DAVE PETTS’ Mini-Series I have never really had any interest in any form of purely static model, as for example I believe that a model aeroplane should actually be able to fly, so you will appreciate that these articles are all aimed at functional craft as opposed to static display models. For this reason. the…
By RON REES I have been ‘Messing About’ again recently, making model boats out of blue foam (July 2013 MB) and skinning them with nylon stockings and resin. This method is quick, cheap, easy to do and produces very light and tough model boat hulls. The off-cuts also make brilliant seats, figures and lightweight bases…
2013 Model Boat Fair DAVE WOOLEY reports from the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port A sunny March day and perfect conditions for the Model Boat Fair. Held on 2nd and 3rd March, the format for this event was established four years ago and reflects many of the best parts of the original annual March…
PLASTIC MAGIC! Vosper MTB 77 DAVE ABBOTT converts the 1:35 scale Italeri kit to radio control This is the kit that many British modellers have been waiting for, a British MTB from the Italeri range of 1:35 scale model boats. This 72ft 6 ins Vosper MTB 77 comes out at 63.1cm long and 16.5cm beam,…
ROGER SUITTER’S unique submarine Roger Suitters with his model in late-2012 This a model of Nuclear Research No. 1, an American nuclear powered submarine conceived in 1970 by Admiral Rickover of the US Navy who is widely accepted as the father of the modern nuclear powered submarine and surface fleet. The submarine still exists today…
Gareth Jones rebuilds an Elco 80 foot patrol torpedo boat Introduction I have always enjoyed practical hobbies and one day I said to my wife; ‘I fancy building a model boat’! This was just a passing thought, but in the back of my mind was the idea of building a large scale radio controlled tug…
PHILIP BELLAMY with a few thoughts With age, some sort of aid was becoming necessary to help carry, launch and retrieve my model boats, so as to minimise the damage that can occur to the model and very possibly myself. The local ponds in Switzerland are not the easiest to access, so transportation is necessary…
PER JONSSON-GILLE describes his model Stockholm once had a great fleet of small white passenger steamships, most of which were scrapped after 1950, but a few have survived. One of these survivors is the S. S. Norrskär built in Gothenburg in 1910. Her name, pronounced ‘Nor-share’ means North Skerry. She is still active in summer…
Plastic magic! KM Bismarck TONY DALTON converts the Dragon 1:700 scale kit to r/c I won yet another plastic kit as a result of the 2011 Luton and District MBC Christmas raffle and this time it was the Dragon 1:700 scale kit of the famous German battleship KM Bismarck, Photo 1. After reading some favourable…
