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…
CHRIS BROWN, an Australian reader, describes his model I fell in love with this steam powered launch having had a ride on her when we visited Coniston Water in the UK Lake District in 2009 when I took some pictures, but of course not nearly enough of them. Fortunately I struck up an ongoing contact…
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…
By ALAN FURNESS Whilst some modellers prefer to use preformed GRP or plastic hulls and styrene sheet for the superstructure of their boats, others including myself are dedicated to the use of wood for the hull, most of the superstructure and many of the other components needed to complete the model. The idea I have…
Sea-Jet Evolution TERRY SMALL reviews the Robbe kit After many successful sales years for the Robbe Sea-Jet fun boat, the time was ripe for a successor and this is the Sea-Jet Evolution. This new design has been both visually and technically overhauled by learning from competition racing craft, so its appearance is significantly racier than…
Model Engineer Exhibition 2010 Report by COLIN BISHOP and DAVID ABBOTT The number of entries in the competition was again disappointing although the actual quality of models was as high as ever. It does seem that boat modellers are less willing to enter competitions than they once were, although one visitor remarked to me that…
ANTHONY ADDAMS converts his fishing boat into a tug When Ron Smith said he was arranging a special day at our pond for tug towing, I said: “I do not have a tug’! He said that so long as I could add a hook for towing to any of my model boats, that would at…
TONY DALTON converts this Italeri kit to radio control The challenge I won this Italeri kit in a 2008 Christmas raffle, Photo 1, and the completed 1:35 scale model is not much over 6 inches (150mm) long. In the process of picking up the prize, a colleague jokingly suggested that I should adapt the kit…
Salvirile PAUL FRESHNEY doesn’t just sit in front of a computer…………. There is nothing particularly altruistic about this short piece on my Tian Jie (T.J.) Models 1:75 scale Salvirile tug nor is it a ‘blow by blow’ account of its construction, but I thought some model builders might be interested in something a bit different.…
