Browsing images I discover the model boats website, venture a post and flattered by the reaction; although it was Otto Lilienthal who said that to invent an aeroplane was nothing, to build one was something and to fly it was everything and that would apply to boats equally am thinking. That said he died trying and so it may be better to stop at nothing.
I'm in good company though, surrounded by the Falkirk Wheel that I would like to add to the Anderton Lift in order to get the set; and that's a model of the lifeboat powered by steam that was once launched from across the Mersey at New Brighton.
I have in the past been a member of the Large Model Association, although mainly for the insurance cover it provided people flying unreasonably-sized drones. I felt it would attract a younger membership were it to showcase new-builds and whilst I am in awe of the people who build these ghosts of Christmases past and present, I think there is a lot to be gained for having people think for themselves.
In fact not far from New Brighton on the Wirral is Ellesmere Port's automotive plant where generations of Vauxhalls have been built under the aegis of General Motors, or lately Stellantis. For years they hosted a model car competition for children who would exhibit designs of their own that they'd also built from hobby-craft materials.
You'd struggle to find an image on Google, because in those stranger times you'd look at things instead of taking photos which you'd never look at ever again.
So let's hear it for the happy campers assembling... on both workbench and online.
