CHRIS BROWN, an Australian reader, describes his model I fell in love with this steam powered launch having had a ride on her when we visited Coniston Water in the UK Lake District in 2009 when I took some pictures, but of course not nearly enough of them. Fortunately I struck up an ongoing contact…
By ALAN FURNESS Whilst some modellers prefer to use preformed GRP or plastic hulls and styrene sheet for the superstructure of their boats, others including myself are dedicated to the use of wood for the hull, most of the superstructure and many of the other components needed to complete the model. The idea I have…
TONY DALTON converts this Italeri kit to radio control The challenge I won this Italeri kit in a 2008 Christmas raffle, Photo 1, and the completed 1:35 scale model is not much over 6 inches (150mm) long. In the process of picking up the prize, a colleague jokingly suggested that I should adapt the kit…
ANTHONY ADDAMS converts his fishing boat into a tug When Ron Smith said he was arranging a special day at our pond for tug towing, I said: “I do not have a tug’! He said that so long as I could add a hook for towing to any of my model boats, that would at…
Dr MARCUS ROOKS converts the Revell USS Kearsarge into this revenue cutter Not many ships have the distinction of being abandoned at sea whilst still considered seaworthy, but such a fate however was to await the US Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane. Admittedly, not one of the world’s more famous vessels but she deserves a mention…
With an interest in carrier-based aviation, I have always liked the idea of a remote controlled aircraft carrier. As a member of Task Force 72, Australia’s constant scale model ship association, – now expanding elsewhere in the world too, my interests focussed on engineering this venture in 1:72 scale. (Task Force 72 is made up…
The Reverend PETER SPENCER describes his scratch built topsail schooner Brief History The topsail schooner Result was built of steel at Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, between 1892 and 1893. She was designed to sail quickly and turned out to be one of the fastest and most successful schooners ever to sail in British waters. Her registered…
Monitors, like their predecessors the Bomb Ketches, were not designed to fight other ships but to bombard land targets from the sea. Many people are aware of the large monitors of WWI and WW2 with guns as large as 18ins. They shelled all sorts of targets from heavily fortified forts and coastal batteries to troop…
