COLIN BISHOP reports from Vancouver In late summer 2010, my wife and I fulfilled a long standing ambition to visit Vancouver, which met our expectations in every way. One of the local attractions is Granville Island Market which is set on False Creek, an inlet which separates Vancouver downtown from the mainland. The market area…
Website: www.mpba.org.uk Established 1924 From KEN GOULD and DAVE ABBOTT Straight Running Section Long before the introduction of radio control, models were mostly sent around in circles or across the pond and nudged back the way they came by the owner or a friend. The other main activity of the day was ‘Straight Running’. This…
This year’s Exhibition will be held on 9th, 10th & 11th December. Click here to see full details and download competition entry forms. Long term exhibitor and award winner Brian King offers some advice on entering the competition classes. Entering the Model Engineer Exhibition? By BRIAN KING It was in 1980 that I first, rather timidly, entered…
Bob Abell’s S.S. Great Eastern A request from the producers of the BBC series of ‘Coast’ was made to Bob Abell who is well known to modellers and on the Model Boats Website Forum. His superb model of S.S. Great Eastern was needed to recreate the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable by Brunel’s…
By BRIAN KING Following on from Part One in June MB, some idea of the scope of the Victorian Navy can be gleaned from the figures given in the Defence Act of 1889 when 70 new vessels costing £21.5 million over five years were ordered. Of course the Empire that we had at that time…
COLIN BISHOP, with help from PHIL ABBOTT, looks at the history and current activity Origins Although it isn’t really clear just when powered model boats became popular, it is probably fair to say that this would have been in the latter part of the 19th century when miniature representations of full size powered vessels appeared,…
COLIN BISHOP photographs a replica of a traditional French sailing sloop Saint Jeanne makes a trim sight alongside the breakwater at Erquy. The vertical timbers amidships are grounding legs to enable her to dry out at low tide. Once or twice a year my wife and I take advantage of the Brittany Ferries 24hr excursion…
DAVE WOOLEY with his World Wide Review of Warships and Warship Modelling Welcome once again to our regular sortie into the world of fighting ships. This month we are having a look at some of the exhibits on offer at the National Cold War Exhibition. We also examine a 1:72 scale INS Mumbai destroyer built…
RICHARD SIMPSON’s mini-series on model steam plants For expanded captions for some of the photos go directly to the Album One particular area of model steam plants that seems to generate more discussion than most is the control of gas to the burner. There are a number of options available and a lot of modellers…
