Caldercraft SS Talacre Steam Coaster 1:48 Scale Boat Kit

Name: Caldercraft SS Talacre Steam Coaster 1:48 Scale Boat Kit
Brand: Caldercraft

Caldercraft

Caldercraft SS Talacre Steam Coaster 1:48 Scale Boat Kit\n\nEach comprehensive kit is individually assembled for every sale but due to material shortages orders are currently taking 14 or more days to dispatch.\n\nThe SS Talacre is a typical single hatch coaster used in the coal trade of a type that was found by the hundreds around the coast of the U.K. in the golden era of steam. Designed for Point of Ayr Collieries by Crichton, Thompson & Co Ltd., of London she was built by Crabtree &Co., of Great Yarmouth in 1917. Talacre was named after a small village near the colliery. Talacre was finally scraped in 1959 by the Hammond Lane Foundry in Dublin. Realism leaps out of the completed model, as if a turn of a valve will start the anchor windlass or the cargo winch clattering away and the lagged steam pipes to begin steaming and drying out.\n\nThe hull is of GRP fully detailed on the exterior with plating, double riveting and strakes. The whole package is complete with CNC cut p]