COLIN BISHOP visits Southampton Maritime Museum At the end of the 1950s, mass air travel had yet to make an impact and much international travel was still by sea. This was the final swan song of the great ocean liners and impressive it was too. The ports of London, Liverpool and Southampton maintained links across…
DAVID McNAIR-TAYLOR and his experiences with an Almost Ready to Run Model The Admiral Class ships HMS Hood was one of these which were developed during WW1 to counter the threat of the German Mackensen classes, but only HMS Hood was eventually completed. She was first commissioned in 1920, although her three sisters were cancelled…
Harry Hitchenes, his models plus some thoughts on the future At the moment I am not a member of any boat club as I have been flying r/c model aircraft for some years, but I was a member of Tynemouth MBC for a number of years from the mid-1970s. Like many other modellers I found…
DAVE BRUMSTEAD with r/c scale news Welcome to this month’s Focus on Scale. In this issue we are paying a visit to the Essex Country Show and looking at drive motor alignment and couplings. We are also having a look at a model speedboat designed and built by an aeromodeller and looking forward to the…
COLIN BISHOP looks at Wightlink’s new passenger ferries Wight Ryder II paints an impressive picture as she backs away from Ryde Pier Head. A brief history of the route For most of my life I have been a regular visitor to the Isle of Wight and many of my crossings have been via the Portsmouth…
BRIAN KING fires us up! If you build ship models as I do, sooner or later you will have to build guns. In a 1000 word article the subject is too great to be covered in any complete manner at all, but perhaps a word or two can be devoted to an examination of gun…
ANTHONY ADDAMS researches these small sailing craft The Nile is home to feluccas that flitter about busily like butterflies, so please read on and enjoy an armchair sail. Have you been to Aswan? If you have, then you will probably have been struck by the beauty of seeing graceful white sail feluccas ghosting across the…
Visit ModelBoats.co.uk between 29/03/10 and 5/04/10 and you will be in for a treat! The Model Boats Easter bunny has been very naughty this year and dropped some of his eggs whilst passing through the site…. and we need you to find them! Every day an Easter egg (image shown on the right of this…
DAVID J. WIGGINS with thanks to JOHN and PAUL DELL pays a last visit to the Motor Boat Museum Dave visited the Motor Boat Museum in Pitsea, Essex in November 2009. Sadly, subsequent to that and at short notice on 4th December 2009, the local council who own the site decided to close it for…
COLIN BISHOP visits this well known British kit manufacturer Jackie and Lawrie White – the heart of The Model Slipway I don’t suppose any regular reader of this magazine will be unaware of the extensive range of kits offered by the Model Slipway. Since the establishment of the company in 1989 they have established an enviable…
