11am Pt 1 General and Antique Auction & 6:30pm Pt 2 Specialist Toy Auction
Lot 194:
Description
An unusual well presented and detailed 1:48 scale radio controlled sailing model of the L’Invincible, which became the Royal Navy’s First Invincible of 1744 built by M. Tindall using original manuscript data by the designer J. Morineau and other sources, with bound masts, vards with stun’s’l booms and footropes, very detailed standing and running rigging with scale blocks, many with sheaves, left and right hand wound rope as appropriate, full suit of stitched linen sails with rope bindings and reefing points. Deck details include carved and painted figurehead, hair rails, heads, anchors with wooden stocks, catheads, bitts, belaying rails and pins, cleats, gratings, stove pipe, deck rails, companionways, balustrading, ship’s bell with canopy, double helm and chart locker, deck rings, chicken coop, upper and maindeck guns in carriages, shot racks and shot, removable well deck with three clinker built planked and framed boats with interior fittings stacked in a tier removable to reveal yard winding drums, and many other details. The hull, fully planked in parana pine with sycamore frames and wood pins, is finished in varnish with black whales, venetian red gunwhales and blue and ‘gilded’ decoration and carved and glazed stern and quarter galleries, closed lower gunpots, lanterns and other details. The radio control equipment, mainly by Futaba, is concealed beneath the well and poop decks -49%2 x 61in. (125.7 x 156cm.) Stand, detachable keel (for sailing) Sanwa transmitter and detailed notes and instructions written by the builder.
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