what is the best way of making the fan shape on the paddle boxes of my boat?
it has been said i should have the design laser cut or etched brass made?
the trouble is i have no details of the pattern as most vessels were different and any images of her as lorna doone or queen of thanet or even queen of kent can anyone help?
Thank You
J

I'm not sure if the following images will help, but they might....

Regards
Eddy

Sorry i didnt make her name clear the lorna doone2 the second of her name with 2 funnels hope this helps.... thanks

Quote from: Lornadoone2 on February 19, 2012, 04:45:09 AM
Sorry i didnt make her name clear the lorna doone2 the second of her name with 2 funnels hope this helps.... thanks

Okay, the only image I can find is this.... It's not very clear though ;(

Eddy

yeah thats the one i have i think its a fairly plain design with quite a lot of thin "spokes" and a crest on a plaque i think i will try to replicate it as close as i can and then hope its near right!!

Hello folks. That certainly looks like one of the converted WW1 racecourse class minesweepers converted for mecrantile use in the 1920s. Model Boats dd an article on this class with a small plan. I dont think the paddle box design was changed in civvie street. I am just going off the topof my head as all my books are boxed up. If I am correct there should be a copy of the article in paddleducks archives. Regards, Walter.

Your right Walter, there is a bit about her here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Atherstone_(1916)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Atherstone_(1916)_IWM_SP_106.jpg

Regards,
Kim

Thank you that info was very revealing on wikipedia it shows the boat in detail thank you

not very good pictures but the bast I can come up with at the moment....
.....they're in 'Glory Days - Paddle Steamers by David L Williams, if I had a working scanner I could get much better pics...
...Now I look at them the design looks similar to the 'Albion' in Model Boats a while back, if anyone has that article and could scan the part about constructing them it might help

Wow those images are fantastic and show the paddle box design well thank you
i think i need to have them done in etched brass to really do them justice the other way i thought of doing them was in thin square section plastic strips curved to form the lines shown.

I will have to talk to Clyde model boats i think??