Latest Project by the Team. 
HMS Victory Under Construction

A 1:40 scale model of Nelsons flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar. This model is being constructed by club members with the intention of being completed for the two hundredth anniversary of Trafalgar in 2005. It will be the centre piece of our sailing battlefleet and will be equipped with working pyrotechnic effects including cannons, smoke and collapsing masts. The model is built around 10mm thick ply frames and is planked with french oak! The completed model will be over 2.5 metres long and will incorporate a piece of timber from the original HMS Victory.

 

Oak timber has been donated by - Folly Patterns Ltd, Farnham, Surrey.

Masts and Spar material donated by - Robert Bish DIY, 252 Fratton Rd Portsmouth

023 9282 0602.


Sail cloth kindly donated by - John Lewis - Knight & Lee, West Quay
Southsea/Southampton SO15 1QA.


4 channel radio control, prop and propshaft donated by - Fratton Model Centre 171/173 Fratton Rd Portsmouth PO1 5ET

Main power and Radio Batteries donated by - ModelPower.co.uk
16 Church Walk
Mancetter
Atherstone
Warwickshire
CV9 1NX

Further donations of materials and equipment towards this project would be much appreciated. If you can help please contact the Secretary.
The Figurehead is ready for moulding, this will enable us to replace it, if it becomes damaged.
 

Chairman Graham Starts on the Sails for Victory & Redoutable.

The Figurehead is painted and ready to go on the model.
The Victory gets her hull wet for the first time.
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Press Day one week before her maiden voyage at Canoe Lake Southsea June 19th

 

The other half of our Trafalgar Display is also being built along side the Victory. The model is of the French warship Redoutable, and is of the same size.

The Redoutable is actually a rebuild, and was once a model of 'The Sovereign of the Seas', the boat was built in 1996 by Team Member 'Eddie Stechman' who passed away in 1998, it has been in use all that time and has had many refits, now it is to become the Victory's adversary and will continue to be a key model for many years to come.