MV ORARI model

[John F Collier]

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[John F Collier]

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Hi All, This is a model of my first ship, NZSCo's MV ORARI, Built by A Stephen & Son's Glasgow 1931.
I commisioned it as a Museum class Model about 10 years ago, it is a beuatiful model, I thought I'd like to share with you as most of us here
sailed on this type of vessel in those wonderful years we had at sea. ORARI was the only pre war built ship I sailed on, the rest were post war,
to my mind she was by far the best, she was a happy ship, she also had an eventful war service, she was the only surviver of three sisisters ,
OPAWA, OTAIO and ORARI, she was torpedod, hit by a mine and had near misses from bombs, I will write a thread, later {eyes permitting}.
I downsized from my house to the Bungalow two years ago, so I don't have the same space as befor, to take the pictures, I bought the model
into the dining room,it's now back in its case in my den, hope you like it , cheers.

[vic mcclymont]

Nice model John, well made.
Vic

[Mark Keever]

Thank-you for sharing ! As we say here, " Pretty work ! " Looking forward to your comments. Here is her 1939 Lloyds data:

[Mark Keever]

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[John F Collier]

Nice model John, well made.
Vic

Thanks Vick, the model is 153cm / 5ft in length, made by a proffesional model maker to museum quality, when the time is right, it will be
donated to a museum, these ships and the men who sailed them are a part of our history and should never be forgotten. I have great
memories of that ship and the lads I sailed with aboard her, as a first tripper, being the only one for the crossing the line ceromony, they
gave me the works , same trip, the lamptrimmer being the eldest aboard, rang out the old year on the ships Bell, me being the youngest
rang in the New Year, I had four trips with ORARI, all with great memories that stay forever, cheers PS the model is 1:96 scale.

[John F Collier]

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Thanks Mark, very interesting, cheers.

[John F Collier]

The ORARI model is very detailed, you may wonder how this was acheived, it ook me a few years to collect the ships details that enabled
the model maker to build the model grade. I was able to supply onboard photos taken by me that showed the welldecks and winchhouses,
and otther small details, I know I've said before, in the 90s I I went to an annual event at Westminster, it was called the "Ship Show" it was
a proper aladins cave full of all things Maritime, you name it was there, I met Des Cox and his wife there when they were starting their new
bussiniess "SnowBow", it was there that I bought a NZSCo deck officers book, the book apart from many other things ,the book contained foldout
plans of the company's ships which included ORARI, I photocopied the plan and had it enlarged, the icing on the cake was when I found the
huge model of ORARI's sisteship OPAWA housed in Auklands Maritime Museum, I contacted the museum and explained what I was hoping to do,
I asked if the could supply me with photos of their model taken to show as much detail as possible, they agreed and gave me a price, a coulple
of weeks later I received a DVD dsc with 36 pictures of OPAWA, they did a brilliant job for me, and that is why the model turned out so well,
it took 14 months to build, I am very proud of it and still get so much joy just looking at it and remembering my time on the ship , cheers.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Beautiful model, I have down loaded it to show my son, he loves making models made one of the Cutty Sark for my birthday a few years ago.
Your model took me back to the NZ coast and all those lovely UK ships running the coast.
Des

[Keith at Tregenna]

Excellent.

K.