Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 01: Cabin deck detail. Pic 02: Underside of hull just painted. The original vessel was completed in 1992 and its top speed of 124 km/h made it, at the time, the fastest Mega Yacht in the world. The yacht was designed by Frank Mulder of the Mulder Design Studio, based…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 1: Kit contents. Pic 2: Using Stabilit Express resin. Pic 3: Motor and mount. Pic 4: Motor, coupling and stern tube installed. Pic 5: View of the transom and hydro unit. Pic 6: Mast assembly. This new release from Graupner of a…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 1: There are two large 0.5mm thick brass sheets included with Andrea’s 1:32 scale U-Boat provide full deck areas and conning tower details. Here is one of them. Pic 2: Of thinner gauge (0.3mm), the third brass etch set offers…
Graupner’s Almost-Ready-To-Run Smit Rotterdam – reviewed by Terry Small. Pic 1, Pic 2, Announced and on full display at the 2006 Nurnberg Toy Fair was a completed 1:76 scale model of the well known tug Smit Rotterdam, launched under the Graupner Premium line product range, part number 2006. This and other future models are to…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, This is a new radio control system from Futaba, for surface use in the UK and where 40mHz is legal. It is a 3-channel system, with full proportional control on Channels One and Two for steering and throttle and the Channel Three is switch operated, i.e., a…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, This new release from Graupner of a Sports Yacht is aimed at the beginner to modelling and requires minimum skill to complete successfully. A word of caution however as an experienced modeller would highlight a couple of stages in the build…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, H.M.S. Fly was built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in September 1776. She was one of the large number of Swan class ship rigged sloops designed by Sir John Williams, sleek of line and one of the last of its size to have…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, This 1:24 scale model of the Bluebird has been on the market for only a short time. It was primarily marketed as a static model but could be converted for rocket power or fast electric control. This article hopes to show both the detailed static model and the conversion…
Marten, Howes and Baylis’ 1:24 scale kit Pic 1, Amongst the quality kit makers Marten, Howes and Baylis must rank pretty high and I always look at their stand at trade shows. I was particularly impressed with a polyurethane casting of a clinker-built 23ft gig that Brian Marten showed me a couple of years ago.…
Voith-Schneider powered harbour tug kit from Graupner Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, The full-size vessel was built in 1983 by the Detlef Hegemann Roland Dockyard and Parat was delivered to the Hamburg based Lutgens & Reimers shipping company. Pic 1: The mast constructed and primed. Pic 2: Bow detail showing…
