Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 8, Pic 9, Pic 10, Pic 11, Pic 1: General view of the Bluewater lake showing the large number of models on the water together. Pic 2: Colourful line up of Thames barges on the Chantry club stand. Pic 3:…
Judith Seaward presenting the SWA First Prize Trophy to Barry Chapman, with Steve Bullock on the left., Chartwell House was the home of Sir Winston S Churchill, Prime Minister of England and the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, during the first and second world wars. The house and grounds are now owned, run…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 1: Gary Pope’s new for 2007, Sikk powered Sigma 51. Picture courtesy of Mike Luxton. Pic 2: Robin Butler’s C class CMB91 RS powered Apache in fine form at Telford. Pic 3: Another line up waiting for the start hooter, this time the D…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, With a good weather forecast for the Saturday, I arrived early at Child Beale Bird Park, which is just off the M4 and not far from Reading, just before the general public opening time and found all the club gazebos were set up, with boats…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 1: The Portsmouth Display Team line up for a team photo next to their stand. Pic 2: A ready to run model tug Atlantic on the Portsmouth MBC stand available from Howes Models. Pic 3: The Southern Model Lifeboat stand with 20…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 1: Dave Dicker launching his elastic boat. Pic 2: Malcolm Wilson with his elastic submarine. The Eastleigh and District Model Boat Club was formed in 1983 with the opening of Lakeside Park in Eastleigh. The lakes were dug out to obtain the gravel to build the M27 motorway. The club…
The big model event organised, for over 20 years now, by Shoeburyness Model Railway Club is always well supported by SE Essex and other model clubs of all disciplines, including r/c aircraft and boats. I have attended every one of the 24 shows held so far and always enjoy it. I’ve always had pretty wide…
2006 IPMS Telford Reported by JON GODSELL Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, It is hard to believe that the marine modelling world is so fragmented at times, with one side knowing little or nothing about what the other is doing, or seeming not too care at times either. Until fairly…
