ANTHONY ADDAMS creates a period yacht based on a Fairwind kit The pleasure I get from sailing Sea Bird is immeasurable, Photo 1. In over 50 years I have never had an r/c model yacht, so this is the story of Sea Bird. The Kyosho Fairwind kit This kit has been popular for some years…
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…
Intermodellbau 2011 DAVE WOOLEY reports from Dortmund This major annual international trade and model event was held from 13th to 17th April in Germany. For the first time in 11 years, I travelled by air rather than coach, which was a pity as the coach may be slower, but it feels more like a genuine…
CARL A. LLOYD presents a novel leak proof method for model boat drivelines I have long had a fascination for model boats and in particular, tugboats. Perhaps this is due to my career as a mechanical engineer and my interest in all things mechanical, or my exposure to tugs on the Erie Canal in New…
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…
RON TERLICH describes his model built from a Model Boats Free Plan First, I would like to make it clear that I am new to scratch building radio control boats and when I built the Flying Dolphin I had not yet joined a model boat club, so although the methods I employed worked for me,…
USS ARIZONA BB39 1941 DAVE ABBOTT reviews and converts the Trumpeter kit to radio control This is the kit that Plastic Magic modellers have been waiting for, first released in the USA and then in the UK in late 2010. At 1:200 scale it is one of the largest plastic model boat kits to be…
