Tramper steamer, 3.4.2017.

Whist I was at the Ellesmere Model Boat Show this year with "Bob the Abell" we met David Lee who had just bought a steam engine!.

He said I've just got to make a boiler and all the other bits now!.

He was at the lake the other day and was giving his Tramp steamer it's maiden voyage and making sure everything was in working order before making and installing the deck and superstructure. 

New steam engine, with home made condenser.

And here it is on the water.

Tramp steam under steam. 

Click here to see video!.

Thanks for the report Dave, nice to have someone's new build to post!

Does it have one of those steam whistles you can hear all round the park that everyone wonders where its coming from!.

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A man goes into a DIY shop and asks for some bolts."How long do you want them?" asks the assistant.

"To tell you the truth" says the man, "I was rather hoping to keep them!"

How do you identify the people who can't count to ten?, simple!.

They're the ones in front of you in the supermarket express lane!!.

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Ellesmere show 2017 part 2.

Ellesmere show 2017, Part 2.

On the upper floor with the trade stalls was this club with a mixed bag of Subs, boats and trucks

Also on the upper floor was

 

And as mentioned in previous post Mac's mouldings, I got my Narrow Boat bumpers there, I'm glad to say!.

Their desk top model with all their items for sale displayed 

Potteries Model Boat club.

Wirral Model Boat club.

This chap said "All these beautiful model boats and all you are interested in is the Duck"

I didn't tell him "I'm Duckie" and have a better though smaller Duck than his!. 

The boat on the left is also a model I've built, the 10 hatch coaster by Model Slipway,another enjoyabell build.

It is a whopper though isn't it, must have been to Etherow for all the bread given out there.

Kirklees MBC.

On our diary for a visit this year!, to their club waters.

Truck Club

with a nice sign!, 

The trucks, don't ask the price, if you have to ask you can't afford it they say don't they?.

Model working truck engine complete with sound effect.

Hoylake MBC

Southport MBC

Some nice models here!

Narrow Boat complete in Lock!.

St Helens MBC

Liverpool MBC

There again making and showing his beautiful models was the chap with the Liverpool stand 

Runcorn and District Scale MBC

Another Duck!, this one had a rudder same as the other one where as mine is tank steering and instead of a rudder turning, the head turns!.

Another of my favourites was this Aircraft carrier.

The plane lift comes up and there is a full military band playing "Life on the ocean waves".

Very nice modelling!.

Last but not least!.

Ellesmere MBC

Tucked away in a small area, you could easily have missed.

That's the only downside of this years show in my mind, if you hadn't been before and knew where all the Club stands were you could have easily missed some of  them which would have been a shame after all the effort the various club have put in the build, supply and transportation of their pride and joy's!.

Perhaps I didn't get a layout map, there was one wasn't there?.

Well that was a good start to the year hopefully it will carry on in the same way and if you didn't get to the show I hope this will encourage you to make it there next time. 

The views in this post are just my view and perhaps not the same as others, but it takes all types doesn't it, what a world it would be if we were all the same hey!

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Did you hear of the woman who confused her Valium with her birth control pills.

She now has 14 kids but doesn't really care!.

Did you hear of the constipated composer?, he got stuck on his last movement.

The cannibals eating a Clown. 

One said to the other" Does this taste funny to you?". 

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Ellesmere Model Boat Show 2017.Part 1.

First impressions on the Saturday, of Duckie and Bob the Abell's visit to this great show!.

Map of Museum not of Exhibitors!

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What a splendid view of the canal and locks area

Picture taken in the afternoon, when it turned quite cold

Hence lack of visitors

The large white structure above the houses is a ship gliding along the Manchester Ship Canal 

and into the Mersey via the locks

 Bob.

As you can see very sunny!

That's better .

Just look at Duckie!
He's only got the Chuck Wagon stuck on a canal side bollard!
Just look at the lovely weather!
And a very interesting boat museum, where you can spend a day just poking around
I noticed quite a few of the museum boat relics can be seen afloat after years of restoration

Bob.

General view of the outside with the Sailors

Birds eye view from the bridge

One of my personal favourites, as its similar to my present build project!.

And so to inside the venue!

Wake up at the back there!!

Don't get alarmed that's not Bob's Plasticard in the chuck wagon its mine, Bob only does Big wood as you know, though the one on the right of the picture is one of the exhibits that's been there for years not one of his!. Though if he lived a bit nearer I'm sure he would be helping out with the restorations.

A model  on the Mac's Models Stall with some of the marvellous items on sale, I've had some of their stuff in the past and needs very little cleaning up before painting.

Here endeth the first lesson,

Come back later to see the clubs and exhibits that made this turnout great again!.

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If builders built buildings the way lawyers write laws, the first Woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation!.

Did you hear of the cannibal that passed his mother in the woods!.

Did you hear of the cannibal who ate his mother in law,

She still didn't agree with him.

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