Welcome to this months Focus on Scale. This time we will be paying a visit to Grays Thurrock MBC at Belhus Park for a warship day, visiting Barleylands for the Essex Country Show and continuing the build of a Springer tug. Grays Thurrock MBC Warship Day Belhus Park in Essex is a few miles from…
Pic 1: Alex McFadyens award winning G3 battlecruiser H.M.S. Anson. Pic 2: Note the plating detail on top of the turret. Pic 3: Ships boats on G3 include two 50ft steam picket boats. Each one of these is a complete model in its own right. Pic 4: Looking towards the boat deck and the after…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 1: A nice day at Mote Park, Maidstone for the 8th round of the 2007 Z class championship. Pic 2: Gary Wilkinson and Dave Willson carry out some fine tuning to Daves Fast 4 Wood Astra. Pic 3: Dave Clay used a geared, submerged…
This month we will be concluding our weekend at the Weymouth International Maritime Modelling Festival, pay a visit to the Floatplane and Model Boat Show at Child Beale Wildlife Park near Reading, and do some more work on the build of a Springer Tug. The Weymouth International Maritime Modelling Festival 2007 The displays within the…
Pic 1: John Hollis launching his 1:48th Victorian battleship HMS Devastation. Pic 2: Turret and bridge detail on Devastation. Pic 3: Bed anchors and cat davits on Devastation. Pic 4: Amphibious APC – Is it a boat or vehicle? Pic 5: Inner detail of the amphibious APC. Pic 6: Tony Hartley with his “How To’…
Pic 1: Born in 1927, Triantafilos Boudalas learnt his skills over many years working in the busy shipyards that once dominated the harbour of Skopelos. Now he works from home, creating intricate scale models that sell to collectors for thousands of pounds. Pic 2: Triantafilos and his son-in-law show off this 5ft long model of…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 1: Bristol Harbour is a very interesting place especially when there is powerboat racing! Pic 2: Keith Weller and his new Harpoon design. Pic 3: Paul Weller and his new Absolute Zero design. Pic 4: A model built to a…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 8, Pic 1: The tent provided by the organiser. Pic 2: The beach with rescue boat and the navigation course. What a beautiful view! Pic 3: Peter Arnot watching ‘Lady Liz’. Pic 4: John Schofield (left) working on Charles West-Thomas’s…
In any list of the world’s major maritime heritage sites, Portsmouth must command a place in the top ten. Rarely can you see so much in one place, so when our Editor suggested I might like to do a feature on the Historic Dockyard from a modelmaker’s viewpoint, I didn’t need asking twice. Portsmouth has…
