PAT KEOGH’S creations The time has come the walrus said, to speak of many things, of shoes and socks and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings! My story of the two models of HMS Warspite started with an article in Fine Scale Models some years ago with twin models of USS Tennessee, one at the…
DAVID PLEDGE goes small! In the 2010 MB Winter Special with its centre page plan for a Fairey Huntress cabin cruiser, I noticed tucked in the editorial text on Page 5 the word ‘challenge’. Now I’m not usually a competitive type, but this challenge was different, namely to build a radio controlled model about seven…
By Gareth Jones, with a lot of help from his wife Elizabeth My interest in model boats started about 10 years ago when my wife Elizabeth bought me the plans for a TID tug. She soon began to realise that unless she came out to the shed, she very rarely saw me except for meals…
JOHN EDWARDS and his model Having already built a minesweeper, a frigate and a cruiser over the last twelve years, shortly before the end of 2009 I decided to add a destroyer to my fleet. It was not too difficult to decide which ship, since the frigate that I had already built was HMS Amethyst…
THOR FROHN-NIELSEN, a Canadian reader of MB, describes his part-built model Naivety, stupidity or just ego? I’ve regularly shaken my head and marvelled at the gall to think I could scratch build the late-Victorian steam launch Branksome to a scale of 1:12 as I had not built a model since I was 17, alas some…
ANTHONY ADDAMS creates a period yacht based on a Fairwind kit The pleasure I get from sailing Sea Bird is immeasurable, Photo 1. In over 50 years I have never had an r/c model yacht, so this is the story of Sea Bird. The Kyosho Fairwind kit This kit has been popular for some years…
RON TERLICH describes his model built from a Model Boats Free Plan First, I would like to make it clear that I am new to scratch building radio control boats and when I built the Flying Dolphin I had not yet joined a model boat club, so although the methods I employed worked for me,…
When we moved to rural location some twenty years ago, I immediately started to spy out the land for modelling activities. The river flowing through the village had a small pool, the only remnant of a watermill I believe. It was rather on the small size and could be turbulent when the river was in…
