In the last week, I have completed two new models that will be offered for sale at the Wellow Mini-Ship Show: Fastnet Lighthouse and a second Panoramic Photographic Backscene; this time of the Naval Anchorage in Scapa Flow.
Fastnet Lighthouse has been 15 years in the making. The tower was cast from a master model that I had turned on the lathe along with the Bell Rock Lighthouse and went into the first spin mould of lighthouses that Dave Brian made but the unique rocks of the lighthouse base were only cast for the first time last week. As usual, The cast rock lighthouses have been made in two forms, the "S" model with a resin sea base and the waterline model with the rocks glued in the correct position to a clear acetate sheet. The catalogue number is CL-L72.
The photographic backscene is of the Island of Hoy , taken from a dive boat as it sailed northwestwards to pass betweenthe islands of Fara and Cava in the Flow with the Island of Hoy from the Navy Base at Lyness to the Stromness exit to the flow. The panorama includes the area where the the destroyers, cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships of the German High Seas Fleet were moored and scuttled, the salvage site including the Lyness Quay and the Island of Rysa Little where the upturned Derfflinger was moored for the duration of WW2 but not the site of the sinking of HMS Vanguard which was behind the dive boat when I took the photographs nor the wreck of HMS Royal Oak which is off to the right of the photograph.
I shall also have a new batch of my Handmade Ginger Biscuits for your appraisal but these are to the same old recipe that a few of you have enjoyed at previous shows.