it was pure chance in that it had the right light at the moment I was ready to take the photos.

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  3. Jonathan Freitag15 April 2017 at 01:04

    Mark, this is a dandy vessel and oh, so cool! Great job on both construction and painting. I look forward to seeing this boat patrolling Africa waterways in an adventure soon.

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    1. Mark Strachan15 April 2017 at 06:17

      Thanks Jonathan. It was a fun build. The best part was adding the little bits - the anchors, bollards, life buoys, etc - that gave life to the model.

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  4. Phil15 April 2017 at 02:48

    Creative and wonderful job, this boat (and the crew) is superb!

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    1. Mark Strachan15 April 2017 at 06:18

      Thanks Phil. I agree the crew are great - especially the captain.

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  5. Stuart S15 April 2017 at 05:53

    Very nice Mark, for a moment I did think you were taking a chance by actually floating the patrol boat :-)
    Great job.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Mark Strachan15 April 2017 at 06:13

      Thanks Stu. It almost was floating...less than ten minutes after I took those images the sun was gone and it was raining...the joys of an Auckland autumn.

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  6. Lawrence H19 April 2017 at 11:39

    Fantastic work Mark. The pom-pom gun is beautifully done.

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    1. Mark Strachan19 April 2017 at 13:54

      What pleased me the most is that I made the gun about two months ago, but couldn't finish the base until I had the figures (so that I could adjust the height accordingly) and the weapon fitted perfectly into the hands of the firer and the man to the left in the image had his hand at just the right height and position on the ammunition box. I couldn't have designed it better!

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